[78-L] Early announcers on records, was Clamp 'em down agin, Paw

[Taylor Bowie]

There is also a radio announcer at the beginning of one of the  Frank 
Westphal Orch. records on Flag Columbia who jabbers quite a bit....can't 
recall which record it is.

While he was still an announcer,  Paul Douglas made some sides on Majestic, 
but that's getting to the late 40s.

There must be more.


Taylor



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> Tony Wons on Hit of the Week..gotta make a note of that somewhere. Who 
> else?
>
> Milton Cross, of course, on that Victor "Victory" demo (Milton Cross made
> records forever, I think)
>
> Norman Brokenshire duetting with Johnny Marvin on a couple of Columbia 
> sides
>
> J. M. Witten..was he a for real announcer anywhere?
>
> Norman Long, on "Introducing the Savoy Hotel Orpheans"
>
> David Ross on "How to Be a Jewish Mother"
>
> And of course a lot of later records by Harry von Zell, Jim Ameche, Frank
> Gallop, Jack Arthur, Don Wilson (to hear him sing "The Ugly Duckling" is 
> to
> know true agony).
>
> dl
>
> Michael Biel wrote:
>> This was the first of the small Duriums I ever found, and I've had it
>> since the 1960s.  I also have never seen the book.   I used the CBS
>> announcer at the end of it, Frank Knight, in my 1973 presentation
>> "Announcing Styles of the 20s" as an example of the smooth vocal style
>> of CBS announcers like Knight and David Ross, vs.the rougher accents of
>> NBC Red announcers like Graham McNamee and Phillips Carlin, and the
>> over-cultured voices of the NBC Blue announcers like Milton Cross and
>> Alwyn Bach.
>>
>> By the way, the announcer with the syrupy fey voice on some of the
>> 5-minute Hit of the Weeks is Tony Wons.  I had discussed him in that
>> presentation but had not yet found a recording of him -- so I thought.
>> It turns out that unknowingly the voice that closed my talk was his!  I
>> used his announcement at the end of one of the college songs "Are you
>> listening?  I know you Illinois fans are.  Next Thursday a new Hit of
>> the Week that plays for five minutes.  And that makes a lot of
>> difference, doesn't it?"  (Music up to conclusion.)
>>
>> I am planning on revising this presentation in the next year and taking
>> it on the road to Old Time Radio conventions.
>>
>> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
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