Flo Ayres (born July 12, 1923) is an American radio actress and a
founding member of the Washington, DC chapter of AFTRA-SAG.Ayres was
born Florence Aaronson in Baltimore, Maryland in 1923. Ayres broke
into radio in the late 1940s in Washington, DC, and was one of the
first women to make the new technology a full-time career. In the
1950s, Ayres teamed up with Walt Teas, another nationally known voice
from Baltimore, to become one of the first freelance voiceover teams
in the radio industry. Over the next 30 years, Ayres, along with Teas
and another personality, Joe Knight, recorded thousands of commercials
and syndicated programs on a national scale, mostly at Baltimore's
version of Hollywood, Flite Three Studios, and overseen by legendary
audio engineer, Louis Mills.In the 1960s and 1970s, Ayres also taught
radio and communications at several Baltimore-area institutes of
higher learning, such as Johns Hopkins University, Goucher College,
and Towson University, and has collaborated on projects with famous
Vatican painter Joseph Sheppard and Beatles' photographer Morton
Tadder. Ayres also has had an extensive solo career spanning over 50
years. In addition to radio commercials, Ayres has narrated for such
institutions as the National Geographic Society, SeaWorld, and the
AARP. During the past twenty-five years, Ayres has hosted regular
radio shows such as "Tuning into Life," "The Heart of the Matter," and
she wrote and produced the radio series "For the Young at Heart."
Ayres wrote, produced, and starred in a children's music CD about
manners, entitled "Doo-zees and Don't-zees," which was released in
May, 2007.Today, in her 90s and mostly retired, Ayres still produces
occasional spots from her home in Baltimore, and from nearby B.H.
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