Joe Bevilacqua has 5 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 4 narrators. The most-rated is The New Adventures of Johnny Dollar: Volume 1.
The Daws Butler Collection
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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. Daws Butler's Halloween Happening by Daws Butler: A new production of the classic radio play, this ghostly story was originally written and performed by Daws Butler. Veteran voice actor Joe Bevilacqua teams up with Lorie Kellogg in this new recording, complete with music and sound effects. What the Butler Wrote by Daws Butler: In this series, Joe Bevilacqua presents performances of several scripts Butler wrote for his 1975 acting workshops. Rare Daws Butler by Daws Butler, Stan Freberg, Herschel Bemardi, Shep Menken, and Carol Hemmingway: Daws Butler voiced many of Stan Freberg's greatest comedy records. Here is a hilarious collection of his never-before-released comedy records. Rare Daws Butler, Volume Two by Daws Butler: A follow-up to Rare Daws Butler, this second collection features another hour of Butler's rare comedy recordings. Daws Butler Teaches You Dialects by Daws Butler: Voice magician Daws Butler teaches accents and dialects in this radio production. Uncle Dunkle and Donnie by Daws Butler and Joe Bevilacqua: A collection of imaginative cartoon scripts, this series of 35 fables was created by Butler in the 1960s. Here his protégé, Joe Bevilacqua, performs all 97 characters with music and sound effects. Uncle Dunkle and Donnie Two by Daws Butler and Pedro Pablo Sacrista: This second collection of fables features 19 never-before-released recordings of Daws Butler's stories, as well as two new Uncle Dunkle fables. The Christmas That Almost Never Was by Daws Butler: It is Christmas Eve at the North Pole when Santa Claus loses his “remembery” and only a child who has been good for 365 days can save Christmas! Written and performed by Butler, this children's radio play was recorded in the 1940s.
©2013 Blackstone Audio (P)2013 Blackstone Audio
New & Old Time Radio
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A tribute to the golden age of radio from veteran producer Joe Bevilacqua, The New Stories of Old Time Radiois a collection of radio dramas and parodies featuring beloved radio characters and shows. The New Stories of Old Time Radioe: Volume One, Set One Produced, directed, and voiced by Joe Bevilacqua, with Lorie Kellogg, this is the first anthology of new fiction based on the beloved old-time radio characters and shows. The New Stories of Old Time Radio: “Fibber McGee” and “Duffy’s Tavern” A follow-up to the first volume, this radio theater production features two new old-time radio stories, complete with sound effects and music. Old Time Radio Parodies: The Best of Comedy-O-Rama Hour, Season Two Producer Joe Bevilacqua parodies some of the most beloved old-time radio shows, including The Shadow, The Lone Ranger, The Green Hornet, and War of the Worlds.
©2013 Joe Bevilacqua (P)2013 Blackstone Audio
Camp Waterlogg Chronicles, Seasons 1 - 5
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Part improvisation, part audio cartoon, The Camp Waterlogg Chronicles, Seasons 1 - 5 is a five-volume collection of the successful comedy show created by two radio-theater veterans. Each volume contains six one-hour segments of the comic misadventures of Sergeant Lefty, Olive Pitts, Ellis the Boatkeeper, Squeaky Lkie, Stinky Peter, Mrs. Terwilliger, and all the wacky denizens of Camp Waterlogg, the dilapidated camp for kids in the Catskills. The creation of husband-and-wife team Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev) and Lorie Kellogg, theses episodes are part of the Comedy-O-Rama Hour, a successful radio theater show on Sirius XM Radio.
©2013 Joe Bevilacqua (P)2013 Blackstone Audio
The Excruciating Hello
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Move over, Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade. There’s a new gumshoe named Brute Ballingham. Together with secretary Moolada and nephew Pinky, this hard-drinking private detective is sucked into the seedy 1940s New York crime underworld. The Excruciating Hello is a five hour wild and bizarre post-modern pastiche of such hard-boiled crime noir fiction as The Long Goodbye, The Maltese Falcon, To Have and Have Not, The Red Wind, The High Window, Trouble Is My Business, The Lady in the Lake, Farewell, My Lovely, The Big Sleep, and other noir classics originated by such writers as Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. Chapter one: "The Camp Kilmer Case" Chapter two: "The Sizable Slumber" Chapter three: "The Burmese Albatross" Chapter four: "Pinky’s Pancake Problem" Chapter five: "The Greasy Tide" Chapter six: "To Have a Lot and Not Have a Lot" Chapter seven: "Treble Is My Business" Chapter eight: "The Green Wind" Chapter nine: "The Lady up a Creek" Chapter 10: "The High Widow" Chapter 11: "Adiós Me Damas" Chapter 12: "That Monkey Has No Tail"
©2019 Joe Bevilacqua (P)2019 A Joe Bev Production LLC
The New Adventures of Johnny Dollar: Volume 1
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The original Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar was a radio drama that aired on CBS Radio from February 18, 1949, to September 30, 1962. The best-known incarnation was with Bob Bailey starring in "the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account-America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator." There were 809 episodes, plus two not-for-broadcast auditions, in the 12-year run, and more than 720 still exist today out of 886 total performances. Actors who portrayed Johnny Dollar: Dick Powell (audition show in 1948) Charles Russell (February 1949 to January 1950) Edmond O'Brien (February 1950 to September 1952) John Lund (November 1952 to September 1954) Gerald Mohr (audition show in 1955) Bob Bailey (October 1955 to November 1960) Bob Readick (December 1960 to June 1961) Mandel Kramer (June 1961 to September 1962) Joe Bev (2018 to 2019) This first new volume includes: "The Suicidal Bicycle Matter", "The Clever Chemist Matter", "The Where the Elite Meet to Eat Matter", "The Thelma Ibsen Matter", "The Jack Benny Matter", "The Murder Is a Merry-Go-Round Matter", and "The Expose Matter". Plus sample chapters of upcoming Joe Bev Productions, including new episodes of The Lone Ranger, Sherlock Holmes, and The Green Lama.
©2019 Joe Bevilacqua (P)2019 A Joe Bev Production, LLC