[bookshare-discuss] Re: NLS narrators
- From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:02:11 -0500
This discussion about the good narrators from the past reminds me of my
deceased hubby. Many of the names mentioned here were mentioned by him.
When they changed to tapes and those great readers stopped recording, he
used to complain, saying the volunteers who recorded Westerns on tape didn't
know how to read them.
Sue S.
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From: "Curtis Delzer" <curtis@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 9:37 AM
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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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Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 2:41 PM
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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
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> 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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