Narrators for Lincoln Portrait

[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?

[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)

[basstbone64]

The best I've heard was done by Gilbert Gottfried. A stirring performance indeed.

Where can I hear this?!

[MartyNeilan]

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.."

[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.

[MartyNeilan]

"In a world, where tuba players waste time on the Internet instead of practicing..."

The Voice, we will miss you.

[ZNC Dandy]

I would prefer to hear Don LaFontaine. Too bad he passed on this year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QPMvj_xejg

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.

[Cowgo]

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.

[windshieldbug]

Darth Vader

(SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSssssssssssssssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhh) "Fellow citizens, we cannot (SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSssssssssssssssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhh) escape history." That is what he (SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSssssssssssssssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhh) said. That is what Abraham (SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSssssssssssssssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhh) Lincoln said.

[MartyNeilan]

Darth Vader

(SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSssssssssssssssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhh) "Fellow citizens, we cannot (SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSssssssssssssssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhh) escape history." That is what he (SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSssssssssssssssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhh) said. That is what Abraham (SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSssssssssssssssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhh) Lincoln said.

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.

[Rick Denney]

Peter Schickele.

Rick "'...this is what John Bach said...'" Denney

[MartyNeilan]

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)

[windshieldbug]

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... )

[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

[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. .

[Nick Pierce]

I MIGHT actually PAY to see it done were this guy hired to narrate:
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How about this guy?

[windshieldbug]

What about tapped out by this guy...

[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)

[ken k]

Greg's avatar made me think it would be neat to hear leon Redbone do it...
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