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Topic: Don Wilson (announcer)


  
  Don Wilson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Don Wilson (announcer), longtime announcer for radio and TV versions of the Jack Benny Show
Don Wilson (kickboxer), nicknamed "The Dragon", martial artist, actor, and announcer for King of the Cage
Don Wilson (climber), member of the second team to attempt the Regular Northwest Face of Half Dome
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Don_Wilson   (180 words)

  
 Right on the Money | Transcript - Ethical Investing
Wilson: I live my life this way, I want to invest this way, I don’t want to support things that are at conflict with myself.
Wilson: I think that where we invest our money does make a difference, because it’s the only way that companies have of gauging whether or not the public is happy with their services or their products.
Wilson: Well, I went to a few of the Web sites that were mentioned and there’s a lot of good information there and I think using that and I’ve also looked at some magazines and sort of narrowed down the search a little bit.
www.rightonthemoney.org /shows/221_ethical/show_221.html   (3321 words)

  
 CNN.com
WILSON: It was a scary thing, because, obviously, I could have died on the table.
Carnie Wilson, as part of the hit singing group Wilson Phillips, may have gone to No. 1 on the charts, but the 5 foot, 3 inches singer also went up to 300 on the scale.
CHUNG: Well, in talking to Carnie Wilson, I must tell you that I was surprised at what she had to do with her life after she had the operation.
edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0301/14/cct.00.html   (6851 words)

  
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Don said he was, but they are paying him a lot of money, so he got over it.
Don said rock stars are rebellious, so you try not to tell them what to do, just find out what they want, and get them to that point.
Don said he is energized and more eager to make music now than he had been in a long time.
www.krunk.org /conan/abstracts-1995/081695.txt   (1501 words)

  
 Jack Benny - Who's Who   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Don was orchestra leader for the program for two years, beginning in 1934.
Don was training his son to be a television announcer, just like he was.
Don was hired for the program in 1934 as its announcer and stayed with the program through its radio and television days.
members.tripod.com /~jbotw/whos_who.htm   (1643 words)

  
 CNN.com - Transcripts
WILSON: I received this on October 25, 2002, at the very beginning of the serious debate on what U.S. policy toward Iraq should be, eight months after I made a trip to Niger, and eight months before my wife's identity was compromised.
WILSON: I believe passionately in the right of citizens and the responsibility of citizens to participate in the choice of their political leaders.
WILSON: If you go back and you take a look at what he was suggesting, he was suggesting that -- he was saying that more information would be forthcoming.
transcripts.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0507/14/wbr.01.html   (6659 words)

  
 frontline: innocence lost: innocence lost: the verdict part 2 | PBS
ANNOUNCER: Last night in part I of ``Innocence Lost -- The Verdict'' FRONTLINE told the story of Bob Kelly and his wife, Betsy, and what their friends and neighbors believed they and others had done.
WILSON: I went home and stayed up all night crying and drinking coffee and worrying about what was going to happen next, about who they were going to go after next and everything.
WILSON: Losing my freedom, that scares me and not being able to see my daughter and not having her there, waking up with her and doing all those things together.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/innocence/etc/verdictscript2.html   (13690 words)

  
 Hooray for Captain Spaulding
Don Rickles is on Letterman this Friday (because talk shows never book elder guests).
Whenever Rickles is on Letterman, Letterman will invariably say "Oh, Dooooon." This is an allusion to Don Wilson, announcer and butt of fat jokes on the Jack Benny Show.
Speaking as we were of Butch Patrick, Johnny Hardwick (the voice of TV's Dale Gribble and a talented gent in his own right) sends us this article about a Texas couple who've set up their house to look like 1313 Mockingbird Lane (a.k.a the Munsters' house) and the special housewarming/Halloween charity fair they held there.
cptspaulding.blogspot.com /2002_10_27_cptspaulding_archive.html   (702 words)

  
 Gene Elston - Audio Clips   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Don Nottebart allowed only 4 base runners and an unearned run in the first no-hitter in franchise history.
Wilson cruised until the 8th, when he walked two batters with one out before retiring the side on two pop-flys.
Still the only Houston no-hitter thrown on the road, Wilson's win was the first of a club record 20 in May and sparked the club to its first non-losing season.
www.gene-elston.org /CLIPS.htm   (985 words)

  
 1967 Suncoast Cup - More Power to You
Announcer Phil Cole: "You can change the shape and distance of a course; you can do the utmost in safety; you call provide the tremendous rescue facilities which were evident at Tampa, but you can't control the human reactions of individual drivers.
Credibility is contributed to this opinion by a statement of the late Don Wilson.
Replied Don, "The big difference in the unlimiteds is that you have tremendous power at your disposal and the challenge is how much of it to use and when to use it."
www.lesliefield.com /races/1967_suncoast_cup_more_power.htm   (552 words)

  
 Classic TV! Jack Benny TV Series Volume One
Episode 3 Don's Anniversary: Announcer Don Wilson gets the star treatment from Jack in honor of his 27 years of service.
Jack recalls the day they met when Don was hired after accidentally showing up for the audition, with Jack putting him through elocution and dance classes that were meant to whip him into shape.
Don Wilson and the original man-of-a-thousand-voices, Mel Blanc, join in the fun.
www.otrnow.com /store/dvd/JackBennyTVSeries_DISCOUNT.htm   (957 words)

  
 St. Louis Commerce Magazine
Something exceptional did happen recently when Wilson announced his 1,500th NHL game during his 20th season as a member of the Blues broadcast team.
Wilson also believes two decades behind the mike have allowed fans to get to know him.
Wilson is also managing partner of the River City Rascals, a minor league baseball team he founded in 1999, based in O’Fallon, Mo., and an investor in the Gateway Grizzlies minor league baseball team in Sauget, Ill.
www.stlcommercemagazine.com /archives/april2004/spotlight.html   (735 words)

  
 generic topic three
This group was formed into a "radio family" and were given license to aggravate Benny's character, although their chief complaint was that he had none.
Some of the most memorable members of the cast were: Mary Livingstone, Rochester, Phil Harris, Dennis Day and Don Wilson.
Don Wilson was the announcer on Jack's show.
www.comm.unt.edu /histofperf/milliecrews/Mill_generic_topic_three.htm   (551 words)

  
 CNN.com - Transcripts
WILSON: It was hard, because I was fat and they were thin, and it was like, I remember, you know, the guys not looking at me.
We should also tell you that Carnie Wilson is a spokesperson for SpotlightHealth.com, and is paid to talk about her gastric bypass surgery.
ANNOUNCER: Next, she survived family tragedy, eating disorders and the burden of fame.
edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0301/26/se.03.html   (4991 words)

  
 History of KFRC
Perhaps one of the most notable aspects of KFRC and the Don Lee System during this period is the large number of people they graduated to national stardom.
COMPETITION WITH EARL C. One of the prevailing attitudes at all of the Don Lee stations was the fierce sense of competition between Don Lee and Earl C. Anthony.
Don Lee died suddenly of heart failure on August 30, 1934, at the age of 53, and Lee's son Tommy became president of the network.[9] This presaged a series of events which completely restructured network broadcasting on the West Coast over the next three years.
users.adams.net /~jfs/kfrc1.htm   (5675 words)

  
 Fibber McGee & Molly
It was written and created by Don Quinn who had also written Smackout.
Harlow Wilcox was both the show's announcer and a regular character who somehow would weave his Johnson's Wax commercials into the plot, so as to avoid a commercial break.
Don Wilson did the same "stealth" commercials for Jack Benny with equally comic effect.
www.40sradio-movies.com /fibber.htm   (207 words)

  
 J-E-L-L--O!
After the opening, announcer Don Wilson identified the program; who was to appear on the program; and the opening musical number.
Wilson was unable to make it to the east coast, so Harry Von Zell substituted as the announcer.
After an argument with Don Wilson, Benny walked off his show (this was a comedy routine, not the real thing).
www.old-time.com /commercials/1930's/JELL-O.htm   (1245 words)

  
 Christmas in Televisionland
15, Benny learns from Wilson’s wife that her husband already has a pair of metal-tipped shoe laces, and he goes back to the store to exchange the gift yet again.
In Dec. 21, 1947, Blanc was again cast as the harried salesman, this time going nuts as he recounts the shoe lace fiasco from the year before.
The gag continued on Dec. 19, 1948, with Benny buying a wallet for Don Wilson, equivocating as to his purchase, Blanc wrapping and unwrapping boxes, and becoming increasingly agitated.
www.metnews.com /articles/reminiscing122602.htm   (727 words)

  
 Thrilling Days of Yesteryear : Thrilling Days of Yesteryear
DON: Ladies and gentlemen, 1949 is gone and forgotten—but to Jack Benny, 1950 will always be remembered—because nineteen-fifty is what he paid for his new suit…and here he is, Jack Benny!
In actuality, Wilson was one of the show’s most notorious blooper artists; Mel Blanc wrote in his autobiography that he and Bea Benaderet would often place bets on what line the announcer would screw up.
What actually happened was that when Don made his fluff the writers, listening to the program’s proceedings in the control booth, got the happy idea of changing Frank’s line.
blogs.salon.com /0003139/2004/04/15.html   (2229 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Jack Benny Show: DVD: Bud Yorkin,Frederick De Cordova,Dick Linkroum,Ralph Levy,James V. Kern,Hal ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Jack Benny as Himself, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson as Rochester Van Jones, Don Wilson as Don Wilson, Dennis Day as Dennis Day, Mary Livingstone as Mary Livingstone, Mel Blanc as Professor Pierre LeBlanc/Sy/Maxwell/various others, Frank Nelson as Various Roles, Artie Auerbach as Mr.
Kitzel (1950-1958), Dale White as Harlow Wilson (1955-1965), Gurney Bell as (1950-1965)...
Don Wilson: I don't think you know how much it means to me to do the commercial.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000AGWMM?v=glance   (1082 words)

  
 CNN.com - Transcripts
And what he says is that we know that Rove mentioned that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA.
TATTON: Well, bloggers are saying that's just a technicality, by just saying "Wilson's wife," anyone with a modem can find out what the name is. And one blogger at Fishkite.com (ph) went as far as saving the bio from Ambassador Wilson, which has now disappeared from the Web, but you can find it at Fishkite.com.
You just scroll down to the bottom right there, and you see on his bio, he is married to the former Valerie Plame.
transcripts.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0507/12/ip.01.html   (11671 words)

  
 Benny, Jack
Although each week's episode usually had a theme or starting premise, the actual playing out of that premise often devolved into a loose collection of skits.
Benny played a fictional version of himself, Jack Benny the television star, and the program often revolved around preparation for the next week's show--involving interactions between Benny and a regular stable of characters that included the program's announcer, Don Wilson, and its resident crooner, Dennis Day.
Until her retirement in 1958, Benny's wife, Mary Livingstone, portrayed what her husband termed in his memoirs "a kind of heckler-secretary," a wise-cracking friend of the family and the television program.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/B/htmlB/bennyjack/bennyjack.htm   (1065 words)

  
 Movie Database - tvguide.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Don Wilson, Jack Benny's radio announcer, shows a flair for acting in this comedy about the world of radio.
Gargan and Barrett are rival radio producers battling for programs and sponsorship, adversarial positions that almost wreck their love lives.
Gargan has a self-destructive habit of telling off sponsors, but he is saved from his own folly by pal Wilson.
online.tvguide.com /movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=5677   (76 words)

  
 Weekend: Set aside a day for 'Snow White' DVD set
Listen to the 30-minute NBC broadcast of the movie's Los Angeles premiere to hear announcer Don Wilson introduce musical numbers, studio executives, forgotten radio stars and a bashful Charles Chaplin.
Disney arrives, nervous about the commotion he caused, unable at one point to name all of the dwarfs he banked upon.
One telling clue to Disney's spin-management roots can be heard in the creator's off-the-cuff description of the dwarfs in an interview, words repeated by an announcer in a re-release advertisement years later.
www.sptimes.com /News/101801/news_pf/Weekend/Set_aside_a_day_for__.shtml   (494 words)

  
 Spotlight on Golden Age Personalities - Jack Benny Volume II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
This show introduced announcer Don Wilson to the Jack Benny family.
The home itself became yet another member of the Show's ensemble once it was built, fitted out as it was with Benny's legendary, moat-protected 'vault' in the basement.
The Jack Benny Show's regular cast now included Jack, Mary, Rochester, Kenny Baker, Phil Harris, and Don Wilson.
www.digitaldeliftp.com /LookAround/personspot_jb2.htm   (782 words)

  
 Jack Benny Show / TV Episodes : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Jack cannot seem to decide between a $40.00 wallet as a gift for his announcer Don Wilson or a $1.98 wallet.
This entire Christmas Show script is the same identical one that Benny performed several other times, on both his television series and radio show.
Later, his voice is heard as the train depot announcer.
www.pagenation.com /an/6300181235.html   (922 words)

  
 Radio Hall of Fame - Jack Benny, Comedian
His career also included a long stay at NBC and a return to CBS through his final program on May 22, 1955.
An all-star supporting cast including Benny’s wife Mary Livingstone, Eddie (Rochester) Anderson, Mel Blanc, Dennis Day, Phil Harris, Frank Nelson and announcer Don Wilson, took to ribbing and verbally jabbing the star.
Highly polished scripts kept hammering away on Benny’s portrayal of himself as a stingy and vain man, concerned about his receding hairline and adamant that he was no older than 39.
www.radiohof.org /comedy/jackbenny.html   (220 words)

  
 Movies.com: Celebrity Profile - Don Wilson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Du Barry Was a Lady - (1943) - Announcer's Voice
Two Girls On Broadway - (1940) - Announcer
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movies.go.com /filmography/film?person_id=188450   (233 words)

  
 Don Drysdale | BaseballLibrary.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
When Drysdale came up, he played with Duke Snider and the "Boys of Summer." He retired from a staff that included Don Sutton, who pitched through the 1980s.
walks two batters in the 5th, hits Brand with a pitch and then plunks opposing pitcher Don Wilson with an offspeed pitch to force in a run.
April 7, 1969: Bill Singer of the Dodgers is credited with the first official save, as Los Angeles defeats Cincinnati 3—2, scoring once in the 2nd and twice in the 3rd off Gary Nolan.
www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/D/Drysdale_Don.stm   (3282 words)

  
 The Jack Benny Show
Added to Jack's famous exasperated "Well!" were a mincing walk, an affected hand to the cheek and a pained look of disbelief when confronted by life's little annoyances.
The two regulars with Jack were Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, his valet and Don Wilson, his announcer and friend.
Other regulars seen on a more irregular basis were: Dennis Day, Frank Nelson, Artie Auerbach, Mary Livingstone (Mrs.
www.geocities.com /TelevisionCity/9348/jack_benny_show.htm   (216 words)

  
 Radio-History.com: New Jersey AM Radio History - Page 6
During the summer of 1927, WPG hired popular announcer Norman Brokenshire, who quickly became a local celebrity tooling around the "World's Play Ground" in a blue-and-orange Packard.
The "Sunday Serenade" with Tom Hally and Don Wilson became a popular Sunday afternoon show with its nostalgia music and comedy.
In 1996, Don Lohse (who was chief engineer of WPAT-FM, among others) formed the Bridgewater Broadcasting Co., and resurrected WBRW.
www.angelfire.com /nj2/piratejim/njamhistory6.html   (1648 words)

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