The Art of Audio #4: "Another Fine Mess"

The Joe Bev Experience

The Art of Audio #4

"Another Fine Mess"

Me as Stanley. "I certainly am!"
Listen to me as Stan, Babe & Finn!

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy made some great silent classics. Putting Pants on Phillip was released December 3, 1927 – their first official film. But Stan and Ollie really excelled when sound was added to film. Their distinct voices matched their physical personalities. The jazzy background music matched their comic timing.

Hear the greats talk about their work!

I've been doing my impression of "The Boys" since I was could first talk. As a young child in the early 1960s, I watched Chuck McCann brilliantly pay homage to them on his WPIX and WNEW New York TV shows.

I had the pleasure of interviewing Craig Marin the great Flexitoons creator-puppeteer who, as a mere teenager, got to work with Chuck.

You can hear that interview, plus ones with Mel Blanc, June Foray and many cartoon legends on my new audio release The Best of Cartoon Carnival Volume One.

I'll be on CULT RADIO A-GO-GO THIS Saturday, as "L&H"! Listen to me as "The Boys" here!

TUNE IN LIVE!!!

 

I am also the Vice Sheik and Ballywhosit of the “Them Thar Hills” tent 284 local of The Sons of the Desert, the international Laurel and Hardy appreciation society, located in Ellenville, NY.

Me as Stan with Ollie (Grand Sheik Ray Faiola)
2010 Ellenville Fourth of July Parade.
Watch a video of our antics here!

We enjoy Laurel & Hardy on a big screen with an audience!
 
(Get the new Laurel & Hardy: The Essential DVD Collection.)

In 1987, I created a video tribute (visually) performed by Alison Nead as Oliver Hardy, Ron Willoughby as James Finlayson, and me as Stan Laurel. I am the voice of all three characters. Watch it below!

 

Get this great soundtrack CD
mastered by Ray Faiola!

JOIN US! Our next meeting will be Sunday, December 4th, 2011, at 3:00pm, in Ellenville, N Y. This will be our Holiday Pot-Luck Party and we invite all members to help out by bringing a dish, side, salad or dessert. 

We hope ALL MEMBERS will attend this Grand Buffet! Our film program will feature "Snowy Shorts", beginning with a reprise of Laurel & Hardy's classic two-reeler THE FIXER-UPPERS co-starring the Ever-Popular Mae Busch. Then we'll have Bugs Bunny in FRESH HARE;  A Walter Lantz cartune SKI FOR TWO; W.C. Fields in THE FATAL GLASS OF BEER; and the Tent premiere of Stan and Babe in their Christmas Tree classic BIG BUSINESS. 

 
Guests are welcome! Email me for directions.

My work is not all fun and games, however. I have a serious side too! Don't believe me? Well, then, tune in next time and find out!

Best to you all,

Joe Bev.


Joe Bevilacqua is a veteran award-winning actor, writer, author and producer. His audio is available at Amazon, iTunes, and Audible for Kindle, Blackberry, Android, iPhone, iPod or iPad download, or CD purchase or rental. Find out more!

The Art of Audio #3 "What did she say?"

The Joe Bev Experience

The Art of Audio #3

"What did she say?"

It's been said that a boss is only as good as his employees. It has also been said that a man is only as good as the woman standing next to him. In my case both are true.

"My Garden" by Lorie Kellogg.
Listen to Lorie as spinach!
 

She's my graphic artist, my web designer, marketer, sales person. She does my book and audio covers. She's my co-writer. She can do hundreds of voices and impressions, men, women, babies, animals, spinach. She's a great ad-libber, and she can sing!

"Box Lady Water 01" by Lorie Kellogg.
Listen to my NPR story of how Lorie and I met!

She's Lorie Kellogg -- Super Genius! (in Wile E. Coyote's voice.)

Wile  E, I mean Lorie, is also my wife.

... and my business partner and... and...

One of the many Lorie Kellogg covers.
Listen to Lorie as Ronald Colman!

Whew! I'm tired just think about all the things Lorie does and has done for me. She's the reason Waterlogg Productions is a success.

I bet Lorie can do something for you too! Whatever it is. I call her "The Jerry Rigger". Giver a pile of anything and she make good use of it.

 

Lorie and I performing at the Shadowland
Theatre in Evenville, NY.
Listen to our parody of Wolman Jack
and the B-52s!

But don't take my word for it. Here is an independent testimonial:
"If there was an award for best husband and wife narrating team, I think the clear winners would be Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg. Come to think of it, why isn’t there an award for best husband and wife narrating team? Somebody needs to look into that. Anyway, individually, Joe an Lorie are both extremely talented voice artists. They can both do lots of entertaining voices, not just characterizations but whole personalities, and they both have a fine flair for drama, satire, and comedy. Put them together and, well, need I say more? If you haven’t heard these two at work, you’re missing out on something special."

- Steven Brandt,Audiobook-Heaven.com.

Check out Lorie's website and see if you don't agree.

A Lorie & Joe Team Effort!
Listen to us as Jimmy Durante
and Walter Matthau!

Lorie's not my only inspiration. Find out two others when you tune in next time...

Best to you all,

Joe Bev.



 Joe Bevilacqua is a veteran award-winning actor, writer, author and producer. His audio is available at Amazon, iTunes, and Audible for Kindle, Blackberry, Android, iPhone, iPod or iPad download, or CD purchase or rental. Find out more!

The Art of Audio #2: "Listen to THIS!"

The Joe Bev Experience

The Art of Audio #2

"Listen to THIS!"

Listen to me as
Leon Redbone and
Cheech & Chong

If you've more than casually listened any of the more than 5,000 hours of audio I've created over the last 40 years, you've noticed I love STEREO effects. It is part of my artistic style.

Listening, as a teen, to The Beatles (especially Revolution No. 9) and Cheech & Chong, with headphones on, influenced me greatly.

I have perfected this stereo effect to the point that I call it virtual 3-D.

Grab your headphones and get ready to be immersed in the story!

Me with Mel Blanc,
Hollywood, Ca, circa 1976.
Listen to me as Bugs,
Daffy and Elmer.

Sometimes I work with a cast of actors, as I did in my ten-part radio theater comedy series The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes, but most often I enjoy playing all the roles myself, as was personally taught to me by legends such as Daws Butler and Mel Blanc (more on them in the future).

Me with Daws Butler,
Beverly Hills, Ca., circa 1976.
Listen to what Daws
taught me!

Daws created Uncle Dunkle and Donnie. I cut my baby teeth on his scripts. We even wrote some together. I published a book of them and voiced them on audio. 

This year, my talented wife, Lorie Kellogg and I voiced and produced over 200 stories by Spanish author Pedro Pablo Sacristan, translated into English. 

The man is prolific. The stories original and thought provoking. And CLEAN. For kids and adults.

I put the Joe Bev spin on them. Lorie and I ad-libbed all the characters and dialogue around Pedro's narration. Crazy voices, music and 3-D stereo effects. We did impressions, take offs on TV shows, songs!  I did some as old Willaby and the Professor (now called Barnaby and Max), Willoughby and the Professor (Generation 2), and Uncle Dunkle and Donnie. 

Listen to me in a NEW Dunkle story

I'm 52 and I'm still doing characters I created 40 years ago. That's either art or a bad case of arrested development.

So who is this Lorie Kellogg anyway? Tune in next time and find out!
 

Best to you all,

Joe Bev.




Joe Bevilacqua is a veteran award-winning actor, writer, author and producer. His audio is available at Amazon, iTunes, and Audible for Kindle, Blackberry, Android, iPhone, iPod or iPad download, or CD purchase or rental. Find out more!

The Art of Audio #1: "Did you hear THAT?"

The Joe Bev Experience

The Art of Audio #1

"Did you hear THAT?"

My dad bought me a Panasonic cassette recorder in 1971, I was 12 years old.

Listen to my Father's Day story for NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday

It was the beginning of summer. June. Last day of school. The smell of cut grass as a walk up our driveway. Clear blue sky. Sun on my face and arms. Dad trimming a bush in front of our house.

Me (Joe Bev.) in 1963

I remember the day so well because it was the day my future was set. I soon became an audio artist.

I had been drawing a series of silly nine panel cartoons of Willaby and the Professor, as I called them then. Hundreds of pages. Serialized. In Hanna-Barbera style. Ring around the mouth.

Listen to me improvising Willaby (Willoughby)
Meets the Godfather in 1972 when I was 13

Now I had a way to record their voices!

Men, women, young, old, babies, dogs, cats, otters, every accent on the planet poured out of my mouth. 

Joe Bev Rubber Face

Within a few years, I was on the radio. Reel to reel. Stereo. Digital. 3-D.

Listen to Chapter 17 of Ancient Rising by Jc De La Torre.

Today my work is enjoyed around the world. That makes me happy! 

But how can audio be art? Tune in next time and find out...

Best to you all,

Joe Bev.

Joe Bevilacqua is a veteran award-winning actor, writer, author and producer. His audio is available at Amazon, iTunes, and Audible for Kindle, Blackberry, Android, iPhone, iPod or iPad download, or CD purchase or rental. Find out more!