Daniel Russo - Imitates Walter Cronkite, Elvis, Billy DeWolf, LBJ

Imitates Walter Cronkite, Elvis, Billy DeWolf, LBJ

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Voice Description

I have been told I have a southern accent, but can sound non-regional, like Walter Cronkite for short sentences.
For example, I can say, "THIS is Walter Cronkite!" and you'd think it was him, himself.
I used to sing soprano when I was a boy, but that voice turned into a tenor, but I can reach low notes, like Elvis and used to sound just like him. With a script, I could dub in for his voice.
Dean Martin, Bing Crosby, are two big names that I can imitate briefly.
Billy DeWolf was one of the characters whose voice I imitated for a high school play in which I played a prime minister. "Busy, busy, Busy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." is the sentence that puts me in the frame of mind to imitate him. Of course he is dead now, and I don't know of any other imitator.

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Middle Age Male

Language(s) of Which I Am a Native Speaker:

• English - North American

I Offer my Services for these Recording Purposes

• Documentaries
• TV shows and movies

Jobs I Am Willing to Take (Union-wise)

• Non-Union Jobs

My Union Affiliations and Memberships

None

My Recording and Delivery Capabilities

• I will go to any designated studio in my area

Pre-, Post- and Production Services I Offer

None

My Home Base

Fort Lee, New Jersey, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

When I lived in Ohio, practicing a northern accent, I had a girl ask me if I were from New York.
Now I live in New Jersey, but have lived in Texas and can do a southern drawl. I also know how to talk like a
"hick" from West Virginia, which is a real trick unless you are from there, along with "hillbilly" talk, like,
"Lordy! Look who's here!"
(or from Grand Ol Opry, "Hot dang you'all I swear!"
(Say something else intelligent Elmer, "I swear, you all, hot dang!"
In some cases, I can also imitate Henry Kissinger, or a German Officer, like Sergeant Schultz on Stalag 17,
"Ja Wohl! Herr Commandant!" Or, "I know Nut-zink! Nut-ZINK!"

My Voice Experience

No experience. Just got the idea. But have am 57 years old and have been playing around with it for years.

My Training

Unknown - Click here to ask Daniel Russo

My Studio Equipment

I don't have a studio. Have been in a radio studio, and was in audience for Who Wants To Be a Millionaire for two tapings.
I own a Samsung, hand-held digital dvd video camera.

Except for small Sony hand-held recorder, I did own a small Olympia hand-held recorder, but couldn't find it when I moved.

Additional Skills

I did take a year online of screenwriting and storytelling in the MBA program of the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, and have been in contact with Richard Walters, Chair of the Film &TV Dept. at UCLA for ideas on a script I am working on about terrorism and espionage. I had about a 3.5 GPA but found out from a DVD by Richard Krevolin that I can learn screenwriting on my own now.

B.S. in mathematics (Ohio State U. Honors, WVSC 1977)
I had two years of philosophy from Dr. Robert Allinson, who is now Director of Humanities at Soka University in Aliso Viejo, California.
I have a broad overview of the world.

4 years of custom accounting/documentation work
M.S. in Statistics, (WVU 1998)
Presently working online on a MBA in accounting from University of Phoenix.(3.5 GPA)