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This collection of stories features holiday tales for both young and old

The Christmas That Almost Never Was

It is Christmas Eve at the North Pole, and Santa Claus has lost his remembery. Now only a child who has been good for a full year can save Christmas Producer Joe Bevilacqua has unearthed this vintage 1940s recording of the charming Yuletide children's radio play, written by and starring Daws Butler, the voice of Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, and most of the classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters. Also heard in this old time radio show is Don Messick, the voice of Boo Boo Bear, Ranger Smith, and Scooby Doo.

Daws Butler's Halloween Happening

A new production of the classic radio play by the voice of Yogi Bear, Daws Butler

Pedro's Christmas Fables for Kids

Visit Santa at the North Pole, witness the birth of Jesus, go inside Noah's Ark, and more with these timeless short stories that will charm and entertain your whole family Produced with wonderful sound effects and music by veteran radio theater producer Joe Bevilacqua and performed by him and his wife, Lorie Kellogg, these Christmas stories include The Best Choice, A Forced Christmas, Bula the Traveler, Christmas Presents, The Please-O-Meter, and The Little Christmas Star. Other stories include The Tidy Toys, The Match and the Toy Men, Problems on the Ark, A Colorful Head, A Drop of Water, and Balloon Acrobatics.

Pedro's Halloween Fables for Kids

Goblins, fairies, witches, and ghosts These short Halloween themed stories by noted Spanish children's author Pedro Pablo Sacristan will charm and entertain your whole family Produced with wonderful sound effects and music by veteran radio theater producer Joe Bevilacqua, and performed by husband and wife team Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg, the stories include The Creature in the Attic, A Different Take on Halloween, Waking Nightmare, The Evil Goblins, The Brave Boy and the Multicolored Ghost, The Monster in the Wardrobe, Forever a Monster, Bewitched Tongues, The Funny-Looking Fairy, and The Evil Millisphore.

A Waterlogg Double Feature

A Waterlogg double feature from husband and wife team Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg

First is The Joe Bev Valentine Treat. This is a charming hour of stories (real and fictional) about love hosted by veteran public radio producer Joe Bevilacqua.

The hour includes Who's Afraid of a Virginian's Wrath, A Valentine from Graham Nash's Mac, Ode to a Transfer Station or Love Poem for the Dump, A Mathematical Valentine, The Love of Lee the Horselogger, Marian the Librarian Finds Love at the Bookmobile, and Valentine Vignette.

Second is The Comedy-O-Rama Hour Valentine Special: Cupid Comes to Camp Waterlogg, a comic one-hour radio play by Joe Bevilacqua, performed by Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg, plus Cousin Kenny Savoy, Jim Folly, Tom Giannazzo, and Reagan Bonjorno Leonard. Recorded in the woods of Napanoch, New York, and at Carolyn's on Broadway in New York City.

The Gift of the Magi

O. Henry's classic Christmas short story is charmingly told by Lorie Kellogg and Joe Bevilacqua. William Sydney Porter, known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American writer, whose short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization, and clever twists.

O. Henry (1862-1910), born William Sydney Porter in Greensboro, North Carolina, was a short-story writer whose tales romanticized the commonplace, in particular, the lives of ordinary people in New York City. His stories often had surprise endings, a device that became identified with his name. He began writing sketches around 1887, and his stories of adventure in the Southwest United States and in Central America were immediately popular with magazine readers.

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.

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.

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.

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.