Backstory: When I was learning to write copy in about 1983, Bob Humenick gave me a massive box full of award-winning radio commercials from the RAB and the RBC to learn from. The transcript below is one of many I committed to memory.

...but now I need the actual audio for a project I'm working on.  The last few days I've asked Larry MacInnis, Mike Occomore, Terry O'Reilly, the legendary pack-rat Doug Thompson, and even Lisa Orkin... and while almost everybody remembers the spot, nobody remembers who the VO talent was, and nobody has it.  Not even the RAB.

I even asked Dick Orkin about it a few years back. He said, "That sounds a lot like something I would have written, but it's not mine."

The GUY in the VO sounded a lot like some of the dim-witted characters that Dick used to do, but in a lower vocal range.  (I think he also did the spot for King Oscar Sardines where the director complained that he was saying his S's funny, so asked him to edit out the S's as he did the read.)
I wish I could offer more guidance, but that's all I've got.

ANY leads would be appreciated.  Thank you.
Here's the script:
SFX: (door knocks & opens)

MAN: Hi, are you Mary?

WOMAN: Yes, are you —

MAN: Bob, your blind date. Listen, I hope you’re ready; I thought we’d skip the restaurant and just have dinner with my folks.

WOMAN: Oh!

MAN: Here’s your copy of the pre-nup, I also found a nice little three-bedroom bungalow we could look at, and – do you like kids? I thought we could -

WOMAN: (interrupting) Wow, you move awfully fast.

MAN: Yeah, well, I work for Sir Speedy.

WOMAN: Oh?

MAN: Yeah, at Sir Speedy we do printing and copying and we do it fast – sometimes while you wait. So I got into the habit of doing everything fast.

WOMAN: Including getting dressed?

MAN: Yeah, how’d you know?

WOMAN: You forgot your pants.

MAN: Oh. Right. Well, I had a nice time, g’bye.

SFX: (door closes)

Dale Patterson wrote:

geo wrote:

Excellent question, Mr. Patterson.     Likewise nostalgia radio.    What does one think of when the year 1980 is musically recalled?    "Another Brick in the Wall" (Pink Floyd) that stayed at #1 for four (4) weeks?   Or "Another One bites the Dust" (Queen) that was #1 for three (3) weeks?     

This morning's Top Ten at Ten on AM 740 ignored those in favor of tunes such as "Sailing" (Chris Cross), "Shining Star" (Manhattans) and "Cupid" (Spinners).     In a more recent post, the board moderator asks "how to fix what's wrong" . . . could credibility bring some back?       

They're playing the top hits from August 1980. "Another One Bites The Dust" didn't peak until October of that year after debuting on the Hot 100 on August 16. "Another Brick in the Wall" peaked in January 1980 and had left the charts by August.

Not surprisingly, Dale is 100% correct.  Top Ten at Ten is ALWAYS the songs from THIS WEEK in whatever year we decide to profile.  Sometimes, admittedly, the chart itself is a hybrid of the Hot 100 and the CHUM Chart simply to breathe some fresh air into it.

Only exception in our methodology is the Friday Top Ten at Ten, which is the #1 song from this week in different years. So tomorrow, it'll be ten different songs that were all #1 on August 10th... which continues over to The Next Eleven at Eleven.

Dale Patterson wrote:

AM 740 hasn't played a single Tom Jones song this week, much less She's a Lady "3, 4, 5 times a day."

http://www.zoomerradio.ca/what-was-that-song/

Thanks, Dale, for introducing pesky little things like facts into the conversation.

To back up what Dale says with some further context, MusicMaster says we play that track about once every five and a half days for the last few years.  And several of those plays come during the all-night show.

Wanna go back further?  Since January 1, 2015, we've played a song with Tom Jones on it 846 times - roughly one every thirty hours or so.  If you don't count the all-night plays, there's a Tom Jones song twice a week.  Not a bad average for a guy with a couple dozen hit songs who's sold more than 100 million records.

...but please... I don't want the truth to foul up anyone's analysis.  Let's pretend one song runs "3, 4, 5 times a day".

Correct.

But the Duran video is good instruction for those who haven't seen it done properly. Which is why I'm trying to locate it.

Justalistener wrote:

Not sure what you mean by "local".

I moved here from Montreal in '92 and I have always pronounced both "T"s in Toronto.
Given that a full 50% of Toronto residents are foreign born, never mind including those originating from other parts of Ontario or Canada, I doubt that the majority pronounce it "Toronna". So I suggest this instance would be a non-issue.

I'm with Ben Affleck and the CIA agent who consulted on Argo, who said that pronouncing the second "T" is something native Torontonians tend not to do (unless they're going out of their way to pronounce it "correctly" for some specific reason).

If I'm in New York, and I hear you refer to Houston Street with the same pronunciation as the city in Texas, I know you're not from New York.

Building a station that's designed to steal market share from a more highly-rated station is, to me, like deliberately aiming to be an also-ran.  Sure, somebody could get a new stick in Toronto and steal market share from CHFI with the city's seventeenth Hot AC station, but why be one of a bunch when you could be one of one?

The earlier comment was correct: With the right format, they could very quickly become one of the dominant stations in the market.

RadioActive wrote:

I think this sad passing just might send AM740 into emergency crisis mode!

Classy.

Kilgore wrote:

Seniors are famously un-receptive to change.    Wondering whether Mr. Hedley has had 2nd thoughts about whether this was a good idea, rather than going with a familiar voice such as that of Brian Peroff.    Does Norm Edwards return Tuesday or Wednesday?

I haven't "had 2nd thoughts about whether this was a good idea".  Because I never thought it was a good idea.  I thought it was a great idea.  

Not surprisingly, Dale is absolutely right - it's like trying to build "a good bullpen" and finding out that Mariano Rivera can still throw a 92 mph slider for strikes, and would love to come throw the occasional inning for your team. Can't imagine a programmer worth their salt turning down an opportunity like that.

The thing is, Kilgore, your opening sentence above is incredibly relevant for what Zoomer Radio was until two summers ago; since then, most online comments about us appear to be from people who obviously haven't listened in a very, very long time.

geo wrote:

lhpalter77 wrote:

 Is TD about to be added to ZR lineup or just a one-off?

They've got the 60s at 6:00, the 70s at 7:00, the 80s at 8:00 and the 90s at 9:00 and are clearly gearing up for the 2000s at 2:00


 

Funny stuff.  

For the record, The Nineties at Nine has been gone for about a year, maybe longer.

As for Tarzan... he's Norm's fill-in guy.  Anyone who suggests otherwise is speculating, although Dan and I have been having a good chuckle over some of the rumors. He even started a couple of them.

Sorry for the off-topic post, by the way. Was just replying.