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Studio 46 - Non-TPiR Discussion => Out In Left Field => Topic started by: danderson400 on January 20, 2019, 08:26:51 PM
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Johnny Olsen on TPIR is one example.
However there are quite a bit of announcers who fit their shows perfectly. Mel Brandt's work on The Doctors(soap opera) and G.E College Bowl, and Bill Wolff's work on Another World are two of the best examples.
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Johnny Gilbert and Jeopardy. The perfect tone for such a cerebral game. And another pair would be Rod Roddy on PYL. Good fit there also, especially in the opening spiel: "Today, these three players are after biiiiig bucks, but they'll have to avoid the Whammy, as the play the most exciting game of their lives! From Television City in Hollywood, it's time to PRESS YOUR LUCK!!! And now, the star of Press Your Luck, Peter Tomarken!
And the rest is history, isn't it?
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Gene Wood and Family Feud. Booming voice set the tone for that whole show.
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Charlie O'Donnell (I think that's the right spelling) announcing for many shows like TTD, TJW, and of course, Wheel Of Fortune.
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My top 5 (this would be for soaps and game shows) would be Johnny O, Bill Wolff, Mel Brandt, Charlie O, and(i now this will come as a complete surprise, as he was before my time) Don Pardo.
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Johnny Olsen just had a golden voice, and it served him well long before Price ever came to his plate. As the old saying goes, "he could read the phone book, and have it sound good".
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And Harvey made for the perfect complement to Marc Summers on Double Dare, his calmer inflections contrasted nicely with Marc's somewhat more animated style.
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Gene Wood and Family Feud. Booming voice set the tone for that whole show.
Gene's work on Classic Concentration is pretty good too. I'll admit it, he was better than Wayne Howell in that role.
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From the two episodes floating around, Jack Clark on Eye Guess. He worked so well with Bill Cullen on the lighthearted game.
Howard Reig and the NBC Nightly News, and Bill Rice for ABC World News Tonight come to mind as well.
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Gene Wood is a great announcer. The way he always opened Family Feud with Richard Dawson and Ray Combs (I loved the Ray Combs edition a lot better because the "fast money" display had a slight change to the opening) and the addition of the Bullseye round) was very awesome.
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Not to derail the topic too much, but I hated everything they changed with the opening of Family Feud when Ray’s version came on. They made a much more intricate looking “sampler” on the title card, and then turned it to the dot matrix side of the board much earlier than they did on Richard’s version, so that it was barely seen. And Bullseye was a terrible addition to the game.
Back to the topic, I actually thought Shadoe Stevens was a good fit for Hollywood Squares, especially having him as a square.
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Johnny Jacobs on Treasure Hunt. Bob Barker even channeled him when he did David Letterman's Top Ten and stated what the actual retail value of him retirement watch.
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Not to derail the topic too much, but I hated everything they changed with the opening of Family Feud when Ray’s version came on. They made a much more intricate looking “sampler” on the title card, and then turned it to the dot matrix side of the board much earlier than they did on Richard’s version, so that it was barely seen. And Bullseye was a terrible addition to the game.
Back to the topic, I actually thought Shadoe Stevens was a good fit for Hollywood Squares, especially having him as a square.
Sorry, but i liked Kenny Williams better.
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Charlie O'Donnell on Wheel of Fortune
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There are a ton of announcers(both game shows and soaps) that owuld fit the bill.
Dwight Weist on Search For Tomorrow, Johnny Jacobs on TJW, Alan Berns on Guiding Light, Dan McCullough on ATWT, Ken Roberts on Love of Life and Secret Storm are a few examples.
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MacDonald Carey
"Like sands through the hourglass..." Your mind will finish the rest, probably in his voice.
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Rod Roddy on both PYL and TPIR, as well as Soap.
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Gene Wood was also a great announcer for Password Plus & Card Sharks. I always LOVED the opening poems on Card Sharks like "Get those Cards! Cut them right! Win ALL THE MONEY, and your FUTURE'S BRIGHT..... OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNN CARD SHARKS!!! And now here's the STAR of CARD SHARKS, JIM PERRY!!!!!" (I even LOVED the theme music, and the cool display that they used at the beginning of each episode)
An honorable mention goes to Bob Hilton for announcing on Blockbusters with Bill Cullen. Didn't he do announcing on TJW & TTD, or is my mind deceiving me?
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Gene Wood was also a great announcer for Password Plus & Card Sharks. I always LOVED the opening poems on Card Sharks like "Get those Cards! Cut them right! Win ALL THE MONEY, and your FUTURE'S BRIGHT..... OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNN CARD SHARKS!!! And now here's the STAR of CARD SHARKS, JIM PERRY!!!!!" (I even LOVED the theme music, and the cool display that they used at the beginning of each episode)
An honorable mention goes to Bob Hilton for announcing on Blockbusters with Bill Cullen. Didn't he do announcing on TJW & TTD, or is my mind deceiving me?
He did both shows to finish off the 1979-80 season of both shows, he also announced the unannounced finales of Play The Percentages and Joker Joker Joker.
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Both Bill Wolff and Johnny Olsen, in my opinion are two of the best announcers in daytime, bar none. For example Wolff's way of saying "Another World in color is brought to you by Secret(P&G product)" is one thing, but Olsen's style was more unique. Johnny's description of two sterling silver bars, a trip on your very own private railroad car! (all aboard!), a beautiful mink coat, and "the most luxurious gift of all, take a look at this new CADILLAC Coupe de Ville!" Now imagine Bill Wolff or someone else like Mel Brandt, Ken Roberts, Dwight Weist or Alan Berns trying to do that the way Johnny O does on TPIR. Jay Stewart is another one. On LMAD, he might start out describing 50 dollars worth of Carl's Jr hamburgers, but then.."this sparkling new Cadillac Convertible!"