Bob &amp; Ray's farewell performance at Carnegie Hall. Featuring their classic, most popular routines, including The Slow Talkers of America * The Komodo Dragon * Wally Ballou and the Cranberry Man in Times Square * The McBeeBee Twins * Wally Ballou at the Paper Clip Factory * Soap Opera Reminiscence including Mary Backstayge, Noble Wife * Garish Summit and The Secret Heart of Sayville, and Mr. Trace, Keener Than Most Persons. 2 hours on 2 CDs.

Bob & Ray: A Night Of Two Stars (Two Compact Discs--2 Hours)

Humor & Entertainment

Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding

Humor

The Radio Foundation, Inc.

This 4-CD set contains 79 Bob &amp; Ray bits, including Wally Ballou visits historic Sturdley House; Rudolph &amp; Irma s Dance Studio; Wing Po, itinerant philosopher; Anxiety; Biff Burns in the Sports Room; old time announcer, Kent Lyle Birdley; Grand Motel; Artie Schermerhorn investigates defective ice cube trays, The McBeeBee Twins, plus 8 episodes of Garish Summit. For a detailed list of tracks go to BobandRay.com/catalog.

Best of Bob & Ray, Volume 1

This 4-CD set contains 59 priceless Bob &amp; Ray routines &amp; characters including Wally Ballou, Biff Burns, Bob &amp; Ray Was There, Army Amateur Hour, Dining Out with Bob &amp; Ray, Elmer W. Litzinger, Spy; Widen Your Horizons, Buddy Blodget at the Polygon Ballroom, commercials for Einbinder Flypaper and the Monongahela Metal Foundry, plus 8 episodes of Garish Summit. For a detailed list of tracks go to BobandRay.com/catalog.

Best of Bob & Ray, Volume 2

This 4-CD set contains 66 funny Bob &amp; Ray routines, including Wally Ballou at a half-finished Transatlantic Bridge, Biff Burns with the inventor of the huddle, plus "VCR Children," "You and Your Symptoms, " "Hobby Hut," "Army Amateur Hour," 8 more episodes of Garish Summit, and commercials for McGonigle's Soap, Einbinder Flypaper and the Monongahela Metal Foundry.

The Best of Bob & Ray, Volume 3

This 4-CD set contains 80 Bob & Ray routines including Wally Ballou at a Hollywood Sound Stage; Bob and Ray's Diplomatic Immunity Kit; Mr. Science Demonstrates Combustion; Interbureau Coordinator, Hap Watney; One Fella's Family; Piels Beer Commercials; Bob & Ray Grand National Spelling Bee Finals; Webley Webster s Book Review; Matt Neffer, Boy Spotwelder; Nationwide Insurance Presents: The Insured; Eating Time with Arthur Sturdley, and many more. For a detailed list of tracks go to BobandRay.com/catalog.

Classic Bob & Ray, Volume 2

Contains 78 Bob &amp; Ray routines including Wally Ballou at Cape Canaveral with Prof. X; You May Not Believe This; Is This Your Life? Louella Parkinson; WADS (Women's Auxiliary of the Department of Sanitation); The McBeeBee Twins; Hazel Hunsaford's Household Hints; Bridget Hillary and the News: Mary Backstayge s marigold offer; Held Up For Ridicule; Wally Ballou &amp; Artie Schermerhorn at the Aquajollies; Dean Archer Armistead; Emergency Ward; Mr. Trace, Keener Than Most Persons; Word Carr in Hollywood; The Gathering Dusk; Matt Neffer, Boy Spotwelder; Beg Your Pardon; Arthur Sturdley; One Fella's Family, and many more. For a detailed list of tracks go to BobandRay.com/catalog.

Vintage Bob & Ray, Volume 3 - The New York Years, Part 1

Follow the absurd adventures of Bob and Ray's most popular soap opera parody: "Mary Backstayge, Noble Wife, featuring Mary; Handsome Harry Backstayge, the idol of a million other women; their next door neighbor, Calvin Hoogavin; stage door man, Pop Beloved; and Broadway producer Greg Marlowe, who is secretly in love with Mary, as they leave Skunkhaven, Long Island to board a train for Seattle where they will open "Westchester Furioso" at a theater atop the Space Needle. Fielding Backstayge, Harry's long-lost blacksheep brother, does his worst to disrupt the play, while the play's backer, Wealthy Jacobus Pike, keeps a worried eye on things. A mysterious ululating Train Buff mysteriously appears followed by many sprained ankles. For a detailed list of tracks go to BobandRay.com/catalog.

Bob & Ray, The Soap Operas - Volume 5, Featuring Mary Backstayge, Noble Wife

Contains 66 Bob & Ray selections, including 23 Mary Backstayge episodes in which Mary, Harry, Calvin and Pop Beloved wander from Yokohama to Ogunquit, Maine for the premiere of "Westchester Furioso." Also, Wally Ballou aboard the Bob & Ray Trophy Train; Blimmix; Squad Car 119; The Gathering Dusk; Word Wizard Elmer Stapley; Mr. Science; Charles the Poet; Wing Po; Do-It-Yourselfer Fred Falvy; Elmer W. Litzinger, Spy; and many, many moreÃ¢Â€Â¦

Bob & Ray the Lost Episodes, Volume 1

Contains 79 Bob & Ray selections including commercials for Chesterfields, the 1951 Chevrolet, Nutro Permanent Antifreeze, Tiny Tim Tin Teddy Bears, the Pierce Arrow Motor Company, Monongahela Steel Ingots, and Bert and Harry for Piels Beer, plus 2 WHDH compilations. Also: 11 Mary Backstayge, Nobel Wife episodes; Wally Ballou; Tippy the Wonder Dog; "Anxiety!"; The McBeeBee Twins; and many, many more...

Bob & Ray the Lost Episodes, Volume 2

ONLY IN AMERICA is an 8-part radio documentary on the history of American Jews, 1654-2000.
 Including: Elie Weisel, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg John Lithgow, Jon Stewart, Mel Brooks, Jerry Stiller, Philip Roth, Zero Mostel and many others. 
 More than three hundred and fifty years ago, in September 1654, twenty - three impoverished Jews arrived by ship in New Amsterdam after having been expelled from Recife, Brazil. Adding insult to injury, Governor Peter Stuyvesant tried to expel them when they arrived. They refused to leave, successfully appealing Stuyvesant's order to the board of the Dutch West India Company. This was the less than auspicious beginning of the Jewish experience in America. 
 ONLY IN AMERICA, shows the progress of American Jews from this trickle of poor immigrants to today's thriving community of six million. ONLY IN AMERICA is organized around themes, historical periods and individuals that illustrate important aspects of American Jewish history.
 The series shows that the story of American Jews is the story of all American immigrants: how they have changed America and how America has changed them. The title, ONLY IN AMERICA, reflects our belief in American exceptionalism - that the spectacular rise of American Jews over more than three centuries could only have happened here. Freedom, equality and opportunity, eventually transcending class and religion, are uniquely American. Nothing like it ever happened in Europe, even after the emancipation of the Jews in the 19th century. Gustav Mahler had to convert to Christianity to become Music Director of the Vienna Philharmonic. By comparison, Leonard Bernstein was openly Jewish when he became director of the New York Philharmonic.
 After generations of hard work and struggle, most American Jews now enjoy prosperity and success. Today, Jews occupy high positions in government, the professions, academia, business, entertainment, sports, and the military. ONLY IN AMERICA is full of stories and personalities of Jewish women and men.
 Along with the many high points, one program, No Dogs or Jews Allowed, includes some dark moments in American Jewish history: the lynching of Leo Frank, a Jewish businessman falsely accused of killing a gentile woman; General Ulysses Grant's Order #11, expelling Jews from the territory occupied by the Union armies under his command during the Civil War (immediately reversed by President Abraham Lincoln); and the virulent anti-Semitism that started in the 1880s and peaked in the 1930s and 40s, when most Jews fleeing Nazi persecution were denied American visas. 
 Non-Jewish listeners, almost all from immigrant backgrounds, can see aspects of their own history reflected in American Jewish history: the struggle for success and acceptance; the conflict between assimilating and maintaining one's religious and ethnic identity; and the fight against discrimination (Irish, Poles, Italians, Latinos and Asians have a similar story). The program examines the major question affecting American Jewish life today - assimilation and intermarriage.

Only in America: The Story of American Jews - A Radio Documentary

History

Larry Josephson

Sara Porath

Americas

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