[78-L] Clamp them records down,durium chevrolet

[Elizabeth McLeod]

on 4/30/09 11:52 AM Michael Biel wrote:

>I saw a mention of it in the advertising trade press or maybe Time 
>magazine.  Over a million copies of it were mailed out which is why it 
>is relatively common compared to most other small Duriums.  Most of them 
>have their mailing labels pasted on the reverse side.  This is the best 
>transfer I've ever heard of it.  Listening to it this way instead of on 
>a worn copy, I hear a possibility that the announcer might be Bob Brown 
>who also did the Perfect Circle Piston Rings record with Charlie 
>Straight Orch on a promotional Gennett.  If Elizabeth is reading this, 
>what do you think?  There is a breathless McNamee quality to the reading 
>but a couple of affectations in pronunciation that McNamee never really 
>did, but Bob did. 
>
It's Alois Havrilla, without question. He was the announcer on the 
Chevrolet program at the time this record was made, and it would have 
made sense to use him for it. Havrilla had a very Macnamee-like delivery, 
but with more polished tones. I have a bunch of 1937 NBC discs announced 
by Havrilla, and the voice is identical to this one.

Elizabeth