Arthur Takeall (Ret.) USAF, International Motivational Speaker, Professional Ventriloquist, and Law Enforcement Consultant.

In the early 80's, Takeall and his wooden partner Scooter introduced ventriloquism as a serious, educational, Crime Prevention Tool, and later recruted as National Spokesman for the "Say No To Drugs Project". Arthur and Scooter are featured speakers in public and private forums, at various Institutions of Higher Learning. The team lend expert voices, in serious panel discussions of Drug Abuse, HIV-Aids Awareness, Gang Violence, and other life-threatening issues.

Arthur and Scooter, former Goodwill Ambassadors of the 1984 World Exposition, New Orleans, La., honored with three Presidential Citations, and served as National Spokesmen for the Department of Labor, Job Corps. Holding other outstanding positions the team visited every state in the US, in addition to (38) countries world-wide.

Takeall, a 3rd Degree, Black-Belt, Martial Arts Enthusiast, is a former Student, Music Director and Staff-Radio Announcer, for singer James Brown, "The Godfather of Soul", at Mr. Brown's Radio Station, WJBE-AM, Knoxville, Tennessee.
Arthur served as an announcer in prime time broadcasting slots, WLOK-AM, Memphis, Tenn., WBOK-AM, New Orleans, La., WXOK-AM, Baton Rouge, La., WSID-AM, Baltimore, Md, WWWS-FM, Saginaw, Mich., KIXY-FM San Angelo, Texas, KAPE-AM, San Antonio, Texas, WBUL-AM, Birmingham, Alabama., KALO-AM, Little Rock, Ark., and KVOV-AM, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Arthur Takeall is a three (3) time, Billboard Magazine, "Radio Personality of The Year", Songwriter of "You Got The Right One Baby, Uh-Huh", award-winning, signature tune of Ray Charles, for Diet-Pepsi.

The song "YOU GOT THE RIGHT ONE BABY, UH-HUH", first featured at Super Bowl XIV, created world-wide recognition for Ray Charles, an audio-visual music commerical that opened doors for African-American entertainers, allowing a cross-over from entertainment to mainstream advertisement.

YOU GOT THE RIGHT ONE BABY, UH-HUH™ won many advertisement awards, including Advertisement Age Magazine's, Advertisement of the Year 1991-92, and several Clio Awards. Another award, not to be dismissed was the win of ASCAP's Film and Television Music Award, for audio-visuals in the movie "Rookie of The Year" (1993) as most performed Theme. The catchy, memorable, YOU GOT THE RIGHT ONE BABY, UH-HUH™, was inducted into The Advertisement Hall of Fame, as "Greatest Advertisement Campaign Song of the 20th Century".

"YOU GOT THE RIGHT ONE BABY, UH-HUH" is sampled by many entertainers, not limited to, but including Oscar-Grammy, award winning artist "Prince", who creatively recorded his interpetation, selling the song on the internet as cell phone ring tones.

Additional information: African American National Biography, Volume #7, Oxford University Press, 2008 Edition, African American Department.

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