JayBeacham.com-A Voice as an Instrument

I narrated the promo video for this product, the Make It Easy Toothpaste Dispenser,

and I’m impressed with this product.

A friend from Gambia, Africa was likewise impressed with it.

Go and like this page

https://www.facebook.com/Makeiteasydispenser?fref=ts

Follow the links and help fund this great product.

Catch you later…..

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Fun, Fireworks, Folks from all over the world

(2013 July 4th)
Two Summers ago Lincoln’s Ghost attended the 4th of July celebrations held at Vernon Worthen Park in St. George, Utah.
Samantha Thomas, reporter for St. George TV News interviewed him about the visitors he’d met that day.
Besides fun, fireworks, folks from all over the world the day was planned to honor veterans of military.
Of course there was singing, dancing, water fun, and contests, and games.
And no one seemed to mind the heat.
See her report after the commercial at:

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				Wells Fargo | Works Wells Fargo offers videos, articles, expert advice and resources to help business owners to start, run, and grow their small businesses
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I’ve just finished the narration for two new products coming to the marketplace.

A toothpaste dispenser 

https://lnkd.in/eFUms3j

A toilet seat riser

https://lnkd.in/evFgFKa
You can use my narration to introduce your business to the world.

Call or email me now

435-628-7809

beachamj82@yahoo.com (this is also my pay pal number to make your payments easy)

Here are the two samples of my voice work for two local businesses:

				1a full movie Make It Easy Caddy.mpg Shared with Dropbox
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				Final Move GoZunder.mpg Shared with Dropbox
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The Lincoln’s Ghost Collection

Hi,

“Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves.” So said Mr. Abraham Lincoln.

I’ve assembled a collection of my one man show of Lincoln’s Ghost and the short book “Facts about Abraham Lincoln”.
This group of 3 dvds and 1 audio cd and 1 book is for sale for $85.00.

Lincoln’s Ghost show 2009 dvd

an overview of the life of Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln’s Ghost Returns the new show for 2010 dvd
This performance goes over speeches and much sage advise from the 16th president of the United States of America.

Thoughts on Life by Lincoln’s Ghost 2011 dvd
October of 2010, Ghost Tours in Santa Clara, Utah featured Lincoln’s Ghost, experiences with deaths in Lincoln’s life,
some of it in verse much of which Lincoln wrote is an expansion of the short five minutes Ghost Tours talk.

Lincoln’s Ghost Tells Stories–2014 audio cd
is about Mr. Lincoln’s propensity for storytelling

Just $20 each ( plus $3 shipping);
$75 for all 4 ($6 Shipping)
$85 with the book.

Get the book
“Facts about Abraham Lincoln”
for $10

Jay Beacham
85 East Center Street
Ivins, Utah 84738
435-628-7809

pay pal : beachamj82@yahoo.com
money order or check

Get them all and watch, listen and read.
Obtain exclusive re-publishing rights in your country.
Cost $10,000 US currency.

Jay Beacham

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Give Me A Chance At Bat

I just watched an instructional video.

Are You Batting Lead-Off or Clean-Up?
by Bill DeWees
607 views
https://youtu.be/qFjMb5plr3o
He’s a voice guy and compares baseball lead off/cleanup hitters to the voice over business of today.
He says it’s better to consistently get on base than to be the guy to get the home runs.
Meaning to work consistently is better than to wait for the big fancy voice jobs.

Well I’d just like to get a chance to bat.

My problem may have started when I first went to Little League tryouts with a boy who’d played before.
There was a team in the field and the prospects got a chance at bat while the coaches looked them over.
Before I could get to bat someone said that I was to go with the team made up of the left over boys.
I protested and someone said,
“Ah let the kid hit.”
I swung at the first ball and ran to second base safe.
Then we went off in the back of a pickup to look for a field to practice in.
We didn’t find one that morning.
By the next week, my family’s farm operations took precedence to ball games and my Little League career
ended before it had begun.
During the next few years, besides work and school and scouts, I practiced ball whenever the chance afforded itself.
I watched movies about baseball greats. The Deans, Jackie Robinson, etc.
I waited for High School sports.
the following poem tells about all of that.
To Pitch The Ball ©
When young, I thought it fun to throw a little baseball,
My dream to be a Dizzy or a Daffy dean, did enthrall.
All times of day, I’d throw and catch by myself.
I’d throw and catch with others to;
In school yard or down in the street
Most days with others I would meet.
Though seldom would I get to pitch that ball.
Then Little League came: “Oh let the kid bat.”
But never did I get to throw from mound to catcher’s mitt.
To high school then and gym,
Maybe I’d get to show
How good, how fast, how accurate I could throw.
I hurt my knee and to a specialist had to go.
He said that running would be put
That swim exercise and leg weight lifting would be in.
The years have so very fast gone past,
And though balls now fly to mitt-to sky
They do not on me at all rely.
(Author’s note: There is a professional baseball pitcher named Jay Beacham but it isn’t me.)
(Poetry anthology on Kindle “Under Red Cliffs” @ https://lnkd.in/e582xnM )
(Also available in paper back @ http://jaybeacham.com/products-page-2/

Well so it has been for me in the voice over world of today.
I’d just like to get a chance to get to bat or pitch. 
I won’t do immoral or illicit projects.
And it is always good to believe in something before promoting it.
That lends the aspect of truth to what the Voice Talent is saying.
But that said, I just want a chance to play.

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Many people tell me that they don’t want their roof tile fixed because a tile just slipped.

Should you replaced a broken tile on your roof?

Definitely!

The tile protects the felt.

The felt keeps the water out.

Tile don’t just slip because each tile is nailed and/or hung on a 1″ x 2″ wood strip.

Broken tile slide and let water, debris, birds into the space and then sun and water

and birds destroy the felt,  then water  gets in to the insulation, & then ceiling

and wall board.

This is a video case in point:

https://youtu.be/xefLngjGHsg

see other videos about building maintenance at:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHF-verxa3GqtHqlzOogTAg?view_as=public

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Which is cheaper regular preventative maintenance or repairs when troubles arise?

I used to do roof maintenance for a local business.
Periodically I’d repair the flat roofs.
The owner wanted a regular schedule, every third month, their two flat roofs being checked and any areas that were suspect being repaired.
This to prevent the ceiling tile and sheetrock and insulation from being damaged.
He retired and one of his sons took over the business.
This son wanted to be efficient and run the business economically.
Each time I came to check the roofs, he wanted to approve every little repair that I deemed necessary.
That is okay but then he demanded to know how long each job took wanting to be cost efficient I’m sure.
Surely his minimum wage employees could do what I was doing and do it so much cheaper.
So he decided that I charged too much and that he’d not call on me in the future.
We saw each other in a store parking lot on Tuesday this week.
I inquired about the roofs.
They’d had a leak this past week during the rain showers that occurred.
I asked where and he told me that it was just next to an area I’d build up and had repaired the last time I was there.
Also he told me that in March a crack had developed over the office and some ceiling had fallen down.
My last statement date was July 18, 2014. I’d charged $127.00 for my time on the roof ($100 labor / $27.00 materials).
The intervening time was 7 months with no check ups.
Replacing the ceiling was cheaper.
Right?
As soon as he told me of his woes I thought, “an ounce of prevention” and in this case it would have been worth more than twenty pounds of cure. But I didn’t say so, I  just commiserated with his plight.
So I ask you again.
Which is cheaper? Prevention or cure?

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Yesterday I spoke with a young man who asked why I didn’t dye my beard as it is so white.

I mentioned that I’d been in several movies mostly because of the beard

and it must be white to do the St.George Live part of Brigham Young.

“Which movies?”, he asked.

We’ll there is Liquid Desert https://youtu.be/g57-ge2TRUw

It’s a documentary about water in Washington County Utah in which I portray pioneer Jacob Hamblin.

Then there is Mythica- A Quest For Heros  https://youtu.be/bg_t3y3zoMQ

I this one I portray a Temple Elder in a fantasy adventure film.

The character I play appears at the first of the film

but is eliminated very quickly by the evil bad guy of the film.

On set

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It’s new! Kindle Edition of:

Facts about Abraham Lincoln
By Jay Beacham

(The actor who portrays Lincoln’s Ghost, a compilation of facts about and sources of fact about the 16th President of the United States of America from blogs and oneman shows.)

Introduction:

How did a common laborer with virtually no education become a captain in the militia, a surveyor, a store owner, a state legislator, a US congressman, a great orator and finally the President of the United States?
What made him so special and that all possible?
Learn more about this unusual and great man from this book.

Preface:

He was misjudged by many in his own time and he still is.
Lincoln did what was good for the country by appointing men who loved the Union but were of differing opinions about how to serve her best.
He favored principle more than party loyalty.
He was interested in many things as evidenced by his invention, poetry, interest in the stage and music.
He was a kind sort of person.
He was the Johnny Carson, Ronald Reagan humorist and athlete of the day.
He and the author can trace their roots back to a common ancestor: Obidiah Holmes.

This book is about A. Lincoln and some things you may know and some you may not yet know.
Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865 farmer, railsplitter, river flat boat man, student, scholar, reader, poet, storyteller, humorist, store clerk and manager, postman, wrestler, surveyor, horseman, legislator, public speaker, writer, marksman, congressman, lawyer, lover, husband, father, inventor, soldier-private, captain, commander in chief, President.
“Seldom in history as so capable a man come on the scene at such a crucial time in world history. And one who started out in such raw circumstances and rose to such an elevated height.”
He was an avid reader and letter writer, speaker and storyteller.
A marksman who disdained the killing of animals even for food. He even owned a turkey as a pet at one time.
A man who milked his own cow and cut his own firewood all his life except when in the nation’s capital while serving in congress and as President.
Mr. Lincoln was a learned man though self taught.
He was full of wisdom about life and the governance of people.
Because of all that he knew and did, people have begun to attribute more to him than he actually said or did and the facts get mixed up with fantasy.

This short work will cover some things that are factual and some that are not and will direct the reader to other sources in film, on the net, and in print for further learning about this remarkable man.
(All this information may be found elsewhere but not in this form and my own ideas and thoughts are mine. But then, can anyone claim original thought?)

Notes from the author:

“I’ve been told I looked like Lincoln most of my adult life and I’ve come to see that that isn’t such a bad thing.
( I’ve been told I looked like others too and found out that I was distantly related to them too through common ancestors.)
In speaking to people, some tell me of books they’ve read or stories about “Ole’ Abe” that I haven’t known. Some of that I include in my shows.
A college professor told me of several things I hadn’t known that made other things I did know make more sense or be more meaningful to me. And he even said that some things that were in my 2009 show dvd, he hadn’t known.
I guess that goes to prove that Lincoln, as well as all of us, are complex beings and no one knows all there is to know about us.”—-Jay Beacham

Get your kindle version at:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BLUJ95U

Get your soft back copy from:

Jay Beacham

85 East Center Street

Ivins, Utah 84738

or call 435-628-7809

$20.00 plus $5.00 S & H

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