Author Topic: Announcers who didn't fit their shows (Read 5345 times)

Winkfan · « **Reply #15 on:** December 16, 2009, 03:11:13 PM »

What about Steve Dunne announcing What's This Song? I mention at my fanpage that they should have used either John Harlan or Johnny Jacobs instead!

Any of you who have the 10 or so minutes of this show in your collections, next time you view it, you might (or might not) understand why I made this statement.....

Cordially,
Tammy

tpirfan28 · « **Reply #16 on:** December 16, 2009, 03:14:38 PM »

Rod Roddy on everything but TPIR and Press Your Luck (Pyramid and Family Feud immediately come to mind).

[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'232398\' date=\'Dec 16 2009, 03:36 AM\']I also found it quite jarring whenever I heard Johnny Gilbert announce the 80s Pyramid...dunno why.[/quote]I thought Johnny Gilbert was the best at the Pyramid with his very loud and enunciating tone. Charlie O worked too. Jack Clark, not so much.

clemon79 · « **Reply #17 on:** December 16, 2009, 03:19:09 PM »

[quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'232450\' date=\'Dec 16 2009, 12:14 PM\']I thought Johnny Gilbert was the best at the Pyramid with his very loud and enunciating tone.[/quote]
For whatever reason, Gilbert's voice is the one I associate with the Pyramid intro.

Don Howard · « **Reply #18 on:** December 16, 2009, 03:19:34 PM »

Bern Bennett when guest-announcing for a week for Johnny Olson on Match Game '75/PM.
[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'232453\' date=\'Dec 16 2009, 03:19 PM\'][quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'232450\' date=\'Dec 16 2009, 12:14 PM\']I thought Johnny Gilbert was the best at the Pyramid with his very loud and enunciating tone.[/quote]
For whatever reason, Gilbert's voice is the one I associate with the Pyramid intro.
[/quote]
Agreed and agreed.

Jay Temple · « **Reply #19 on:** December 16, 2009, 05:34:54 PM »

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'232453\' date=\'Dec 16 2009, 02:19 PM\']For whatever reason, Gilbert's voice is the one I associate with the Pyramid intro.[/quote]
Same here, even more than Bob Clayton, whom I actually liked better.

nate80s · « **Reply #20 on:** December 19, 2009, 02:00:45 AM »

[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'232398\' date=\'Dec 16 2009, 03:36 AM\']M.G. Kelly on Wheel. As much as I love Jack Clark's mellow announcing, I thought M.G. was just too dry for the show. Oddly enough, I thought Charlie O'Donnell was too upbeat during the 70s era. For some odd reason, he does just fine in the current era.

Staying on the subject of Charlie, I preferred Jay Stewart's announcing on the B&E shows over Charlie's...maybe it's just the latter's announcing style is a little more...how do I put it..."sophisticated", and just sounds odd on such a cheesy show like Joker. Not that I'm questioning Jay's sophistication...

/Love the show
//However, Jack manufactured more drama than an Endemol game show

I also found it quite jarring whenever I heard Johnny Gilbert announce the 80s Pyramid...dunno why.[/quote]

It was always weird when Johnny would say "dolla" instead of "dollar" on Pyramid when doing the intro.

Gameshowcrackers · « **Reply #21 on:** December 22, 2009, 12:20:36 PM »

Johnny Olson did not fit Tattletales or Match Game Hollywood Squares!

Jimmy Owen · « **Reply #22 on:** December 22, 2009, 06:59:53 PM »

I always thought Dick Tufeld sounded almost too polished for "Celebrity Sweepstakes." Anybody but Bob Clayton sounded out of place on NYC Pyramid. Of course, that couldn't be helped. When Fred Saxon subbed on "Child's Play," I thought it was a little strange that a CNN staffer would be announcing a game show. He must have lost the CNN gig by then.

davemackey · « **Reply #23 on:** December 22, 2009, 07:27:28 PM »

[quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'232450\' date=\'Dec 16 2009, 03:14 PM\']Rod Roddy on everything but TPIR and Press Your Luck (Pyramid and Family Feud immediately come to mind).[/quote]
I dunno, Rod was pretty good on "Whew!" and "Hit Man".