No love for the amazing, Peter O’Toole?
I think O’Toole has been mentioned. I probably mentioned him.
I’d like to go for at least five pages. 
Rachel’s speaking voice may not be perfect, but she does have a world-class chuckle, besides being absurdly hot in her ‘nerdy intellectual’ way.
Amazing how I can just ask for this thread to continue, and then a few hours later, most of the time, it just comes back to life. :dubious:
If you had a panel discussion with Kieth Richards and Ozzie Osborne, it would require subtitles translating from English to English.
I find Julie Benz’s voice very annoying, way too ‘breathy little girl’ to be anything but grating.
I feel like she has to be doing it on purpose and it makes me irritated, but then I feel bad because maybe she’s not doing it deliberately, which makes me an unkind person for thinking shutupshutupshutUP! every time she talks.
worst female voice, Julia Gillard, our PM:
I do a mean impression of Bobcat Goldthwait, surprised he didn’t get a mention thus far (as best as I can tell)!
There’s no chance you worked for IVCF in Madison, WI, is there?
The hilarious thing about it is that this was a conservative Christian group (natl. office yet, led by ministers and PhDs and Church Ladies). And a good (sweet, innocent) friend of mine was the front desk secretary, so she was always paging someone…
In the sexiest voice any of us had ever heard.
The guys would stop working, and, seriously, look up at the PA speaker. And hang onto a desk or chair, because their knees were getting weak. And the women would notice, too, and laugh at the guys.
And no one ever told sweet Little Receptionist on The Prairie (she would’ve been SO embarrassed)…
And she might have stopped paging people in That Voice.
He did.
A good three pages and still no Kristin Chenoweth??
For best or worst?
You know what else is also just amazing? The fact that I can reply to people and they won’t respond, and yet I can just say something out of the blue and people come flooding back to this thread. :rolleyes:
Where can I find this hybrid of Audiobook and soundtrack?
More good voices-
Gregory Peck
Don Wilson (of Jack Benny)
Ronald Reagan
Thom Sharp, the guy who’s been in tons of commercials
Rush Limbaugh (opinions aside, the man has a fine radio voice)
Mr. Burns, I see you have a taste for American old-timers and funnymen such as Gale Gordon, William Conrad, Bing Crosby, Lou Costello, Andy Devine, and the like. What do you think of Phil Harris? He’s an old favorite of mine from The Jungle Book, Aristocats, and other things I’ve seen on YouTube. He and Dean Martin are a hoot together. He had a very distinctive, powerful voice.
And speaking of Gregory Peck, what about Robert Mitchum? I find his voice mesmerizing. Somehow I always associate Peck and Mitchum even though they weren’t such similar actors. I guess it was their similarly strong facial features.
Anyone else’s voices you don’t like?
And one more thing.
I’m not a fan of Rush Limbaugh’s voice—he’s just always so blustery, so a radio voice it is far from being IMO—but Bill O’Reilly has a fine voice. Keith Olbermann as well. And Howard Stern’s voice is pretty much the essence of radio. Did you know that he was voted #6 Worst Voice in America once? :mad: Limbaugh got an honorable mention, so I suppose there’s a pattern.
I’m a huge fan of old time radio, that’s why I have so many old timers on my lists. Phil Harris is one of my favorite entertainers, my favorite person from Jack Benny’s cast (after Jack and Rochester). Phil had a great voice, and his wife, Alice Faye, had a smooth honey toned voice as well.
Robert Mitchum does have a good voice, but it creeps me out to hear it because of his appearance as two of the creepiest characters ever put on screen- Max Cady and “Reverend” Harry Powell.
They’re in order, #1 being the best or worst, depending. I’m not entirely sure if they’re final.
Best Males:
- Thurl Ravenscroft
- Paul Robeson
- Ted Cassidy
- Lorne Greene
- Robert Mitchum
- Frank Bruno
- Ron Perlman
- Don Ameche
- William Marshall
- Trace Adkins
the Honorable #11 = Robert MacNeil
Best Females:
- Sahara Smith
- Laura Nyro
- Vanessa Redgrave
- Sutton Foster
- Denyce Graves
- Lauren Bacall when she was younger
- Anne Bancroft
- Bernadette Peters
- Susan Egan
- Meryl Streep
the Honorable #11 = the youthful Kathleen Turner
Best in General:
All of the males. In terms of merit, I can’t put them together, but I just like listening to male voices (predominantly good ones) more than females. It’s just predilection.
Worst Males (this includes people that aren’t all that well-known, so you can look them up):
- Reynolds Price when he was close to death
- Barney Frank
- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.*
- Bobby Slayton
- David Carr, the New York Times columnist
- Norman Finkelstein
- General Larry Platt
- Dick Vitale
- George Lucas
- Casey Affleck
the Honorable #11 = Carlos Fuentes
*Charlie Rangel has what I call a “wildcard” for #3. I almost kind of LIKE his voice; when he finally sounds like he’s cleared his throat, he sounds okay. Even sometimes when he still sounds like he’s shouted “FIRE!” in a crowded theater on a daily basis for the past few years, I think he sounds cool. But when I don’t, I don’t even come close to thinking so. If I had to put him on this list, I would put him at #3, but there’s a mighty fine line between when I can’t stand his voice and when I like his voice.
Worst Females:
- Kathy Griffin
- Mo’Nique
- Rachael Ray until she got her throat fixed; she still doesn’t sound too good, but nowhere near #3
- Fantasia Barrino
- Julia Sweeney
- Sarah Vowell (it’s not really her voice as much as her childish delivery and nasal inflection)
- Joan Rivers
- Fran Drescher
- Kathleen Vinehout
- Roseanne Barr
the Honorable #11 = Barbara Walters
Worst in General:
- Reynolds Price
- Barney Frank
- Kathy Griffin
- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
- Bobby Slayton
- David Carr
- Norman Finkelstein
- Mo’Nique
- Rachael Ray
- Fantasia Barrino
the Honorable #11 = General Larry Platt
And I’d like to thank everyone who introduced me to these people, whom I hadn’t heard of until they mentioned them:
Trace Adkins, who was mentioned in another SDMB forum
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Charlie Rangel
Fantasia Barrino
Sarah Vowell
Kathleen Vinehout
I say the same thing about Richard Burton.