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From master voice actor Daws Butler, the voice of Yogi Bear, comes a rare collection of radio plays, cartoon scripts, and acting tutorials.

A W. C. Fields Festival is a collection of tributes, parodies, and rarities of the great bulbous nosed comedian - written, produced, and performed by Joe Bevilacqua. Bonus tracks feature remastered classic radio broadcasts.

Like a Jay Ward cartoon in audio, The Adventures of Tea Man, Volume Two is a hilarious, wacky collection of radio theater written and performed by Mitchell Pearson and the DQD Theater of Philadelphia and produced by Joe Bevilacqua. Get ready for two hours of comedy entertainment!

Long before Sgt. Lefty and the Camp Waterlogg gang took over, The Comedy-O-Rama Hour residents were parody versions of mysteries (Sherlock Holmes), old-time radio ( The Shadow, The Lone Ranger, etc.), sci-fi ( Willoughby and the Professor), superheroes (Teaman and Polfroon), and more. The original scripted Comedy-O-Rama came to a conclusion in 2008, a victim of the SiriusXM merger. In 2012, Joe Bev revamped The Comedy-O-Rama Hour.

His voice can be heard in countless classic animated cartoons, still seen on TV daily around the world. He was Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, Baba Looey, Super Snooper, Blabbermouse, Snagglepuss, Augie Doggy, Mr. Jinks, Wally Gator, Elroy Jetson, Cap'n Crunch, and hundreds of others. Yet you have probably never heard of him. Daws Butler, Characters Actor brings you up close and personal into the life of the man who many consider to be the greatest voice actor of the 20th century.

A Phil Silvers Festival is collection of tributes, parodies and rarities of the great con man comedian-written, produced and performed by Joe Bevilacqua. Bonus tracks feature remastered classic radio and TV broadcasts. This set includes "Jack Robinson at Your Service", "The Wolf and the Goat", "The Fox and the Penguin", "His Second to Last Bow", "This Here is Your Life", "Robin Cat", "Command Performance", "The Tailor Shop", "Aunt Sooty's Neighbor", "The Efficiency Expert", "Slowly I Turn", and "The Slowest Gun in the West".

By popular demand, The New Adventures of Johnny Dollar, Vol. 2, is a follow-up to volume one, dramatized pastiches of the great old time radio detective series by Joe Bevilacqua (“Joe Bev”). This second volume features The Bowery Boys Matter, The James Forbes Matter, The Sarah Martin Matter, The Ugly Pattern Matter, The Walter Patterson Matter, and The Larson Arson Matter. Also, included are bonus tracks of some of Joe Bev’s old time radio parodies of Sherlock Holmes, the Shadow, and the Green Hornet.

Titles produced and directed by Joe Bevilacqua include Seven Letters of Love, Michael & Louise, The Dying End?, and The Ad Game.

Over one hour, hear JoeBev's interpolation of the characters of James Thurber ("Unicorn in the Garden"), featuring some lesser known Thurberesque stories, including the baseball saga "You Can Look it Up". Who better to interpret James Thurber than JoeBev, who was the protégé of Daws Butler, the voice of Yogi Bear.

Spooky comedy, including: "The Monster in the Wardrobe", "Forever a Monster"; "A Halloween Happening", "Bewitched Tongues", "A Camp Waterlogg Halloween", "The Ugly Fairy", "The Evil Millispore", "The Poor Bunny's Magic Bouquet", "The Flying Contest", "The Incredible Black Rain", and "Rain Drop, Snow Flake".

In the variety hour, Joe Bevilacqua performs his own jazz compositions, accompanied by Paul Salomone on piano, Edward Fuqua on bass, Leif Eric on guitar, and Jim Mason on drums. In addition, Joe Bev performs Daws Butler's "Magic Drums" with Joe Gatto on drums, and sings Cab Calloway and Irving Mills' "Minnie the Moocher" as his Camp Waterlogg character Sgt. Lefty and the Chipmunks, featuring Julian Baker on trombone and keyboard. The selections are gleaned from Bevilacqua's hundreds of hours of audio work that spans more than 40 years.

Many years before AMC's Mad Men was a hit, Daws Butler (Yogi Bear) wrote The Ad Game. Adam is the top copywriter at his firm when he finds himself in a career crisis that baffles his wife, Melissa, and his father-in-law, Ed, who is his boss.

Nature comedy, including "The Magic Tree", "The Tree and the Vegetables", "The Lazy Bird", "A Frog in a Frying Pan", "A Drop of Water", "The Last Dinosaurs", "Billy Peck, Tight Rope Waddler", "Batbird", "The Little Stone Bird", "Friends from the Vegetable Patch", "Colorful Animals", "The Grumpy Tree", "Birth of the Turtles", "The Unfriendly River", "The Toothy Toad", "Sparky Hooves", "Scuttleball, Soccer for Ants", "The Red Moon", "The Carnivorous Plant", and more.

A tribute to the classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons, with brand new stories. Includes never-before-performed scripts by Daws Butler, JoeBev's mentor and the original voice of these characters, now interpreted by JoeBev.

Included in this comedy variety show, Lorie Kellogg performing "Bob Dylan Sings Mother Goose", "The Big Match", "The Vegetable Patch", "Elise's Bachelor Party" part one (from The Comedy-O-Rama Hour), "The Girl with the Beautiful Face", kitchen scene from "Our Miss Brooks: One Principle Too Many, One Principle Too Meany", "The Island of Invention", "Elise's Bachelor Party" part two (from The Comedy-O-Rama Hour), "Uncle Goopie: Too Big or Too Small Store" (from The Comedy-O-Rama Hour), and more.

In A Joe Bev Cartoon Collection, Volume 2, award-winning radio producer and voice actor Joe Bevilacqua, aka Joe Bev, presents six comedy titles.

"Silence Be Damned": This narrative is a disturbing, nightmarish tale of a woman named Lydia and her journey through a busy subway station as her reality quickly begins to change. Something menacing waits down there, a monstrous and punishing supernatural force that comes to life. Be warned - this story is not for the faint of heart.

This lively hour of stories, songs, and poems about love were performed before a live audience at Aroma Thyme Bistro in Ellenville, New York. Among the highlights of the evening was a parody of Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe? called "Who's Afraid of a Virginian's Wrath?" as played by George and Martha Washington, performed by husband and wife team Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg; and Lorie singing "The Aroma Thyme Bistro Opera" and reading "Ode to a Transfer Station".

This collection from husband-wife team Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg includes five audio programs - over six hours of audio entertainment!

Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, this play dramatizes the revenge Prince Hamlet is instructed to enact on his uncle, Claudius. Claudius had murdered his own brother, Hamlet's father, and subsequently seized the throne. He also married his deceased brother's widow, Gertrude.