Rare Interview with Bud Abbott Highlights The Week's The Joe Bev Hour Airing on Radio Worldwide

NAPANOCH, N.Y. - March 3, 2014 - PRLog -- This week's six The Joe Bev Hour radio shows includes a rare interview with Bud Abbott explaining the origin of the classic comedy routine Who's on First? conducted by Ray Campi in 1971. Also heard in other segments remastered 78 RPM records of 1930s British dance bands, a Daws Butler Sherlock Holmes parody, radio drama and improvised comedy.

The Joe Bev Hour airs on radio stations worldwide. A broadcast calendar can be found at: http://waterloggproductions.blogspot.com/p/waterlogg-productions-calendar.html

The Comedy-O-Rama Hour
Something Fishy at Camp Waterlogg or Ellis Goes Native
Ellis and Elise's honeymoon cruise is interrupted when they are shipwrecked on a deserted island. Meanwhile back at Camp Waterlogg, Ranger Lorie sees three Ranger Joes in three different places at the same time!  This week's show also features Lorie Kellogg reading The Island of Inventions by Pedro Pablo Sacristan and the conclusion of Bev's parody of The Shadow.

The Jazz-O-Rama Hour
British Dance Bands
Joe Bev presents remastered 78 RPM Jazz, including:
Henry Hall and His Gleneagles Hotel Band: Home (1931)
The Ray Fox Band: Whispering (1933)
Ray Noble and His Orchestra with The Freshman: Double Trouble (1935)
Henry Hall's BBC Dance Orchestra: Run, Rabbit, Run (1939)
Jack Hylton: Run, Rabbit, Run (1939)
Harry Roy and His Mayfair Hotel Orchestra : Run, Rabbit, Run (1945)
Ray Noble and His Orchestra: Haunted House (1931)
Billy Cotton's London Savannah Band: Sunny Skies (1928)
Henry Hall's BBC Dance Orchestra: I Like Bananas (1936)
Henry Hall's BBC Dance Orchestra: The Music Goes Round and Round (1936)
Ray Noble and His Orchestra: Rhythm is Our Business (1935)
Ray Noble and His Orchestra: Cherokee (1938)
Debroy Somers, Piccadilly Revelers, Kit-Kat and London Radio: Bless Her Little Heart (1928)
Ray Noble and His Orchestra: Let's Spill the Beans (1935)
Henry Hall's BBC Dance Orchestra: I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket (1936)

The Joe Bev Experience
Doug McEwan & This Here is Your Life, Sherlock Holmes
Joe Bev presents This Here is Your Life, Sherlock Holmes, written and voiced by Daws Butler, Douglas McEwan and members of The Daws Butler Workshop, including Billy Simpson, Pat Parris and Corey Burton, in 1976, on The 40th edition of The Joe Bev Experience. In This Here is Your Life, Sherlock Holmes, Ralph Backwards (Daws Butler)--along with Watson, Dracula, Jack-the-Ripper, and even Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman--roast the famous consulting detective, played by the great English actor Ben Wright. Douglas McEwan is interviewed during the hour about the 1976 recording.

Cartoon Carnival
Ray Campi Hollywood: Bud Abbott & Mel Blanc
Joe Bev presents the first two profiles on Ray Campi's Interviews  with Old Hollywood Legends (2004) including Mel Blanc (1974) and Bud Abbott (1971), Mel Blanc in“Woody Woodpecker Out West” (1940s), the conclusion of Joe Bevilacqua reading “Tom Mix and the Mystery of the Bodiless Horseman” (2010), an episode of “Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales” (1960s), Daws Butler and Tip Corning in “Happy Grasshopper” (1940s), Joe Bevilacqua in “Punky Possum and the Mud Bath,” a musical Uncle Dunkle story by Daws Butler (2002), Mel Blanc sings “Daffy Duck's Rhapsody” (1940s).

The Joe Bev Audio Theater
Scenes from the Daws Butler Workshop
The Care and Feeding of a Poet
George Who?
Two Hamburgers, Hold the Mustard
Ear-Bending at Nat'n'Als
Part of six hours of audio theater from the mind of Daws Butler, the voice of Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear and many other cartoon characters. In 1975, Butler began an acting workshop that spawned such talents as Nancy Cartwright (The Simpsons), Corey Burton (Old Navy, Disney), and Joe Bevilacqua (NPR). In this series, host Joe Bevilacqua presents performances of scripts Butler wrote for his acting workshop. A book of these scripts Scenes for Actors and Voices is available at waterlogg.com.
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Chapter 4 of  Ancient Rising: A Joe Bev Audio Theater
by JC De La Torre
Produced & directed by Joe Bevilacqua
Narrated by Joe Bevilacqua
A widower is set of on an amazing adventure by a man claiming to be a god. Like Indiana Jones meets Clash of the Titans, follow Dan Ryan through Egypt, Greece, and the Mexican jungle as he unlocks the keys to finding the lost continent of Atlantis and the Gods imprisoned there. Bevilacqua introduces you to the Bev-O-Vision 3D audiobook experience, designed to completely immerse you into the story. He weeps when the main character Dan Ryan loses someone close to him. He cries out when Ryan exclaims in pain. He becomes Ryan, Doc Constant, Mina, Hermes, and all of the colorful characters. JC De La Torre takes you on a breathless search for the lost continent of Atlantis and Bevilacqua delivers each and every action packed moment. From the debut of the Greek God Hermes, to the pits of Hades and the rise of Atlantis, Ancient Rising puts you on course for action-packed fun.

The Joe Bev Hour Sunday Edition
Cartoon Carnival
A Tribute to Joe Barbera & Rocky and Bullwinkle Live with June Foray
Joe Bev presents a profile on animation great Joe Barbera featuring Leonard Maltin, Hanna-Barbera cartoon clips and his 1990 interview with Barbera, Mel Blanc's demo tape, Daws Butler in a never-before heard cartoon with Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound (1959), Daws Butler teaches Joe Bev how to be a voice actor, part one (1975), a live performance of Jay Ward's "Rocky and Bullwinkle" with June Foray, Joe Bev., Corey Burton, Matt Hurwitz, and Lee Harris, Part one of "Willoughby and the Professor Meet Bartizan the Genie," (1975), the song "The Twitch" from "The Flintstones" (1961), and a parody/tribute to Laurel and Hardy.

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The Joe Bev Hour is six different different shows per week--syndicated worldwide--on Dream Stream Radio, Sound Stages Radio, WHRO-Norfolk, VA, The 1920s Radio Network, Toon Radio, Pawling Public Radio, Radio New Zealand, WGTD, Wisconsin Public Radio, The Radio Book Channel and The Couch TV Network.

Joe Bevilacqua co-founded Waterlogg Productions with his wife Lorie Kellogg. In 2012, he signed an exclusive distribution deal with Blackstone Audio, for his more than 40 years of audio work. He has released more than 90 audio titles, including hundreds of hours of audio documentaries, comedies, dramas, autobiographies. Available at http://joebev.com/buy.html

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VIDEO of Joe Bev as Sgt. Lefty singing Minnie the Moocher with the Chipmunks:
http://youtu.be/DPChzySqY1Q