[78-L] Help identifying an artist/tune

[David Lennick]

Is Nordine still on the air? Age 88..Paul Harvey is two years older and still 
going.

dl

Michael Biel wrote:
> David Lennick wrote:
>> Definitely not the same person. Nordine was the (hand to ear) voice on 
>> "Shifting Whispering Sands" and did a couple of volumes of "Word Jazz" for Dot. 
>> He also announced concerts by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in the 40s..
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>> dl
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> . . . and did horror story readings on a midnight TV show in the early 
> 50s "Faces In The Window" on WMBQ Chicago which we had audio for about a 
> dozen of them in the Northwestern Univ archive and I have on tape.  He 
> also narrated the 12-inch version of Teddy Philips "Concert In The Sky" 
> on Decca.  (One of the worst human beings that ever lived, Chicago DJ 
> and ultra-right-wing loony Howard Miller, narrated the 10-inch 
> version.)    (Miller is the dipso who brought back his idol, Father 
> Coughlin, for a TV interview around 1970.) 
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
> 
> 
>> Alan Bunting wrote:
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>>> The record label credits Ken Nordine as the narrator - surely not a pseudonym?
>>> Â 
>>> Alan Bunting
>>> Franklyn MacCormick also recorded "The Ship That Never Sailed" backed
>>> by Billy Vaughn's orchestra.  I believe the label was DOT, and the record came
>>> out sometime in the early or mid fifties.
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>>> Bud 
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