Joe Bev Acquires First Broadcast Rights to Recently Discovered "Lost OTR" - for BearManor Radio

NAPANOCH, N.Y. - June 5, 2014 - PRLog -- Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev) has acquired first broadcast rights to hundreds of hours of old time radio shows, once thought lost, but recently unearthed by a collector. These have not been aired since their original broadcasts over 60 years ago.

More 200 transcription discs of A Date with Judy; Bulldog Drummond; Blondie; Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons; My Friend Irma; and The Cisco were recently found in storage. These will air first on the new BearManor Radio series, The Lost OTR Show, which is the 14th unique regularly broadcast series created by the veteran award-winning radio producer.

Bevilacqua is known as one of the only producers consistently creating radio theater left in the world. His thousands of hours of work encompasses everything from modern radio drama and comedy to new stories using classic old time radio characters, sometimes before live audiences. He also incorporates radio theater techniques into the more than 100 audio books he has created for Blackstone Audio, available at Amazon and all online vendors.

Joe Bev's 34 radio hours per month are broadcast worldwide--on Bear Manor Radio, Sound Stages Radio, WHRO-Norfolk, VA, The 1920s Radio Network, Toon Radio, Pawling Public Radio, Radio New Zealand, WGTD, Wisconsin Public Radio and others, plus via a free SmartPhone app, available at http://www.waterlogg.com.

The BearManor Radio Network is streamed 24/7 at: http://www.bearmanormedia.com/radio/bearmanorradio.html.

Throughout the month of June, The Lost OTR Show will present:

The Cisco Kid #17: The Fighting Editor - The Cisco Kid came to radio October 2, 1942, with Jackson Beck in the title role and Louis Sorin as Pancho. Vicki Vola and Bryna Raeburn took supporting roles and Michael Rye being the announcer. The series continued on Mutual Broadcasting until 1945. Only one episode of the live series is known to exist. It was then followed by another Mutual series in 1946, starring Jack Mather and Harry Lang, who continued to head the cast in the syndicated radio series of 630 episodes from 1947 to 1956. It is estimated that more than 300 hundred of these are known to exist in collectors hands.

Blondie #1 (10/30/39) - Created by Chic Young, comic strip characters Blondie & Dagwood have been published in newspapers, since September 08, 1930. In 1939, Blondie, the radio program, was born and had a very long run (1939-1950) on several different radio networks. Throughout its broadcast years,"Blondie" was sponsored by many companies, including Colgate-Palmolive Soap, Pepsodent Toothpaste & Camel Cigarettes. This is one of two shows recently found, making the official total of Blondie episodes in collectors hands at 33.

A Date with Judy #1: Tiger - This 1940s teenage comedy radio show, starting out as a summer substitute for Bob Hope's Show. The series aired on NBC from June 24 to September 16, 1941, starring 14 year old Ann Gillis. The following season Dellie Ellis, and later Louise Erickson, took over Judy's role. Jane Powell starred as Judy in the 1948 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie A Date with Judy, with Wallace Beery, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Stack, and Carmen Miranda. 220 episodes were recently discovered.

Bulldog Drummond: A Dinner with Death (3/23/45) - This radio series, based on the stories of H. C. McNeile, follow Captain Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond, DSO, MC, a member of "the Breed", a class of Englishman who was patriotic, loyal and "physically and morally intrepid". The series ran on the Mutual Broadcasting System from 13 April 13, 1941 to January 12, 1949 and January 3 to March 28, 1954. Drummond was initially portrayed by George Coulouris, before being taken over by Santos Oretega and Ned Wever after 1942; Cedric Hardwicke took over in 1954. BearManor Media has a new Bulldog Drummond with a full cast at http//www.bearmanormedia.com.

Throughout June 2014, BearManor Radio is also airing other classic OTR:

Audio Classics Archive
Host Terry Salomonson host an hour of OTR from his personal vault. This time:
Lux Radio Theatre #145 - Stella Dallas with Barbara Stanwyck & John Boles (October 11, 1937)

The J-OTR Show
Host Joe Bev presents Tom Mix Meets Tom Mix, a mix of new and old time radio, including: The Secret Mission (5/8/45), The Bodiless Horseman (2010), The Vanishing Village - part 2 (8/13/45).

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VIDEO of Joe Bevilacqua & Bob Greenberg as Bud Abbott and Lou Costello doing "Who's on First?" at the Vaudeville in the Caksills show, April 1, 2012:

http://youtu.be/0LrAVnN9NO0