Author Topic: Game Show Announcers "Moonlighting"... (Read 9245 times)

BrandonFG · « **Reply #15 on:** March 21, 2008, 02:09:01 PM »

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[quote name=\'narzo\' post=\'182077\' date=\'Mar 21 2008, 03:17 AM\']
been 20+ years but I swear I remember Mr. Tuna being heard outside the GS world.

( I just like saying "MR. TUNA" too)
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Charlie Tuna was definitely a radio host. An interview of him with Karen Carpenter's on the internet somewhere. Haven't heard it in a while.
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And years ago, he was the announcer for, IIRC, one of the music countdown shows. This was at least 15 years ago.

Also, didn't Jay Stewart narrate trailers for early-80s movies produced by B&E?

cmjb13 · « **Reply #16 on:** March 21, 2008, 03:15:11 PM »

I know Burton voiced a special (IIRC, something like Real Sex) on HBO. When I had time to talk to him he mentioned he loved doing it.

OT, he mentioned at restaurants his name gets misread quite often as Richard Burton. And he's often mistaken with the stunt man of the same name (Burton told me he had a phone conversation with him. I guess to introduce himself)

Kevin Prather · « **Reply #17 on:** March 21, 2008, 03:20:39 PM »

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I know Burton voiced a special (IIRC, something like Real Sex) on HBO....he mentioned he loved doing it.
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Sometimes the jokes write themselves.

ChuckNet · « **Reply #18 on:** March 21, 2008, 04:10:44 PM »

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Charlie Tuna was definitely a radio host. An interview of him with Karen Carpenter's on the internet somewhere. Haven't heard it in a while.

He's also an occasional fill-in for Casey Kasem on American Top 10/20...you can imagine my surprise when I popped in the CD for that week's show and heard his voice between songs. :-)

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")

Robert Hutchinson · « **Reply #19 on:** March 21, 2008, 06:40:20 PM »

Tuna also recently did Back to the 70s, a weekly syndicated oldies show with lots of his old interviews mixed in. The All-Knowing Wikipedia tells me he only taped 52 episodes, which might explain why it disappeared from my local station's lineup recently.

clemon79 · « **Reply #20 on:** March 21, 2008, 07:15:28 PM »

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[quote name=\'cmjb13\' post=\'182111\' date=\'Mar 21 2008, 12:15 PM\']
I know Burton voiced a special (IIRC, something like Real Sex) on HBO....he mentioned he loved doing it.
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Sometimes the jokes write themselves.

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You, sir? Beat me to it.

Jay Temple · « **Reply #21 on:** March 21, 2008, 08:24:32 PM »

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Charlie Tuna was definitely a radio host. An interview of him with Karen Carpenter's on the internet somewhere. Haven't heard it in a while.

He's also an occasional fill-in for Casey Kasem on American Top 10/20...you can imagine my surprise when I popped in the CD for that week's show and heard his voice between songs. :-)

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")
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I wasn't aware that he'd filled in. I remember that he was the regular VO for AT10.

TimK2003 · « **Reply #22 on:** March 21, 2008, 08:25:15 PM »

[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'182061\' date=\'Mar 20 2008, 09:55 PM\']
No, 3wm WWWM 105.5. I also worked at WOHO.
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So you worked over at the Pickle (Road) Factory, eh? I believe that was around the time when Ron Finn was PD there, wasn't it? And wasn't that around the time when WOHO dropped the music format for talk or sports?

I came close to taking a part-time gig at 3WM -- so we "almost" crossed paths.

Small world indeed!

Jimmy Owen · « **Reply #23 on:** March 21, 2008, 11:28:03 PM »

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[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'182061\' date=\'Mar 20 2008, 09:55 PM\']
No, 3wm WWWM 105.5. I also worked at WOHO.
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So you worked over at the Pickle (Road) Factory, eh? I believe that was around the time when Ron Finn was PD there, wasn't it? And wasn't that around the time when WOHO dropped the music format for talk or sports?

I came close to taking a part-time gig at 3WM -- so we "almost" crossed paths.

Small world indeed!

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It was 89-91. I did middays at WOHO when it was a country station and when they stopped doing music I moved to overnights on 3wm and also was the morning local news anchor when the AM was playing the audio from CNN Headline News, so I would work from 1am to 9am. Ron Finn was not yet PD, but he did an airshift. Very nice guy.

chris319 · « **Reply #24 on:** March 22, 2008, 06:19:04 AM »

ISTR seeing an article describing how Johnny had a special relationship with WBT because his ranch was nearby and he used to drop by the station from time to time and the jock on duty would put him on the air, so it's not surprising that he would do VO work for them. Who knows, maybe he was one of the station owners unbeknownst to us? If I can find that article again I'll post the link.

I remember hearing Jay Stewart doing a radio spot for some kind of drag racing/monster truck show in Poway, California way back in the early '80s. He didn't identify himself but it was unmistakably Jay. The spot ran on XETRA 690 AM out of Tijuana, known at the time as "The Mighty 690". It was big here in L.A. back in the early '80s when AMs still played (English) pop music formats.

I spotted Burton at KCOP several years ago when the station was owned by Chris Craft but did not go up and introduce myself. I think he was filling in for Jim Thorburn.

tvwxman · « **Reply #25 on:** March 22, 2008, 07:11:49 AM »

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ISTR seeing an article describing how Johnny had a special relationship with WBT because his ranch was nearby and he used to drop by the station from time to time and the jock on duty would put him on the air, so it's not surprising that he would do VO work for them. Who knows, maybe he was one of the station owners unbeknownst to us? If I can find that article again I'll post the link.
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Did Johnny's family still reside in Clt afterwards? I wish I had known that when I lived there a few years ago.

/And contacted them, just like Adam Kliest got hold of the Combs family!
//Not really.

tvrandywest · « **Reply #26 on:** March 22, 2008, 01:15:06 PM »

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Did Johnny's family still reside in Clt afterwards? I wish I had known that when I lived there a few years ago.
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If Chris or anybody can find any information about Johnny having a local connection with Charlotte, please let me know. Otherwise, the story has him moving from NY to LA in 1972. At that time, he sold his Connecticut home and gave up the Manhattan apartment, and bought in West Virginia. Johnny recorded most if not all of the cuts for WBT at Mark Century Studios in New York City in 1971 as a favor to the programming force behind WBT, Tom McMurray. Tom said that Johnny was happy to lend his voice to the station for zero money.

Randy
tvrandywest.com

davemackey · « **Reply #27 on:** March 23, 2008, 02:52:17 PM »

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And years ago, he was the announcer for, IIRC, one of the music countdown shows. This was at least 15 years ago.[/quote]
Charlie Tuna hosted "The National Music Survey", taking over from Dick Clark sometime in the 1980's.

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Also, didn't Jay Stewart narrate trailers for early-80s movies produced by B&E?

"Private Lessons"! What happened to him should happen to you!

/only hopefuly without that old bag, Sylvia Kristel

narzo · « **Reply #28 on:** March 24, 2008, 04:33:06 AM »

to expand this, how many GS hosts were involved with "monitor" on radio. Seems like Gene and Bill both were, right?

calliaume · « **Reply #29 on:** March 24, 2008, 08:21:16 AM »

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to expand this, how many GS hosts were involved with "monitor" on radio. Seems like Gene and Bill both were, right?
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Per the Monitor Beacon site, Hugh Downs, John Cameron Swayze, Ben Grauer, Gene, Mel Allen, Hal March, Monty Hall, Bert Parks, Ed McMahon, Joe Garagiola, Garry Moore, Bill Cullen, Art Fleming, John Bartholomew Tucker...

A couple of contributions:

On the reverse side, Dan Daniel (who also did Monitor), a big name in New York radio in the 1960s, did The Big Showdown.

And I thought, given "Moonlighting" was in quotes, that Jim MacKrell would be mentioned someplace. Radio, hosting, announcing, and acted in the pilot for said comedy/drama.