I don’t know his name, but everyone in Iowa has heard his voice.
As the YouTube ad above shows, the man who does the voiceovers for Adventureland’s radio and TV ads has been doing it for a long time.
Last week I heard a radio spot for the opening of this year’s summer season. While it was recognizable, something else was inescapable: The Adventureland ad guy sounds like he’s getting old.
UPDATE: A reader informs me that the “voice of the summer” is none other than Frosty Mitchell, legendary KIOA radio personality who DJ’d the dance party at Veterans Auditorium in the 1959 girls’ basketball tournament blizzard. I had never made the connection.