Re: Re:Fwd: Re: If It's A Gift-giving Observance, Here Comes the International Star Register

["Dan Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>]

Since his death, Bill Marlowe's voice has never to my knowledge appeared on
the Giant Glass commercials. There has been a succession of voices--and the
positioner, "New England is GIANT Country," continues to appear. Giant
Country, along with "The MEAT falls off the BONE" (for Tony Floramo's
Restaurant in Charlestown), were Marlowe's commercial signatures. (Marlowe
had dozens of other pet phrases not taken from commercial copy that were
Boston radio traditions for decades. One was "nueva la centura!" which he'd
cry out in the middle of a lot of records that had a Latin beat. Does nueva
la centura mean anything? If so, what?) I don't think that after Marlowe's
death, the Floramo's commercials ever aired with a different voice. Is
Floramo's still in business? Of all the voices that have appeared in the
Giant commercials since Marlowe's death, the one that sounded to me the most
like Marlowe was Howard David. David clarly identified himself,
however--perhaps for fear of criticism over mimicing a dead man.

I think the longest post-mortem run for a deceased Boston radio personality
has to be the WUNR ID voiced by Norm Ruby. Ruby must have died 20 years ago,
but as far as I know, his voice can still be heard many times a day on WUNR.
If memory serves, Ruby never says much--just "WUNR Brookline." Of course, as
long as the call letters and COL remain, the ID won't go out of style.

--
Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net
617-558-4205, eFax 707-215-6367

----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Watson <markwats@attbi.com>
To: <lglavin@lycos.com>; <tklaundry@juno.com>
Cc: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2002 4:34 PM
Subject: Re: Re:Fwd: Re: If It's A Gift-giving Observance, Here Comes the
International Star Register


>   Dave faneuf wrote:
>
> > Actually after Bill died his spots disappeared from radio and tv,
perhaps
> the voice over liner of Giant Country is finding its way back, but he's
not
> doing the voice over (obviously), and it's not like an anonymous line in a
> 30 or 60 second spot is a half hour tv infomercal featuring a dead actor.
>
>  The late Ernie Anderson, best known as ABC -TV's promo voice for years,
> also voiced many liners and top of hour ID's for Medford/Boston's WXKS-FM
> (Kiss 108). After he passed away several years ago, Kiss 108 kept running
> his voicers, eventually replacing them with a new voice, although I think
> they still run a couple of Ernie's buffers occasionally. At least the
other
> day while tuned in to Dale Dorman's PM drive show I heard Ernie's voice,
or
> a good impersonation!!
>
> Mark Watson
>
>
>