[bookshare-discuss] Re: NLS narrators
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:53:27 -0700 (PDT)
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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