Mel Allen had a vocal incident live on the air
At about 50 seconds into this Vic and Sade episode:
https://archive.org/details/vicandsadeotr/Vic_and_Sade_40_0701_x_Ruthie_Has_Secrets.mp3
the famous sports announcer, Mel Allen, starts having trouble breathing or ? Then another announcer (not sure who - with even more of an accent than Mel) steps in to finish the Crisco commercial. Then about 2:20 into the episode (after the silent interval (non-recorded organ music) Mel has recovered and introduces the episode. He is also on at the end.
I remember Mel's voice from the TV show, This Week in Baseball, which I used to watch on Saturday afternoons for some reason :) I didn't know he had been a network announcer on Vic and Sade along with other famous announcers like Ralph Edwards (the Truth or Consequences / This is Your Life guy) or Ed Herlihy (nephew of Fred Allen, voice of Kraft).
BTW I like this collection of Vic and Sade episodes because it does include many of the commercials.
It is amazing that there was another announcer all set to step in and take over - radio was a big-time thing in 1940, even a daytime white grease opera (Vic and Sade was an actual soap opera later when P&G changed the commercials to Ivory Flakes.
Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm
https://archive.org/details/vicandsadeotr/Vic_and_Sade_40_0701_x_Ruthie_Has_Secrets.mp3
the famous sports announcer, Mel Allen, starts having trouble breathing or ? Then another announcer (not sure who - with even more of an accent than Mel) steps in to finish the Crisco commercial. Then about 2:20 into the episode (after the silent interval (non-recorded organ music) Mel has recovered and introduces the episode. He is also on at the end.
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I remember Mel's voice from the TV show, This Week in Baseball, which I used to watch on Saturday afternoons for some reason :) I didn't know he had been a network announcer on Vic and Sade along with other famous announcers like Ralph Edwards (the Truth or Consequences / This is Your Life guy) or Ed Herlihy (nephew of Fred Allen, voice of Kraft).
BTW I like this collection of Vic and Sade episodes because it does include many of the commercials.
It is amazing that there was another announcer all set to step in and take over - radio was a big-time thing in 1940, even a daytime white grease opera (Vic and Sade was an actual soap opera later when P&G changed the commercials to Ivory Flakes.
Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm
