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markt
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 Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2013 4:32 pm Post subject: Prayers for Pardo |
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Don's unmistakable voice has been absent from the familiar opening of SNL for the last two shows. He's 95, so I got a little worried. Looks like he broke a hip a couple of weeks ago...
Let's all send up prayers and good thoughts for this iconic veteran of our industry.
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Jen Gosnell
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Aww, I sure will. I knew he must be getting up there, but 95 is quite an achievement! Here's to a full and fast recovery for Don.
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My sincere best wishes to Don, the man who introduced millions of Baby Boomers to 'Jeopardy' (with Art Fleming), and who made the first announcement on NBC of President Kennedy's assassination (no audio exists because they didn't roll tape). Don was one of only two people to have had a lifetime contract with NBC: he and the late Bob Hope had been with the network since its earliest days in radio, before television came about.
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Lance Blair
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Oh dear...definitely hoping for the best. I admire him so much for keeping at it when he could have stopped.
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todd ellis
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| Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 8:03 am Post subject: |
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don pardo is the first voice i tried to imitate (probably like everybody else) ... all my t&p out to this great talent!
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Lee Gordon
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| Mike Harrison wrote: | | Don, the man who introduced millions of Baby Boomers to 'Jeopardy' (with Art Fleming), |
And before that, he introduced us older baby boomers to The Price is Right (with Bill Cullen). His is probably the very first "announcer voice" I remember from my childhood in the 50s ("Price authority, Michael C. Fina Jewelers; Price authority, Schiaparelli Furs. New York"). and most likely the voice that planted the seed in my head that this is what I wanted to do.
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"...from The Spiegel Catalog, Chicago, 60609. Art, back to yooou!"
"Thank you Don Pardo! Now let's play Jeopardy!"
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markt
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"...and a beautiful fur coat from Dicker and Dicker of Beverly Hills!"
(Thanks to Don Pardo, I will never...EVER...forget the ZIP Code for Chicago...)
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Lee Gordon
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| audio'connell wrote: | | "The Spiegel Catalog, Chicago, 60609. |
That's the "modern" address. Zip codes came into being in 1963 but Spiegel was also a supplier of prizes on the old Price is Right from 1956 through 1965. For most of that time, Pardo announced it as "Spiegel, Chicago 9, Illinois."
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Don Pardo is an inspiration. He could've gone out to pasture but kept on working.
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