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hi I'm johnny gilbert I'm the announcer
on Jeopardy I was the born and raised in
Virginia actually raised in the Newport
News area and I think I always knew I
had some talent how much your always
know I love singing I used to work with
little bands that were working on the
weekend newborns I I'd carry their
instruments in their horns and so forth
and their sound equipment so that they
would let me sing a few songs with the
band
this has come from my album try a little
tenderness Memphis and when i recorded
upstairs and these are different things
and did over the years when I went in
the service I went into basic training
as we always do and while I was there I
was entertaining i was singing in the
nightclub with the army for the
servicemen this is my time in the
service folks would you believe that the
show goes on to a big musical show
traveled all over Europe with it those
are my dog gangs remember your dog tag
number now let fate line this is from
music bingo this is a an album cover
from the television show 10th
anniversary there's where Griffin I had
met Merv in New York never worked with
him admitting so I um and I had met Alex
out here so I knew him but had never
worked with in mind when they decided to
put the show together they call my agent
and said we'd like to talk to johnny
gilbert about being the announcer on the
show and at this point Alex and I are
the only two people of the original cast
of Jeopardy the show is a family and
that is another thing i think that is
made it such a success
whenever you have a good show you have a
good family and we do our people who
worked with us for years we don't get
changes in turnovers on our show all of
the people to cast the staff everybody
work so closely together I think it's in
a word
we're very proud of
the audience connection for me is very
important in between shows i talked to
them i talked about this or that gets me
up
it gets me up because I need to get them
up the enjoyment for me is to get them
relaxed to get them where they'll laugh
at something I think that's the
important thing
I am semi-retired only do jeopardy now
have a golfer I've been a golfer for
many many years
I'm a boater a lot of people don't know
that I'm in the voting and really love
that spend many hours and days on the
water in the ocean but this is a great
place to come up open up the things and
really enjoy the ocean we always get the
ocean air up here we can feel it in that
smells good
feels great unfortunately i can't see
with it to the end of the ride but I
hope it goes on because i think it's
good for people jeopardy shows you how
smart being openly how bright kids who
have bright teenagers are how smart
college students are and they are the
next generation focus they're gonna run
this country so we need people like that
really the important thing is over all
these years I thank you so much for
liking what i do because you're what I
do without you I wouldn't be here
without all those people that tune in
and hear Johnny this is what I say
talk to me in the audience or on the
street or and then you where it might be
yeah you're the ones that make account
thank you very much