In 1934 an act of Congress authorized governmental financing of the project and the American Foundation for the Blind, under the supervision of the Library of Congress, began issuing readings of complete books by professional actors on long-playing records. Irwin, then executive director of the Foundation, after a survey in 1929 which revealed that only 15 percent of the sightless population was sufficiently skilled at touch reading to enjoy books in Braille. The Talking Book service was conceived by Dr.
The American Foundation for the Blind offers to the 450 agencies concerned with the estimated 400,000 sightless persons in the United States more than 100 services that would be difficult or impossible for individual agencies to provide on their own. It’s very seldom that someone can continue to touch the lives of millions every day well after their death, but Alexander Scourby has done exactly that since his death in February of 1985, as his one of a kind voice continues to reach out and touch the lives of millions through his recordings of the King James Bible. I offer you the most rewarding gift you will ever have an opportunity to give someone you love … the recording of THE King James BIBLE …the world’s most important book and a gift of a lifetime for anyone who receives it.” I really stand in awe in pondering that nothing else I have done during my entire lifetime has had such a powerful and positive impact on people as my recordings of the King James Bible. Others stated that they were even healed as they listened to the Bible. Others stated their lives, or the lives of their loved ones were changed simply by listening to the Bible. I have been greatly humbled and moved by the many letters I received from people around the world telling me how God used the Bible narrations to comfort and encourage them during a difficult period.
I know this because, over the years, many people have written me thanking me for recording the Bible. It has the power to inspire, encourage and change the lives of people who hear it. “The Bible is the one book that I am proudest of. He describes why in the following statement: Although Scourby recorded over 500 different books, he considered the Bible to be his most important. That has earned him the well-deserved title as “The Voice of the Bible”. Scourby was the first to narrated an Audio Bible in 1953 and since the first recording his gifted voice has brought, and continues to bring, comfort, joy, and inspiration to untold millions all over the world. The bestselling book has become one of the best selling audio narration of all times and to this very day, Alexander Scourby is still recognized as having the Greatest Voice Ever Recorded. Millions of records, cassettes, CD’s, DVD’s, digital downloads and the Scourby You Bible Apps have been sold around the World.
However, the Audio Book that Alexander Scourby was proudest of was his narration of the King James Holy Bible. “Nelson Coon, a former regional librarian in the Library of Congress observed in the letters column of the Saturday Review (September 9, 1961): “The dependence on and satisfaction in the Voice of Alexander Scourby among the blind is something you would not believe unless you had been a librarian.” Scourby, during his lifetime, recorded over 500 books for the blind and has described his recording of Audiobooks as, “the one work that really means something to me. The precise, mellifluous voice of Alexander Scourby, trained in Shakespearean roles in the 1930s and perfected in radio dramatic parts in the 1940s, became a well-known sound on Broadway, in motion pictures, and on television, whereas Harriet Van Horne has observed, he is “the most sensitive and knowing narrator in the business.” His most appreciative audience, however, is found among the nearly 80,000 borrowers of Talking Books, the recordings of literature produced under the supervision of the Division for the Blind of the Library of Congress for the use of the legally blind. Alexander Scourby has the Greatest Voice Ever Recorded, Chicago Tribune
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