Homeless man with an amazing voice

[Sure-Oz]

This video got posted today and is flying...Golden Voice Ted Williams...

He now has an official twitter account http://twitter.com/GoldenVoice614 and will be on the radio tomorrow with wnci 97.9 hope he gets a job, amazing voice.



Edit:fake twitter account

here is his agents http://twitter.com/battleplanpromo twitter...he will be on the today show, jimmy fallon etc now

[Dave Lane]

Originally Posted by ChiefsNow

What kind of car antenna did you use beach?

He obviously speaks from experience. Either that or he's a mega douche. Good for the guy.

[siberian khatru]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

This could become like an ongoing experiement of sorts...lets have billionares accross the nation randomly select bums from week to week. Give them a job, money, nice house, nice car, etc...and see if they go back to the streets, or become a productive citizen. This would make a great reality show.

Sorta like ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Millionaire

[Dante84]

He also has 9 kids.

Neat!

[Fairplay]

He has a long face.

[Skyy God]

Apparently he's more of a singing hobo than a stabbing hobo.

[gblowfish]

I've known lots of guys that had million dollar pipes and looked like they were hit in the face with a shovel.

That's where the term "face for radio" comes from.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

This could become like an ongoing experiement of sorts...lets have billionares accross the nation randomly select bums from week to week. Give them a job, money, nice house, nice car, etc...and see if they go back to the streets, or become a productive citizen. This would make a great reality show.

Yeah, it would.

Until it got predictable after every one of them ended up ruining it.

[NewChief]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

This could become like an ongoing experiement of sorts...lets have billionares accross the nation randomly select bums from week to week. Give them a job, money, nice house, nice car, etc...and see if they go back to the streets, or become a productive citizen. This would make a great reality show.

That would be an awesome movie.

[gblowfish]

Originally Posted by NewPhin

That would be an awesome movie.

You mean, like Dan Akroyd and Eddie Murphy in "Trading Places?"

[NewChief]

Originally Posted by gblowfish

You mean, like Dan Akroyd and Eddie Murphy in "Trading Places?"

Yes. That's exactly what I mean.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by gblowfish

You mean, like Dan Akroyd and Eddie Murphy in "Trading Places?"

But without the gorilla rape.

[Bwana]

On TODAY this morning. Interview in link below.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/409440...ple/?GT1=43001

[TimeForWasp]

Next up Ted Williams will publicly pull the bannanas out of his butt.

Originally Posted by FAX

He's a trained monkey now. "Say, I stick bananas up my butt." (followed by squeals and raucous laughter).

Good luck crazy, homeless, recovering, radio dude with a new haircut. Stay off the sauce, man.

FAX

[Chiefs Rool]

Originally Posted by gblowfish

You mean, like Dan Akroyd and Eddie Murphy in "Trading Places?"

I'd watch that show.

[WebGem]

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content...-new-york.html

The homeless man with the golden voice reunites with MomThe homeless man with the golden voice reunites with Mom

The homeless man with the golden voice reunites with Mom
Ted Williams makes emotional appearance on the Today show this morning

Thursday, January 6, 2011 11:49 AM
Updated: Thursday, January 6, 2011 01:13 PM

BY KEVIN JOY

The Columbus Dispatch

The reunion couldn't have been more emotional.

When Ted Williams, the now-famous homeless guy with the golden voice, saw his mother in a conference room in midtown Manhattan, he ran to her saying, "Mommy, mommy."

His mother, Julia Williams, reached for her son.

"My prodigal son has finally come home," she said. And the two embraced.

The reunion, delayed because of wrangling between two television networks, was the first time Ted Williams has seen his mother in about 20 years. The Dispatch, along with NBC and CBS, witnessed the emotional moment.

Julia Williams, in a fur hat and coat, talked to her son about his newfound celebrity. She was most concerned, though, about whether he had really turned his life around.

Williams assured his mom that he had. They talked a little about family members, and she teased him about telling everyone on national television that she was 92 years old.

Julia Williams is 90.

Ted Williams has appeared on many national news shows, and is scheduled to be on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon tonight. He also signed a contract with Kraft Macaroni & Cheese to be the voice in a commercial that will air on ESPN during the Fight Hunger Bowl on Sunday. The Columbus panhandler whose baritone pipes were showcased Monday in a Dispatch video and then loaded onto YouTube has captured the world's attention.

Both Ted Williams and his mother were on national television this morning, talking about the younger Williams' newfound fame.

Promptly at 7 this morning, Ted Williams used the voice responsible for his sudden fame to deliver the introduction of a lifetime.

From NBC News, this is Today with Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira, live from studio 1A in Rockefeller Plaza!

Williams later made two appearances on the NBC talk show.

At virtually the same time, an interview with his mother was being shown on The Early Show on rival network CBS.

"This is a dream come true," an excited Williams told Today co-hosts Lauer and Vieira. "There's just no way in the world I could have imagined that I would have all this."

In an early segment with the show co-hosts and a later appearance with Ann Curry and Al Roker, Williams answered a broad range of questions - from his thoughts about his newfound celebrity and the job offers he has since been offered to his history of drug and alcohol abuse and his chance for redemption.

Williams said that, despite the incredible challenges of such instant celebrity, he is emotionally equipped to make the most of the opportunity.

"This time around, I have God," he said. "I was ready to mark 2010 as another year wasted until I realized that I'd found a new sense of spirituality.

"The difference between my successes of years gone by: I didn't acknowledge the Lord or thank him for anything before, you know? And I have had some great opportunities."

Williams was asked, too, about his mother - whom he hasn't seen in 20 years, he says, but has talked to recently by phone.

With obvious affection - "I love my mom," he said with a smile - he credited the kind, gracious demeanor he exhibits to his mother and her insistence that he live by the Golden Rule.

"My mom raised me that way - to always be polite, to treat people the way you want to be treated."

Almost simultaneously on CBS, 90-year-old Julia Williams, a Brooklyn resident, was telling Early Show co-host Chris Wragge that her prayers for her son's improved well-being have been answered.

"I prayed that I would live to see this time that he would do well," she said.

Julia Williams said she struggled with the notion after hearing from family members that her son was begging for money - and that she couldn't get through to him when they talked by phone.

"At night, I'd wake up and I'd see him with that sign," she said, "and I would say, 'What has happened here?' But If I'd ask him about it, he would say: 'Goodbye. I'll talk to you later.'"

"So he shut me out of his life, and I can understand."