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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