Bob & Ray: The Complete Collection

(4.8 stars; 9 reviews)

Sold as a 'complete' collection, it has omissions equal to the amount of material presented. Bob & Ray-A Night of Two Stars DISC 1 (47:58) Welcome to Carnegie Hall; Chocolate Rabbits; Reminisence; Mr.-I-Know-Where-They-Are; Reuniting the Whirleys; Important Announcement: Move Your Car; Biff Burns in the Sports Room; Face in the News: Pizza Flipper; Salesman of the Year; Commercial: Bob & Ray House of Toast; Employee Dinner– Lucy Luscious Nut Fudge Spotless Kitchens; Wally Ballou at the Paper Clip Factory; Commercial: Einbinder Flypaper; Hobby Hut; Announcement: Neil Clummer’s Next Appearance; The Komodo Dragon DISC 2 (63:36) Welcome Back to Carnegie Hall; The Bob & Ray Public Radio Show: Show and Cast Introductions; Organ Concert; Bannister Sliding Contest; Hard Luck Stores; Tippy the Wonder Dog; Speaking Out; Public Service Announcement: Friendly National Chemical Loan and Trust Company; Elmer W. Litzinger, Spy; Dining Out with Bob & Ray; Mr. Trace, Keener than Most Persons; Radio Show Outro; Introduction of Al Shaffer and Paul Taubman; Soap Opera Reminiscence: Secret Heart of Sayville; Mary Backstayge, Noble Wife; Garish Summit; Slow Talkers of America; Encores: Wally Ballou in Times Square; McBeeBee Twins; Credits; Logo and Reprise The Best of Bob & Ray: Volume 1 Excerpts from the Bob & Ray Public Radio Show (4 CDs, Catalog No. RACD 2011-4) DISC 1 (60:10) Wally Ballou: Man on the Street; Commercial: Rudolph and Irma’s Dance Studio; Mr. “I Know Where They Are”; Commercial: Einbinder Flypaper; Biff Burns in the Sports Room; Close Out Sale; The Big Scoop; Garish Summit; Hard Luck Stories; The Orderlies; Commercial: Einbinder Flypaper; Honor City; Editorial; Garish Summit; Chatting with Chesney; Dining Out with Bob & Ray DISC 2 (51:50) Intro; Beg Your Pardon; Commercial: Einbinder Flypaper; Biff Burns in the Sports Room; Speaking Out; Garish Summit; Anxiety: Roger Stamworth; Outro; Intro– Webley Webster; Hard Luck Stories; Commercial: Monongahela Metal Foundry; Do It Yourselfer; Embezzler; Commercial: Einbinder Flypaper; Garish Summit; Anxiety: Warren Hughie and Welden Glimbiter; Outro DISC 3 (56:56) Intro; Elephant Protest; Ralph Bellamy Look Alike; Commercial: Einbinder Flypaper; Hard Luck Stories; Garish Summit; Commercial: Monongahela Metal Foundry; Mr. District Defender; Martin Lesoeur, Raconteur; Outro; Wally Ballou Visits Historic Sturdley House Grand Motel; Commercial: Einbinder Flypaper; Memory Expert; Garish Summit; Commercial: Monongahela Metal Foundry; Kent Lyle Birdley; Disclaimer: Views Behind the Views Behind the News; Closing of the Door Ceremony; Outro DISC 4 (57:53) Intro; McBeeBee Twins; Bankrupcty; Grand Motel; Artie Schermerhorn Investigates Defective Ice Cube Trays; Commercial: Einbinder Flypaper; Garish Summit; Barry Campbell; Commercial: Monongahela Metal Foundry; Charley Chew; Outro; Intro; Speaking Out; Commercial: Einbinder Flypaper; Down the Byways: Kyle Rumsey; Children’s Menu; Garish Summit; Wing Po, Travelling Philosopher; Editorial; Outro The Best of Bob & Ray: Volume 2 Excerpts from the Bob & Ray Public Radio Show (4 CDs, Catalog No. RACD 2012-4) DISC 1 (46:40) Intro; Tippy the Wonder Dog; Hard Luck Stories; Commercial: Einbinder Flypaper; Garish Summit; Commercial: Monongahela Metal Foundry; Emergency Ward; Outro; Army Amateur Hour; Biff Burns; Commercial: Einbinder Flypaper; Garish Summit; Bob & Ray Was There; Outro DISC 2 (48:20) Intro; Bank Error; Commercial: Einbinder Flypaper; Wally Ballou; Garish Summit; Squad Car 119 sponsored by Monongahela Metal Foundry; Dining Out with Bob & Ray; Outro; Intro; Weather Forecast; Commercial Einbinder Flypaper; Widen Your Horizons; Garish Summit; Commercial: Coogan’s Ballbearings, Wonderful Gifts for Father’s Day; Guest Editorial: Flu Shots: Mr. Wallace Purnoy; Outro DISC 3 (37:44) Intro; Buddy Blodget at the Polygon Ballroom; Commercial: Einbinder Flypaper; Garish Summit; Commercial: Monongahela Metal Foundry; Charlie Chew; Outro; Intro; Commercial: Einbinder Flypaper; Do It Yourselfer; Garish Summit; Elmer W. Litzinger, Spy; Outro DISC 4 (37:44) Intro Wally Ballou; State Your Case; Garish Summit; Buddy Blodget; Charlie Chipmunk Show; Intro; Outro; Rex Latchford; The Music Contest; Garish Summit; Commercial: Einbinder Flypaper; Chatting With Chesney; Outro The Best of Bob & Ray: Volume 1 Excerpts from the Bob & Ray Public Radio Show (4 CDs, Catalog No. RACD 2013-4) DISC 1 (54:40) Civil Court; Employment Service; Einbinder “Commercial”; General Pharmacy (movie star); Down the Byway (small town grouch); Upper Mohawk Valley “Commercial”; Garish Summit; VCR Children; General Pharmacy (washed-up surgeon); Weather Forecast; Transatlantic Bridge; Garish Summit; Chatting with Chesney DISC 2 (56:24) Speaking Out (the library); Biff Burns (inventor of the huddle); Prose on Parade; Garish Summit; Down the Byways (printer/counterfeiter); Emergency Ward, South Quoddy Airlines; Anxiety; Speaking Out (Prince of Wales); Faces In The News; Garish Summit; Music Contest (mystery tune) DISC 3 (58:03) Mystery Tune (call from Tahiti); You and Your Symptoms; Consumer Affairs (duck decoy, washers, newspapers); Garish Summit; McGonigle’s Soap “Commercial”; Down the Byways (school janitor); Hobby Hut (meat loaf collector), News Conference (Wally Ballou and Artie Schermerhorn); General Pharmacy (ruined financier); Einbinder “Commercial”; Hobby Hut (Taxidermy specimen collector); Mystery Tune (“Take Me Out to the Ballgame”); Monongahela “Commercial”; Garish Summit DISC 4 (53:12) Consumer Affairs (motorcycles, etc.); Do-It-Yourselfer (printing own books); Club of the Month; Garish Summit; Forum for Fitness (silly exercises); Mr. I-Know-Where-They-Are, Speaking Out (area codes); Anxiety; Do-It-Yourselfer (making a faucet washer); Garish Summit; Forum for Fitness (between-meal snacks); Army Amateur Hour Classic Bob & Ray: Volume 1 Selections from a Career: 1946-1976 (4 CDs, Catalog No. RACD 2015-4) DISC 1 (57:41) Public Service Announcement: I; Grub; the Story of Food; Matt Neffer, Boy Spotwelder (between jobs); Just Fancy Dan, Barber of Hartsdale; King Yukon of the Northwest (captures Pierre the Halfbreed); Mary McGoon’s Recipe for Frozen Ginger Ale Salad; Mister Trace, Keener Than Most Persons (Peg Leg Man Murder Clue); Biff Burns (ping-pong champ); Insomniac Theater (Desperate Man); Arthur Sturdley (Tony rides a horse); Wally Ballou and Artie Schermerhorn (Detergent Box Derby); One Fella’s Family (Garage Trouble); Aunt Penny’s Sunlit Kitchen (story of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Hedges); Your Sanitation Department in Action; Sea Search (perforated eardrums); Manufacturer’s Outlet Sale; Interview with Frank Liberace; Webley Webster’s Book Review; McBeeBee Twins Conduct the Irene Cleming Getchal Orchestra; Interview with Dr. Sherman Y. Maycroft (teaches candidates to speak without a PA system) DISC 2 (55:06) Public Service Announcement: II; Lawrence Fechtenberger, Interstellar Officer Candidate: I; Bob & Ray’s Overstocked Warehouse (Spanish American War); Dean Archer Armstead (garden care); Matt Neffer; Boy Spotwelder (Matt reports to new job); Interview with Butterfly Trainer; Train Robbery; Mister Science (gas refrigeration); Most Exciting Experience (Miss Flannel’s); Wally Ballou (visit to a glass fruit factory); Bob & Ray Grand National Spelling Bee: I; Bob & Ray Grand National Spelling Bee: II; Interview with Marshall Slim Slade; One Fella’s Family (Going Like Sixty); Equitable P. Harman Technical High; Bob & Ray’s Overstocked Warehouse (door chimes); This Place For Heroes; The Question Man; Aunt Penny’s Sunlit Kitchen (story of Mr. and Mrs. Spatz); What The Tune Is DISC 3 (56:31) Public Service Announcement: III; Mister Treat, Chaser of Lost Persons; Interview with U.S. History Author; Wally Ballou (fire engine factory); Insomniac Theater (Test Drive); Faces In The News; Lawrence Fechtenberger, Interstellar Officer Candidate: II; Interview with Floorwalker; Matt Neffer, Boy Spotwelder (mysterious phone calls and letters); Steve Bosco (New Year’s wishes); Arthur Sturdley (eating time); Wally Ballou and Artie Schermerhorn (submarine race); Unusual Occupations (fingernail clipper tester); One Fella’s Family (fixing the sandbox); Visit to a Four Leaf Clover Farm; Dean Archer Armstead (more questions about fall garden care); Interview with George Brent Impersonator; Webley Webster’s Book Review (Tom Swift and His Atomic Fertilizer Spreader) DISC 4 (56:43) Public Service Announcement: IV; Lawrence Fechtenberger, Interstellar Officer Candidate: III; Interview Soap Opera Author Chester Hasbrouch Frisby; Wally Ballou (tranqulizer factory); Tahiti Travelog; Cheaper’s Discount Store; Epic (Civil War); Matt Neffer, Boy Spotwelder (Matt’s First Editions); Mary McGoon’s Inn; Matinee With Bob & Ray (WHDH); Two 1949 Programs: The Life and Loves of Linda Lovely; Chesterfield Commercial; News Update with Peter Gory; Coach Spike McSturdley; Visit From Tex Blaisdell; Arthur Sturdley’s Talent Scouts; Mystery Classic Bob & Ray: Volume 2 Selections from a Career: 1946-1976 (4 CDs, Catalog No. RACD 2016-4) DISC 1 (60:09) News of Bank Branches Moving; Biff Burns (interviews female caddy); Interview Druggists from Somaliland; Eating Time with Arthur Sturdley; Interbureau Coordinator Clyde L. “Hap” Watney (agency not funded for a year); Wally Ballou (at Hollywood sound stage); Reunite Sister and Brother Separated for 70 Years; Webley Webster’s Book Review (“Fanny Farmer’s Cook Book”); Interview Baseball Manager Frankie Papp; Bob & Ray’s Diplomatic Immunity Kit; Interview with Light Bulb Collector: I Interview Light Bulb Collector: II; Spotlight on Amateur Talent (occupation imitator); Report from Foreign Correspondent Brad Balloon; Visit to Canadian Lumber Camp (Chef Pierre LeBoeuf); Interview with Brain Surgeon Jack Bailey; Swap Shop Time; Bob & Ray Lucky Phone Call (lady busy canning); Interview with Man Who Imitates Presidents; Before 1900; Biff Burns (tape of locker room celebration); Good Neighbor Award (“everybody’s grandmother”); Wally Ballou (visit to Muttarama: I) DISC 2 (55:10) Wally Ballaou (visit to Muttarama: II); One Fella’s Family (Great Excitement); Wally Ballou and Artie Schermerhorn (4th of July Parade); August T. May (“The Day the Tree Cried”); Travel Editor Charlie Wendlekin; Mister Science (demonstrates combustion); Dr. Joyce Dunstable (psychologist answers letters); Do You Expect Us To Believe That?; Wally Ballou and Prof. Groggins (new rocket fuel); Finals of the Famous Bob & Ray Spelling Bee: I Finals of the Famous Bob & Ray Spelling Bee: II; Interview with “Lawrence Welk”; Adventures of Sherlock Sage (“Too Many Stings”); Interbureau Coordinator Clyde L. “Hap” Watney (still no funding); Mr. Trace Keener Than Most Persons (Poisoned Donut Case); Matt Neffer, Boy Spotwelder (Matt in a state of upset); Steve Bosco (spring training report); One Fella’s Family (By The Seawall); Wally Ballou (movie premiere) DISC 3 (48:55) Bob & Ray Present: “Mary Backstayge, Noble Wife” (part one); The House of Toast is Born; At The House of Toast; Mary and Harry Are Missing; Shanghaied Aboard the “Rita B.”; Fun Aboard the “Rita B.”; Winter Reminiscences Bob & Ray Present: “Mary Backstayge, Noble Wife” (part two); “Pick Your Brains”; Bus to Meredith, New Hampshire; Filming “Treasure Island”; Greg’s Phone Call; Opening Night at La Scala DISC 4 (59:49) Commercials and Radio Promotions. Wally Ballou interviews TV fan; Wally Ballou interviews Bob & Ray; Guardian Maintenance Men: Tim and Jim (Children’s Writer); Chevrolet Dealers Name Names; Kent Lyle Birdley appointed GE Spokesman; Kent Lyle Birdley (supermarket manager); Webley Webster: Lap-Master Napkin Commercial; Wally Ballou (computer expert); Nationwide Insurance Presents: The Insured Underwood Devilled Ham; Interwoven Socks; Radio Advertising Spots: Wally Ballou (distaster-prone man); Wally Ballou (radio testimonials); Bob & Ray’s Favorite Commercials: Piels Beer; Johnson’s Back Plasters; Alocoa Aluminum; Glidden Paints; Cumuloft Carpets Matinee With Bob & Ray (WHDH), Originally broadcast: December 7, 1949. Open; Chesterfield Commercial; Testimonial from Arthur Sturdley; Lawrence McGaffigan– Cop; New England Doll and Novelty commercial Bedtime Story; Cynthia Sweets commercial; Lyle Gunn, Jr. reports from Washington; “You Tell Me No, No (But There’s Yes, Yes In Your Eyes)”; Mary McGoon; Close Classic Bob & Ray: Volume 3 Selections from a Career: 1946-1976 (4 CDs, Catalog No. RACD 2017-4) DISC 1 (56:22) Mary Backstayge, Noble Wife: Commissioner Carstairs– Part One (WINS, New York, 1954); Mary Has Some Information; Calvin Hoogevin Takes the Stand; Harry Backstayge Takes the Stand; Commissioner Carstairs Drops a Bombshell; Mary Backstayge, Noble Wife: Commissioner Carstairs– Part Two (WINS, New York, 1954); The Committee Adjourns; Attorney Surrogate Shows the Committee a Picture; Andre Detour Takes the Stand; At the Hideout DISC 2 (56:31) Matinee With Bob & Ray (WHDH, Boston, December 6, 1948); Ray Jr. (age 4) visits the studio; The Life and Loves of Linda Lovely; Court of Missing Heirs; Carrie L. Somebody calls; Mary McGoon’s breakfast recipe; Visit from Tex Blaisdell; Mary’s war surplus bargains; Bob & Ray visit Wilson-Green School of Entertainment; Bob & Ray on NBC Radio (1952); NBC station break; Inside Bob & Ray; Behind the Scenes: Baseball Ticket Office; Interview with Peter Gory; Commercial: Answers to “What’s New?”; Book “Tempus Fugit” tells how to save extra hours; Visit from Tex Blaisdell and Mary McGoon; Ladies Grab Your Seats; Commercial: “SkinThick”; Excerpt– NBC morning program (September 22, 1952); Commercial: Pre-Bent Twigs; Bob & Ray Salute Man of the Week in Industry DISC 3 (56:36) Wayside Doctor (WHN, New York, 1964); WOR, New York, April 30 through May 3, 1974: Wally Ballou/Trophy Train 1 (Madison, Wisconsin); Elmer W. Litzinger, Spy (troop movements); Wally Ballou/Trophy Train 2 (Manitowoc, Wisconsin); Squad Car 119 (suspicious fingerprints); Wally Ballou/Trophy Train 3 (Manitowoc, Wisconsin); The Pitmans (Jimmy Joe writes poetry); Wally Ballou/Trophy Train 4 (Manitowoc, Wisconsin); Do-It-Yourselfer (solar power, home- made carpet); Wally Ballou/Trophy Train 5 (Yankton, South Dakota); Matt Neffer, Boy Spotwelder (at the supermarket); Gabe Preston 1 (attempts to file report); Aunt Penny’s Sunlit Kitchen (story Mr. and Mrs. Bullock); Gabe Preston 2; Lawrence Fechtenberger, Interstallar Officer Candidate (trip to Osiris); Dean Archer Armstead (identifies leaves and twigs); Wally Ballou (report from Methuen, Mass.); One Fella’s Family (the children come home); Life’s Embarrassing Moments (at the supermarket); Barry Campbell (falls down stairs) DISC 4 (58:37) Wally Ballou (airborne traffic report); Matt Neffer, Boy Spotwelder (Matt goes through the encyclopedia); McBee Bee Twins Tell Bob & Ray of a New Instrument; The Public Lawyer; One Fella’s Family (High Noon at Home); Webley Webster Book Review (“Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing.”); Wally Ballou and Artie Schermerhorn (Measuring City Blocks); Lucky Phone Call; Interview with Quarterback Frank Fonsicle; Alligator Industries; Miniature Waste Basket Collectors; Bob’s Impersonators; Wally Ballou (arrival of banana boat “Sitting Duck”– part one); Studio Festooning; Wally Ballou (arrival of banana board “Sitting Duck”– part two); Commercial: Anchovy Ironer; 64 Cent Question (jousting– part one); Interview with man who raises hogs; 64 Cent Question (jousting– part two); Bob & Ray Mystery Bus Ride; Barry Campbell (summer stock); Dr. Van Baer examines audience members Classic Bob & Ray: Volume 4 Selections from a Career: 1946-1976 (4 CDs, Catalog No. RACD 2018-4) DISC 1 (53:13) Bridget Hillary and the News (Assistant Secretary of Defense Harlow Fordice); Encourage Young Inventors (new plant food); Elmer W. Litzinger, Spy (encounter with janitor); Emergency Ward (whistle in mouth); The Big Scoop (Vassily Hummert); Audience Interview (Pony Express housewife); Tale of the Old West (Hans Upmeyer); Collectors Item Show (pieces of Fulton’s steamboat, Nero’s fiddle); Tippy the Wonder Dog (Gramps’ birthday); Anxiety (daredevil aviators); Hard Luck Stories (Swiss trip, nut matching service, trailer in street); Gathering Dusk (Federal Treasury Agent Lowenbacher); Feature Stories (paycheck mistake, champion cucumber, long-lost letter); Do-It- Yourselfer (cactus dehumidifiers, thermometer) DISC 2 (53:11) Rorshack (lost dog, phone book); Views Behnind the Views (urban planning); The Orderlies (orderly malpractice insurance); Mr. I-Know-Where-They-Are (Warner Bromley, “Backwards” Grinnell, Lola Dressendorfer); Grand Motel (a new guest arrives); Charlie Chipmunk Show; Blimmix (meets Bullets Culhane); Galaxy of the Baboons (6128 AD); Mr. Science (Archimedes’ principle); Lupis Bartlow, Counselor-At-Law (defends Marlo Binklow); Squad Car 119 (engine overheats); Bob & Ray Editorial (save old sidewalks); Army Amateur Hour (Scottish sword dance, clock radio imitator); The Pittmans (Jimmy Joe wins scholarship) DISC 3 (53:31) Search For Togetherness (Milo Vandervore talks with Dr. Hunnicut); Hollywood Stars (TV game show); Hobby Hut (interview with haircut collector); General Pharmacy (Dr. Knowlton Bradshaw, Fritz Lipvogel); Widen Your Horizons (how to use dental floss); That Glorious Year (salute to 1565); Bob & Ray on 1010 WINS (Excerpts from last show in 1955. Leona Anderson sings the theme song); Other WINS highlights: Chat With Word Carr; Interview with Garbageman of the Month; Song Featuring “Alcana Brill”; Interview With “Shirley Temple” (cable overhauler) DISC 4 (56:43) Bob & Ray’s Last Show on WOR April 30, 1976 (part one): Open; Mary Backstayge Highlight (no script); Snickers Commercial; Mary Backstayge (command performance at Buckingham Palace); Sears Commercial; Webley Webster and Mary McGoon Say Goodbye; News, Weather, Traffic Report (visit experimental kitchen); Planters Comercial; Carmine Tells About His Vacation; Weather; Puerto Rico Commercial; Webley Webster Highlight (weather report); Station ID; Bob & Ray’s Last Show on WOR April 30, 1976 (part two): Open; Lancia Commercial; The Backstayges Perform “In Your Hat” from “Westchester Furioso”; Phone Call from Wealthy Listener; Traffic Report, Station ID; Pan Am Commercial; News; Korvette’s Commercial; Weather, Traffic Report; Kent Lyle Birdley Highlight (band plays a waltz); Wally Ballou Trophy Train Highlight (Wally’s card trick); Olin’s Commercial; Salute to Brooklyn / “Favorite City” Medley; Hillshire Farms Commercial; Sports; Ceremonial Closing of the Studio Door Vintage Bob & Ray: Volume 1 The CBS Years, Part 1 (4 CDs, Catalog No. RACD 4011-4) DISC 1 (55:40) Bob & Ray’s First Show on CBS June 29, 1959: Bob & Ray Arrive at CBS; Introducing Wally Ballou; Wally Interviews a Member of the Studio Audience; Help Bob & Ray to Fame and Fortune and Worry-Free Old Age Kit; Close; Charles the Poet; Ace Willoughby, International Detective (The Marrakech Affair); Mary McGoon (society items); Bob & Ray Wonderland of Knowledge; Wally Ballou (jute box factory); Testimonial Time (“two New York doctors”) Show Open October 9, 1959: Ray Predicts Pictures on Radio; Our Fella Thursday (soap opera for men); Rescue Squadron (crowd control); Wally Ballou (interview with a cartographer); Grand Motel (continental breakfast until 9); Promo: CBS Sunday Line-Up; Sherlock Sage (the Farthingale Mystery); Salvatore Bagatelli (models of Columbus’ ships) DISC 2 (55:33) CBS Broadcast July 21, 1959: Bob & Ray Quartet Sings “Swanee River”; Open; Mary McGoon Defends Her Singing; Popcorn Popping / Great Bird; Columbia Phonograph Commercial; Barry Campbell (new “live” record, movie role); Subliminal Advertising Man; Close Grand Motel (late continental breakfast OK); Word Carr With Barry Campbell (“If Pain Persists” part 1); Army Amateur Hour (cat plays piano, talking greeting card); Wally Ballou (interviews NYC visitor); Jack Headstrong, All-American American (transistorized blimp); Word Carr With Barry Campbell (“If Pain Persists” part 2); Bob & Ray Drama “Part One” DISC 3 (55:22) CBS Broadcast July 21, 1959: Bob & Ray Staff Picnic; Open; Wally Ballou and Artie Schermerhorn Report Live; Columbia Phonograph Commercial (Wally and Artie); Bob & Ray Arrive in Limousine; Steve Bosco Baseball Play-by-Play (fat vs. skinny Bob & Ray employees); Flamenco Dancer and Flutist Perform; Chairman of the Board Addresses Staff; Tex Blaisdell (dog art); Close; Mary McGoon Demonstrates New Game (“Have A Fun”); Grand Motel (continental breakfast anytime); Savings Bonds Public Service Announcement; Bob & Ray Trophy Train (First stop, San Diego) Salute The Honor City (name missing); Ace Willoughby, International Detective (The Unconscious Can’t Speak); Football Promo (CBS Radio Sportstime); Barry Campbell (new show, “The Big Conga”); Wally Ballou (the Fact Datatron machine); Grand Motel (smaller coffee stirrers); Webley Webster Book Review (“Treasury of Great American Speeches”); Lawrence Fechtenberger (return to Polaris) DISC 4 (55:26) CBS Broadcast September 28, 1959 (Three Month Anniversary): Open; Howie Sumatra’s Singing Lessons; College Song Contest; CBS Roving Accordionist; Bob & Ray Trophy Train (Yakima, Washington); Overstocked Warehouse (squirting carnation); Dust McCluskey (racing driver); Artie Schermerhorn at Air Hostess School; Close; Bob Demonstrates the Walner Slendervoice Machine; Grand Motel (new billboard); Interview With Skinny Man (lost diner’s card); Wally Ballou (in bathysphere with Pierre Duvalier) Biff Burns (Fight of the Week); Bob & Ray’s Conversation Program; Up In The Morning With Winch (radio gossip show); Preview Next Week’s Shows; Good Neighbor Award (neighbor’s house burns down); Clyde LaMona (hard-luck announcer); Bob & Ray’s Unrehearsed Courtroom Drama;Johnny Braddock’s Sports-A-Phone; Interbureau Coordinator Hap Watney / Show Close Vintage Bob & Ray: Volume 2 The CBS Years, Part 1 (4 CDs, Catalog No. RACD 4012-4) DISC 1 (56:03) Matinee With Bob & Ray (WHDH 12/49 compilation): Ray sings the WHDH Jingle and “Because”; Arthur Godfrey for Chesterfields; The Life & Loves of Linda Lovely; Chordettes Chesterfields Commercial; Introducing the Chordettes to Arthur Godfrey; Bob Has a Dream About the Future; Dr. Lyle Ordway Solves a Mystery; Music Nook: Opera in Digest Form; Looking up St. Nick & His Helper, Peter Lorre; Mary McGoon’s Christmas Dinner Advice. Matinee with Bob & Ray (WHDH 12/23/48): Ken & Bill play some “Christmas Music” (“Oklahoma!”); The 16th Annual Bob & Ray Christmas Play– (A Spooky Visit to the Moors); Basil Rathbone for Fatima Cigarettes; Mary McGoon’s Christmas Recipes; Ray, Jr. (Age 2) Visits the Studio; More “Christmas Music”; The Life & Loves of Linda Lovely; Mission Bell Wine Singers; Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff & Monster Impressions; Sturdley’s Pigs; Today’s Bread Christmas Recipes. DISC 2 (57:02) Matinee With Bob & Ray (WHDH 6/51 compilation): Friendly Valley; Ken & Bill Play “Cherokee”; Mitch Miller & Expert Music Panel Review Ken & Bill; Boston & Maine Excursion Special; Bob & Ray Climb Aboard the Excursion Train (with Mary, Tex & Webley); Ken & Bill Play “I Still Get a Thrill”; McGee Frigidaire Commercial; Ace in the Hole; The Question Man; Curtain Call for the Bob & Ray Cast. “Dr. OK” (NBC 9/51); Mary McGoon Runs for the Senate; Matt Neffer, Boy Spotwelder (Todd Visits); Mary Talks About Her Nomination & Campaign; Bob & Ray’s Colonial Gardens (Popovers & Celebrities); Bowler Cornell Brakesh; Mr. Trace (The Nightclub Murder Clue); Bob Gives a Drawing Lesson. DISC 3 (55:21) Bob & Ray Present the CBS Radio Network (1959): Wally Ballou in Green River Wyoming; Whirling Birds, Inc. (Helicopter Adventures); Smelly Dave Visits Bridgeport; Clifton Wordlinger, Pizza Flipper; Bob & Ray’s Mailbag;Linoleum’s Millionth Customer; Charlie Chew (Cheap Motel Mystery); Faces in the News;Bob & Ray’s Lost & Found. Biff Burns with Fading Minor-Leaguer Bill Hockey; The McBeeBee Twins On Tour; One Fella’s Family (The Family Leaves); Webley Webster Reviews “Gulliver’s Travels”; Bob & Ray’s Gourmet Club; Logroller Pierre Bouchard; Charles the Poet; Lionel Myopic, Private Eye; Natalie Attired Sings (“I Could Have Danced All Night”). DISC 4 (51:47) Bob & Ray Present the CBS Radio Network (Summer, 1959): Wally Ballou’s Family Visits the Studio; Testing the “Slender Voice” Wire Recorder; Webley Webster’s Book Review; Biff Burns Interviews Fight Manager Emma Noonan; Thurber Whitechapel #1; Bob & Ray’s “Hidden Microphone”; Teen Idol Pat Broome; Lloyd Fenton & the Bob & Ray Waiter Training School. Jack Headstrong (Atomic Plans are Stolen); Webley Webster Reviews “The Hidden Persuaders”; Playhouse 15 Featuring Ronald Dibby; Gabe Preston; One Fella’s Family (Fair Exchange); Natalie Attired (The Trouble with Harry);Matt Neffer, Boy Spotwelder (Grandpa Visits);Thurber Whitechapel #2;Gaspar Fletcher Jr, Gumshoe. Vintage Bob & Ray: Volume 3 The CBS Years, Part 1 (4 CDs, Catalog No. RACD 4013-4) DISC 1 (54:22) Awful Godfrey (audience refreshments);Wally Ballou (at the country fair in Plimpton, IA);Biff Burns (with Dad Gormley);One Fella’s Family (“October”);Sports News with Steve Bosco (long distance call-asks for money);A Wild Sightseeing Bus Ride Through New York;Ski Weekend Film;Slats McGurk (Jazz the Lombardo Way);One Minute Quiz;Webley Webster (Minute’s Worth of Music); Wally & Artie (ride a hot air balloon);Webley Webster Sings Broadway (badly);Lawrence Fechtenberger, Interstellar Officer Candidate (at the Spring dance);The Great Willoughby;Biff Burns (with Arthur Bafernetti, dog disrupter trainer);O. Leo Leahy (explains the creative process);One Fella’s Family (Trick or Treat);O. Leo Leahy (personal questions);The Life and Loves of Linda Lovely DISC 2 (56:18) WHN, November, 1962 (Election Eve);Schrafft’s Spot – (Bob & Ray Testimonial);Political Debate (Ralph Moody Lancaster);Dale Dance Studio (Guaranteed Limited Introductory Offer);Political Debate (Sturdley gets indicted);Political Commercial (Nelson Rockefeller);Club Bob & Ray;Webley Webster (in Fitzwilliam, NH); La Rosa Spaghetti Commercial;Political Debate (Ralph Moody Lancaster is also indicted);ZsaZsa Gabor News Clip;WHN’s “Name in the News”;Mary Backstayge, Noble Wife – Intro;S&H Green Stamps Commercial;Mary Backstayge, Noble Wife (A Jewelry Offer);Wally Ballou (Midget Auto Racing);WHN Sign Off; Thing for A Day (Dr. Wilfred Puberly and his Medieval Orchestra);Dean Archer Armstead (Chicken Control Farm Report);Wally Ballou (Boca Raton Hotel Commercial Kazoo Festival);Lawrence “Chuck” Peterdon, Novice Sportscaster (with ex-swimmer, Nick “Flail” Edwards);Word Carr in Hollywood (Anatomy of Jury);The McBeeBee Family Singers (Row Your Boat);Weather Forecaster, Clifford Flemming DISC 3 (57:50) One Fella’s Family (Defrosting the Refrigerator);Bob & Ray Was There (Hannibal Crossing the Alps);Wally Ballou and Artie Schermerhorn (waiting on 5th Avenue);Interview Without Guests;Dean Archer Armstead (Farm Report);Bob & Ray’s Cheater’s Kit;Matt Neffer, Boy Spotwelder (A Mystery);Dexter Beaufort, Escutscheon Maker;Biff Burns (with “Shaky Fred” McCorkle, ex-pickup sticks champ);Sea Search (Flipper Martin & Lance argue over Flotsam or Jetsam);Bob & Ray Lucky Phone Call (Raleigh, NC); The CBS Radio Network Intro (Webley wants all the bonbons);Ace Willoughby, International Detective;Wally Ballou (at the Acme Aroma Factory);Lawrence Fechtenberger, Interstellar Officer Candidate (on Venus with Muggs Melish);Dean Archer Armstead (Yellow Jacket Accident);Weather Report (Clifford Flemming);World News Report;Barry Campbell (tries a new career as stuntman);Beg Your Pardon (tourist is given the wrong time);Close DISC 4 (56:04) Amateur Mountain Climber ((Trevellian Willet);Aunt Penny’s True to Life Stories (leaving Big Stone);Gem Collectors (Wendell Pew is robbed in his studio);Lawrence Fechtenberger, Interstellar Officer Candidate (Going to Neptune);Bob & Ray’s Gourmet Club (the Edward R. Murrow sandwich);Postmaster Week (wrapping tollhouse cookies);Wally Ballou (Professor Gloggins’ space ship);Lionel Myopic, Private Eye;Uncle Bob and Uncle Ray’s Hollywood Cartoon Show;Claude and Clyde at Bob & Ray’s Gourmet Club;Wally and Webley Editorial (dandruff);A Spooky Sound; Webley Webster Intro;Kirby Ayres, wandering accordionist;Fred B. Stole (clock hospital);Short Tempered Guest (rejected astronaut);Deputy Jake from Praline, Georgia;Wally & Artie (at the 95th Flubbers’ Open);Project Farsight (Doctor Root trains Billy Orbit);Coffee Man enters the studio;Thurber Whitechapel’s Adventure Call;Charley Chew (kidnapping of William Snyder);Little Known Facts About New York Vintage Bob & Ray: Volume 4 The CBS Years, Part 1 (4 CDs, Catalog No. RACD 4014-4) DISC 1 (56:04) Pupi Convention;Jack Headstrong (Telephone Television);Wally Ballou (homemade auto maker, Martin Boswell);Clyde L. “Hap” Watney (fiscal plans);One Fella’s Family (carrying out the trash);Bob & Ray Interviews (Ace Arabian Drill Team);HodgePodge (Quiz Game Rules);Beg Your Pardon (Magician Hewlett Tuckering);Alvin Hancock Presents (Body, Body, Who’s Got the Body?);Partyline (Busy Housewife, Amy Frumpwhiler);Unusual Occupations (silent butler); One Fella’s Family (Clifford calls);Wally Ballou (homemade automaker #2);Is This Your Life (Lucas Litman);Unusual Occupations (tissue paper inserter);The Heart of Life (Gordon & Audrey Grady);The Sound-a-like Club;Lawrence Fechtenberger, Interstellar Officer Candidate (Muggs Melish & Jed Ordway);Louella Parkinson (personal habits of the stars);You May Not Believe This (22 kids share a birthday, 742-pound King Myron, live pig made of horsehide, Albanian man moves mountain). DISC 2 (55:31) Bob & Ray Junior Achievement Award (re-inventing the orange);WADS (Women’s Auxiliary Dept. of Sanitation);Arthur Sturdley (how old do horses get?);Hawaiian Tourist Bureau Announcement;Arthur Sturdley (eating time);Satellite Sun;McBeeBee Twins (twin racing boats);80-Year-Old Twins (meet after 72 years);Meet the Audience (woman from the other Kansas City);Bob & Ray in the Bathesphere (#1);How Does Radio Work?;Bob & Ray in the Bathesphere (#2);My Most Harrowing Experience;Bob & Ray in the Bathesphere (#3); Wally Ballou (at the Golden Chain restaurant);Gabe Preston (calls in);Good Neighbor Award (Frederick E. Hogan);Wally Ballou & Artie Schermerhorn (checker tournament);After Hour TV Show (Hack Park & Eustice Dove);Person to Person (with Forrest Pricely);Bob & Ray’s Answering Service;Interviewing the Audience (“Vincent Price”);Wally Ballou (ski jumping at Squaw Valley);Charles the Poet. DISC 3 (54:33) Mindreader “Fawlenger”;Mr. Trace, Keener than Most Persons;Cigarette Collector (famous butts);One Fella’s Family (Jack’s friends rob a bank);Wally Ballou (at Cape Canaveral with Prof. X);Word Carr in Hollywood;August T. May (children’s author);Interviewing the Audience (bad impressions); General Practitioner (Conrad Bwana in the Congo);Interviewing the Audience (Elsie Dimburg);Gathering Dusk (Edna confesses to murder);Wally Ballou (needle in the haystack contest);Secret File (pathological fruit pincher);Dean Archer Armstead (selling the farmhouse);Ferris Gallagher’s Supermarket;Wally Ballou (kazoo company in Kalamazoo);Matt Neffer, Boy Spotwelder (letter for the FBI). DISC 4 (54:19) The Junior Bob & Ray Semifinals;Hazel Hunsaford’s Household Hints;Emergency Ward (Air-cooled Franklin);Last Night (America After Twilight);Bridget Hillary and the News;The Wallabys (world trip by rowboat);The World of Travel (with Tom Lowell);Wally Ballou (at Elsie’s filling station);Mary Backstayge’s Marigold Offer; Bob & Ray News Special (drifting on a raft off Catalina Island);Held Up for Ridicule (Margo Schechtelusengaard & Lester McAack);Wally Ballou & Artie Schermerhorn (at the Aquajollies);The Traveling Bedlows;Dean Archer Armsted & Robin (fowl questions);This Place for Heros (fearless small-time editor, Fred JohnWassal);”Tex” and the Smokey Valley Boys (sing “Blood on the Saddle” forMary);Mary McGoon (preview of tomorrow’s recipe: cubing a hunk of ice).

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.