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Happy Birthday Carl Banas
Today is Carl's 94th.... Happy Birthday to a fine gentleman, and a man of many talents. He's Canada's "man of a thousand voices", with many animation titles to his credit. The most famous one is "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", which still airs today. Also voiced "Sweetums" in the Muppet special "The Frog Prince". He starred with John Vernon in the CBC series "Wojeck", and spent many years doing evenings at CKFM.
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Happy Birthday, Carl. 94? Wow! One of the greatest voices in Toronto radio for all time.
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I really enjoyed Carl Banas on his evening show on CKFM in the 70's. Interesting music, talk and of course his great vignettes, "The Sounds of Our Toronto." Happy Birthday Mr. Banas.
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CKFM's 'The Sound Of Our Toronto' vignettes were so well done with Carl voicing them - LOVED listening to these sprinkled throughout the day's programming back in the early 80s. Also, when I was at Humber College Radio at that time, one of my instructors was also my private voice coach and he set up a phone call with Carl on the CKFM private line one evening. Carl shared his sage voiceover advice to me over the phone in between breaks - what an absolute thrill. Happy 94th Birthday Mr. Banas, you're a legend!
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petenewman wrote:
CKFM's 'The Sound Of Our Toronto' vignettes were so well done with Carl voicing them - LOVED listening to these sprinkled throughout the day's programming back in the early 80s. Also, when I was at Humber College Radio at that time, one of my instructors was also my private voice coach and he set up a phone call with Carl on the CKFM private line one evening. Carl shared his sage voiceover advice to me over the phone in between breaks - what an absolute thrill. Happy 94th Birthday Mr. Banas, you're a legend!
Happy birthday Carl. Loved working with you. You had such a way of bringing my words to life. All the best, Val Marshall.
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I have thought of Carl so often over the years. What a true gentleman with deep talent. I will never
forget how gracious, kind and remarkable he was during my time at CKFM. Happy Happy 94th birthday Carl!
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Carl Banas was one of the voices in the Canadian cartoon Tales of The Wizard of Oz which ran on CFTO and later the CTV network in 1961. It was one of the first shows on CFTO. This to jog your memory...
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