How to Make a Million Dollars With Your Voice (Or Lose Your Tonsils Trying), Second Edition - E-book - ePub

Gary Owens was one of the most recognizable names and voices in show business. Inducted into not one, but three distinguished halls of fame for radio and television, his rich, compelling baritone voice entertained radio and television audiences for many years in animated cartoons, commercials, and motion pictures and on television shows andspecials. After being pushed into the national spotlight as the on-camera announcer on TVs Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, Gary enjoyed phenomenal success with his voice.
Honored as the Top Radio Personality in the United States and Top Radio Personality in the World by Billboard and Radio & Records magazines, he hosted twelve thousand local and national radio shows. He has also starred in more than one thousand network television shows and specials (and was a regular on sixteen series), voiced over three thousand animated cartoons, including Roger Ramjet, Space Ghost and Dino Boy, The Ren and Stimpy Show, and Buzz Lightyear Star Command, and appeared in seventeen motion pictures.
In addition, Gary was a top promo announcer for every major television network. He was featured in over thirty thousand com­mercials for radio and television, lent his voice to numerous videos and DVDs (Richard Jones's Emmy Award-winning Dinosaurs series, which Gary hosted with Eric Boardman, sold more than five hundred thousand copies on videotape), narrated dozens of audiobooks (about Bill Cosby and many others), appeared on fifteen record albums and CDs, and was nominated for six Grammy Awards for his work.  Furthermore, Gary served as the master of ceremonies and hosted thousands of Hollywood events, including major movie premieres and charity shows.
Gary was recognized with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (next to Walt Disney). Also, his ear print is encased in cement at NBC Studios in "beautiful downtown Burbank, " a signature phrase coined by Gary. Gary's first book sold more than seven hundred thousand copies for Price Stern and Sloan. It was the start of the elephant jokes: Elephants, Grapes, and Pickles. His second book, The Gary Owens What to Do While Holding the Phonebook, was a hit trivia hardback!  JEFF LENBURG is a prolific, bestselling author of 35 books, including both nonfiction and fiction.
His work has been translated into several language and has garnered nominations for American Library Association's "Best Non-Fiction Award" and the Evangelical Christian Publisher Association's Gold Medallion Award for "Best Autobiography/Biography."One of America's premier biographers, he has authored 18 acclaimed celebrity memoirs and biographies, including Renegade at Heart with actor Lorenzo Lamas; the eight-book Legends of Animation biography series; How to Make a Million Dollars With Your Voice (Or Lose Your Tonsils Trying) with radio/TV legend Gary Owens; All the Gold In California and Other People, Places & Things with Grammy-winning singer/songwriter Larry Gatlin; Peekaboo: The Story of Veronica Lake, the only authorized biography of her; and many others.
As a nationally recognized expert on cartoon animation and the Three Stooges comedy team, he has written seven books about the history of animation, among them, The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons, the most comprehensive reference ever produced, and two books about the wacky comedy trio: The Three Stooges Scrapbook, the official, authorized history, and Once a Stooge, Always a Stooge, the autobiography of Three Stooges member Joe Besser.
Jeff is also the author of numerous popular references: Career Opportunities in Animation, a guide to a career in film, television, and games animation; two editions of The Facts On File Guide to Research, the most comprehensive guide ever written on the subject of writing and research; and Baseball's All-Star Game, a definitive game-by-game history of baseball's mid-summer classic. In addition Jeff has turned to writing fiction.
His first novel, a Hollywood "whodunit, " Scared to Death: A Lori Matrix Hollywood Mystery, was met by critical acclaim. Currently, he is hard at work on a second novel, Deadly Innocence. For more information about Jeff's books, upcoming releases, and the latest news, visit www.jefflenburg.com