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LEAP OF FAITH RADIO PRODUCTION with Bobby Ocean<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"radioLately the discussion of “Stealing From Other Performers” has been popping up among VO and radio folks I know. They’re talking about sounding like another well known star when they complain, “The specs call for a Chris Rock sound-alike.”<\/p>\n

There is sometimes guilt and more than slight embarrassment when a
\nperformer’s style, or “brand” is found to be derivative. Sometimes there
\nis mocking. (I, for example, thought little of Madonna’s Marilyn photo
\nshoot long ago)<\/p>\n

But, really, we all do it. That’s how we learned to walk. We try to repeat that which interests us. The way to avoid being ridiculed is to not get caught being a bad actor.<\/p>\n

This is what everybody has been doing all along. look at our entertainment menu: Johnny Carson imitated Jack Benny. Mick Jagger pranced like Tina Turner. Imus and Morgan borrowed heavily from Don McKinnon. The Real Don Steele was a Boss Jock imitating a stage announcer in a black and white movie. It’s endless.<\/p>\n

Isn’t that in the bio of EVERY JOCK YOU AND I KNOW, and, really, every star we’ve ever seen perform? These people inspire us and we want to emulate.<\/p>\n

DJs and VO folk are not thieves, they’re actors, recalling a performer’s trademark inflection, tick, quirk or style, then, through practice, MAKING IT THEIR OWN. That’s one of the primal means Storytellers have of learning our craft. We mimic, copy, impersonate, do an impression, even mock and ape, depending on the energy asked for by the story.<\/p>\n

If we’re really smart, we’ll never stop learning.<\/p>\n

Along my way to this square on the checkerboard of time, I have borrowed
\nfrom the absolute best, the people who knocked my socks down around my
\nankles. Here, I’ve begun a list, but please know it’s just a rough sketch. My brain cells were more plentiful once and I’m leaving out entire phone books of deserving people. This, however, gets it started.<\/p>\n

Among those from whom I have admired to the point of pinching some of their seasonings, are:<\/p>\n

Clayton Moore (The Lone Ranger)
\nJerry Lewis
\nRod McEwan
\nPaul Frees
\nTV’s Betty White (c’mon, the double takes alone)
\nStan Freberg
\nGroucho Marx
\nDaws Butler
\nDon Sherwood
\nRobert W. Morgan & The Real Don Steele, of course.
\nRon Jacobs
\nGene Nelson (best “Good morning” to which I’ve ever awakened)
\nOwen Spann
\nRuss The Moose Syracuse
\nDon McKinnon; used to listen to him out of Oakland, as well as Casey Kasem, and Don Bowman.
\nLarry Sherman (yeah I know, you never heard of him. I did. I was impressed)
\nJack Hammer (Jay Mack)
\nScotty Brink (peak-believability, one on one anything)
\nsame deal with Laurie Sanders (open mic, open heart)
\nLinda Cassidy (smoother than a baby’s smoothest part)
\nThe Slim One (sex that works)
\nTom Donahue
\nRod Serling
\nand anyone in a TV drama, urgently whispering.<\/p>\n

Obviously, this list could go on quite a bit longer, but time and space restraints require that I inadvertently omit an entire population. I’ll just look at this as a work in progress that perhaps you’ll finish one day.<\/p>\n

Bet you’ve got a list already started between your ears..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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