Like many famous, and not so famous
voice actors/voice over artists, I have been doing voices and such since I was a kid. I may not be one of the "famous
ones", however, at this time in my life, I really look at myself as a Voice-Painter.
I am not so much concerned
with becoming one of the "famous ones", HOWEVER, I wouldn't mind becoming a "Famous Voice-Painter"!
The selections on this page are from an extensive collection of my Voice-Paintings and some of
these may possibly be "Cold Readings" unrehearsed, with possibly zero previous read-throughs.
For your "LISTENING PLEASURE" Voiceopolis presents; F. ED'S "VOICE PAINTINGS"!
Turn Down The Lights For A Nice Cozy Glow In Your Listening Area. Now Click, Wee-Wax, and Listen Silly Wabbit.
**** NOTICE **** The audio players must
all load on the entire page before you will be able to play your selection. This may take several minutes. Keep
that in mind, be kind, give it some time, unwind.
Regarding the identity/fate of the poet, the following letter
appeared in a Dear Abby column on October 25, 1999, indicating that he was in his 40s when he wrote the poem. The letter doesn't
indicate if he wrote/published anything else of note.
DEAR ABBY: My
husband, James Patrick Kinney, wrote the poem "The Cold Within" in the 1960s. It is gratifying to know he left
something behind that others appreciate. He submitted it to the Saturday Evening Post; however, it was rejected
as "too controversial for the times. Jim was active in the ecumenical movement. His poem was sent in to the Liguorian,
a Catholic magazine. That was its first official publication to my knowledge. Since then, it has appeared in church
bulletins, teaching seminars and on talk radio, listed as "Author Unknown. If that was done for legal protection,
I understand. My family is always happy to see it appear, but we do think the true author should be given credit.
Jim died at 51 of a heart attack on May 23, 1973, after retiring to Sarasota, Fla. My second marriage was to Homer Kenny, a Sarasota widower, so I became ... Mrs. James Kinney-Kenny.
This poem is so very poignant today as it was in the era it was written. BELOW: Enjoy "THE COLD WITHIN"
by James Patrick Kinney
"THE SOLDIER'S TEAR" by Thomas Haynes Bayly - 1830 I
was looking up songs from the mid to late 1800's for some personal research that I was doing and ran across this song
from 1830. I did a audio short of it. Hope you like it!
GBU and all those men and women
who willingly gave their lives for USA! *** Below is: "THE SOLDIER'S TEAR"
"I Oughta Be In Pictures" curtain speech for LVLT-2010 I am
the voice of LVLT (Las Vegas Little Theater) and received this instruction with my last VoiceOver order:
Dear Ed, Here's the script for your warbling talents.
See if you can find some kind of musical attention-getter for the beginning....people are tending to keep chatting right through
your speech now.....the b****ds..... Thanks! Brian
So this is what I came up with!
"What Cowboys Would Never Say" AKA "Things You'll Never Hear
In A Western Movie".
Okay, I was raised in Montana, so I find this quite humorous.
If you think there are things in this presentation that are RISQUE, remember it's "What Cowboys Would Never
Say!" Listen below.
"Thank GOD For Hands" Internet story voiced by Ed ( CAUTION!!! - Sobbing by the listener has been know to occur during this presentation!) Sunday April 11, 2010
" 'Ostler Joe" by
George R. Sims circa 1890 Below is my first read-through of a George R. Sims ballad. I know I'll do a little
better once I get ahold of his "style". added: April 10, 2010
“WE
WERE HERE FIRST” I read “cold” after switching some equipment around and wanted
to see how everything sounded. I forgot to check the levels, so for now this is all you get until I re-do it and hopefully
I will get other VO actors to do the voices of the “giants”! I did some basic editing to my original “cold
read”, just to make things a little more fun. I left in my vocal-music because, well…. Just ‘cause it makes
me laugh! I was just checking the equipment, but got into the script so fast, and had so much fun, I couldn’t stop until
I did a read-through of the entire script.
(There are audio glitches, pops, clicks, overmodulation
due to not having checked the levels, so be aware this was just a goof-off session when it was recorded! )
Below is: "WE
WERE HERE FIRST" by Wyllis Cooper.
Below is a six minute and seventeen second success story "Denny's
Path" written, voiced and produced by F. Ed Knutson.
Below is the audio production of Ogden Nash's "The Boy
Who Laughed At Santa Claus" done 2009 Sunday December 20th.
"David Gets His Harp" is the cartoon short that Ed
wrote, and voiced. Yes the voice of David is Ed's also. All I need now is someone to do the animation.
BELOW is:"David Gets His Harp"
And next is a story that went around the internet "Pray, Aim High,
and Stay Focused".
Below is: "Pray, Aim
High, and Stay Focused".
The video is a short animation
with Ed's voice of Anthony the Jesus Lizard! ( www.anthonysjourney.com )
"Cookies For Giuseppe" Internet story voiced by Ed
"Mouse Trap Trouble" Internet Story voiced by Ed
Here is a collection of out-takes of voices from author Pola Muzyka's
Children Book series of "Adventures In Learning Land" audio version that Ed voiced. ( www.adventuresinlearningland.com )
Here below is a nearly 5-minute sample from book
one of the series!
"Shifty"
the Snake Oil Salesman From the play: "Spirit Of The West" by Nigel Sanders This
is the very first play I was ever part of as an adult. I was about 42 or 43, it was around 1999 or 2000. My good friend Sharon
Tillery from my party DJ days (Sharon Stravens at that time) persuaded me to get involved in a play she had become part of.
I was to audition for the role of the "Blacksmith", and supposedly just hold a hammer while a gunshot hit my
hammer.
We went to a mini-ranch just west of Portland, Oregon (where I was living) for the audition. We arrived
at the place, and went up to the porch of the ranch house where some folks were gathered. They were already talking
about the production, so Sharon and I just sat down and listened. To me they were just a bunch of friendly folks, so I chatted
along, giving some of my wit and joking right along with them. I didn't realize it but the fellow leading the
discussion was the writer/producer/director himself. I was sitting right next to him on the porch steps when he looked
at me while sitting , turned to his right, and produced a script, handed it straight to me so I had to take it, and said,
"I want you to be "Shifty" the snake oil salseman". Didn't really ask me, just sort of assigned the
part to me. I was just now realising that he was the director.
We hung out for a while, chatting, and such, then
when Sharon and I were on our way back down the freeway toward Portland, she punches me in the arm while I'm driving.
She said, "Ed you got the part of "Shifty"!" I wasn't sure what to say, and must have had a quizzical
look on my mug, so she explained that that was the comic relief part, and the longest monologue of the play! I was still a
bit aghast, wondering to myself "what does it all mean Mr. Natural", when she then told me, "Ed, I'm your
assistant!" Sharon's role happened to be Shifty the Snake Oil Salesman's assistant! Beautiful assistant
too I might add. She was very protective of me, and was quite good in the rail road tie fight scene with her gymnastic/dance
abilities.
I was working as morning host at KKPZ, so I was off work at 1pm M-F. I was able to record this
at KKPZ for listening for memorization. Here is that original recording below! Okay, I doctored it up since it was
originally a cassette tape. Remember those?
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