[bookshare-discuss] Re: NLS narrators
- From: "Curtis Delzer" <curtis@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:37:33 -0500
Ok, I didn't know about Livingston Gilberts recording of the Lord of the
Rings series. I thought Norman Barrs had recorded his in the seventies
though, was wrong again. :) thanks.
Curtis Delzer
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From: "EVAN REESE" <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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A great message, but I have to make one correction: The original narrator of
the Lord of the Rings was Livingston Gilbert. I have copies of that one,
which was done in 1973. Norman Barrs did a rerecording about ten years
later. And, they've been done yet again about five or six years ago I think.
Evan
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From: "Curtis Delzer" <curtis@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 8:24 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: NLS narrators
> Hi Karen, you've amplified, beautifully, so very well, and, indeed, John
> Straton, is a fantastic narrator. He read, "Jaws," by Peter Benchly, in
> 1974, is quite at home doing a Western like the third of the Callahan
> trilogy, "Callahan Goes South," and read number 9, that I remember of the
> Wagons West series, "Washington," and many others. The original reading of
> the Ring books were done by Norman Barrs, a superlative British narrator,
> who did all the parts so wonderfully, not too much and not too little. I
> have a recording of him reading a book entitled "salt is leaving," about
> an
> English physician who finds leaving, not too easy an issue when one of his
> patients winds up dead and the perpetrator is after him. :) It starts out
> as
> a fuss budget type of English narrative, and thank God I was bored one day
> and got through that part to find that it was a treasure after all. I
> mean
> to meet characters like "buzzy," who buzzed about every time he talked,
> was
> worth the effort.
> Airport, as read by Milton Metz, Karl Weber reading Rex Stout
> superlatively
> as Ralph Bell, Donald Madden reading Moby Dick, (which had to read in high
> school), and who read Little Women, Terry Hayes, when she was just 15
> years
> old? Mary Jane Higby, married to Guy Sorrelle, another superlative reader,
> anything you wanted to read which had French words, Guy Sorrelle was your
> man. Original reading of "Where are the Children," by Mary Higgins Clark,
> her first book done superlatively and so much better than the re-issue, by
> Susanne Torren, Robert Donley reading SF like "A Fall of Moon dust," by
> Arthur C. Clark is a treat to behold.
> Who can read as distinctively as Alexander Scourby? Authors reading their
> own books, always makes me think of "Pearls Kitchen," read by Pearl
> herself,
> and the funniest thing was that the more she got into her book, the more
> she
> kind of short cut her way through the actual words, was like she was just
> visiting your kitchen and imparting her wisdom, one to another, A
> priceless
> and never-to-be-gotten-again treasure, most definitely!
> How many authors read the "foreword," of their books? One that comes to
> mind, is read by Scourby, but the author of "The Secret of Santa Vittoria"
> by Robert Crichton, read his own foreword, so is that available any more
> except in my collection? No way, which is so sad to me that I can hardly
> stand it! I wish I'd been even more busy than I was capturing these
> priceless recordings, but, unfortunately, I was not. How about "The
> Yearling," as read by Neil Mullens? Another priceless recording!
>
> I could go on and on, but Karen, I know you know what I mean, and so do
> many
> of you I am sure!
>
>
> Curtis Delzer
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> From: "Karen Lewellen" <klewellen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 5:03 PM
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: NLS narrators
>
>
> This thread is making me cry...and laugh some too.
> Frankly one could use a copy of someones personal recording to preserve
> it to digital. There is no technical reason for these treasures to be
> gone.
> I agree hands down on "to kill a mockingbird," I can still hear that one
> in
> my head. same for the original recording of east of Edan, John straton
> I believe? His recordings of everything were so rich.
> The first recordings of the Lord of the rings series are far better than
> the more recent re-recordings in my book.
> And can you imagine that the first recording of the play "who's afraid of
> Virgina Woolf was not a single reader, but the original live stage
> production. And the first recording of "I know why the caged bird sings,"
> was read by MIA Angelou herself.
>
> But what really makes me cry as that none of the folks we are talking of
> can read this.
> When the American Foundation for the Blind still threw a party as a part
> of the Scorby narrator of the year awards, I met Two of the nls readers in
> person. Both expressed how much it meant to t person and both expressed
> how much it meant to them, connecting with their listeners. Reading is
> such an isolated thing.
> I think in part one thing that holds me aloof from daisy at least as done
> here is that I cannot curl up on my sofa wrap my arms around the player
> and
> enjoy. or lie on the floor in a patch of sunlight, or snuggle in bed
> etc. etc. Headphones are not the same, and the speaker options are
> hardly as comfortable.
> I look forward to my nls Daisy player, which I understand will have a
> speaker...and thankfully our treasured readers too I believe.
> Karen
>
>
>
> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Curtis Delzer 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
>>
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>> 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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