Rick Adamson

Early autumn 2026

It’s pleasantly cool in and out of the Padded Cell.

 
 

Rutherford's back-to-school night was last week…

…and there's that first crispness of autumn in the air — the kind that always pulls me back to the classroom, even though mine's been a recording booth for a couple decades now.

I biked down along the Passaic River this week to the little red schoolhouse in Lyndhurst, and it got me thinking about every teacher who ever stood in front of a room and shaped a kid's imagination. Consider this my thank-you note to all of them.

I've narrated educational media and kids' books — picture books, chapter books, the wacky ones, the classics, the coming-of-age stories — longer than any other genre in my career. Turns out that's the secret to staying young.

Satchel Paige asked it best: "How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?"

Apparently — still a kid at heart. 📚🚲

Music by my son @jack_inguanti (performing as John Yonder)

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I am forever grateful to my clients, agents, managers and publishers.



Immense gratitude to all the publishers, producers, reps, and clients: Audible, Tantor Audio, Harper Audio, Hachette Audio, RB Media, Recorded Books, Penguin Random House, MacMillan Audio, Simon & Schuster — and many more.

What can I say? Onwards we go.

Corporate branding and sales training & educational voicing for:

Abbvie, ARaymond, Bristol Myers Squibb, Janssen, Merck, LaunchLife, Oxford University Press, Transdev, and Cambridge University Press.

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