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

[Royal Pemberton]

Who's the announcer on this record?  It's an 'exploitation' record
made to promote a film called MOTHER'S BOY that starred Morton Downey.
 The record is a Victor product with no catalogue number, though the
matrix number is shown in the dead wax, (BVE) 51842.  Take digit is
3R.  I estimated its production date to circa 24 May 1929....

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On 4/30/09, Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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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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