RIP don pardo, veteran announcer ending up at SNL

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19 Aug 2014, 1:07 am

(clicky)RIP don pardo, just passed away at his home in AZ. he was 96.

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19 Aug 2014, 1:39 am

I was just about to post Don's passing, but saw you beat me to it. Just the same, his magnificent voice will be missed on SNL.

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19 Aug 2014, 1:41 am

I heard it on the top of the hour news break on coast to coast.

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19 Aug 2014, 1:44 am

auntblabby wrote:

I heard it on the top of the hour news break on coast to coast.

I actually had just read about his passing a few minutes ago on Yahoo News.

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19 Aug 2014, 1:46 am

it just showed up on my msn page.

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19 Aug 2014, 1:52 am

I wonder SNL will just use a recording of his voice from now on, as it's almost sacrilege to think they'd give the job to some mere mortal with an ordinary voice!

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19 Aug 2014, 1:54 am

Kraichgauer wrote:

I wonder SNL will just use a recording of his voice from now on, as it's almost sacrilege to think they'd give the job to some mere mortal with an ordinary voice!

I doubt it. there is technology [last used by roger ebert] to where they could take his old recordings and break them down into phonemes and reconstitute "new" speech. but I think they will get a new announcer.

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