Voice-over kings spoof themselves

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We’ve all done jobs we haven’t enjoyed. There was a time in my career where I edited a lot of fart jokes and T&A one-liners for small market radio stations (I think I may have actually preferred losing the feeling in the tips of my fingers as I pulled frozen chicken wings out of a 50-gallon drum during my week-long stint at Shakey’s Pizza Parlor).

My former boss, a voice-over who thought he was the top of the heap when it came to being considered The Voice Of God, couldn’t even be the driver in this fantastic bit of video :

But, to his credit, it was at that gig that I first learned about music libraries and produced my first volume of production tracks.

Burst actually looked into hiring Don Lafontaine on a script for the demo of our very first production music library, Gravity, back in 1997. When we realized we’d have to sell a few vital organs to pay his fee, we went searching and found Vic Caroli… and ended up with something much more appropriate anyway.

Maybe I’ll go dig up that old demo this afternoon.

These guys intrigue me to no end. Anyone out here dig Ken Nordine? Man, what a legendary set of pipes.

Thanks to sync.sound.cinema for the flashback. [dh]

UPDATE : I found it… the original Gravity Music Library Demo with Vic Caroli’s voice-over. One caveat, however - this was produced in 1997, people.