- Flo Ayres
Flo Ayres is a nationally known radio actress, and a founding member of the
Washington, DC chapter ofAFTRA-SAG .Ayres was born Florence Aaronson on July 12, 1923, in
Baltimore, Maryland . Ayres broke into radio in the late 1940s in Washington, DC, and was one of the first women to make the new technology a full-time career. In the 1950s, Ayres teamed up withWalt Teas , another nationally known voice from Baltimore, to become one of the first freelance voiceover teams in the radio industry. Over the next 30 years, Ayres, along with Teas and another personality,Joe Knight , recorded thousands of commercials and syndicated programs on a national scale, mostly at Baltimore's version of Hollywood,Flite Three Studios , and overseen by legendary audio engineer,Louis Mills .In the 1960s and 1970s, Ayres also taught radio and communications at several Baltimore-area institutes of higher learning, such as
Johns Hopkins University ,Goucher College , andTowson University , and has collaborated on projects with famous Vatican painterJoseph Sheppard and Beatles' photographerMorton Tadder . Ayres also has had an extensive solo career spanning over 50 years. In addition to radio commercials, Ayres has narrated for such institutions as theNational Geographic Society ,Sea World , and theAARP . During the past twenty-five years, Ayres has hosted regular radio shows such as "Tuning into Life," "The Heart of the Matter," and she wrote and produced the radio series "For the Young at Heart." Ayres wrote, produced, and starred in a children's music CD about manners, entitled "Doo-zees and Don't-zees," which was released in May, 2007.At age 84, Ayres still produces commercials from her home in Baltimore, and from nearby B.H. Audio studios in Towson, Maryland.
References
[http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.whatever16jun16,1,762460.story?ctrack=1&cset=true Baltimore Sun Article] Flo 'Granny Packer' Ayres
[http://sunsetbl.blogspot.com/2007/06/walt-teas-if-you-please.html BlogSpot Article] Walt Teas if you Please
[http://www.goucher.edu/x18048.xml Goucher College Article] Blame Brownlee
[http://www.parentschoice.org/product.cfm?product_id=23104&StepNum=1&award=aw Parents' Choice Foundation] Parents' Choice Gold Awards
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