[bookshare-discuss] Re: NLS narrators
- From: "Curtis Delzer" <curtis@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:37:05 -0500
He sure did, thank you for reminding me!
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From: "Bob" <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Bud Abbot of Abbot and castello fame narrated talking books as well.
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From: "Curtis Delzer" <curtis@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: NLS narrators
> 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
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> From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
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>
> 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>
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>> 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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