Not Just Voiceover

  Great interview on nola.com with Jim Cummings, the official voice of Winnie the Pooh…and Tigger too! excerpt: “As a kid, I remember seeing Mel Blanc on a TV show,” Cummings said. “And my Dad said, ‘You see this guy right here?’ I said, ‘Yeah.’ He said, ‘That’s Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck.’ I said, [...]

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By BEN SHPIGEL SEATTLE — A few times every season, Bob Sheppard would visit the training room at Yankee Stadium. The Voice of God needed soothing. “He would very politely ask, ‘May I have a few lozenges?’ ” said Gene Monahan, the Yankees’ head trainer. “And he’s one of those guys who knew how to [...]

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Interesting article in todays New York Times, featuring Hal Douglas. Excerpt: IT’S been almost eight months since the death of Don LaFontaine, and everyone who’s anyone in his business — the business of announcing movie trailers — says there will never be another Thunder Throat. Often called “the voice of God,” Mr. LaFontaine recorded voice-overs [...]

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Variety by CAROLINE RYDER  Don LaFontaine, the so-called “Voice of God” who held a virtual monopoly over the narration of bigtime movie trailers until his death Sept. 1, had a clear idea of who his successor should be — God’s voice, he said, should belong to a woman. “I think women are vastly underrepresented in this area,” [...]

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 Local vocal stars express auditory allure that sells cars, homes, toys Meet the voice of God. Herb Beattie is an 81-year-old opera singer, a retired professor and, in his free moments, one of the more recognizable voices in the nation. Beattie’s voice is as deep as the Pacific, a reverberating bass that shakes the walls [...]

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