[Ohio-talk] {Disarmed} Fw: [wepray7] Terry Hayes Sales dies at 94

[Paul Dressell]

Bernie and I met Terry Hayes Sales during the 100th anniversary celebration of the Cincinnati Regional Library. It's hard to imagine that she began to record talking books the year I was born. Most of us grew up listening to her read. Paul 
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Terry Hayes Sales, who recorded more than 900 books for blind, dies at 
94 > By Paula Burba

Terry Hayes Sales, a singer and actress who had recorded more than 900 
> books for the American Printing House for the Blind, died on Monday 
at a > nursing home in Rowley, Mass. She was 94. Sales moved to 
Massachusetts from Louisville in August 2009 to be near her > son, 
Michael Sales, who said she died of Alzheimer's disease. > In December 
1988, Sales was inducted into the American Foundation for the > Blind's 
Talking Book Hall of Fame, one of two living charter members cited > 
for significant achievement in the narration of talking books. > Sales 
had "this remarkable ability to tell a story," according to Steve > 
Mullins, studio director for the American Printing House for the Blind, 
> where Sales did her recordings. "She was very charming." With 
thousands of books recorded, all of them staying in circulation for > 
many years, narrators developed followers, Mullins said. "People, in 
some ways, grew up with her," he said. Among her work are three 
narrations of "Little Women," as well as most of > the Nancy Drew 
books. The recordings were produced for the National Library Service 
for the > Blind and Physically Handicapped, a division of the Library 
of Congress, > which honored Sales in 1998 for her dedicated service of 
more than 60 > years as a narrator. Sales likely was the narrator 
longest affiliated with the American > Printing House for the Blind, 
Mullins said. She began narrating in 1938, > just one year after the 
printing house released its first talking book, > "Gulliver's Travels." 
In 2006, though she was no longer a regularly > scheduled narrator at 
the printing house, Sales participated in the 75th > anniversary 
celebration and marathon recording session of that book with > 44 other 
narrators. Mullins said he was almost certain Sales was the only person 
to have made > the transition from the earliest recordings made on wax 
through the era of > tape and into the current digital age, recording 
on all mediums. > Sales was a high school sophomore when she landed her 
first professional > gig as a staff singer on WBBM radio in her 
hometown of Chicago. She met > Louisville native Stuart Sales while he 
was a student at the University of > Illinois, their son said, and they 
married in Chicago when she was 19. > While her husband later served in 
the Navy, she did a talk show on WGN in > Chicago as well as 
commercials and serial acting before the couple > returned to Louisville.

In Louisville, she continued to sing on radio for both WAVE and WHAS. > 
According to her son, she inherited the show Dale Evans did at WHAS 
after > Evans left. She also appeared in some ensemble television 
casts, and was involved in > numerous local theater projects. When she 
heard about the talking books at the American Printing House for > the 
Blind, her son said she considered it an acting opportunity. > Sales 
also funded the launch of Audio Description at The Kentucky Center > 
for the Performing Arts in 1991 in memory of her husband, who died in > 
1987. The program provides narrators who broadcast live descriptions of 
> the action onstage to audience members during performances. > She 
also was the voice on the center's 10th anniversary "Tour on Tape," > 
and co-wrote that script. A graveside service is planned for 10:30 a.m. 
on Wednesday at The Temple > cemetery. A memorial service will be held 
sometime next year, her son said. > Herman Meyer & Son funeral home is 
handling arrangements. Reporter Paula Burba can be reached at (502) 582-800.


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