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Monday, April 22, 2013

LATEST REVIEW: The Best of Cartoon Carnival Volume 2 - The Holiday Specials by Joe Bevilacqua (Audiobook Review)




The Best of Cartoon Carnival
Volume 2,
The Holiday Specials

by Joe Bevilacqua
Series: Cartoon Carnival, Volume 2
Copyright: 2012 Waterlogg Productions
Duration: 10 hours, 42 minutes unabridged
Genres: comedy, radio production
Filed in: Audiobook Reviews



PUBLISHER’S SUMMARY: Over 10 hours of cartoon characters celebrating President's Day, Valentine's Day, Father's Day, Mother's Day, Fourth of July, Election, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and more. As heard on Sirius XM Radio and NPR stations! 

As the protege of cartoon voice legend Daws Butler (Yogi Bear), the veteran award-winning broadcaster (NPR, XM Radio) Joe Bevilacqua is no stranger to the cartoon world. Joe Bev even co-authored his mentor's authorized biography, Daws Butler, Characters Actor, available at Waterlogg.com. 

From Mel Blanc to June Foray, from Disney to Hanna-Barbera, Cartoon Carnival is a lively hour of rare and classic cartoon audio, children's records, cartoon music and sound effects, new radio cartoons, interviews and mini-documentaries about the wonderful world of animation.

©2012 Joseph Bevilacqua, Waterlogg Productions (P)2012 Waterlogg Productions

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AUDIOBOOK REVIEW: Hey everybody, it’s time for more cartoony fun with The Best of Cartoon Carnival Volume 2 – The Holiday Specials! The husband and wife team of Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg are at their all-time silliest in this collection of holiday material. Joe and Lorie can do so many unique voices that I sometimes wonder how they can remember which is their real voice. There’s way too much material on this 10 hour collection to cover all at once, but here are some of the February-appropriate highlights:

For Valentine’s Day, Joe and Lorie treat us to some clips from classic cartoons characters such as Charlie Brown, Bugs Bunny, Pepe le Pew, and Popeye. Those are a lot of fun, but what I enjoy most is Joe and Lorie’s own creations such as the Camp Waterlogg Chronicles. Listen in as Sergeant Lefty tries to get his sweetheart, Olive Pitts, to go to the dance with him. And if that isn’t enough for you, you’ll also hear a real live college professor explain the mathematics of love and romance. If there’s one thing that puts me in the mood for love, it’s mathematics.

Let’s see, what else comes in February? Oh yes, President’s Day! Joe and Lorie haven’t forgotten this all-important day in their holiday collection. You’ll hear from more classics like Bugs Bunny and Kermit the Frog. One of my favorites from the President’s Day collection was an old bit by Bob Newhart where he mocks up a telephone call between Abraham Lincoln and his press agent. Some funny stuff there. And, of course, we get some original work from Joe and Lorie in a truly funny scene with George Washington and his wife Martha. Who would have thought those two would bicker so much at home.

And that’s just the tip of Cupid’s love-tinged arrow. This holiday collection has material for just about every holiday on the calendar including Independence Day, Father’s Day, Mother’s Day, and of course Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. It’s more than 10 hours of cartoony fun with all the best from Joe and Lorie.

You can also check out Joe Bev and the gang every Saturday, starting at 2:30 pm ET / 11:30 am PT, "The Joe Bev 3-Hour Block" includes radio comedy, classic jazz, radio drama and documentary, starting with The Comedy-O-Rama Hour, then The Jazz-O-Rama Hour and The Joe Bev Experience following. Listen online from around the world, at http://www.cultradioagogo.com.

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CHECK OUT THESE OTHER AUDIOBOOK REVIEWS:
The Misadventures Of Sherlock Holmes by Joe Bevilacqua (Audiobook Review)
Old Time Radio Parodies by Joe Bevilacqua (Audiobook Review)
The New Stories Of Old Time Radio by Joe Bevilacqua (Audiobook Review)



Special thanks to Waterlogg Productions for this review copy.
Audiobook review by Steven Brandt.
This audiobook review is based on the unabridged audiobook.
Come back soon for more audiobook reviews from Audiobook-Heaven.



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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

LATEST REVIEW: We Take You Now to Grover's Mill: The Making of the War of the Worlds Broadcast by Joe Bevilacqua (Audiobook Review)

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We Take You Now
To Grover’s Mill:
The Making of the War
 of the Worlds Broadcast

by Joe Bevilacqua
narrated by Joe Bevilacqua

Copyright: 2011 Waterlogg Productions
Duration: 30 minutes unabridged
Genres: non fiction, radio production
Filed in: Audiobook Reviews




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PUBLISHER’S SUMMARY: As heard on Sirius XM Radio and NPR stations!

We Take You Now To Grover's Mill: The Making of the War of the Worlds Broadcast, written, produced, directed, and narrated by Joe Bevilacqua. 

In this 1988 documentary, award-winning NPR producer Joe Bevilacqua looks at how the landmark broadcast came about and examines its impact on broadcast history. The half-hour program includes rare interviews with Mercury Theater producer John Houseman and writer Howard Koch, actor Arthur Anderson, and the people of Grover's Mill, New Jersey, who lived through the "Martian invasion".

© Joe Bevilacqua (P)2011 Joe Bevilacqua

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AUDIOBOOK REVIEW: Ladies and Gentlemen, I’ve just been handed a message that came in from Grover’s Mill by telephone. Just one moment please. At least forty people, including six state troopers, lie dead in a field east of the village of Grover’s Mill, their bodies burned and distorted beyond all possible recognition.

On October 30, 1938, during a regular airing of Mercury Theatre On The Air, a CBS Radio Network news correspondent broke in with the devastating story of an apparent Martian invasion near the unincorporated township of Grover’s Mill, New Jersey. Over the course of the one-hour program, the incoming bulletins grew more and more terrifying as the Martian war machines defeated army units and marched on New York City, their heat rays and deadly poison gas leaving a wake of death and destruction behind them.

Just minutes into the broadcast the phone lines began to jam with listeners trying to reach the CBS offices, the police, family members, or friends. It is reported that many people in the immediate vicinity of the “attack” evacuated their homes, taking as many of their possessions with them as they could carry. The extent of the panic has been, and is still debated but radio broadcasting would be forever changed. The value of radio as a source of news and dramatic entertainment was suddenly apparent.

In 1988, award-winning journalist and voiceover artist Joe Bevilacqua created this thirty-minute special for NPR in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the historic event. It is available now as an audio download for the first time. Contained herein are exclusive interviews with John Houseman, who produced the program, Howard Koch, who was the primary writer of the radio script, and Arthur Anderson, one of the primary actors. You’ll learn about Orson Welles’ involvement in the project. You’ll also hear interviews and commentaries from real-live people who lived in and around the Grover’s Mill area relating their memories of the event, not to mention several clips from the original broadcast itself.

This thirty-minute feature is packed with more information and entertainment than you can shake a heat ray at. Don’t miss out on a unique behind-the-scenes look at one of the more fascinating pieces of American history and pop-culture.

If you’re interested in listening to the original CBS Radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds, you can download a free copy at Archive.org. It’s a good quality copy featuring the entire 60-minute program.

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CHECK OUT THESE OTHER AUDIOBOOK REVIEWS:
The Misadventures Of Sherlock Holmes by Joe Bevilacqua (Audiobook Review)
Old Time Radio Parodies by Joe Bevilacqua (Audiobook Review)
Uncle Dunkle And Donnie by Joe Bevilacqua (Audiobook Review)



Special thanks to Joe Bevilacqua for this review copy.
Audiobook review by Steven Brandt.
This audiobook review is based on the unabridged audiobook.
Come back soon for more audiobook reviews from Audiobook-Heaven.




WATERLOGG PRODUCTIONS
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COR PODCAST
JAZZ PODCAST
JOEBEV PODCAST
The Joe Bev Experience Podcast on iTunes 
OR click on the link to the right to hear us online
CARTOON PODCAST
OR click on the link to the right to hear us online
   

More about Waterlogg Productions at: http://www.waterlogg.com.


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