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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: TimK2003 on March 19, 2008, 09:10:14 PM
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I came across an old aircheck from radio station WBT in Charlotte, NC from the late 60's/early 70s and to my surprise, Johnny Olsen had done many of the station IDs as the "official station voice-over person", or whatever the official title is.
I also recall in the mid-to-late 90s, Burton Richardson had advertised in the trade papers as an available station v/o for ID's, tags, etc... as well.
Any other announcers that did radio or TV station IDs in the past as a voice-over artists -- but NOT as air talent broadcasting on a regular shift???
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John Kramer was the "official station voice-over person" at KNHC FM in Seattle for a while.
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Funny, I was just thinking of this last night when I was watching the Youtube video of TTD '90, though this would probably be the opposite. Larry Van Nuys has done a few V/O's for newscasts, and is probably well known for that more then for game show announcing.
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Joe Cipriano of "Pictionary" (better known as the voice of FOX, and a lot of other places) was the voice of 97.1 FM in Detroit for a spell in the 90s/00s.
-Jason
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Wasn't Dave Williams an LA DJ around the time he announced for "Face the Music"?
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IIRC, Casey Kasem of AT40 fame once was an NBC v/o for a time in the late 70's. He was the "unseen" host of 100% in the late 90's.
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[quote name=\'Craig Karlberg\' post=\'181990\' date=\'Mar 20 2008, 04:25 AM\']
IIRC, Casey Kasem of AT40 fame once was an NBC v/o for a time in the late 70's. He was the "unseen" host of 100% in the late 90's.
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Casey Kasem also did announcing and DJ work at WJW-TV 8/AM Radio 850 Cleveland in 1959, as evidenced by this Cleveland TV Guide ad Christmas week, 1959..
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[quote name=\'TimK2003\' post=\'181969\' date=\'Mar 19 2008, 08:10 PM\']
I came across an old aircheck from radio station WBT in Charlotte, NC from the late 60's/early 70s and to my surprise, Johnny Olsen had done many of the station IDs as the "official station voice-over person", or whatever the official title is.
I also recall in the mid-to-late 90s, Burton Richardson had advertised in the trade papers as an available station v/o for ID's, tags, etc... as well.
Any other announcers that did radio or TV station IDs in the past as a voice-over artists -- but NOT as air talent broadcasting on a regular shift???
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Burton Richardson actually voiced a movie for KCOP 13 in LA. I came across him voicing movie breaks for The Buddy Holly Story in 1994 on KCOP a couple years back.
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At the radio station in Toledo where I worked 15 years ago, they had drops by both Don Pardo and Gary Owens.
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[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'182021\' date=\'Mar 20 2008, 01:37 PM\']
At the radio station in Toledo where I worked 15 years ago, they had drops by both Don Pardo and Gary Owens.
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Owens also has a few drops on XM 6. "XM 60's on 6, made possible by alien technology which we totally deny!"
You're all forgetting Mark Driscoll, the original announcer on Chuck Henry's "Now You See It!" - he's a fairly prolific imaging voice heard on stations all over the country. I think one of his most notorious liners was "What the hell, here's another hit!"
Johnny Olson also did tons of commercials and promos. He's heard on a spot for "Matty's Funday Funnies" for ABC that is in circulation on YouTube and elsewhere. They used clips from old Paramount cartoons, and there's a combination of sonic experiences from my youth I never ever thought I'd hear - Johnny Olson talking over Winston Sharples music!
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[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'182021\' date=\'Mar 20 2008, 01:37 PM\']
At the radio station in Toledo where I worked 15 years ago, they had drops by both Don Pardo and Gary Owens.
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Now you're scaring me! That was when I was around the airwaves in Toledo (when Portside was to have sparked the "New" Downtown Toledo...only to wither away a few years later).
I almost want to say that based on the aforementioned drop-ins, you were working at FM-104/WIOT?? If so, we may have crossed paths in the hallways of Ft. Industry Square.
And to those who say the storylines for WKRP are so far-fetched, then you haven't worked for Reams Communications!
/Saturday Night in Toledo, Ohio is like being nowhere at all...
/All through the day how the hours rush by...
/You sit in the park and you watch the grass die!!!
-- John Denver
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No, 3wm WWWM 105.5. I also worked at WOHO.
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Funny, I was just thinking of this last night when I was watching the Youtube video of TTD '90, though this would probably be the opposite. Larry Van Nuys has done a few V/O's for newscasts, and is probably well known for that more then for game show announcing.
Indeed...he also did VOs for WGBS (Ch. 57, now WPSG) in Philly during the early 90s, as per Wikipedia.
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")
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been 20+ years but I swear I remember Mr. Tuna being heard outside the GS world.
( I just like saying "MR. TUNA" too)
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[quote name=\'narzo\' post=\'182077\' date=\'Mar 21 2008, 03:17 AM\']
been 20+ years but I swear I remember Mr. Tuna being heard outside the GS world.
( I just like saying "MR. TUNA" too)
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Charlie Tuna was definitely a radio host. An interview of him with Karen Carpenter's on the internet somewhere. Haven't heard it in a while.
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[quote name=\'whoserman\' post=\'182104\' date=\'Mar 21 2008, 01:39 PM\']
[quote name=\'narzo\' post=\'182077\' date=\'Mar 21 2008, 03:17 AM\']
been 20+ years but I swear I remember Mr. Tuna being heard outside the GS world.
( I just like saying "MR. TUNA" too)
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Charlie Tuna was definitely a radio host. An interview of him with Karen Carpenter's on the internet somewhere. Haven't heard it in a while.
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And years ago, he was the announcer for, IIRC, one of the music countdown shows. This was at least 15 years ago.
Also, didn't Jay Stewart narrate trailers for early-80s movies produced by B&E?
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I know Burton voiced a special (IIRC, something like Real Sex) on HBO. When I had time to talk to him he mentioned he loved doing it.
OT, he mentioned at restaurants his name gets misread quite often as Richard Burton. And he's often mistaken with the stunt man of the same name (Burton told me he had a phone conversation with him. I guess to introduce himself)
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[quote name=\'cmjb13\' post=\'182111\' date=\'Mar 21 2008, 12:15 PM\']
I know Burton voiced a special (IIRC, something like Real Sex) on HBO....he mentioned he loved doing it.
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Sometimes the jokes write themselves. :)
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Charlie Tuna was definitely a radio host. An interview of him with Karen Carpenter's on the internet somewhere. Haven't heard it in a while.
He's also an occasional fill-in for Casey Kasem on American Top 10/20...you can imagine my surprise when I popped in the CD for that week's show and heard his voice between songs. :-)
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")
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Tuna also recently did Back to the 70s, a weekly syndicated oldies show with lots of his old interviews mixed in. The All-Knowing Wikipedia tells me he only taped 52 episodes, which might explain why it disappeared from my local station's lineup recently.
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[quote name=\'whoserman\' post=\'182112\' date=\'Mar 21 2008, 12:20 PM\']
[quote name=\'cmjb13\' post=\'182111\' date=\'Mar 21 2008, 12:15 PM\']
I know Burton voiced a special (IIRC, something like Real Sex) on HBO....he mentioned he loved doing it.
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Sometimes the jokes write themselves. :)
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You, sir? Beat me to it. :)
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[quote name=\'ChuckNet\' post=\'182118\' date=\'Mar 21 2008, 03:10 PM\']
Charlie Tuna was definitely a radio host. An interview of him with Karen Carpenter's on the internet somewhere. Haven't heard it in a while.
He's also an occasional fill-in for Casey Kasem on American Top 10/20...you can imagine my surprise when I popped in the CD for that week's show and heard his voice between songs. :-)
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")
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I wasn't aware that he'd filled in. I remember that he was the regular VO for AT10.
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[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'182061\' date=\'Mar 20 2008, 09:55 PM\']
No, 3wm WWWM 105.5. I also worked at WOHO.
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So you worked over at the Pickle (Road) Factory, eh? I believe that was around the time when Ron Finn was PD there, wasn't it? And wasn't that around the time when WOHO dropped the music format for talk or sports?
I came close to taking a part-time gig at 3WM -- so we "almost" crossed paths.
Small world indeed! :)
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[quote name=\'TimK2003\' post=\'182145\' date=\'Mar 21 2008, 08:25 PM\']
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'182061\' date=\'Mar 20 2008, 09:55 PM\']
No, 3wm WWWM 105.5. I also worked at WOHO.
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So you worked over at the Pickle (Road) Factory, eh? I believe that was around the time when Ron Finn was PD there, wasn't it? And wasn't that around the time when WOHO dropped the music format for talk or sports?
I came close to taking a part-time gig at 3WM -- so we "almost" crossed paths.
Small world indeed! :)
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It was 89-91. I did middays at WOHO when it was a country station and when they stopped doing music I moved to overnights on 3wm and also was the morning local news anchor when the AM was playing the audio from CNN Headline News, so I would work from 1am to 9am. Ron Finn was not yet PD, but he did an airshift. Very nice guy.
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ISTR seeing an article describing how Johnny had a special relationship with WBT because his ranch was nearby and he used to drop by the station from time to time and the jock on duty would put him on the air, so it's not surprising that he would do VO work for them. Who knows, maybe he was one of the station owners unbeknownst to us? If I can find that article again I'll post the link.
I remember hearing Jay Stewart doing a radio spot for some kind of drag racing/monster truck show in Poway, California way back in the early '80s. He didn't identify himself but it was unmistakably Jay. The spot ran on XETRA 690 AM out of Tijuana, known at the time as "The Mighty 690". It was big here in L.A. back in the early '80s when AMs still played (English) pop music formats.
I spotted Burton at KCOP several years ago when the station was owned by Chris Craft but did not go up and introduce myself. I think he was filling in for Jim Thorburn.
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[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'182176\' date=\'Mar 22 2008, 06:19 AM\']
ISTR seeing an article describing how Johnny had a special relationship with WBT because his ranch was nearby and he used to drop by the station from time to time and the jock on duty would put him on the air, so it's not surprising that he would do VO work for them. Who knows, maybe he was one of the station owners unbeknownst to us? If I can find that article again I'll post the link.
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Did Johnny's family still reside in Clt afterwards? I wish I had known that when I lived there a few years ago.
/And contacted them, just like Adam Kliest got hold of the Combs family!
//Not really.
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[quote name=\'tvwxman\' post=\'182177\' date=\'Mar 22 2008, 04:11 AM\']
Did Johnny's family still reside in Clt afterwards? I wish I had known that when I lived there a few years ago.
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If Chris or anybody can find any information about Johnny having a local connection with Charlotte, please let me know. Otherwise, the story has him moving from NY to LA in 1972. At that time, he sold his Connecticut home and gave up the Manhattan apartment, and bought in West Virginia. Johnny recorded most if not all of the cuts for WBT at Mark Century Studios in New York City in 1971 as a favor to the programming force behind WBT, Tom McMurray. Tom said that Johnny was happy to lend his voice to the station for zero money.
Randy
tvrandywest.com
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[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'182106\' date=\'Mar 21 2008, 02:09 PM\']
And years ago, he was the announcer for, IIRC, one of the music countdown shows. This was at least 15 years ago.[/quote]
Charlie Tuna hosted "The National Music Survey", taking over from Dick Clark sometime in the 1980's.
Also, didn't Jay Stewart narrate trailers for early-80s movies produced by B&E?
"Private Lessons"! What happened to him should happen to you!
/only hopefuly without that old bag, Sylvia Kristel
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to expand this, how many GS hosts were involved with "monitor" on radio. Seems like Gene and Bill both were, right?
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[quote name=\'narzo\' post=\'182286\' date=\'Mar 24 2008, 04:33 AM\']
to expand this, how many GS hosts were involved with "monitor" on radio. Seems like Gene and Bill both were, right?
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Per the Monitor Beacon site, Hugh Downs, John Cameron Swayze, Ben Grauer, Gene, Mel Allen, Hal March, Monty Hall, Bert Parks, Ed McMahon, Joe Garagiola, Garry Moore, Bill Cullen, Art Fleming, John Bartholomew Tucker...
A couple of contributions:
On the reverse side, Dan Daniel (who also did Monitor), a big name in New York radio in the 1960s, did The Big Showdown.
And I thought, given "Moonlighting" was in quotes, that Jim MacKrell would be mentioned someplace. Radio, hosting, announcing, and acted in the pilot for said comedy/drama.
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[quote name=\'calliaume\' post=\'182288\' date=\'Mar 24 2008, 08:21 AM\']
And I thought, given "Moonlighting" was in quotes, that Jim MacKrell would be mentioned someplace. Radio, hosting, announcing, and acted in the pilot for said comedy/drama.
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As did David Ruprecht, who had a bit part in one of the final season episodes.
/Oy, I'm channelling Zach!
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Last Saturday, while playing around with the CBS Radio Player, heard Charlie Tuna on K-Earth in LA and sounding great. Believe he's doing weekends and fill-in. He was doing morning drive on KBIG before Clear Channel changed the format to modern AC and redubbed the station "MyFM."