[bookshare-discuss] Re: NLS narrators
- From: "Curtis Delzer" <curtis@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:57:54 -0500
No, Alexander Scourby was, though, believe it or not, even on the rifle man
TV series as a reporter who wanted sensational "gun fights," which got Lukus
McKaine involved in one.
I don't believe Orson Wells ever did narrate for us, but many old radio
people did e.g. Leon Janney, Ralph Bell, Helen Shields, Robert Donley,
Norman Rose, George Walsh, and many dozen more.
Curtis Delzer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 10:53 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: NLS narrators
Oh, you guys are making me feel so sad. I remember
Alexander Scourby, though I don't remember what or
where or why, but I'm so sorry I missed out on the
others. I probably did hear them in radio dramas--and
some of those are still broadcast on some stations at
night. And some are available online. My husband and I
had a discussion about The Shadow and we ended up,
after finding it, listening to two episodes on line. I
didn't realize that Orson Welles had ever "been" the
Shadow. Did he narrate any NLS tapes?
G.Cindy
--- Curtis Delzer <curtis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> He read "the call of the wild," House Jameson I
> mean, I happen to have that
> one. :) Sometimes he could sound a bit prissy, I
> suppose, <grin> or if you
> want prissy, how about Donald Hotaling? :) I have
> him reading "report from
> engine company 82," again, re-issued by nls read by
> someone else. Such a
> shame when all it is, is the fact they did not
> preserve the original master
> tapes, so it's all wasted, or mostly so.
> Now, there is a disaster, all that talent, gone,
> except preserved in
> personal collections, as I have of Ralph Bell and
> the Rex Stout series about
> Nero Wolf, original recordings of Arthur Haileys
> books except for Wheels
> which I want an audio recording of, and with NLS had
> recorded "Detective,"
> his last major work before his death in 2004, etc.
> How about the original
> recording of "To Kill a Mockingbird," as narrated by
> Helen Shields, which is
> without doubt, the best ever done, as far as I am
> concerned.
> Too young to remember Helen Shields? See what I
> mean, out of mind, out of
> sight or unresolved potential, since you have no
> idea what an absolute
> treasure these narrators were, and are to those of
> us who, have heard and
> appreciated and still appreciate them in memory.
> Newest is not better, only
> relief from not having. All these narrators, had
> acting and performing
> experience before microphones, so they had to, "be
> there," in their voices,
> unlike the narrators of today who just narrate.
> There are many excellent
> readers of today, but anyone who thinks Michelle
> Schafer is any kind of
> professional compared to being on radio, is lacking
> in having heard much
> radio when it was as big as TV and CDs are these
> days. Sorry Michelle, but
> you need to go back to school as far as presentation
> is concerned. She can
> read, but so many affected attributes, I couldn't
> even begin to mention them
> all.
>
> Curtis Delzer
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rick Roderick" <rickrod@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 6:48 AM
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] NLS narrators
>
>
> Another narrator that was in old-time radio was
> House Jameson. I believe he
> played the father of Henry Aldrich. He did a
> masterful job with both Gone
> with the Wind and All the King's Men. He was quite
> good at truly sounding
> Southern. I suspect he was from the South, but when
> he did the Aldrich
> character, he did not sound particularly Southern.
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