Here is some video from Don Pardo blowing out the candles during his 90th birthday celebration on "Saturday Night Live."
Incredible. He's 90! But he looks and acts 65.
I went on a school field trip tour of 30 Rock in the early 1970s and sat in on the taping of a TV game show whose name I forget. Pardo was the announcer. He already was over 50 then.
Wow. Happy Birthday, Don.
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Thank YOU Don Pardo!
When I worked at the large granite slabbed building with a skating rink [seasonal] and a gold statue in front ... Don Pardo sightings were commonplace and treasured. Once in a hallway near where all NBC folks went more or less [near the credit union, the medical office and the much-joked-about commissary] I saw Don and the then- " NBC Nightly News" announcer Howard Reig in animated conversation. Now ... Don Pardo is as big as his voice - at least 6 foot three. Reig is 5 foot three if he is lucky - but amazingly has the same deep baritone all broadcasters wanted in their staff announcers.
Didya also know that it was Don Pardo who first broke the news of the John F. Kennedy assassination on NBC Television? True.
Go to this to see more on-camera Pardo video from the original "Price is Right" that's about 45 years old, more or less:
youtube.com/watch?v=XAUI0XS936c
The Game show you saw might have been Jeopardy, The original version with Art Fleming as host. It aired at Noon on Channel 4 in New York,
(Dumont), Thanks for the fact that it was Don Pardo broke the news of Assassination of John F Kennedy.
It wasn't "Jeopardy." I think it was "Jackpot."