John L's Voice

Surprised. It doesn't fit his look at all, IMO.

 

Those old recordings are way off ... I heard one of Corbett where he sounded just like that and then in a film and he wounded totally different .. still, nice post and thanks for putting it up ..

 

I thought I read somewhere that he had a deep voice. Disappionted
But maybe thats not him

 

he sounds like text to speech after massive data corruption...

no way this was his actual voice.

 

I instinctively imagine him having an almost comically deep voice, in the mould of Brian Blessed.

 

He sounds cartoonishly Irish. Remember that many of the great badas*ses had high voices... Dempsey, Marciano, Tyson.

Thanks for finding that. Fascinating.

 

Very cool.

It may or may not be a perfect replication of John L’s voice, who knows, but, as is, I thought the tone sounded fine - of course, not a patch on Baritone Burns (Tommy) though. A proverbial fog horn.

Imagine Mike T back in the old days, charging through the saloon doors, initially unsighted by patrons proclaiming “I can lick any ‘thun of a beach in the house!” -

That little intro might evoke some uncontrollable laughter until they all wheel around and actually see the threatening physical form from which the squeaky voice is emanating.

Then it be a collective, now standing and somewhat nervous group of patrons in immediate attendance - “Sure you can, sit yourself right down, what drink can we buy you? Didn’t catch the name…Mike is it? Sweet!”

Mike’s pigeons file in shortly there after, mimicking their owners swag, spying all and sundry with impending intent to harm and NOT a word is said.

 

"Corbett's alive!?!?!?"

 

You just referenced one of my favourite classic movies.

I probably mentally account for the higher pitch of the old recordings.

I wonder if there is sufficient data on the old recordings for some sort of A.I. correction to the original pitch or something closer to.

 

The combination of editing technology and the internet have really done wonders for accessibility. Old champions have gone from being grey ghosts in photos to people we can see move and hear speak.

 

LOL!!! That would have made a great Saturday Night Live skit back in the day!

Jack Dempsey and Rocky Marciano both had fairly high-pitched voices despite their reputations in the ring. In fact, in the early days when he was just starting out, the young Dempsey would go into a saloon and challenge anyone in the house and after the scrap was over they would pass the hat to make a little money. Dempsey said, "Sometimes you'd get a quarter, sometimes you got nothing!"