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JohnV Been Here Awhile
Joined: 25 Feb 2016 Posts: 230 Location: Md/DC
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Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2020 2:39 pm Post subject: Kermie will kill you |
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Please pardon me if this was done Back When, but I just found my way to it...
Graham Norton chatting with Seth McFarlane... backed by Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Charize Theron... mostly Seth mucking about with his voiced characters from FAMILY GUY. It starts around 8:30 for about 6 minutes...
EXTRA CREDIT QUESTION:
So what DO you call that 1930-40 USA style tenor-speaking voice style found in radio ads of the time?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TgI9dSbhes _________________ SoundscenesDC, main talent and production offices just 385k km up the gravity well in LuNoHoCo Center, old satellite studios still bookable at the future site of Johnson City! |
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todd ellis A Zillion
Joined: 02 Jan 2007 Posts: 10493 Location: little egypt
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Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2020 2:48 pm Post subject: |
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i've heard it called "mid-atlantic" _________________ "i know philip banks": todd ellis
who's/on/1st?
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Bruce Boardmeister
Joined: 06 Jun 2005 Posts: 7926 Location: Portland, OR
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Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2020 3:17 pm Post subject: |
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It was mid-Atlantic in many cases but also just an arched style just for radio ads and newscasting. I'm thinking it probably started in the early days when radio equipment on both sides of the airwaves were not of the highest quality and announcers would over enunciate and over emote so they could be heard and understood. It then became a style for a few decades.
Something I still parody from time to time in my work. Just last week: "Can you talk like a 1950's TV announcer?" You betcham Red Ryder!
B _________________ VO-BB Member #31 Enlisted June, 2005
I'm not a Zoo, but over the years I've played one on radio/TV. . |
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scottnilsen King's Row
Joined: 12 Jul 2007 Posts: 1170 Location: Orange County, CA
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Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2020 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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I agree with the gentlemen above.
And I love this clip! I've seen it several times before. _________________ We have nothing to fear but fear itself.
Well, that and mimes.
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Jack Daniel Cinquecento
Joined: 23 Jun 2016 Posts: 576 Location: SoCal
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Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2020 8:51 am Post subject: |
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As Bruce says, there were technical reasons certainly, but the style was being inherited from earlier theatrical modes as well. America, founded by Englishmen, saw UC English speech as the epitome of style, and along with a strong preference for Northeastern US vocal inflections, gave rise to the heightened form of speaking used by public speakers, actors, and radio folks. Listening for the changes through the decades from the 30s to the 60s is fascinating, as we move from a marriage of English and New English upper-class speech to a distinctly (and often ostentatiously) American--yet still heightened and stylized--form in the 50s and 60s.
I very much enjoy Seth's work, but if you want to hear someone who has mastered the subtle nuances of the vocal patterns of the 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s, listen to Corey Burton. He can do all of those styles with marvelous feel. He was most recently featured in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, but he is called upon whenever a true master of American broadcasting vernacular is required.
He, my friends, is a gem. _________________ Jack Daniel
Narrator / Man About Town |
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