WATERLOGG PRODUCTIONS: Yabba Dabba Doo! Chapter 2 & "Halloween Happening" Part 1 on The Joe Bev Experience - Saturday, October 20

Joe Bev presents chapter 2 of his enhanced audio book "Yabba Dabba Doo! The Alan Reed Story" and part 1 of Daws Butler's radio play "Halloween Happening", part of "The Joe Bev 3-hour Block" airing every Saturday, starting 1 pm (ET) / 10 am (PT) at cultradioagogo.com

Host Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev) presents chapter 2 of his enhanced audio book "Yabba Dabba Doo! The Alan Reed Story" and part 1 of Daws Butler's radio play "Halloween Happening" on 13th edition of The Joe Bev Experience airing Saturday, October 20 at 3 pm ET / noon PT on cultradioagogo.com right after Joe Bev's Comedy-O-Rama Hour and Jazz-O-Rama Hour (part of "The Joe Bev 3-Hour Block" starting 1 pm ET).

Alan Reed, Jean VanderPyl,
Bea Benadaret and Mel Blanc
creating voices for TheFintstones

The autobiography of the voice of Fred Flintstone is brought to life by veteran radio-theater producer Joe Bevilacqua and Alan Reed Jr., featuring rare interviews with Alan Reed himself, an interview with Joe Barbera, and clips from Reed's radio, TV, and film career, including The Fred Allen Show, The Shadow, The Life of Riley, Life with Luigi, Duffy's Tavern, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Viva Zapata, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and The Flintstones.

Alan Reed

This is an enhanced unabridged audiobook of the print book, which can be purchased from Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/Yabba-Dabba-Doo-Alan-Story/dp/B0060117L4).

Alan Reed (August 20, 1907 – June 14, 1977) was an American actor and voice actor, best known as the original voice of Fred Flintstone (whom he was said to have physically resembled) on The Flintstones and various spinoff series. He also appeared in multiple films, such as The Tarnished Angels, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Viva Zapata! (as Pancho Villa), Nob Hill and various other films, as well as making acting appearances on various television series and he was the voice of Boris in Lady and the Tramp.

Alan Reed

Reed's radio work included the role of Solomon Levy on Abie's Irish Rose; as the "Allen's Alley" resident poet Falstaff Openshaw on Fred Allen's NBC Radio show, and later on his own five-minute show, Falstaff's Fables, on the American Broadcasting Company; as Officer Clancey and other occasional roles on the NBC Radio show Duffy's Tavern; as Shrevey the driver on several years of The Shadow; as Chester Riley's boss on the NBC Radio show The Life of Riley, and as Italian immigrant Pasquale in Life with Luigi on CBS Radio, and various supporting roles on Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, also on CBS Radio.

Yabba Dabba Doo! The Alan Reed Storyby Alan Reed
voiced by Alan Reed Jr.
with Bill Marx as Fred Allen, Commentary by Joe Bevilacqua

Length: 5 hours
& 6 min.

The autobiography of the voice of Fred Flintstone
is brought to life by veteran radio-theater producer
Joe Bevilacqua and Alan Reed Jr., featuring rare
interviews with Alan Reed himself, an interview
with Joe Barbera, and clips from Reed's radio,
TV, and film career, including The Fred Allen Show,
The Shadow, The Life of Riley, Life with Luigi,
Duffy's Tavern, The Postman Always Rings Twice,
Viva Zapata, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and The Flintstones.

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Daws Butler and his characters

Daws Butler was born on November 16, 1916 in Toledo, Ohio, the only child of Ruth Butler and Charles Allen Butler. His first voice work for an animated character came in 1948 in the animated short Short Snorts on Sports, which was produced by Screen Gems. That same year at MGM Tex Avery hired Butler to provide the voice of a British wolf on Little Rural Riding Hood and also narrate several of his cartoons. Throughout decade, he had roles in many Avery-directed cartoon; The fox in Out-Foxed, The Narrator in The Cuckoo Clock, The Cobbler in The Peachy Cobbler, Mr. Theeves in Droopy's "Double Trouble", Mysto the Magician in Magical Maestro, John the Cab and John the B-29 Bomber in One Cab's Family and Little Johnny Jet and Maxie in The Legend of Rockabye Point.

Daws Butler and
Joseph Bevilacqua

Starting with The Three Little Pups, Butler provided the voice for a nameless wolf that spoke in a Southern accent and whistled all the time. This character also appeared in Sheep Wrecked, Billy Boy and many more cartoons. While at MGM, Avery wanted Butler to try to do the voice of Droopy, at a time when Bill Thompson had been unavailable due to radio engagements. Instead Butler then told Avery about Don Messick, another voice actor and Butler's lifelong friend. Thus Messick voiced Droopy on several shorts.

In 1949, Butler landed a role in a televised puppet show created by former Warner Bros. cartoon director Bob Clampett called Time for Beany. Thirty-three-year-old Butler was teamed up with 23-year-old Stan Freberg, and together they did all the voices of the puppets. Butler voiced Beany Boy and Captain Huffenpuff. Freberg voiced Cecil and Dishonest John. An entire stable of recurring characters were seen. The show's writers were Charles Shows and Lloyd Turner, whose dependably funny dialog was still always at the mercy of Butler's and Freberg's ad libs. Time for Beany ran from 1949 to 1954 and won several Emmy Awards. It was the basis for the cartoon Beany and Cecil.

Daws Butler & Stan Freberg
with their "Time for Beany" Emmy Award

In the 1950s, Stan Freberg asked Butler to help him write comedy skits for his Capitol Records albums. Their first collaboration, "St. George and the Dragon-Net" (based on Dragnet), was the first comedy record to sell over one million copies. Freberg was more of a satirist who did song parodies, but the bulk of his "talking" routines were co-written by, and co-starred, Daws Butler. Butler also teamed up again with Freberg and cartoon actress June Foray in a CBS radio series, The Stan Freberg Show, which ran from July to October 1957 as a summer replacement for Jack Benny's program. Freberg's box-set, Tip of the Freberg (Rhino Entertainment, 1999) chronicles every aspect of Freberg's career except the cartoon voice-over work, and it showcases his career with Daws Butler.

Daws Butler

In 1957, MGM closed their animation division, and producers William Hanna and Joseph Barbera found themselves unemployed. They quickly formed their own company, and Daws Butler and Don Messick were on-hand to provide voices. The first, The Ruff & Reddy Show where Butler voiced Reddy, set the formula for the rest of the series of cartoons that the two would helm until the mid-1960s.

Daws Butler's offical website: http://www.dawsbutler.com/.

Daws Butler's Halloween Happening is part of the The Best of Cartoon Carnival, Volume 3, , which can be purchased from Amazon.com

Daws Butler’s Halloween Happening
The Best of Cartoon Carnival, Volume 3
By Daws Butler
Voiced by Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg

Length: 45 min.

A new production of the classic radio play by the voice of

Yogi Bear, Daws Butler! 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.

ISBN: 978-1-4507-9449-7

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Joe Bevilacqua

Joe Bevilacqua is a veteran radio theater producer and voice actor. He also works on stage and is the winner of the 2012 New York TANYS Award for Excellence in Acting. He has performed at the Improv, Caroline's on Broadway, Catch a Rising Star, the Comic Strip, opened for Uncle Floyd, worked with Al Franken, Shelley Berman, Louis Black and Rick Overton. Joe has also MC'd shows featuring Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Mahr and Gilbert Gottfried. He has been regularly heard on National Public Radio and Sirius-XM Radio and has produced hundreds of hours of audiobooks. He currently produces and hosts three radio hours per week for the Internet radio station Cult Radio-A-Go-Go!