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The original Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar was a radio drama that aired on CBS Radio from February 18, 1949, to September 30, 1962. The best-known incarnation was with Bob Bailey starring in "the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account-America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator." This first new volume includes: "The Suicidal Bicycle Matter", "The Clever Chemist Matter", "The Where the Elite Meet to Eat Matter", "The Thelma Ibsen Matter", "The Jack Benny Matter", "The Murder Is a Merry-Go-Round Matter", and "The Expose Matter".

Five Sherlock Holmes mysteries in one book collection. Voiced by Joe Bevilacqua, who has won numerous awards for television documentaries and radio theater.

A W. C. Fields Festival is a collection of tributes, parodies, and rarities of the great bulbous nosed comedian - written, produced, and performed by Joe Bevilacqua. Bonus tracks feature remastered classic radio broadcasts.

The autobiography of master impressionist Joe Alaskey takes listeners on a fun-filled behind-the-scenes look at Hollywood and how he became Mel Blanc’s replacement as the voices of Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, and many of the Warner Bros. cartoon characters. Joe Bevilacqua performs as Alaskey and even demonstrates some of the voices along the way, including a sketch that pits Daffy Duck against Colombo, and Archie and Edith Bunker as Romeo and Juliet. Bevilacqua was trained with Mel Blanc and Daws Butler (Yogi Bear).

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 suchbeloved animated characters as Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, Chilly Willy, Elroy Jetson, and dozens of others.

Firesign Theatre's David Ossman (as George Tirebiter), comedy legend Shelley Berman, and former SNL comedian Senator Al Franken join the cast of The Comedy-O-Rama Hour for another six misadventures of Sgt. Lefty, Ellis da Boatkeeper, Adam Maxwell, Andy, and Woody (all voiced by Joe Bev); Olive Pitts, Ellis, Mrs. Terwilliger, and Lkie (all voiced by Lorie Kellogg); Ron Drysdale and Jimmy (both voiced by James Folly).

A Marx Brothers Festival is a hilarious collection of tributes, parodies, and rarities - written, produced, and performed by Joe Bevilacqua. Bonus tracks feature remastered radio and TV performances by Groucho, Chico, and Harpo.

Part improvisation, part audio cartoon, The Camp Waterlogg Chronicles, Seasons 6 - 10 is a five-volume collection of the successful comedy show created by two radio-theater veterans. Each volume contains six one-hour segments of the comic misadventures of Sergeant Lefty, Olive Pitts, Ellis the Boatkeeper, Squeaky Lkie, Stinky Peter, Mrs. Terwilliger, and all the wacky denizens of Camp Waterlogg, the dilapidated camp for kids in the Catskills.

By popular demand, The New Adventures of Johnny Dollar, Vol. 2, is a follow-up to volume one, dramatized pastiches of the great old time radio detective series by Joe Bevilacqua (“Joe Bev”). This second volume features The Bowery Boys Matter, The James Forbes Matter, The Sarah Martin Matter, The Ugly Pattern Matter, The Walter Patterson Matter, and The Larson Arson Matter. Also, included are bonus tracks of some of Joe Bev’s old time radio parodies of Sherlock Holmes, the Shadow, and the Green Hornet.

His voice can be heard in countless classic animated cartoons, still seen on TV daily around the world. He was Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, Baba Looey, Super Snooper, Blabbermouse, Snagglepuss, Augie Doggy, Mr. Jinks, Wally Gator, Elroy Jetson, Cap'n Crunch, and hundreds of others. Yet you have probably never heard of him. Daws Butler, Characters Actor brings you up close and personal into the life of the man who many consider to be the greatest voice actor of the 20th century.

"The Castle Orphans": "How often does he visit you?" added Watson, producing his pipe from his pocket. He searched the same pocket for a match then lit the device. "He visits every week and every few nights. He likes to sneak in the window and take things back to his castle!" The small girl played with the little tiger upon her knee.

Listeners are fully immersed in the world of mid-Victorian England like never before in this thrilling, action-packed "theater of the mind" made for both serious Sherlockians and casual mystery lovers. "The Question of the Clever Cat Burglar" is just one of 16 Sherlock Holmes mysteries in this new audio drama collection - written, produced, directed, voiced, and enhanced with stereo soundscape and music by veteran award-winning audio artist Joe Bev.

Now you can audit a real Daws Butler acting workshop! This is a raw, unedited recording of Daws Butler protégé Joe Bevilacqua (a.k.a. Joe Bev) and fellow Daws students cold reading Butler's scripts and being taught by their mentor. It was recorded by the then seventeen-year-old Bevilacqua on Thursday, July 29, 1976, in Beverly Hills.

An Edward G. Robinson Festival is a collection of tributes, parodies, and rarities of the great film actor-written, produced, and performed by Joe Bevilacqua. Bonus tracks feature remastered classic radio dramas. This set includes "If We All Talked Like Allen Jenkins", "Murder is a Merry-Go-Round", "The Reflection", "Hobo Hawk", "Willaby Meets the Godfather", "The Man who Wanted to be Edward G. Robinson", "The Trap", and "Key Largo".

Veteran radio personality (NPR, Sirius XM Radio) Joe Bev presents his favorite conversations with such highly diverse people as Lady Bird Johnson, Betty Ford, Barbara Bush, John Houseman, June Foray, Diana Canova, Fred Frees, Bob Bergen, Phil Proctor, Joe Alaskey, Steve Mendoza, Noel Blanc, David Ossman, Janet Waldo, Fred Grandinetti, and others! Bonus Track! Joe Bevilacqua hosts an hour with Bernie Sanders, Spike Lee, Susan Sarandon, Harry Belafonte, Danny Glover, Sarah Silverman, Lorie Kellogg, and Tim Robbins.

Leo peered up at her, eyebrows raised. "Lydia. What's wrong?" She kept screaming over and over. "You're...you're bleeding.... Lydia felt her hands balling involuntarily into fists, and she felt a new round of screaming building inside her. Leo glanced down at his shirt. His eyes grew as large as dinner plates. "Oh my God....what is that?"

This exciting collection of radio comedy from Waterlogg Productions features four must-listens: Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Missing Countess; A Joe Bev Audio Theater Sampler, Vol. 3; A Joe Bev Audio Theater Sampler, Vol. 4; and Simon Studio Presents, Vol. 1.

Trying to decide which audiobook is best for you? Let Fred Frees pick out some samples for you! This series of hour-long programs presents the first chapters of Fred's handpicked favorite BearManor and Waterlogg audiobooks.

A Parody Outline of History is hilarious but scathing anti-war satire of The Outline of History (1920) by H. G. Wells, written by Donald Ogden Stewart, in the styles of popular authors of the day, and first published in 1921 only a year after World War I ended. This ear-popping audio dramatization was produced and voiced by Joe Bevilacqua (aka Joe Bev) - enhanced with music and sound effects - in the style of the popular performers of 1920s and 30s, including The Marx Brothers, Laurel and Hardy, Jack Benny, W.C. Fields, Gary Cooper, and John Wayne.

These are the further misadventures of the pertinacious professor and his perky partner who pucker around the globe and through time and space, in a vain attempt to "cure the world of all its ills".