[bookshare-discuss] Re: OT: NLS Narrators
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:45:54 -0700 (PDT)
Did this get to the list? I got a message in my Bulk
folder that it was not sent because it contained
profanity, but I don't understand. That's never
happened before and I don't see any profanity. I
wonder if that's some kind of glitch. I am using my
husband's computer; I wonder if it filters differently
from mine.)
G. Cindy
--- Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:28:41 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [bookshare-discuss] Re: OT: NLS
> Narrators (was: Re: Re: comments on Publishers Phase
> Out Piracy Protection. . .)
> To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Oh, dear. I'm glad you shared that. I can totally
> sympathize, and wish I'd heard some of those good
> actor/readers. Perhaps some of those old NLS
> recordings are available on ebay--or perhaps in the
> SMithsonian. It has a collection of old, probably
> re-recorded, folk music. I think actually they make
> duplicates. I order some Richard Dyer Bennet discs
> and
> they were surprisingly inexpensive.
>
> G.Cindy
> --- Ann Parsons <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> >
> > Original message:
> > > I hate to bring up the thought, but if they were
> > in
> > > old-time radio shows, it my be that Father Time
> > had
> > > gotten rid of them, not NLS. smile
> >
> >
> > Actually, G. Cindy, one of the griefs which we who
> > are old enough to
> > remember is the loss of so many of these books
> that
> > were recorded for
> > the blind. We find it interesting, and indeed
> > troubling, that one can
> > collect all the OTR programs one would ever want
> to
> > collect and yet,
> > only a few of the old master recordings are
> > available for duplication
> > today. LOC claims lack of funding, and perhaps
> they
> > are right. Some
> > of us, indeed one person I know of in California
> has
> > personally offered
> > to reclaim these old master recordings, but to my
> > knowledge, he has not
> > been given the time of day by the powers that be
> at
> > Library of Congress.
> >
> > Oh, G. Cindy, when you can listen to The Shadow
> and
> > Amos and Andy at
> > any darn time you want, and yet, the complete set
> of
> > Charles Dickens
> > read by Alan Haines is thrown on the garbage heap
> > because it is too
> > costly to reclaim it, this makes me actually weep
> in
> > frustration! Alan
> > Haines, a radio personality and actor from New
> York
> > City was Welsh. He
> > could do *all* the regional accents of England,
> all
> > of them, G. Cindy.
> > His reading of How Green Was My Valley is a
> > treasure, and if I find it
> > *anywhere* at all, I want it, I want it so bad I
> can
> > taste it! All
> > those singing welsh voices with their wonderful
> > accents. A treasure, a
> > real treasure lost because some stupid sighted
> > bureaucrat decided it
> > wasn't worth keeping! I have here, my own
> personal
> > recording of Haines
> > reading The Dean's watch. I treasure it! I have
> > Scourby reading
> > Watership Down.
> >
> > NLS has seen fit to have The Robe, remember my
> > mentioning it? They
> > have seen fit to have some little bimbo with a
> tiny
> > squeaky voice
> > reading this book! It is *not* right! They
> miscast
> > this reading! I
> > am sure that this lady, whomever she is, is not a
> > bimbo, but she sounds
> > like one. Her voice is high and it is tiny and it
> > is squeaky. Dale
> > Carter might have done a good job with The Robe,
> but
> > not this bimbo! I
> > can just hear her giggling in the background. I
> had
> > to send the book
> > back to the library. I couldn't read it, just
> > couldn't! Her reading
> > is awful, just terrible, and they threw out the
> > Blackwell or Donally
> > reading that made that book *live*! Oh, it's not
> a
> > trivial complaint,
> > not a trivial complaint at all!
> >
> > I better stop now, or I'll fill up my whole
> computer
> > with this rant.
> >
> > Ann P.
> >
> > --
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> > Not all those who wander are lost."
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