Last Sunday’s episode of The Simpsons was a take off on the ESPN sports documentary series "30 For 30," and featured the voice of a narrator who turned out to be bully Nelson Muntz’s dad.
 
But if he sounded familiar, that’s no surprise – many of us first heard him way back in 1972 when he was doing a DJ shift at the brand new Top 40 format at CFTR. His name: Earl Mann.
 
When I first heard that voice on Sunday, it sounded very familiar. And it didn’t take long to figure out it was the guy who used to call himself “The Mann and The Music” during his brief tenure at 680.
 
Earl Mann is a well known and in demand voice talent these days, with pipes I can only compare to another Toronto class act, the late great Mark Dailey. He’s since gone on to an amazing career including at one time or another being the voice of NFL Films, the station voice for many of the CBS-FM music stations and appearing in countless TV and radio spots. He even did some promos a few years back for David Letterman (see below.) 

I hear he’s also very giving when it comes to lending his talents to charity, but for all his past efforts, perhaps nothing cements you in fame (or infamy) than lending your voice to a Simpsons character.



He's not the only TR jock to make the big time. Some here may remember when Rick Allen was on the air in the station's early rock days. And although he's been relatively absent for a while, he made a big splash on SCTV and in movies under his real name, Rick Moranis.