OT: Unmistakable celebrity voices from your youth

[Hugh Laurie]

Good night David. Good night Chet. And good night from NBC News.


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[michnittlion]

"Tonight on CBS

60 Minutes, where Mike Wallace will be sharing a report on <<<fill in the blank>>>

followed by Murder (3 second pregnant pause) She wrote, staring Angely Lansbury."

 

[johnmpsu]

Lots of great ones listed in this thread.
I would add Jean Shepard, every night on WOR radio.
One of the greatest story tellers of our time.



For those that don't know "A Christmas Story" is from his work.

 

[PSUQBKeeper]

Stan was before Jim but didn't live very long

ahhh....never heard of Stan before now....saw Jim Fowler at a presentation he did at a local middle school....very cool show and seemed like a great guy

 

[nittanyfan333]

On the greater York area, we had (have) an AM radio station 910 WSBA. They used to broadcast orioles games (don’t know if they still do). Whenever there was a game on, and we were in the barn milking or in the tractor in the fields, we were listening to the O’s and John Miller and Fred Manfra were the radio men. To this day I can hear John Miller’s voice and it takes me back 20 years.

 

[john4psu]

Marv Albert

Yesssssss!

 

[john4psu]

Rhonda Shear and Gilbert Gottfried

USA Up All Night

I had to think about Rhonda's voice. It's not my first memory of her.

I always thought Gilbert Gottfried would be a great GPS voice. I'd want a soft, sexy female voice normally, "Turn right in 100 feet darling." However, if I should miss a turn then Gilbert's voice comes on, "You missed your turn you idiot!" would be very apropos.

 

[nittany119]

Yesssssss!

Yesssss and it counts!

Marv Albert and Sal Messina welcoming you to another Rangers broadcast. His emphasis on the word Rangers was classic

 

[Class of 67]

 

[eidolon21]

help me out ....
JFK speech>> Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country

 

[thewholebit]

Any Yinzers remember the pipes of KDKA's Rege Cordic?

Sure do! And a personal favorite of mine - Al Julius.

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[GulfCoastLion]

If you are a true Pittsburgh Steeler fan from back in the day, you gotta love Myron Cope (a true yinzer in every sense of the word) !

 

[Norm Petersin]

Joe Paterno, Ed Sullivan, the Gunner, Bob Prince

 

[Norm Petersin]

Okle dokle, Myron Cope

 

[interrobang]

 

[GulfCoastLion]

 

[TangSoo]

Keith Jackson
Vin Scully
Dick Enberg
Howard Cosell
Kurt Gowdy

Underrated:
Chris Schenkel
Bill Fleming
Dick Stockton
Gary Bender

As an 8 year old, I had a major thing for this chick:

 

[john4psu]

Joe Paterno, Ed Sullivan, the Gunner, Bob Prince

Good one with Ed Sullivan. Every Sunday night we watched it.

 

[GulfCoastLion]

Take your pick from some of these Clint Eastwood lines.

 

[furfoot]

Okle dokle, Myron Cope

Not sure what it was about Pittsburgh, but Sophie Masloff (local Dem. politician who was once mayor) had a voice that could outscreech Myron. I often wondered what a coupling of those 2 would produce.

 

[Bob78]

On the greater York area, we had (have) an AM radio station 910 WSBA. They used to broadcast orioles games (don’t know if they still do). Whenever there was a game on, and we were in the barn milking or in the tractor in the fields, we were listening to the O’s and John Miller and Fred Manfra were the radio men. To this day I can hear John Miller’s voice and it takes me back 20 years.

John Miller was/is outstanding with a great voice and great on-air personality.
I'm older than you, it seems, and my fave pro teams of my youth were the Orioles and Colts, with the great Chuck Thompson doing play-by-play. His was as unmistakable a voice as any for me from my young days.

 

[PearlSUJam]

Manny Gordon. Enjoy, enjoy!

 

[Woodpecker]

Lindsay Nelson
Bob Prince

 

[creamery freak]

What celebrity voices from your youth are unmistakable?

I'll post only three of mine for now as I'm sure others will name the ones I also could list.

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How about Rod Serling from ' The Twilight Zone ' or the Waltons all saying goodnight at the end of each program.

 

[PSUQBKeeper]

 

[WDLion]

What celebrity voices from your youth are unmistakable?

I'll post only three of mine for now as I'm sure others will name the ones I also could list.

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Paul Harvey
Mel Allen
Red Barber
Jack Benny
Edward R Morrow
George Goebel
Eve Arden
Really to many to name.

 

[psuro]

There is this guy.

 

[artsandletters]

Sally Starr - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Starr_(TV_hostess)
Uncle Pete (Boyle) - https://www.broadcastpioneers.com/boyle2.html

 

[N&B4PSU]

Ahhhh... the Duke

 

[psute]

Went through the whole thread.


Cash...

 

[kgilbert78]

Sally Starr - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Starr_(TV_hostess)
Uncle Pete (Boyle) - https://www.broadcastpioneers.com/boyle2.html

In the movie The In Crowd, set in the 1960s in Philly, there was a scene with Sally and Uncle Pete--where Uncle Pete was played by his son, Emmy award winner Peter Boyle (the Monster in Young Frankenstein), in an uncredited cameo.

Of course, for us Philadelphia natives, when you are talking about kids shows, you have to add Gene London, Captain Noah, and Wee Willie Webber....

 

[harbest]

Phil Rizzuto... he was involved in baseball?

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[harbest]

The third Met’s broadcaster to that team was Bob “i’ll Be back with the happy recap” Murphy

Vince McMahon announcing WWF was pretty distinct too

You always heard Lindsey Nelson's sports jackets, even when he was doing radio

 

[anon_1eeb2b426hv3y]

What celebrity voices from your youth are unmistakable?

I'll post only three of mine for now as I'm sure others will name the ones I also could list.

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Jennifer Tilly

 

[artsandletters]

In the movie The In Crowd, set in the 1960s in Philly, there was a scene with Sally and Uncle Pete--where Uncle Pete was played by his son, Emmy award winner Peter Boyle (the Monster in Young Frankenstein), in an uncredited cameo.

Of course, for us Philadelphia natives, when you are talking about kids shows, you have to add Gene London, Captain Noah, and Wee Willie Webber....

I knew Peter Boyle was his son. I first remember seeing Peter in a strange movie called ‘Joe’. Uncle Pete was the guest speaker/caricaturist for one of my Little League banquets (iirc, the entree that year was chicken croquets - delicious ). Their Boyle cousins lived around the corner from me.

 

[Obliviax]

How about the greatest sportscaster of all, Marc Albert?

Not that I liked him, but Brent Musberger. And always liked Chris Shenkel

yep...chris Schenkel...."oh the pomp and pageantry of college football!"

 

[PSUQBKeeper]

Thurl Ravenscroft....voice of Tony the Tiger and also singer of the Grinch song!

 

[interrobang]

Sheryl Crow. Unmistakable because her voice sounds like finger nails down a chalkboard

 

[First Last]

Cronkite was on in my house every night.

This country needs another Cronkite desperately.

Agree. I cringe when channel surf and come across any of the CNN buffoons. CNN has stopped reporting the news, they now just present biased and fake news coverage of Trump nearly 24 hours a day. I laugh when I see their self-advertised “The Most Trusted Name In News” statements. And the other networks are only slightly less bad.

 

[BobPSU92]

Tom Carvel