Audiobooks Narrated by Joe Barbera

Daws Butler: Voice Magician: The Audiobook

"Daws Butler: Voice Magician traces the career of one of America's best-loved but least-seen actors. During his fifty year career, Daws Butler provided the voices for such beloved animated characters as Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, Chilly Willy, Elroy Jetson, and dozens of others. Interwoven throughout this interview with Butler are samples of his distinctive voice characterizations in cartoons, radio and television programs, commercials, and comedy records. The hour, based on the 1987 Arnold Kunert video documentary, includes a reunion between Daws Butler and Stan Freberg. This audio features William Conrad, Daws Butler, Stan Freberg, Myrtis Butler, Sody Clampett, June Foray, Walter Lantz, Don Messick, Bill Hanna, Joe Barbera, Miles Auer, Penny Singleton, and Joe Bevilacqua."

Arnold R. Kunert (Author), Charles Dawson Butler, Joe Barbera, Joe Bevilacqua, June Foray, Stan Freberg, William Conrad (Narrator)

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All Things Joe Bev: The Best of Public Radio

"All Things Joe Bev: The Best of Public Radio is a collection of sixteen short audio features created for public radio by veteran award-winning producer Joe Bevilacqua (a.k.a. Joe Bev). 1. 'A Guy Named Joe Bevilacqua' – Joe Bevilacqua goes on a search for other people with his name and discovers some uncanny coincidences. 2. 'Father's Day' – Joe Bevilacqua recounts how a volatile father's gift led him to another father figure and an eventual career. 3. 'Losing a Best Friend' – Joe Bevilacqua chronicles the rise and fall of a longtime friendship. 4. 'Lessons from Daws Butler' – Joe Bevilacqua's book passes on cartoon legend's tricks of the trade. 5. 'A Tribute to Joe Barbera' – Joe Bevilacqua, Leonard Maltin, and Joe Barbera himself talk about the start of the Hanna-Barbera animation studio. 6. 'Archiving Classic Animated Films and Cartoons' – Joe Bevilacqua reports on how some members of America's animated-film industry are building a new digital archive to preserve classic cartoon footage. 7. 'The Kerrville Folk Festival' – Joe Bevilacqua reports on one of the longest-running open-air music events in North America. 8. 'Threadgill's Turns 70' – Joe Bevilacqua reports on the seventieth anniversary of Threadgill's in Austin, Texas, the musical landmark that helped launch the career of many country and rock stars, including Janis Joplin. 9. 'Artist Colony Celebrates Its Centennial' – Joe Bevilacqua profiles the one-hundred-year-old Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, nestled deep in the forest of Woodstock, New York. 10. 'Math + Love' – Joe Bevilacqua tracks down his former math professor Ron Reummler to hear how math can explain lost love. 11. 'A Valentine from Graham Nash's MAC' – Joe Bevilacqua recounts how on February 12, 1996, an e-mail from rock legend Graham Nash's MAC laptop triggered a series of bizarre coincidences, which led to the meeting of Joe's future wife, Lorie Kellogg. 12. 'Living within Your Means as a Choice' – When Joe Bevilacqua lost his job, he made some drastic changes to his lifestyle that turned out to be the best thing that could have happened to him. 13. 'The Christmas I Saved Macy's' – The story of how a five year old Joe Bevilacqua stamped out a fire in the ladies lounge of Bamberger's department store in Newark, New Jersey, in December of 1964. 14. 'A Rockabilly Christmas' – Joe Bevilacqua presents rockabilly pioneer guitarist Ray Campi. 15. 'An Old Hollywood Story' – In a two-part story, Joe Bevilacqua reports on an extensive archive of interviews with early Hollywood stars conducted by California schoolteacher and rockabilly pioneer Ray Campi. 16. 'An Old Hollywood Story' – Part two of Joe Bevilacqua's story on Rays Campi's celebrity interviews."

Joe Bevilacqua (Author), Bud Abbott, Burl Ives, Janis Joplin, Joe Barbera, Kenneth Threadgill, Leonard Maltin, Ray Campi, Willie Nelson (Narrator)

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The Best of Cartoon Carnival Volume One: The Interviews

""As the protege of cartoon voice legend Daws Butler (Yogi Bear), the veteran award-winning broadcaster (NPR, Sirius-XM Radio) Joe Bevilacqua is no stranger to the cartoon world. Joe Bev. even co-authored his mentor's authorized biography, "Daws Butler, Characters Actor", available at BearManorMedia.Com. From Mel Blanc to June Foray, from Disney to Hanna-Barbera, "Cartoon Carnival" is a lively hour of rare and classic cartoon audio, children's records, cartoon music and sound effects, new radio cartoons, interviews and mini-documentaries about the wonderful world of animation. In this first collection, fictional newsman Walter Cockeyed (Joe Bev.) introduces "The Interviews": Program 1 Host Joe Bevilacqua presents: a tribute to Joe Barbera featuring Leonard Maltin, Hanna-Barbera cartoon clips and his 1990 interview with Barbera. Program 3 Host Joe Bevilacqua presents: Part one of a tribute to Bob Clampett's ""Time for Beany,"" an interview with Stan Freberg. Program 4 Host Joe Bevilacqua presents: Part two of a tribute to Bob Clampett's ""Time for Beany,"" featuring Stan Freberg and Daws Butler, Bill Marx (author of ""Son of Harpo Speaks"") talks about his dad's favorite children shows. Program 7 Part one of Joe Bev's interview with Hanna-Barbera music composer Hoyt Curtin, part one (2000). Program 8 Part two of Joe Bev's interview with Hanna-Barbera music composer Hoyt Curtin, part two. Program 10 Part one of Bob Claster's interview with June Foray and Bill Scott (1985), audio from the first ""Rocky and Bullwinkle"" show (1959). Program 11 Part two of Bob Claster's interview with June Foray and Bill Scott (1985), more audio from the first ""Rocky and Bullwinkle"" show (1959). Program 12 June Foray and Bill Scott (""Rocky and Bullwinkle"") talk with Bob Claster (1985) part three. Program 13 June Foray and Bill Scott (""Rocky and Bullwinkle"") talk with Bob Claster (1985) part four, audio from Hans Conried, Bill Scott, June Foray and Paul Frees in a Fractured Flickers: ""Tarfoot, the Apeman"" (1964). Program 14 June Foray and Bill Scott (""Rocky and Bullwinkle"") talk with Bob Claster (1985) part five, audio from Edward Everett Horton, Bill Scott, June Foray, and Paul Frees in a Fractured Fairy Tales: ""Puss n Boots"" (1959) Program 15 June Foray and Bill Scott (""Rocky and Bullwinkle"") talk with Bob Claster (1985) conclusion, audio from William Conrad, Bill Scott, June Foray, and Paul Frees in Rocky and Bullwinkle: ""Jet Rocket Fuel"". Program 19 Host Joe Bevilacqua presents Ray Campi's interview with Mel Blanc (1974); audio from the Warner Brothers cartoon ""Deduce, You Say"" (1956). Program 21 Host Joe Bevilacqua presents his interview with Janet Waldo; audio from The Jetsons: ""A Date with Jet Screamer"". Program 25 Host Joe Bevilacqua presents: his interview with Craig Marin (founder of ""Flexitoons"" puppet theater) who talks about working with Chuck McCann and Sandy Becker, audio from ""The Chuck McCann Show,"" ""Winchell-Mahoney Time"" (Paul Winchell), and ""The Sandy Becker Show"" (WNEW-TV, NY, 1965). Program 29 Host Joe Bevilacqua and Guest Co-Host Lorie Kellogg present a tribute to Allan Melvin and Howard Morris, featuring an interview with Allan Melvin, audio from the 1963 premiere episode of ""The Magilla Gorilla Show"" ""The Cartoon Carnival Father's Day Special"" Host Joe Bevilacqua and Guest Host Lorie Kellogg present Joe's interview with Doug Young the voice of Doggy Daddy (2006), Augie Doggie (Matt Hurwitz) and Doggy Daddy (Doug Young) (2010). Program 35 Host Joe Bevilacqua presents audio from a rare TV appearance by Daws Butler on the Bill Weaver show (KNX-TV, Los Angeles (1959)."

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

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