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

[Mark Hendrix 78L]

Don't forget Franklyn MacCormack reading poetry on Wayne King's "Melody of
Love", "Because I Love You," etc..  --Mark Hendrix

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> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com]On Behalf Of David Lennick
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> Subject: [78-L] Early announcers on records, was Clamp 'em down agin,
> Paw
>
>
> 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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