Friday, September 28, 2012

O. Henry's "Tolbin's Palm" on The Joe Bev Experience - Saturday, Oct. 6th - 3 pm (ET) on CRAGG



Joe Bev & Lorie Kellogg perform classic American stories of O. Henry and Philip Freneau, 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 classic American stories of O Henry and Philip Freneau, on the 11th edition of The Joe Bev Experience airing Saturday, Oct. 6th 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).





Stories this week include "Tolbin's Palm" by O. Henry, performed by Joe Bev and Lorie Kellogg. The recording will soon be released as an audiobook through Audible.com and Amazon.com. Bev plans on producing audio of the complete O. Henry catalog.

Also on the hour, "A Freneau Sampler," poetry and prose of Philip Freneau combined with an biographical play about his life written and directed by Joe Bev(ilacqua). Funded by The New Jersey Historical Commission and The Monmouth County Historical Society.

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!


William Sydney Porter, known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American writer. O. Henry's short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings.

Porter gave various explanations for the origin of his pen name. In 1909 he gave an interview to The New York Times, in which he gave an account of it:
   
It was during these New Orleans days that I adopted my pen name of O. Henry. I said to a friend: "I'm going to send out some stuff. I don't know if it amounts to much, so I want to get a literary alias. Help me pick out a good one." He suggested that we get a newspaper and pick a name from the first list of notables that we found in it. In the society columns we found the account of a fashionable ball. "Here we have our notables," said he. We looked down the list and my eye lighted on the name Henry, "That'll do for a last name," said I. "Now for a first name. I want something short. None of your three-syllable names for me." "Why don’t you use a plain initial letter, then?" asked my friend. "Good," said I, "O is about the easiest letter written, and O it is."



A Freneau Sampler: 
The Prose and Poetry of Revolutionary War Writer Philip Freneau
By Joe Bevilacqua
Voiced by Joe Bevilacqua, William Melillo, Alison Nead, Rick Ramos, Leslie Spital, Cathi Tully

  Length: 31 min.

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Hawaiian 78 RPM Records - Sat., Oct. 6th, 2 pm (ET) - on CRAGG

Joe Bev presents 78 RPM Jazz with a Sense of Humor: "A Jazz-O-Rama Luau" on The Jazz-O-Rama Hour, part of "The Joe Bev 3-hour Block" air every Saturday, starting 1 pm (ET) / 10 am (PT) at  cultradioagogo.com.


"Singin' in the Bathtub", "Blue Hawaii" and "Aloha Oe" will be among the 78 RPM records heard on the 15th edition of Joe Bev's Jazz-O-Rama Hour airing this Saturday, Oct. 6th  at 2 pm (ET) / 11 am (PT) on Internet radio powerhouse Cult Radio-A-Go-Go! http://www.cultradioagogo.com.


Joe Bev presents 78 RPM Jazz with a Sense of Humor
This Saturday Joe Bev presents 78 RPM Jazz with a Sense of Humor: "A Jazz-O-Rama Luau", including:


  1.     I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls - Sam Moore, Hawaiian Guitar & Musical Saw - 1926
  2.     Singing in the Bathtub - King Nawahi's Hawaiians (1929)
  3.     A Song Of Old Hawaii - Cliff Edwards (early 1930s)
  4.     Kawohikukapulani - Mahi Beamer (Decca L 8728)
  5.     Kalena Ka - Bill Aliiloa Lincoln (Waikiki 507)
  6.     My Isle of Golden Dreams - The Andrews Sisters (Decca 28294)
  7.     Kaulana O Hilo Kanakahi - Honey Kalima & His Royal Hawaiian Serenaders (Waikiki 513)
  8.     For You A Lei - George Archer and the Pagans (Bell LKS 80)
  9.     Kila Kila O Haleakala - George Archer and the Pagans - (Bell LKS 80)
  10.     Blue Hawaii - Honey Kalima & His Royal Hawaiian Serenaders - (Waikiki 513)
  11.     Naka Pueo - Honey Kalima & His Royal Hawaiian Serenaders - (Waikiki 514)
  12.     Nalani - The Andrews Sisters (Decca 28294)
  13.     Sweet Leilani - Cliff Edwards (early 1930s)
  14.     Hukilau - Howard Kekalohuokalaikiekle - Bill Aliiloa Lincoln (Waikiki 507)
  15.     Na Kuahiwi Elima - Mahi Beamer (Decca L 8728)
  16.     To You Sweetheart, Aloha - Honey Kalima & His Royal Hawaiian Serenaders (Waikiki 514)
  17.     Goodbye, Hawaii - Henry Hall's BBC Dance Orchestra (1930s)
  18.     Aloha Oe - Alfred Apaka (Bell LKS 232)


Hawaii's musical contributions to the music of the United States are out of proportion to the state's small size. Styles like slack-key guitar are well-known worldwide, while Hawaiian-tinged music is a frequent part of Hollywood soundtracks. Hawaii also made a major contribution to country music with the introduction of the steel guitar.


Slack-key Guitar 
Slack-key guitar (kī ho`alu in Hawaiian) is a fingerpicked playing style, named for the fact that the strings are most often "slacked" or loosened to create an open (unfingered) chord, either a major chord (the most common is G, which is called "taro patch" tuning) or a major 7th (called a "wahine" tuning). A tuning might be invented to play a particular song or facilitate a particular effect, and as late as the 1960s they were often treated as family secrets and passed from generation to generation. By the time of the Hawaiian Renaissance, though, the example of players such as Auntie Alice Namakelua, Leonard Kwan, Raymond Kane, and Keola Beamer had encouraged the sharing of the tunings and techniques and probably saved the style from extinction. Playing techniques include "hammering-on", "pulling-off", "chimes" (harmonics), and "slides," and these effects frequently mimic the falsettos and vocal breaks common in Hawaiian singing.

The guitar entered Hawaiian culture from a number of directions—sailors, settlers, contract workers. One important source of the style was Mexican cowboys hired to work on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi in the first half of the 19th century. These paniolo brought their guitars and their music, and when they left, the Hawaiians developed their own style of playing the instrument.


Alfred Apaka
Slack key guitar evolved to accompany the rhythms of Hawaiian dancing and the melodies of Hawaiian chant. Hawaiian music in general, which was promoted under the reign of King David Kalakaua as a matter of national pride and cultural revival, drew rhythms from traditional Hawaiian beats and European military marches, and drew its melodies from Christian hymns and the cosmopolitan peoples of the islands (although principally American).

Alfred Apaka was an American singer who possessed a romantic baritone voice. He was closely identified with Hawaii between the late 1940s and 1960.  He was arguably the foremost interpreter of Hapa haole music, which melded Hawaiian music with traditional pop music arrangements and English lyrics to convey Polynesian imagery and themes. He was of Chinese, Portuguese, and Hawaiian ancestry.

Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev) has been producing radio in many genres since 1971 when he was 12. At 19 in 1980, Bev became the youngest person to produce a radio show for public radio. He co-hosted The Jazz Show with Garret Gega in the early 80s, a four hour a week mix classic jazz and comedy. Bev also worked for WBGO, Jazz 88 in Newark, NJ and produced documentaries for WNYC New York Public Radio on jazz legends including Louis Armstrong, Wynton Marsalis, Count Basie, Woody Herman, Cab Calloway, and Lionel Hampton.

Bev also produces, directs, writes and voices half of The Comedy-O-Rama Hour, which is has been highest rated radio show on Cult Radio A-Go-Go! for many weeks. Joe Bev's other weekly radio show, The Jazz-O-Rama Hour debuted at #2.

Eight weeks ago, the veteran voice actor added his third hour for Cult Radio, called The Joe Bev Experience which airs right after The Jazz-O-Rama Hour.

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Comedy-O-Rama: "Japanese Dinner with Olive & Lefty" - Tune in Saturday, Oct. 6th (ET) on CRAGG


Joe Bev & Lorie Kellogg's Comedy-O-Rama Hour 

is part of
"The Joe Bev
3-Hour Block" 
starting at 1 pm (ET) listen online at: cultradioagogo.com



The Comedy-O-Rama Hour premieres Camp Waterlogg-A-Go-Go!  "Japanese Dinner with Olive & Lefty" airing Saturday, Oct. 6th  as part of "The Joe Bev 3-Hour Block" starting at 1 pm - listen online at http://www.cultradioagogo.com.


                   



On this Saturday's original improvisational radio theater comedy hour, Sgt. Lefty (Joe Bev) takes his girlfriend Olive Pitts (Lorie Kellogg) to eat sushi. The scenes were recorded live at a Japanese restaurant in New Paltz, New York.

"We wanted it to sound as real as possible," explains Bev, who adds, "So we walked in, ordered, converse, ate and left AS Olive & Lefty."

Meanwhile, Olive's father suffers a show in the woods performed by children Lkie and Andy, and newlyweds Ellis and Elise watch themselves on TV's "Beluga Battles" (a "whales Wars" parody).

Bev and Kellogg improvised all the character's voices.

Lorie Kellogg also performs the radio cartoons: "The Last One Thousand Dragons" by Pedro Pablo Sacristan, and there is an installment of "The Adventures of Teaman" by Mitchell Pearson and the DQD Theater of Philadelphia.

Husband and wife, Joe Bev and Lorie Kellogg have been working together since they met in 1996. They recently toured with their Vaudeville in the Catskills stage show, in which they performed "Lambchops" the classic Burns and Allen comedy routine, and Bev MCd and performed the classic Abbott and Costello routine Who's On First? with Bob Greenberg. A second tour is planned for February and March 2013 (TBA).

Right after The Comedy-O-Rama Hour, Joe Bev's second weekly show The Jazz-O-Rama Hour airs and that is followed by his THIRD weekly hour The Joe Bev Experience".


Now in its 33th week on Cult Radio-A-Go-Go! (and its 93rd since 2002 including the Sirius XM broadcasts), The Comedy-O-Rama Hour is produced by Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev). 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, Lewis 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.

Lorie Kellogg is the co-producer. Kellogg started her education at the Kansas City Art Institute. There she studied painting, printmaking, photography, commercial design and video. She continued to Graduate School at the California Institute of the Arts where she received her MFA in Film/Video. Lorie is a graphic designer creating websites, logos, newsletters, newspaper & magazine layout, package design, ad design, and edits video & audio. On Comedy-O-Rama, Lorie also voices Ranger Lorie, Olive Pitts, Lkie (Sqweeky), Mrs. Terwilliger,  and half of voices in the Pedro cartoons.

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