A lot of us who've been around a while can remember some distinctive voice from our younger days, but can't connect a name to it. The late William Conrad, whose raspy voice punctuated the original TV series
The Fugitive back in the Sixties was a good example until the later series
Cannon made his face more familiar.
But for my money, the gent in the link below is the all-time champ.
Frank Gallop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Like Leonard Feather, the announcer who shared his duties with Don Wilson on Jack Benny's radio and TV series for many years,
and became a prominent historian to the world of jazz, Frank Gallop was a multi-talented individual. He's probably best remembered for his performances on a general variety series featuring Perry Como, in which he always assumed a "Voice of God" persona similar to that on the late John Facenda's NFL video commentary. But he also did the narration of the comedy anthology record album
When You're in Love, the Whole World is Jewish in the mid-Sixties, and
Irving, a parody of Lorne Greene's
Ringo.
Fame sometimes shoehorns people into some very strange niches.
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