Teddy Wilson & Billie Holiday 78 Records - Saturday, September 15, 2 pm (ET) - on CRAGG

Joe Bev presents 78 RPM Jazz with a Sense of Humor"Teddy with & without Billie" on The Jazz-O-Rama Hourpart of "The Joe Bev 3-hour Block" 
airing every Saturday, starting 1 pm (ET) / 10 am (PT) at cultradioagogo.com.

"A Sunbonnet Blue", "Jumpin' On The Blacks And Whites", and "Eeny Meeny Miney Mo" will be among the 78 RPM records heard on the 11th edition of Joe Bev's Jazz-O-Rama Hour airing this Saturday, September 8, 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:
 "Teddy with & without Billie" 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. 

Joe Bev presents:
 Teddy Wilson & Billie Holiday  78 Records
Saturday, September 15, 2 pm (ET)
- on CRAGG

This Saturday Joe Bev presents 78 RPM Jazz with a Sense of Humor:  "Teddy Wilson And His Orchestra", with and without Bille Holiday, including:

"A Sunbonnet Blue" -  (1935)
"Jumpin' on the Blacks and Whites" (1939)
"Eeny Meeny Miney Mo" (1935)
"Blues in C Sharp Minor"  (1936)
"Twenty Four Hours A Day" (1936)
"Jumpin' For Joy" (1939)
"Yankee Doodle Never Went To Town" (1935)
"Miss Brown To You" (1936)
"Jungle Love" (1938)
"These Foolish Things" (1936)
"Booly-Ja-Ja" (1939)
"It's Too Hot For Words" (1935)
"What A Night, What A Moon, What A Girl" (1935)    
"Early Session Hop" (1939)
"Spreadin' Rhythm Around" (1935)

Theodore Shaw "Teddy" Wilson

Theodore Shaw "Teddy" Wilson was described by critic Scott Yannow as "the definitive swing pianist". Wilson's sophisticated and elegant style was featured on the records of many of the biggest names in jazz including Louis Armstrong, Lena Horne, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday, and Ella Fitzgerald. With Goodman, he was perhaps the first well-known black musician to play publicly in a racially integrated group. In addition to his extensive work as a sideman, Wilson also led his own groups and recording sessions from the late 1920s to the '80s.

Billie Holiday was nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and musical partner Lester Young. Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. Critic John Bush wrote that Holiday "changed the art of American pop vocals forever."[5] She co-wrote only a few songs, but several of them have become jazz standards, notably "God Bless the Child", "Don't Explain", "Fine and Mellow", and "Lady Sings the Blues". She also became famous for singing "Easy Living", "Good Morning Heartache", and "Strange Fruit", a protest song which became one of her standards and was made famous with her 1939 recording.

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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.

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

An announcement about this week's Joe Bev Experience follows.

Video for this week's "Joe Bev 3-Hour Block"

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

Many of our projects are for sale on our website

http://waterlogg.com/buy-comedy.html

or visit SimplyAudiobooks.com or Audible.com  or theaudiobookstore.com  or Amazon.com   or theAudioBookMart.com or iTunes.com

     

and we can voice anything you want...
just send us a script!

Leonard Maltin "Hanna-Barbera Tribute" on The Joe Bev Experience - Saturday, September 15 - 3 pm (ET) on CRAGG

Classic "Cartoon Carnival" airs on The Joe Bev Experience, 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 a tribute to Joe Barbera featuring Leonard Maltin, on the ninth edition of The Joe Bev Experience airing Saturday, September 8 at 3 pm ET / noon PT on http://www.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). 

Joe Bev and Mel Blanc

The hour is gleaned from Joe Bev's other popular radio series Cartoon Carnival, and will also feature:

• Audio of Hanna-Barbera cartoon clips and his 1990 interview with Joe Barbera
• Mel Blanc's demo tape
• Daws Butler in a never-before heard cartoon audio as Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound

• Audio of Daws Butler teaching Joe Bev how to be a voice actor, part one - a live performance of Jay Ward's "Rocky and Bullwinkle" with June Foray
• Part one of "Willoughby and the Professor Meet Bartizan the Genie"
• The song "The Twitch" from "The Flintstones"
• A tribute to Laurel and Hardy

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.

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".

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

Many of our projects are for sale on our website

http://waterlogg.com/buy-comedy.html

or visit SimplyAudiobooks.com or Audible.com  or theaudiobookstore.com  or Amazon.com   or theAudioBookMart.com or iTunes.com

     

and we can voice anything you want...
just send us a script!

Husband & Wife Comedy Team Make Funny Voices on the Radio Every Week - Tune in September 15 at 1 pm (ET) on CRAGG

Joe Bev & Lorie Kellogg's The 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 "The Camp Waterlogg-A-Go-Go Goes Bed-In" airing Saturday, September 15, 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 radio theater comedy, Sgt. Lefty (played by Joe Bev) stages a "bed-in" in his cabin at Camp Waterlogg until his girlfriend Olive Pitts (Played by Lorie Kellogg) comes home from her parents in California. Soon, his is joined in bed by other campers (all voiced by Bev and Kellogg).

Husband and wife team Joe Bev and Lorie Kellogg
do all the voices on The Comedy-O-Rama Hour
Saturdays 1 pm online at cultradioagogogo.com

Bev and Kellogg also perform two radio cartoons "Punky Possum and the Mudbath" by Daws Butler (the voice of Yogi Bear) and "The Couch Potato Potion" by Pedro Pablo Sacristan.

The husband and wife comedy team 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 31th week on Cult Radio-A-Go-Go!, 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, 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.

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.

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

Video for this Saturday's "Joe Bev 3-Hour Block" coming soon!

Many of our projects are for sale on our website

http://waterlogg.com/buy-comedy.html

or visit SimplyAudiobooks.com or Audible.com  or theaudiobookstore.com  or Amazon.com   or theAudioBookMart.com or iTunes.com

     

and we can voice anything you want...
just send us a script!

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The Art of Audio #13: "Abbott & Costello in the Catskills!"

The Joe Bev
Experience

The Art of Audio #13

"Abbott & Costello in the Catskills!"

Joe Bev & friend doing "Who's on First?
at the 1976 Nostalgia Convention at The Staler-Hilton Hotel 

The first time I performed Abbott & Costello's "Who's on First?" was in 1975 at a high school play audition. I was a 16 year old kid with braces and a peach fuzz mustache trying to be Bud to my 17 year old friend's Lou.

Joe Bev performed "Who's on First?
on WOR-TV's Joe Franklin Show in 1976 

In 1976, after winning a contest at the first Nostalgia Convention at The Staler-Hilton Hotel in New York City, my partner and I performed Abbott & Costello all around the New York-New Jersey area and even did "Who's on First?" on WOR-TV's "The Joe Franklin Show". (I had my braces removed the day before.)  You can hear audio of my Joe Franklin appearance here.




I stopped performing Abbott & Costello after my partner and I had a falling out. That was in 1980. You can hear the NPR story I did about it here.


In 2006, I was walking down a lonely corridor during the Oldtime Radio Convention at the Holiday Inn in Newark, New Jersey--when Joe Franklin walked past me. He had not seen me in 30 years. Without skipping a beat, he said, "Bihler & Bev, Who's on First."  


This year, when I was cast as the MC of a Borscht Belt comedy show here in my home of the Catskills, I was asked to pick a character to play. I chose to host the evening as Bud Abbott. Now I needed a Costello. My old partner was out of the question.


Luckily, I found Bob Greenberg, an enormously talented comedian who has been doing Lou Costello his whole life with other Abbotts. Like me, Bob is a trained professional actor with major credits including Saturday Night Live.

Joe Bev & Bob Greenberg as Bud Abbott & Lou Costello

In 1993, Bob had also been on the last week of TV's "The Joe Franklin Show" where he did impressions of Lou Costello and Curly Howard.


For three nights, Bob & I performed not only "Who's on First?" together but wrote and improvised an entire night of hilarious audience pleasing comedy surrounding the music acts, dancers and magician. 


We had never met before and only spoke on the phone twice. Yet we BECAME Abbott & Costello on stage! We looked like them, sounded like them, we listened to each other and improvised many great moments, and worked the audience as if we had been together forever. Our chemistry together was electric! We clicked!


See us performing "Who's on First?" here.

Bob and I even created a new Abbott & Costello bit we call "Luzon Station" and gave the two-hour show a subplot and a title: "Abbott & Costello in the Catskills". 


All three nights were sold out and we had to turn people away. The success has led to more! "Abbott & Costello in the Catskills" will soon be heard on NPR stations and released as an audiobook! 


You will get to hear excepts from it when Bob is my special guest on this week's Comedy-O-Rama online radio broadcast, Saturday, April 14th at 1:00 pm (Eastern) on Cult Radio-A-Go-Go.



Now, Bob and I are ready and willing to become Abbott & Costello anywhere, anytime, for anyone!


We can custom tailor a show to any need and write new material to fit any occasion, plus deliver authentic and exciting performances of Bud & Lou's classic routines, including Who's On First, Susquahanna Hat Company, Niagra Falls, Job as a Loafer, Loan me $50, Cow's Utter, Lou Hates Mustard, and Jonah and the Whale.
         
Want to meet Abbott & Costello in person? Just give us a call at 845-647-9475, and shout, "Heeeey, Aaaaaaabbott!!!" We'll be right over! :-)

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!