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jondark445 Special user 716 Posts |
Hey there!
I'm trying to find the text or basic spiel for an outside talker. Anyone know of someplace I could find this? --JD |
Doug Higley 1942 - 2022 7152 Posts |
Talking what? A general 10 in One or a specific show? Live act or grind?
Todd has a great 10 in 1 overall. I've got some stuff somewhere I wrote over the years. If you need somehing specific we can write it..
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jondark445 Special user 716 Posts |
Specifically 10-in-1.
--JD |
Addy Loyal user NY 243 Posts |
http://www.Goodmagic.com
Order the 'On the Midway' cd rom. There's some really informative stuff on there regarding the bally. Exactly what your looking for. |
Doug Higley 1942 - 2022 7152 Posts |
Yep..forgot about that. In the bag.
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x-treem Inner circle 1133 Posts |
The companion CD for On The Midway, Bally Sounds Of The Sideshow, can give you an earful of the real thing.
I'm usually wrong but on the track for Grace McDaniels the voice sounds like Johnny Meah.
A direct from text adaptation : The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde Starring Mickey Rooney in his final role.
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Cholly, by golly! Loyal user 251 Posts |
Here's a direct link to Bally! Sounds Of The Sideshow:
http://www.goodmagic.com/websales/bally/index.htm Good stuff! |
Addy Loyal user NY 243 Posts |
Yeah, the cd is really grind show stuff, if I remember. It's great.
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jondark445 Special user 716 Posts |
Thanks all....a WEALTH of info!!!
--JD |
jondark445 Special user 716 Posts |
Okay...another question on the same topic...
I know they're called Outside Talkers and not Barkers.... So where did the term barker come from? --JD |
rossmacrae Inner circle Arlington, Virginia 2475 Posts |
"Barker" is a perfectly legitimate term for a similar, but slightly different, occupation.
From my "On the Midway" CDRom as cited above (and this glossary section is also available online free HERE): "The term "barking" was in current use in mainstream culture in the early 20th Century to mean drawing customers by talking in a continual flow of repetitive lines and phrases. "Barking" was also called a "grind pitch" by some professional talkers. 'Come on we got tomatoes today girls, a tisket a tasket, I sell them by the basket.' Used primarily by vendors at a stationary spot, such as a vegetable stand or the doorway to a show (perhaps most recently heard from the doorways of Times Square sex shows.) It's easy to see how the general public applied the term to the carnival talker. Differentiated from the 'street cries' of vendors who traveled the street in wagons, whose cries tended to be more musical and more piercing in tone to attract the attention of people inside their houses." |
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