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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-15-10 09:52 AM
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Voice of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer dies
A Christmas classic has been silenced.

Billie Mae Richards, the Canadian radio actress who provided the male voice for plucky Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, died Friday at her home near Toronto. She was 88.

"Kids won't believe it when my grandchildren tell them that their grandmother is really Rudolph," Richards said in a 2005 interview with Filmfax magazine. She was credited as "Billy Richards" to mask the fact that she was a woman.

"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," based on the eponymous 1949 song, premiered in 1964 and CBS airs it to this day around the holidays.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/39191172/ns/today-entertainment/


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KingFlorez Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-15-10 09:56 AM
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1. Very sad
I never miss the Rudolph specials around Christmas.
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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-15-10 09:58 AM
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2. And yet Dick Cheney still lives
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Brickbat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-15-10 09:58 AM
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3. Aw! Thanks for posting this.
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-15-10 10:00 AM
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4. A dentist?
Edited on Wed Sep-15-10 10:05 AM by Botany




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xqACmJvqaU
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gort Donating Member (567 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-15-10 10:08 AM
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5. Great voice.


http://www.billiemaerichards.com/index.html
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