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Re: [ARSCLIST] blooper samples?
According to Snopes, a version of the Harry von Zell/Hoobert Heever
blooper did actually occur, but the recording on the Kermit Schafer
albums is a later recreation:
"[T]he incident might have faded into obscurity had not Kermit
Schafer fabricated a "genuine recording" of the more sensational
version for his "Pardon My Blooper" album, thus (as he did with Uncle
Don) convincing whole generations of listeners that an apocryphal
blooper had occurred exactly the way he presented it -- and there is
no convincing Schafer's listeners otherwise now, for they insist
they've heard an "actual recording" of it."
http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/radio/vonzell.asp
Arthur Gaer
gaer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Aug 15, 2007, at 2:21 PM, Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
It was "Hoobert Heever" if I remember correctly.
This one, and the Uncle Don clip, were both fakes - never appeared
on the radio.
Funny, though.
Mal
*******
Steven Smith, King of the House, Inc. wrote:
Geesh,
I might have a record like that somewhere. In the 60's such albums
were
popular. The most famous ones were an announcer introducing
Herbert Hoover
as, something like "Heepert Hoober". There was Uncle Don, a kids
performer.
He did a show and said something, thinking he was off mike, like;
"that
ought to hold the little bastards." There was another of a sports
caster,
really into the game, who sees a running play and screams: "look
at that S-N
of a Bi-ch run."
Steve
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Erard"
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Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 9:54 AM
Subject: [ARSCLIST] blooper samples?
I am going to be interviewed by the NPR radio show "On the
Media," and
today the producer surprised me with a request for recorded
"bloopers"
of note -- the first time X, the biggest X, the most famous X,
that sort
of thing. I already have Edison's "Around the world on the
phonograph"
file.
If anyone has other sound file examples to pass along, I'd
appreciate
it. This is a rush request. I apologize for that, but the
producer just
asked for illustrations.
Thanks,
Michael
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