About the Book
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.
Scenes from the Daws Butler Workshop
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. Included in his tutorials are British, Cockney, Irish, Scottish, Italian, Brooklyn, Hindu, German, French, and Southern.
Uncle Dunkle and Donnie by Daws Butler and Joe Bevilacqua
A collection of imaginative cartoon scripts, this series of thirty-five fables were created by Butler in the 1960s. Here his protege, Joe Bevilacqua, performs all ninety-seven characters with music and sound effects.
Uncle Dunkle and Donnie 2 by Daws Butler and Pedro Pablo Sacrista
This second collection of fables features nineteen 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.
About the Author :
Dylan Thomas was born in Swansea, Wales on 27 October 1914. In 1934 his first book of poetry, Eighteen Poems appeared, followed by Twenty-five Poems in 1936, Deaths and Entrances in 1946 and in 1952 his final volume, Collected Poems. He also published many short stories, wrote filmscripts, broadcast stories and talks, did a series of lecture tours in the United States and wrote Under Milkwood, the radio play.During his fourth lecture tour of the United States in 1953, a few days after his 39th birthday, he collapsed in his New York hotel and died on November 9th at St. Vincent's Hospital. His body was sent back to Laugharne, Wales, where his grave is marked by a simple wooden cross.In June 1994, his wife, Caitlin Thomas, died in Italy, where she had spent most of the years of her life after the death of Dylan Thomas. Her body is buried next to his.
Daws Butler was the master of voice. His was the voice behind most of the classic Hanna-Barbera characters: Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Quickdraw McGraw, Elroy Jetson, and a hundred others. He also originated the vocal character of Cap'n Crunch and other famous Jay Ward cartoon characters. His significant work with Stan Freberg in the 1950s on The Stan Freberg Show and multimillion-selling records such as St. George and the Dragonet are still held in reverence today. He also ran a voice acting workshop for many years. Among his many successful students are Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson, and Corey Burton, from Closet Cases of the Nerd Kind.
Joe Bevilacqua, also known as Joe Bev, is a public radio producer and radio theater dramatist. However, his career has taken him into every aspect of show business, including stage, film, and television as a producer, director, writer, author, actor, journalist, documentarian, and even cartoonist. He is also a member of the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York City.
Pedro Pablo Sacristan was born in Madrid and graduated with an MBA from a prestigious business school. His passion for education and writing led him to create Bedtime Stories, short stories that help teach kids values.
Lorie Kellogg is a busy graphic and voice-over artist as well as a skilled improv comedian. She studied painting, printmaking, and video and film at the Kansas City Art Institute and the California Institute of the Arts.
Nancy Cartwright has been the voice of Bart Simpson since 1987. She lives in the Los Angeles area.
Corey Burton, a prolific voice actor, is best known as the current voice of Captain Hook for numerous Disney projects. He is also the voice of Brainiac in the DC animated universe; Count Dooku for numerous Star Wars projects; and Spike Witwicky in the Transformers universe. A former student of voice legend Daws Butler, he has worked for Cartoon Network and the Walt Disney company for more than forty years.
