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Dale said he can read 18 to 20 pages an hour, from 9 a.m. He has gotten each of the last few Harry Potter books just two or three days before he must begin recording.
Recording audiobooks is tricky, Dale says.
Looking back over his unusual career, Dale reflects: "I like the idea of exploring every branch in the tree of showbusiness." In the next year, Dale plans to perform in a Broadway musical, Busker Alley narrate a television show that premieres on ABC this fall, Pushing Daisies, and record several more books.
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Over the years, Dale has won an impressive number of awards and nominations: a 1966 Academy Award nomination for his lyrics to the song "Georgy Girl" a 1980 Tony Award for Barnum, plus five other Tony nominations, and a 2000 Grammy Award for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, plus five other Grammy nominations. (Dale has also made several films, including Disney's Pete's Dragon, in 1977.) In the following years, Dale became a pop recording artist, hosted a BBC television show, worked as a disc jockey, joined the prestigious British National Theater (at the request of Sir Laurence Olivier) andthen headed to Broadway, where he appeared in numerous shows.
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At the age of 17, he became the youngest professional comedian in Great Britain. A native of England, Dale spent much of his childhood training for a career on the stage. "He brilliantly distinguishes characters and brings out the excitement and pacing of the narrative."ĭale's success in bringing the Harry Potter books to audio life isn't surprising, given his successful and eclectic background. "Jim Dale's recordings are worth listening to, even if you have read the books a few times," says children's-book expert Anita Silvey. Listening Library has ordered a first printing of 635,000 copies for Book 7 - 565,000 CDs, 70,000 audiocassettes - the same as it ordered for the previous book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
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If you listened to the whole series straight through in your car, driving at 60 miles per hour, it would take you a loop around the United States - from New York to Seattle to Los Angeles to Dallas to Atlanta and back to the Big Apple, the Listening Library folks said.īook 7, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, is 21 hours, 38 minutes long, and consists of 17 CDs or 12 audiocassettes. It would take five days to listen straight through the entire series, according to officials of Listening Library, the Random House division that publishes the audiobooks. The total length of the audio versions, including Book 7, is 117 hours and four minutes. More than 5 million copies of the audiobooks have been sold since the first one was released in 1999, making them the best-selling audiobooks of all time. Overall, Dale has created more than 200 voices for the audio versions of all seven Harry Potter books. "All I can tell you is that those 134 voices (for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix) hold the record so far," Dale says. This is the same highly unusual process (most audiobooks come out weeks or months after the regular versionis published) used for most of the previous Harry Potter books. In fact, Dale holds a Guinness World Record for having created 134 different character voices for one book - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the fifth book in the series.Īsked if he beats his own record for voices in the final Harry Potter book, Dale replied that he's not allowed to respond until Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is released at midnight Friday.ĭale finished recording the book several weeks ago, settingin motion a production frenzy designed to ensure that the audiobook is ready for release the same day as the print version. Those 30-40 voices were just a fraction of the voices he has now created for the Harry Potter series by author J.K. It was off the wall! I thought to myself, 'Who the hell can do that?'" Dale says. "The first book had 30 to 40 different voices in it. LITTLE ROCK - When Jim Dale, an award-winning Broadway actor, was asked eight years ago to narrate the audio version of the first Harry Potter book, he wasn't sure he could do it.
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