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

Tue Dec 7 09:00:10 UTC 2010

Hi JW.
Thanks for forwarding this.
It was interesting to read about Mrs. Sales.
She was truly a gifted narrator.
I always love getting books she narrated.

Colleen Roth

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> > 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
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> > Terry Hayes Sales, a singer and actress who had recorded more than 900
> >ar 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,
> >ar 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
> >ar 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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