Radio Speakers
Narrators, News Junkies, Sports Jockeys, Tattletales, Tipsters, Toastmasters and Coffee Klatch Couples who Verbalized the Jargon of the Aural Ether from the 1920s to the 1980s : a Biographical Dictionary
Description:... This work celebrates the men and women who graced the American airwaves. Included are the likes of Mary Margaret McBride (dubbed the Oprah Winfrey of the pre-TV generation and the female Arthur Godfrey), Stefan Hatos (writer of The Green Hornet, 1940-1941, and producer-director of The Curt Massey Show, 1956), Will Rogers (actor in Boys Will Be Boys, 1921, and A Connecticut Yankee, 1931), Henry William Stern (interviewer of such luminaries as Jack Benny and Babe Ruth), and Dick Wesson (announcer for Hollywood Open House, 1947-1948, and Space Patrol, in the early to mid - 1950s.) This exhaustive reference guide covers the 1,160 performers who filled the strategic roles of the voices of radio. The text is alphabetically arranged and features most of the prominent air-life speakers. Most of the people within these pages haven't been profiled in other works. Each entry includes radio programs; the personality's specific assignments (e.g., actor, newscaster, writer, etc.); years or approximate years of the personality's service; birth dates and locations (when available) and death dates and locations.
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