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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKen Nordine has died
https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ent-ken-nordine-dead-0217-story.html?fbclid=IwAR13sLg1D6H7jCTW1IoQAxV_F9X5g2-sQRIHu3a51lnfH-JfhozupftQRgcAnother piece of my world slips away.
Chipper Chat
(9,704 posts)By Billy vaughn back in the 50s. Great emotional record.
Chipper Chat
(9,704 posts)Eating crackers into the mike.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)I heard Word Jazz and related works on our college station back in the 80s. Blew my mind and stayed with me forever.
Sneederbunk
(14,319 posts)northoftheborder
(7,575 posts)I have a few of his CD's but wish I had his whole inventory of shows from NPR.
Paladin
(28,285 posts)The term "genius" gets way overused, these days (kind of like "hero" . Ken Nordine was a for-real genius. RIP and many thanks.
(And I didn't mean for that fucking smiley face to appear.)
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)I always enjoyed his commercials, etc. (Taster's Choice, anyone?), but his "word jazz" took me to a whole new level.
Ken Nordine, Paul Frees, Dick Tufeld, Ernie Anderson... they don't make them like that anymore.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Codeine
(25,586 posts)Hearing his material for the first time is a huge treat!
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)All this time I never knew it was based on a real artist...
northoftheborder
(7,575 posts)ornotna
(10,810 posts)When I was in my teens, back in the 70's.
Chipper Chat
(9,704 posts)Haven't heard it in 60 years.
ornotna
(10,810 posts)You reminded me of it and by chance I found it.