Jim Dale picks up Grammy Award for DH
The 50th annual Grammy Awards was held tonight, where it was announced that Jim Dale (narrator of the US Potter audiobooks) received a Grammy for his reading of Deathly Hallows. Jim also won back in 2000 for Goblet of Fire.
Posted by Andrew on Feb 10th |
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yes! jim dale is so good at reading hp, I love his voice.
Yet again, Rowling's influence is honored! WAY TO GO!
Good for him! :] 3rd?!?!
it's official... Harry Potter has taken over every aspect of the media...score!
yes!!! he deserved it!!! i didn't finish watching, but was he on tv?
He's soo good in the audios! !!! He deserved it!!! TOP TEN!!! YAY!!!!
Yay. I don't think they announced the award on the show however, probably just online.
I want to marry him.
I sent in the news story, and Andrew didn't mention anything! I was so excited that my name might be mentioned on MuggleNet, and now its not. Sugar!(Thats my equivalent of "shoot!") Oh, well, Andrew probably saw it somewhere else without seeing my e-mail.Whatever.
yay! he is amazing! i have all 7 audiobooks on my ipod. they keep me going on long car rides :) my first top 10!
Awesome! Congrats to him!
Woo! Jim is awesome at reading the books. I have all of the printed versions, and after hearing one of the audiobooks, I went out and bought them all just becasue he is awesome at it! Congratulations, Jim Dale, You definitely deserve it!
Yay! He's such a good reader!! I listened to the audio the first time I read every book even if I was just at home.
Yay! He deserved it! He's such a great narrator!
Ooooh! Thats awesome!!! And I'm sorry hermione11! Thats really a bummer!
Wow! He completely deserves this. This is great, what a nice guy.
That's really great. He's so good, I just love listening to him-I can see the images from the books clearer then when I read them just myself. Go Jim!
He is amazing at reading the books!
yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyy yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy !!!!
Oh he's going to read this book too? http://chlorophilia .myminicity.com/
awesome! =)
That's awesome! He did such a great job at reading, doing all the characters in different voices, and he's very easy to listen to, also! Well done! That's the only way hubby was able to "read" all seven books was listening to them.
well it is NOT a slow news week now. Congrats to him
i really like the audio books. i haven't finished listening to DH yet though. (of course i have read it before so...) but goblet of fire was great too, so was poa cs ss(or ps) and ootp! so yeah all of them. i don't think i've heard the sixth one though. but it's probably just as good! Jim Dale! yay! award award!
Well, thats just awesome!! I love his voice!! He's so good at recording the hp books!! My brother has listened to every single hp book, he didnt even try to read them! :o
I didn't even know they gave Grammys for stuff like that. Very cool.
Funny, Jim is good, but I've always found Steven Fry better at reading the books.. I haven't heard Jim in DH though..
I agree Lunatic! I have listened to both versions, and I prefer Stephen Fry. I like his reading voice better.
I normally don't like comments that are 97% emoticons, but what the heck. :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D. Call me crazy, I don't even listen to the books on audiotape. Yet I can't stop grinning.
i saw that on the Grammy website. that's cool he won.
Awesome!!!! No one deserves it more than Jim Dale. Listening to his voice is equivilant to beimg offered free cookies from a benevolent stranger, or finding out that your guy friend loves High School Musical, or that you and your biffle are planning on starting a llama summer camp. Yes, Jim Dale is that awesome. He's why I watch Pushing Daisies (best show ever) and why I'm tempted to rent the HP audio books from the library, even though I've read them about seventy billion times. Kudos Jim Dale!!!!! You're voice makes my heart melt!!!!
Yaaay Jim! He does such a great job! : )
omg...this made me sooo happy...i love jim dale's readings of all the books...i listen to them all the time...sometimes his voice even narrates my dreams.. im sooo happy for him, he totally deserves it!!!
YAY!!!!! The show was awesome!!!!!
I agree all the way, malteselover. This brilliant man deserves it completely. Listening to his voice is not only like starting a llama summer camp, but on top of that, like filling out quizzes from magazines, realizing you don't know the answers to half of them, guessing on them, and getting them right. It's just THAT GOOD.
Congratulations to Jim Dale!! He so deserves this honor. I enjoy listening to him read the books so much! :D
I never really appreciated what Jim Dale does in his readings until I was reading a story to my kids one night and they asked me to do the voices! Now this was a typical Disney book with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy and a few other minor characters and let me tell you, I was exhausted when I was finished and they found it more funny than enjoyable! My 7 year old told me that my Donald voice didn't sound anything like the real one and that my Mickey voice sounds like a little girl! Well Mickey does sound like a little girl I tried to explain. I did nail Goofy's voice though! Jim Dale's got mad skillz! I never get confused when he does his voices. The one and only voice that I couldn't stand Jim doing was Ginny's. He made her sound a little too gruff! Other than that, he does a great job with all of the other voices in my opinion. Jim also holds the Guinness book of records for having created the most different voices for one audiobook (134)! Congratz Jim! I can't wait to hear you do book 8 (Hint to JO)!
YES! I love listening to all the Harry Potter books in his voice every day as I go back and forth from school! I have probably listened to Deathly Hallows four times since it came out! best reading EVER!!!
Jim Dale is amazing..:)
Jim Dale really deserves this. i'm in love with the audio books and think he is amazing at what he does. i listen to them while im in the shower, clean my room, and when im asleep.
He is the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! : )
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