Bible App Playlists of Favorite Bible Verses

Click Here to View Bible App Playlist of Books of KJV

Bible Verses on Love Old Testament

Bible Verses on Faith

22 Most Searched for Bible Verses

27 Bible Verses on Strength
New Testament

189 Bible Verses FOOL/FOOLISH
Old and New Testament

263 Love Bible Verses
New Testament

156 Bible Verses on Power
New Testament

All Pride Bible Verses
Old and New Testament

All Bible Verses on Riches in
Old and New Testament

All Bible Verses Wealth
Old and New Testament

All Prosperity Bible Verses
Old and New Testament

All 224 Bible Verses on TRUTH
Old and New Testament

All 191 Bible Verses on KNOWLEDGE Old and New Testament

All 222 Bible Verses on Wisdom
Old and New Testament

All 134 Bible Verses on Understanding Old Testament

The Good Samaritan Parable
Mathew 22

Playlist for Christ is Risen
Luke 24

All 156 Bible Verses on UNDERSTANDING NT and OT

Jesus Last Prayer in the Garden
John 17

“Understanding” Bible Verses
New Testament

“Knowledge” Bible Verses
Old Testament

59 KNOWLEDGE Bible Verses
New Testament

Genesis Chapter 1
Old Testament

172 Wisdom Bible Verses
Old Testament

50 Wisdom Bible Verses
New Testament

Bible Verses of
Hope and Charity

Bible Verses on
Healing

Bible Verses on
Hope

Bible Verses on
Joy

Bible Verses on
Charity

50 Bible Verses
to Memorize

40 Favorite
Bible Verses

50 Inspirational
Bible Verses

50 Encouraging
Bible Verses

15 Bible Verses Every Believer Should Memorize

70 Crisis
Bible Verses:

totus testa pio io

Chicago Tribune Article About Alexander Scourby

Chicago Tribune February 22, 1990 Journalist: Sandy Bauers A Knight-Ridder Newspaper

Alexander Scourby is reputed to have been the world`s best audio-book narrator, bar none. He is heralded as having the greatest voice ever recorded.
Scourby, a radio, film and stage actor, read 422 books for the Talking Books program of the American Foundation for the Blind, including Homer`s “Iliad,” Tolstoy`s “War and Peace,” Joyce`s “Ulysses,” Faulkner`s “The Sound and the Fury” and the King James Version of the Bible.
Although Scourby considered Talking Books his most important work, he also made several recordings for Spoken Arts and Listening Library, and it`s well worth the purchase price to hear the master.
For Spoken Arts, he read Walt Whitman`s “Leaves of Grass”, Edgar Allan Poe`s “The Pit and the Pendulum,” and several titles in the Voices of History collection of famous speeches.
For Listening Library, Scourby read “The Great Gatsby and Other Stories,” “The Stories of Ernest Hemingway” and some of the poems on “A Treasury of Great Poetry.”
What made Scourby so great? People who try to describe it generally stutter through glowing adjectives and adverbs, concluding that it`s an intangible, indefinable quality. But they all agree on one thing: He was a man with a truly rare gift.
For Listening Library`s Tim Ditlow, Scourby`s readings are “totally believable, and I`m totally transported” to the period of the story. He cites “the warmth, the resonance” of Scourby`s voice and concludes, “If I could name exactly what it was, I`d probably diminish it. When you hear him, it goes right to your heart.”
Ditlow`s father, Anthony, is blind and was well-acquainted with Scourby`s readings when he founded the Listening Library in 1958. What the elder Ditlow likes is Scourby`s subtlety: “He never over-emphasized, but you knew at all times all the various scales of emotion. I always used to say Alex could read the phone book and make it interesting.”
Comparing Scourby to some of today`s best audio-book readers, Anthony Ditlow said, “They`re all good, but they`re just good. They`re not superb.” At the American Foundation for the Blind studios in New York City, manager Don Weightman remembers Scourby as “one of a kind.” “We`re talking about an X quality here. What really came across was the fact that he was believable,” Weightman said. “Beautiful voices are a dime a dozen, but when you get the quality of believability, that`s something rare.” Fellow Talking Books reader Flo Gibson, who also reads for her own audio- book company in Washington, said it was Scourby she listened to for inspiration.
His readings “certainly have an elegant quality to them,” she said. “But what I like are his pregnant pauses-he uses his pauses so well. His subtle hints of dialect are superb.”
While most narrators try to “act” a book, raising and lowering their voices when the speaker changes from a man to a woman, Scourby simply changed the rhythm slightly, Gibson said.
People who knew Scourby describe a man meticulous in his research and preparation. For Scourby, Weightman said, the author came first. And for listeners, Scourby comes first.

Bible App Playlists of Favorite Bible Verses

Bible Verses on Love Old Testament

Bible Verses on Faith

22 Most Searched for Bible Verses

27 Bible Verses on Strength New Testament

189 Bible Verses FOOL/FOOLISH Old and New Testament

263 Love Bible Verses New Testament

156 Bible Verses on Power New Testament

All Pride Bible Verses Old and New Testament

All Bible Verses on Riches in Old and New Testament

All Bible Verses Wealth Old and New Testament

All Prosperity Bible Verses Old and New Testament

All 224 Bible Verses on TRUTH Old and New Testament

All 191 Bible Verses on KNOWLEDGE Old and New Testament

All 222 Bible Verses on Wisdom Old and New Testament

All 134 Bible Verses on Understanding Old Testament

The Good Samaritan Parable Mathew 22

Playlist for Christ is Risen Luke 24

All 156 Bible Verses on UNDERSTANDING NT and OT

Jesus Last Prayer in the Garden John 17

“Understanding” Bible Verses New Testament

“Knowledge” Bible Verses Old Testament

59 KNOWLEDGE Bible Verses New Testament

Genesis Chapter 1 Old Testament

172 Wisdom Bible Verses Old Testament

50 Wisdom Bible Verses New Testament

Bible Verses of Hope and Charity

Bible Verses on Healing

Bible Verses on Hope

Bible Verses on Joy

Bible Verses on Charity

50 Bible Verses to Memorize

40 Favorite Bible Verses

50 Inspirational Bible Verses

50 Encouraging Bible Verses