[Groop] Fw: Groo movie

EUGENE PHILLIP ephillip at worldnet.att.net
Sat Sep 24 06:32:36 PDT 2005


Wow!  I remember the voice of Dick Orkin when I grew up in Chicago a hundred
years ago (60s), and detected it many times in other commercials.  I thought
I was the only person in the world that did.  I would enjoy the adventures
of Chickenman on WCFL as I drove to school.  The voice of Ms. Helfinger(?)
was Jane Roberts, who was also the local traffic reporter for WCFL, known as
"Trooper 36-24-36".  I still have my Best of Chickenman, mint condition
33-1/3 vinyl album.
Excuse me for the flashback.  It brought back the good old days when free
speech had nothing to do with 4 letter words but was P.I.

Gene

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Evanier" <evanier at gmail.com>
To: "groop-groo.com" <groop at groo.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 1:15 AM
Subject: Re: [Groop] Groo movie


Chris Schechner wrote:

> I had a thought the other day about Groo’s voice in the movie. What
> about Dick Orkin? He has that wonderful deep voice, but always manages
> to sound really dumb. A perfect fit, except maybe his voice is too
> polished. If you don’t know who he is, he was the voice (and creator)
> of Chickenman. He does /wonderful /radio advertising now and I’ve
> heard reports that he’s reviving Chickenman for one of the satellite
> radio networks. If you’d like to hear some of his work, go here:
>
> http://www.radio-ranch.com/audiosamples.html
>
> Mark, since you seem to know /everybody /in the industry, do you know
> Dick Orkin? He’s one of my creative heroes. His writing is always
> great and a bit offbeat (actually /quite /a bit offbeat!) and his
> voice acting is unique and always very silly.

ME: Met Orkin once, briefly. I don't think he sounds like what I think
Groo sounds like but I'm not sure who does.
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