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Audie
Award Winner 2009
"James Herriot's
Treasury For Children"
Performed by
Jim Dale
and
Grammy Award Nomination 2009
Audie Award Nomination 2009
"The Shoebird"
A Musical Audiobook
Performed by Jim
Dale
Written by Eudora Welty - Music
and songs by Samuel Jones.
Seattle Symphony Orchestra conducted
by Gerard Schwarz
and the voices of the
Northwest Boychoir and Girls of Vocalpoint! Seattle. Joseph Crnko Conductor.
Purchase this one hour musical "The
Shoebird" on
Amazon,
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November
2008 heralded the release of a remarkable Epic Poem relating to
9/11/2001
"Bikeman"
by four times Emmy Award winning author
Tom Flynn
Jim narrates this epic poem of Tom's heart wrenching journey to the twin
towers on that
'forever September morning'
Available
at Amazon.com and most major book shops.
December
2008 - Jim won two Audiofile Awards in the category:-
"Best
Voices of the Year 2008"
"James
Herriot's Treasury For Children"
and
"The
Shoebird"
Jim's
audiobook of
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"
by J.K.Rowling
won a
Grammy Award 2008
"Best
Spoken Audiobook for Children"
and an
Audie Award 2008
"Best Male
Narrator USA and Canada"
This audiobook has also been selected as one of the
"Audiobooks
of the Year 2007"
by Publishers Weekly
For full award list click
Awards
Stage News
Jim's last
appearance on Broadway was in
Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's musical,
"The
Threepenny Opera"
For his performance as Mister
Peachum, he was honored with the following:-
Drama Desk Award
Outer Critics Circle Award,
Richard Seff Award
Drama League Award
Tony Award Nomination
Three
Guinness World Records
Jim's first Guinness World Record
was for creating
"Most Character Voices in an Audio Book - 134
for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix"
His
second was for breaking his first Guinness record by creating
"Most Character Voices in an Audio Book - 146"
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"
His
third
"In the 'Top Ten Best Selling Audio C.D's of America and Canada',
Narrator Jim Dale occupied the first SIX places
with his recordings of the Harry Potter books."
