Audiobooks by Joe Bevilacqua

We Take You Now to Grover's Mill: The Making of the War of the Worlds Broadcast

In this 1988 documentary, award-winning NPR producer Joe Bevilacqua looks at how the landmark broadcast came about and examines its impact on broadcast history. The half-hour program includes rare interviews with Mercury Theater producer John Houseman, writer Howard Koch, actor Arthur Anderson, and the people of Grover’s Mill, NJ, who lived through the “Martian Invasion.”

Joe Bevilacqua, Joe Bevilacqua (Author), Joe Bevilacqua, Joe Bevilacqua (Narrator)

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We Take You Now To Grover's Mill: The Making of the War of the World Broadcast

We Take You Now To Grover's Mill: The Making of the War of the World Broadcast, written, produced, directed and narrated by Joe Bevilacqua. In this 1988 documentary, award-winning NPR producer Joe Bevilacqua looks at how the landmark broadcast came about and examines its impact on broadcast history. The half-hour program includes rare interviews with Mercury Theater producer John Houseman and writer Howard Koch, actor Arthur Anderson and the people of Grover's Mill, NJ who lived through the ""Martian Invasion.

Joe Bevilacqua, Joe Bevilacqua (Author), Joe Bevilacqua, Joe Bevilacqua, John Houseman, John Houseman (Narrator)

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Waterlogg Holiday Collection

This collection of stories features holiday tales for both young and old! The Christmas That Almost Never Was It’s Christmas Eve at the North Pole, and Santa has lost his “remembery.” Now only a child who has been good for a full year can save Christmas! Producer Joe Bevilacqua has unearthed this vintage 1940s recording of the charming Yuletide children’s radio play, written by and starring Daws Butler, the voice of Yogi Bear. Daws Butler’s Halloween Happening A new production of the classic radio play by Daws Butler! Pedro’s Christmas Fables for Kids Visit Santa at the North Pole, witness the birth of Jesus, go inside Noah’s Ark, and more with these timeless short stories that will charm and entertain your whole family! Produced with wonderful sound effects and music by veteran radio theater producer Joe Bevilacqua and performed by him and his wife, Lorie Kellogg, these Christmas stories include “The Best Choice,” “A Forced Christmas,” “Bula the Traveler,” “Christmas Presents,” “The Please-O-Meter,” and “The Little Christmas Star.” Other stories include “The Tidy Toys,” “The Match and the Toy Men,” “Problems on the Ark,” “A Colorful Head,” “A Drop of Water,” and “Balloon Acrobatics.” Pedro’s Halloween Fables for Kids Goblins, fairies, witches, and ghosts! These short Halloween themed stories by noted Spanish children’s author Pedro Pablo Sacristan will charm and entertain your whole family! Produced with wonderful sound effects and music by veteran radio theater producer Joe Bevilacqua, and performed by husband and wife team Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg, the stories include “The Creature in the Attic,” “A Different Take on Halloween,” “Waking Nightmare,” “The Evil Goblins,” “The Brave Boy and the Multicolored Ghost,” “The Monster in the Wardrobe,” “Forever a Monster,” “Bewitched Tongues,” The Funny-Looking Fairy,” and “The Evil Millisphore.” A Waterlogg Double Feature First in this double feature is “The Joe Bev Valentine Treat.” This is a charming hour of stories (real and fictional) about love. Second is “The Comedy-O-Rama Hour Valentine Special: Cupid Comes to Camp Waterlogg,” a comic one-hour radio play. The Gift of the Magi O. Henry’s classic Christmas short story is charmingly told by Lorie Kellogg and Joe Bevilacqua.

Charles Dawson Butler, Charles Dawson Butler, Joe Bevilacqua, Joe Bevilacqua, Lorie Kellogg, Lorie Kellogg, O Henry, O Henry, O. Henry, Pedro Pablo Sacristan, Pedro Pablo Sacristan, Various Authors (Author), A Full Cast, A Full Cast, Charles Dawson Butler, Don Messick, Joe Bevilacqua, Lorie Kellogg, Marian Richmond (Narrator)

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Waterlogg Documentary Pack

From award-winning NPR producer Joe Bevilacqua comes a rare and exciting collection of radio documentaries, features, and dramas. One Song at a Time This radio performance includes many stories about the Kerrville Folk Festival, the longest continuously running music festival in North America. Lady Bird Johnson One of the most licensed audiobooks on the Public Radio Exchange and iTunes, Lady Bird Johnson is an award-winning audio documentary examining the challenges and achievements of this extraordinary woman. From Moonshine to Armadillos Veteran NPR producer Joe Bevilacqua hosts this hour long program outlining the history of Threadgill’s and Armadillo World Headquarters, which contributed to the birth of the Austin music scene. Louis Armstrong’s New Orleans, with Wynton Marsalis Recorded in the French Quarter of New Orleans, this radio program features jazz great Wynton Marsalis, and others, who talk on the origins of jazz, and the life and music of legendary trumpeter, Louis Armstrong. Healthy Living in the Catskills In this radio documentary, a husband and wife explore the rural byways within four miles of their home in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York, and find local business owners working to promote healthy lifestyles that have a national impact. Radio Tales for the Road, Volume One Combining storytelling, documentary, radio drama, and original music, Radio Tales for the Road are vivid recollections of the 1960s. All Things Joe Bev This radio production is a collection of sixteen short audio features created for public radio by award-winning producer Joe Bevilacqua, also known as Joe Bev. We Take You Now to Grover’s Mill This 1988 documentary looks at how the landmark broadcast came about and examines its impact on broadcast history. The program includes rare interviews with Mercury Theater producer John Houseman and writer Howard Koch, actor Arthur Anderson and the people of Grover’s Mill, New Jersey who lived through the “Martian invasion.”

Barbara Bernstein, Joe Bevilacqua, Joe Bevilacqua (Author), A Full Cast, A Full Cast, Joe Bevilacqua (Narrator)

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Uncle Dunkle and Donnie: 35 Fractured Fables from the voice of Yogi Bear!

UNCLE DUNKLE AND DONNIE: THIRTY-FIVE FRACTURED FABLES, WRITTEN BY DAWS BUTLER AND JOE BEVILACQUA, FULLY PRODUCED WITH SOUND EFFECTS AND PERFORMED BY JOE BEVILACQUA, WITH MUSIC WRITTEN BY JOE BEVILACQUA, PERFORMED BY THE PAUL SALOMONE TRIO, JULIAN BAKER AND JOE GATTO. Almost 5 Hours Of Family Entertainment! A seal who can't balance? An elephant who always forgets? A green cow who walks on her front feet? These are just some of the wacky characters from the unique mind of Daws Butler, the man who voiced most of the classic Hanna-Barbera characters--Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw and Snagglepuss, to name a few. Uncle Dunkle and Donnie is a collection of imaginative, never-before-released cartoon scripts by Butler, who also worked on the classic 1960s Jay Ward "Fractured Fairy Tales" and "Aesop and Sons" animated cartoons. Daws Butler protégé Joe Bevilacqua, performs 97 different characters in UNCLE DUNKLE AND DONNIE!

Daws Butler, Daws Butler, Joe Bevilacqua, Joe Bevilacqua (Author), Joe Bevilacqua, Joe Bevilacqua (Narrator)

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The Whithering of Willoughby and the Professor: Their Ways in the Worlds: The Best of the Comedy-O-R

The Whithering of Willoughby and the Professor: Their Ways in the Worlds, The Best of the Comedy-O-Rama Hour Season Three, produced, directed and voiced by Joe Bevilacqua, with David Garland and Margaret Juntwait, written by Joe Bevilacqua and Robert J. Cirasa, theme music by David Garland, musical numbers written by Joe Bevilacqua, performed by the Paul Salomone Trio with Paul on piano, Ed Fuqua on bass and Jim Mason on drums. This is epic science-fiction fantasy comedy, in the Monty Python/Terry Gilliam vein about a boy and his professor who travel willy-nilly across time and space in failed attempt to ''cure the world of all its ills.'' Stories include: Episode One: "I'll Teach You!" or "Box of Nothing" Episode Two: "Holy Smoke" or "The Red-Suited Man" Episode Three: "More Edible Than Durable" or "You Smashed My Monkey!" Episode Four: "Oh Boy, She Looks Great!" or "Which Witchway is Which?" Episode Five: "Your Separate World Lines" or "I'm Big and You're Small" Episode Six: "Now It's Time To Sing!" or "Unwanted Noises in the Air" Episode Seven: "I Like This Box!" or "Oh Victim Man!" Episode Eight: "Oh Dalai" or "Life is Dukka" Episode Nine: "The Traveling Extravaganza" or "His Name is Bub" Episode Ten: "More Dogs For Me?" or "Knock-a-knock-knuckles" Episode Eleven: "You're a Messiah" or "Buboes in the Lymph Nodes" Episode Twelve: "A Box in the Dark'' or Dead Men Do Not Groan" Episode Thirteen: "Is Eloquence a Bauble" or "Where's My Cyaneus" Episode Fourteen: "I Do Not Like the Blackness of Her Nose" or "The Penguins Laugh at You! Episode Fifteen: "The Genius of These Woods" or "I'm Also Wearing Explosives" Episode Sixteen: "Say Jacques!" or "She's Got Kneepads!"

Joe Bevilacqua, Joe Bevilacqua, Robert Cirasa, Robert Cirasa (Author), David Siteman Garland, Joe Bevilacqua, Joe Bevilacqua (Narrator)

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The Whithering of Willoughby and the Professor: Their Ways in the Worlds: The Best of the Comedy-O-R

This is an epic science fiction/fantasy comedy about a boy and his professor who travel across time and space in a failed attempt to “cure the world of all its ills.” Stories include I'll Teach You! or Box of Nothing; Holy Smoke, or The Red-Suited Man; More Edible Than Durable, or You Smashed My Monkey!; Oh Boy, She Looks Great! or Which Witchway Is Which?; Your Separate World Lines, or I’m Big and You’re Small; Now It’s Time to Sing! or Unwanted Noises in the Air; I Like This Box! or Oh Victim Man!; Oh Dalai, or Life Is Dukka; The Traveling Extravaganza, or His Name Is Bub; More Dogs for Me?, or Knock-a-Knock-Knuckles; You’re a Messiah, or Buboes in the Lymph Nodes; A Box in the Dark, or Dead Men Do Not Groan; Is Eloquence a Bauble, or Where’s My Cyaneus; I Do Not Like the Blackness of Her Nose, or The Penguins Laugh at You!; The Genius of These Woods, or I’m Also Wearing Explosives; and Say Jacques!, or She’s Got Kneepads! “Descendants of Laurel and Hardy and Holmes and Watson, among others, Willoughby and the Professor bring radio listeners along on a series of adventures, often in exotic lands and always in the more exotic land of the imagination. Judging from the hundreds of letters WNYC Radio has received about Willoughby, a couple of characters who can go anywhere in the world while remaining inside the listener’s radio and head is just the ticket.”—New York Daily News

Joe Bevilacqua, Joe Bevilacqua, Robert J. Cirasa (Author), David Garland, Joe Bevilacqua, Joe Bevilacqua, Margaret Juntwait (Narrator)

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The Voice Actor Show with Joe Bev: The Best of BearManor Radio, Vol. 1

Veteran award-winning radio theater wizard Joe Bevilacqua interviews famous voice actors about their lives and craft. Interviewees include cartoon voice legend June Foray; Fred Frees, voice actor and son of the legendary Paul Frees; Bob Bergen, the current voice of Porky Pig; Phillip Proctor, actor, writer, comedian, and Firesign Theatre founding member; Joe Alaskey, the current voice Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Sylvester; and Noel Blanc, son of voice legend Mel Blanc.

Joe Bevilacqua, Joe Bevilacqua (Author), Joe Bevilacqua, Various Narrators, Various Narrators (Narrator)

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The Seriously Joe Bev Radio Drama Collection

Charles Dawson Butler, Charles Dawson Butler, Joe Bevilacqua, Joe Bevilacqua, William Melillo, William Melillo (Author), A Full Cast, A Full Cast, Joe Bevilacqua, William Melillo (Narrator)

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The New Stories of Old-Time Radio: Volume One, Set One

"THE NEW STORIES OF OLD TIME RADIO Volume One, Set One, produced, directed and voiced by Joe Bevilacqua, with Lorie Kellogg. The first anthology of NEW fiction based on the beloved OTR characters and shows we know and love. Old Time Radio fans have something new to listen to! Includes: Our Miss Brooks - ""One Principal Too Many, One Principal Too Meanie"" by Clair Schulz Tom Mix - ""Tom Mix And The Mystery Of The Bodiless Horseman"" by Jim Harmon Candy Matson YUkon 2-8209 - ""The Japanese Sandman"" by Jack French The Clyde Beatty Show - ""Perils of the Tiger Barn"" by Roger Smith The Green Lama - ""The Case Of The Bashful Spider"" by Bob Martin Sgt. Preston of the Yukon - ""A Call From the Storm"" by Jim Nixon ""These are not old time radio shows, but incredible simulations!"" beams veteran award winning radio producer Joe Bevilacqua, who voiced most of the audio book, including dead-on impressions of Paul Frees as The Green Lama, Gale Gordon as Mr. Conklin, Richard Crenna as Walter Denton, Paul Sutton as Sgt. Preston, and even essays some of the woman roles including the voice of Candy Matson! For the woman roles Bevilacqua could not voice, he turned to his talented wife and creative partner, Lorie Kellogg, who has acted in many of his radio theater productions in the past. Kellogg is the voice of Eve Arden's Connie Brooks in the new ""Our Miss Brooks"" story, as well as voicing her landlady Mrs. Davis, Clyde Beatty's wife and other roles. ""OTR fans tired of listening to the same old recordings over and over will love these new audio stories!"" concludes Bevilacqua. ""Joe Bev."" (as he also known) is a veteran radio drama producer, whose past credits include XM Radio's The Comedy-O-Rama hour, The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes, and Old-time Radio Parodies.

Joe Bevilacqua, Joe Bevilacqua, Robert Cirasa, Robert Cirasa (Author), Joe Bevilacqua, Joe Bevilacqua, Lorie Kellogg, Lorie Kellogg (Narrator)

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The New Oldtime Radio Hour: "Fibber McGee" and "Duffy's Tavern"

OTR fans rejoice! Tired of listening to the same shows? Here are two NEW OTR stories, Produced with wonderful sound effects and music by veteran radio theater producer Joe Bevilacqua, and performed Liquid Comedy: Joe Bevilacqua, Lorie Kellogg, Kenny Savoy, and Jim Folly, with Aundrae Dair, and music by Paul Salomone (piano) and Joan Bierschenk (bagpipes). This hour of comedy was recorded before a live audience at SUNY Dutchess in Poughkeepsie, New York on March 20, 2007. Includes: Fibber McGee and Molly in ""The House of Wax"" It's 1953 when Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve makes a less than triumphant return to Wistful Vita to introduce Vincent Price at the Wistful Vista Bijou premiere of the 3-D movie ""The House of Wax"". Meanwhile, Fibber tries to save five cents by making his own 3-D glasses. Teeny, Mr. Oldtimer, Wally Wimple, Mrs. Uppington, Harlow Wilcox, and even Fibber's closet... are all there in this brand ""Fibber"" tale! Duffy's Tavern: ""If We All Talked Like Allen Jenkins"" Archie, Finnegan, Eddie, Miss Duffy and all the gang are back ""where the elite meet to eat"" in this first new ""Duffy's Tavern"" outing since 1952. Archie tries to lure the Shriner's Convention to the tavern with promises of big stars he can't deliver, not knowing the real Warner Brothers movie actors Edward G. Robinson and Allen Jenkins are hiding in the kitchen.

Joe Bevilacqua, Joe Bevilacqua (Author), Joe Bevilacqua, Joe Bevilacqua, Lorie Kellogg, Lorie Kellogg (Narrator)

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The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Best of the Comedy-O-Rama Hour Season One

The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes, volume one of The Best of the Comedy-O-Rama Hour, produced and directed by Joe Bevilacqua, written by Joe Bevilacqua, Daws Butler and Robert J. Cirasa. Comedy and mystery are happy bedfellows in The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes. Veteran award winning radio producer Joe Bevilacqua's ten-part radio theater series pays humorous homage to the classic characters of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The stories are filled with sly references to the original "Canon," as it is called. Even the Baker Street Irregulars and other Holmesian groups and scholars have enjoyed this about the series. The fine cast of British and American actors includes Sherlock Holmes: Vernon Morris; Dr. John H. Watson, MD: Henry J. Quinn; Ms. Hudson: Jan Meredith; Professor Moriarty: Ed Hyland; Irene Adler: Terry Price; Mary Morstan: Gwendolyn Lewis; Tavis Mac Millian: B.H. Barry; Arthur Conan Doyle, William Gillette, Bert Stover and roles: Joe Bevilacqua. Titles include: Episode One: "The Mystery of the Creepy Hack Writer"; Episode Two: "My Dinner at Baker Street" Episode Three: "Sherlock Holmes in Trouble"; Episode Four: "A Study in Lavender"; Episode Five: "The Death of Mr. Sherlock Holmes"; Episode Six: "The Giant Rat of Sumatra"; Episode Seven: "Tales From the Vienna Wards"; Episode Eight: "His Second to Last Bow"; Episode Nine: "Revenge of the Beekeeper"; Episode Ten: "Holmes' Creepy Christmas".

Daws Butler, Daws Butler, Joe Bevilacqua, Joe Bevilacqua (Author), Joe Bevilacqua, Joe Bevilacqua, Vernon Morris, Vernon Morris (Narrator)

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