Chapter 4 – Goals & Aspirations – I’ve been privileged to work and be taught by some of our industry’s most recognized dynamos. I consider myself a gleaner. If a guy or gal had even a modicum of success, the Kalmenson sponge (that’s me) was there to look and listen. Many of da harv’s tricks are nothing more…
– November 11, here in Los Angeles – One day A lifetime A veteran is a veteran Is a veteran Is a veteran… One alone Or all for one And one for all… They stood They walked the walk… Many still with a vaunted stride For me and my buddies, we were all in…
The Tag Lo and Behold Now we come to the topic that helped me to know there might be a chance for me in this business. It was the very first time I saw a commercial voice over script. My reaction was severe; the semi-nausea was instantly created by the lack of Shakespearean substance. After all… there were…
Chapter Three It’s “Nice Work If You Can Get It” While I try never to dodge a question, this is the kind of inquiry that demands an insertion of my personal disclaimer: I have been around this business for enough years to provide me with substantial knowledge of what I don’t know to be a…
From Then to Now In the earliest days of radio, a big basso voice would come on the air telling you where he was emanating from. That was common fare in the early forties when this young man was introduced to the true marvel of conviction that could be sent over the airwaves by the human voice. Those experiences…
“Our Story: How We Met” As told by Cathy Kalmenson “Lookin’ for Love” was a top pop hit. Back in 1980, I was fresh out of college, and a newly born “career girl” (as we were called back then) fortunate enough to learn the world of advertising at one of the top ad agencies in America:…
Our Voice Over World And with magic on my mind: I recall a day from a distant time in my life very many years in my past when from out of nowhere things began to enter my mind with regularity unsought—not asked for—or with expectancy. They were mine alone, for I possessed at the time…
As told to Harvey by da harv: Fifty Plus Years of Voice Over …And I still can’t get myself to write a how-to book (until now). Some things I almost know for sure, other things are no more than an inkling of what may be the right way to get there. But of certainty and a fact of life, albeit…
Intention My intention for writing book one, as a short story of my life from age nineteen to this day of ripeness, is to help in understanding why and how I entered, maintained, and continue to elevate my station in the world of commercial and theatrical voiceover. Some maintain: being in a certain place at…
“Memoirs Before The Fact” It so grieves me to lose good friends. Mere death should not be a good enough reason for a relationship to end. When there is mutual respect, and all people in relationships thrive on helping and stimulating the other to grow to endless horizons, then why should we accept departure when…