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Narrators for Lincoln Portrait
Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 10:40 am
by MartyNeilan
I'm playing Copland's Lincoln Portrait at a 9/11 thing next week. The narrator is going to be some hotshot local news guy, who was too busy to go to his only rehearsal (so he will basically be doing the performance off the cuff
)
Probably the best I ever head this done live was with James Earl Jones in the very early 90's in New Jersey at a summer festival. He did flub some lines but recovered.
Anyone have any good Lincoln Portrait stories?
Re: Narrators for Lincoln Portrait
Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 1:21 am
by Ed Jones
This guy makes James Earl Jones sound like Gilbert Gottried on helium (and he doesn't flub lines...ever)
http://www.donnierayalbert.com" target="_blank" target="_blank (don't skip the intro and you will see what I mean)
Re: Narrators for Lincoln Portrait
Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 1:23 am
by basstbone64
Greg wrote:The best I've heard was done by Gilbert Gottfried. A stirring performance indeed.
Where can I hear this?!
Re: Narrators for Lincoln Portrait
Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 1:29 am
by MartyNeilan
basstbone64 wrote:Greg wrote:The best I've heard was done by Gilbert Gottfried. A stirring performance indeed.
Where can I hear this?!
Almost sounds as good as if Joe Pesci did it..
"An' dis is whadde sed.."
Re: Narrators for Lincoln Portrait
Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 9:39 am
by eupher61
The Impressive Clergyman: Mawage. Mawage is wot bwings us togeder tooday. Mawage, that bwessed awangment, that dweam wifin a dweam...
[cut to Westley, Inigo, and Fezzik]
The Impressive Clergyman: And wuv, tru wuv, will fowow you foweva...
[cut to the trio again]
The Impressive Clergyman: So tweasure your wuv.
Prince Humperdinck: Skip to the end.
The Impressive Clergyman: Have you the wing?
[cut to the trio once more]
The Impressive Clergyman: ...and do you,Pwincess Buwwercup...
Prince Humperdinck: Man and wife. Say man and wife.
Re: Narrators for Lincoln Portrait
Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 12:27 pm
by MartyNeilan
"In a world, where tuba players waste time on the Internet instead of practicing..."
The Voice, we will miss you.
Re: Narrators for Lincoln Portrait
Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 4:31 pm
by ZNC Dandy
V.O.G was great, really nice guy too. I actually prefer this guy though...
Hal Douglas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXbFuNQwTbs" target="_blank" target="_blank
This is just hilarious, at least for people who talk for a living like me,includes V.O.G, John Leger, Nick Tate, Al Chalk, Mark Elliot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48Kx4ONNI40" target="_blank" target="_blank
I would also love to hear James Coburn narrate this, but he's probably not able to do that either.
Re: Narrators for Lincoln Portrait
Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 10:27 pm
by Cowgo
MartyNeilan wrote:basstbone64 wrote:Greg wrote:The best I've heard was done by Gilbert Gottfried. A stirring performance indeed.
Where can I hear this?!
Almost sounds as good as if Joe Pesci did it..
"An' dis is whadde sed.."
Ha Ha! That's funny as all get out. More like "An' dis is whadde F*%&$%G sed.."
Maybe it's just me, but that repeated use of "And this is what he said...this is what Abraham Lincoln said...." really got on my nerves, so much so that I involuntarily groaned whenever I saw that piece in a folder.
Re: Narrators for Lincoln Portrait
Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 2:27 pm
by windshieldbug
Darth Vader
(SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSssssssssssssssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhh) "Fellow citizens, we cannot (SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSssssssssssssssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhh) escape history." That is what he (SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSssssssssssssssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhh) said. That is what Abraham (SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSssssssssssssssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhh) Lincoln said.
Re: Narrators for Lincoln Portrait
Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 2:41 pm
by MartyNeilan
windshieldbug wrote:Darth Vader
(SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSssssssssssssssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhh) "Fellow citizens, we cannot (SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSssssssssssssssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhh) escape history." That is what he (SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSssssssssssssssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhh) said. That is what Abraham (SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSssssssssssssssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhh) Lincoln said.
MartyNeilan wrote:Probably the best I ever head this done live was with James Earl Jones in the very early 90's in New Jersey at a summer festival. He did flub some lines but recovered.
Re: Narrators for Lincoln Portrait
Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 4:33 pm
by Rick Denney
Peter Schickele.
Rick "'...this is what John Bach said...'" Denney
Re: Narrators for Lincoln Portrait
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 7:37 am
by MartyNeilan
Scooby Tuba wrote:My wife had one of the local leading "talking heads" kids in band recently. What a bafoon. The guy thinks he
is the news...
Dumb as a bucket of rocks...
+1 for Scoob (as usual)
Re: Narrators for Lincoln Portrait
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 10:36 am
by windshieldbug
Scooby Tuba wrote:My wife had one of the local leading "talking heads" kids in band recently. What a bafoon. The guy thinks he
is the news...
Dumb as a bucket of rocks...
Why do you do rocks such a disservice?
(and I hate to tell you,
but here around Philly, talking heads HAVE been the news... )
Re: Narrators for Lincoln Portrait
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 9:35 pm
by ken k
Just did it this summer with a guy named Jim Kelly.
Very good Lincoln impersonator. Did an excellent job.
here is a blurb on the concert:
http://www.readingpops.com/july.pdf" target="_blank
ken k
Re: Narrators for Lincoln Portrait
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 11:34 pm
by Randy Beschorner
Best Recorded Narrator: Henry Fonda
Best Live Narration (with my limited exposure), WFMT announcer Carl Grapentine, probably known primarily in the Chicago market.
Absolutely the worst live performance but I really didn't care: Joan Fontaine (yep, the actress from the 30's and 40's, in December of '81 at the Kennedy Center in D.C. Unbelievably overwrought and melodramatic, but then I was on Day Five of my honeymoon with the current Mrs.
.
Re: Narrators for Lincoln Portrait
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 1:53 am
by Nick Pierce
bloke wrote:
I MIGHT actually PAY to see it done were this guy hired to narrate:
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How about this guy?
Re: Narrators for Lincoln Portrait
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 9:13 am
by windshieldbug
What about tapped out by this guy...
Re: Narrators for Lincoln Portrait
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 2:19 pm
by LoyalTubist
A posthumous list of great candidates for this job:
1. Peter Lorre
2. Bela Lugosi
3. Charles Laughton
4. Charles Boyer
5. Paul Winchell (as Tigger)
Re: Narrators for Lincoln Portrait
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 10:08 pm
by ken k
Greg's avatar made me think it would be neat to hear leon Redbone do it...
k