Dear Malcyb!!
I have FOUND that voice on a you tube clip, please click on Picture
Book where there is a 'Buzy Lizzie' clip well THERE is the narrator
with the 'Matronly/Boomy' voice!! 100% sure IT IS NOT V.McKechnie-as
both voices are in the clip, you'll hear for yourself.
Look f/ward to your comments.
Brian.




--- In watchwithmother@yahoogroups.com, "Brian" <bsfraser2003@...>
wrote:
>
> The 'Matronly' i.e: deeper and more resonant voice is clear in the
> early (1950?) episodes; whereas Vera, if you listen carefully (esp
> in 'Picture Book') sounds more girlish, though stillBBC ladylike.
> The Matronly voice DOES appear in the very first eps of B+Ben!
> If someone wrote that book about Watch With Mother wouldn't that
> disclose the ORIGINAL lady narrator?? There are NO internet refs to
> Maria Bird, so I guess we'll never know if she storytold or not?
> Best Bryan.


>
> In watchwithmother@yahoogroups.com, "malcyb2000" <malcyb2000@>
> wrote:
> >
> > Nope, I don't think this does clear it up Brian. As you raise a
> valid
> > point about the tone in the voice in the three programmes.
> > Personally, I think the tone in Bill & Ben of the female voice is
> > more akin to Picture Book. Hence it could belong to Vera's. But I
> do
> > agree the more Matronly voice does appear in Andy Pandy. Plus this
> > person sings in it as well. Hence the musical connection a la
Maria
> > Bird perhaps?
>
> >
> >
> > --- In watchwithmother@yahoogroups.com, "Brian" <bsfraser2003@>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In watchwithmother@yahoogroups.com, "malcyb2000"
> <malcyb2000@>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > If Maria Bird was responsible for the music then I guess we
can
> > > > safely assume Vera McKechnie and Peter Hawkins did the voices.
> > Come
> > > > to think of it when she says "no one saw Bill and Ben playing,
> > only
> > > > you and I saw them, but I think the little house may know
> > something
> > > > about it, don't you?" her voice does sound pretty much the
same
> > as
> > > > the narration Vera gave when she read "Picture Book" with
> Sausage
> > > > Dog.
> > > Thanks Malcy; this seems to clear it up; though websites(s)
> have
> > > said Maria Bird "brings Andy out to play" I always thought,
> > > therefore, she had narrated the stories.. When you see Vera
> > speaking
> > > the lines in Picture Book, she sounds more gentle, unlike the
> > hearing
> > > of the Flowerpot Men narration, which is boomy and almost
> Matronly..
> > > Best
> > > Brian.
> > >
> > >
> > > > --- In watchwithmother@yahoogroups.com, Robert Horspole
> > > > <testcardrob@> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > The credits on my BBC Video read:-
> > > > >
> > > > > Scripts: Freda Lingstrom Music:Maria Bird Voices:
> > Peter
> > > > Hawkins
> > > > > Puppeteers: Audrey Atterbury and Molly Gibson
> > > > > Singers: Julia Williams and Gladys Whitred.
> > > > >
> > > > > Hope this helps.
> > > > >
> > > > > Brian <bsfraser2003@> wrote:
> > > > > Do any members know for sure who narrated The
> > Flowerpot
> > > > Men originals?
> > > > > Speaking in a very BBC English and plummy baritone voice,
now
> > > some
> > > > say
> > > > > it was Maria Bird, others-Vera McKechnie, would love to
know.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
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> > > >
> > >
> >
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