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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/533290 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Burns and Allen, Vol. 1 Author: Black Eye Entertainment Narrator: A Full Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 52 minutes Release date: April 13, 2021 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: George Burns and Gracie Allen were one of the biggest comedy duos the world has ever known. Enjoy sixteen of their greatest radio broadcasts! When real-life husband and wife George Burns and Gracie Allen worked together in vaudeville, George was the comic and his wife, Gracie, had the straight lines. They switched their roles upon discovering that Gracie’s delivery got a bigger laugh than George’s punch lines. The duo became a big hit on vaudeville and in films, so when radio beckoned, they delivered. Their first regular radio work was as supporting players on CBS’s The Guy Lombardo Show in the 1930s. When Lombardo switched to NBC, George and Gracie took over the show. Early on, the two did not play a married couple on the air. For a long time they continued a “flirtation act” with George as Gracie’s most persistent suitor. But when the show’s ratings began to sag toward the end of the 1930s, George decided it was time their real-life marriage was written into the show. The new format included husband-and-wife characters in a situation comedy setting. George’s instincts were spot-on, and The Burns and Allen Show went on to new heights, eventually making a successful transition to television. 1/24/46 - with guest Kay Kyser 4/11/46 - “Gracie Joins a Literary Club” 4/25/46 - with guest Sydney Strotz 1/16/47 - “Poker Game” 1/23/47 - “Country Cousin” 1/30/47 - with guest Beatrice Lillie 3/6/47 - “Gracie Takes Up Crime Solving” 3/27/47 - “St. Bernard” 4/3/47 - “Easter Hat War Counsel” 5/1/47 - “George the Janitor” 5/15/47 - “Gracie Treats George Like a King” 9/11/47 - “The Long Dress” 10/9/47 - “Gracie Gets a Job” 12/11/47 - “Lady Killer” 5/13/48 - “Gracie’s Problems with Salesmen” 5/27/48 - “Spiritualism”

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/533299 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Glory Road: A Gospel Gypsy Life Author: Anita Faye Garner Narrator: Pamela Almand Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 31 minutes Release date: April 13, 2021 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Stories and songs from a childhood spent in a vanished world of revivals and road shows Anita Faye Garner grew up in the South—just about every corner of it. She and her musical family lived in Texarkana, Bossier City, Hot Springs, Jackson, Vicksburg, Hattiesburg, Pascagoula, Bogalusa, Biloxi, Gulfport, New Orleans, and points between, picking up sticks every time her father, a Pentecostal preacher known as “Brother Ray,” took over a new congregation. In between jump-starting churches, Brother Ray took his wife and kids out on the gospel revival circuit as the Jones Family Singers. Ray could sing and play, and “Sister Fern” (Mama) was a celebrated singer and songwriter, possessed of both talent and beauty. Rounding out the band were the young Garner (known as Nita Faye then) and her big brother Leslie Ray. At all-day singings and tent revivals across the South, the Joneses made a joyful noise for the faithful and loaded into the car for the next stage of their tour. But growing up gospel wasn’t always joyous. The kids practically raised and fended for themselves, bonding over a shared dislike of their rootless life and strict religious upbringing. Sister Fern dreamed of crossing over from gospel to popular music and recording a hit record. An unlikely combination of preacher’s wife and glamorous performer, she had the talent and presence to make a splash, and her remarkable voice brought Saturday night rock-and-roll to Sunday morning music. Always singing, performing, and recording at the margins of commercial success, Sister Fern shared a backing band with Elvis Presley and wrote songs recorded by Johnny Cash and many other artists. In her touching memoir The Glory Road, Anita Faye Garner re-creates her remarkable upbringing. The story begins with Ray’s attempts to settle down and the family’s inevitable return to the gospel circuit and concludes with Sister Fern’s brushes with stardom and the family’s journey west to California where they finally landed—with some unexpected detours along the way. The Glory Road carries listeners back to the 1950s South and the intersections of faith and family at the very roots of American popular music.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/533302 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR Author: Lisa Napoli Narrator: Lisa Napoli Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 46 minutes Release date: April 13, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A group biography of four beloved women who fought sexism, covered decades of American news, and whose voices defined NPR In the years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, women in the workplace still found themselves relegated to secretarial positions or locked out of jobs entirely. This was especially true in the news business, a backwater of male chauvinism in which a woman might be lucky to get a foothold on the “women’s pages.” But when a pioneering nonprofit called National Public Radio came along in the 1970s and the door to serious journalism opened a crack, four remarkable women came along and blew it off the hinges. Susan, Linda, Nina, and Cokie is journalist Lisa Napoli’s captivating account of these four women, their deep and enduring friendships, and the trail they blazed to becoming icons. They had radically different stories. Cokie Roberts was born into a political dynasty, roamed the halls of Congress as a child, and felt a tug toward public service. Susan Stamberg, who had lived in India with her husband who worked for the State Department, was the first woman to anchor a nightly news program and pressed for accommodations to balance work and home life. Linda Wertheimer, the daughter of shopkeepers in New Mexico, fought her way to a scholarship and a spot on-air. And Nina Totenberg, the network’s legal affairs correspondent, invented a new way to cover the Supreme Court. Based on extensive interviews and calling on the author’s deep connections in news and public radio, Susan, Linda, Nina, and Cokie is as beguiling and sharp as its formidable subjects.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/524286 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975 Author: Richard Thompson Narrator: Richard Thompson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 19 minutes Release date: April 6, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A Rolling Stone Best Music Book of 2021 “Thompson is a master showman . . .  [Beeswing is] everything you’d hope a Richard Thompson autobiography would be . . . It’s both major and minor, dirge and ditty, light on its feet but packing a punch.” —The Wall Street Journal Now Featuring an Interview with Elvis Costello   In this moving, immersive, and long-awaited memoir, beloved international music legend Richard Thompson recreates the spirit of his early years, where he found, and then lost, and then found his way again. Considered one of the top twenty guitarists of all time, Thompson also belongs in the songwriting pantheon alongside Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, and Randy Newman. Here the British folk musician takes us back to the late 1960s, a period of great change and creativity for both him and the world at large. During the pivotal years of 1967 to 1975, just as he was discovering his passion for music, he formed the band Fairport Convention with some schoolmates and helped establish the genre of British folk rock. It was a thrilling period of massive tours, where Thompson was on the road in both the UK and the US, crossing paths with the likes of Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and Jimi Hendrix, as well as a time of heady and explosive creativity for Thompson, who wrote some of his most famous songs during this time. But as Thompson reveals, those eight years were also marked by upheaval and tragedy. Honest, moving, and compelling, Beeswing vividly captures the life of a remarkable man and musician during a period of artistic intensity, in a world on the cusp of change. “An absorbing, witty, often deliciously biting read, as all rock memoirs should be.” —Los Angeles Review of Books

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/530141 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Close-Up on Sunset Boulevard: Billy Wilder, Norma Desmond, and the Dark Hollywood Dream Author: Sam Staggs Narrator: Donald Corren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 18 minutes Release date: March 30, 2021 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, a classic film noir and also a damning dissection of the Hollywood dream factory, evokes the glamour and ruin of the stars who subsist on that dream. It’s also one long in-joke about the movie industry and those who made it great—and who were, in turn, destroyed by it. One of the most critically admired films of the twentieth century, Sunset Boulevard is also famous as silent-star Gloria Swanson’s comeback picture. Sam Staggs’s Close-Up on Sunset Boulevard tells the story of this extravagant work, from the writing, casting, and filming to the disastrous previews that made Paramount consider shelving it. It’s about the writing team of Billy Wilder and Charles Bracket—sardonically called “the happiest couple in Hollywood”—and their raucous professional relationship. It’s about the art direction and the sets, the costumes, the props, the lights and cameras, and the personalities who used those tools to create a cinematic work of art. Staggs goes behind the scenes to reveal: William Holden, endlessly attacked by his bitter wife and drinking too much; Nancy Olson, the cheerful ingenue who had never heard of the great Gloria Swanson; the dark genius Erich von Stroheim; the once famous but long-forgotten “Waxworks;” and of course Swanson herself, who—just like Norma Desmond—had once been “the greatest star of them all.” But the story of Sunset Boulevard doesn’t end with the movie’s success and acclaim at its release in 1950. There’s much more, and Staggs layers this stylish book with fascinating detail, following the actors and Wilder into their post-Sunset careers and revealing Gloria Swanson’s never-ending struggle to free herself from the clutches of Norma Desmond. Close-Up on Sunset Boulevard also chronicles the making of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical production of Sunset Boulevard and the explosive diva controversies that dogged it. The book ends with a shocking example of Hollywood life imitating Hollywood art. By the last page of this rich narrative, listeners will conclude: we are those “wonderful people out there in the dark.”

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/523459 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Noise Damage - My life as a rock n roll underdog (Unabridged) Author: James Kennedy Narrator: James Kennedy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 15 minutes Release date: March 26, 2021 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: 'Harrowing, funny and 100% true' Ginger Wildheart The tale that follows is not another clichéd collection of rock'n'roll debaucheries (sorry) nor is it another tired fable of triumph over adversity (you're welcome). It's the story of a half-deaf kid from a tiny, remote village in South Wales who was hailed as a genius by the UK's biggest radio station and headhunted by major record labels, only for the music industry to collapse. It crashed hard, taking with it an entire generation of talented artists who would never now get their shot. CNN called it 'music's lost decade'. Along the way, there are goodies, baddies, gun-toting label execs, life-saving surgeons, therapy, true love, loyalty, hope, breakdowns, suicidal managers, betrayal, drummers and way too many hangovers. James Kennedy shows that the best lessons are to be learned from good losers. It really is all about the journey. Part memoir, part exposé of the music world's murky underbelly, Noise Damage is emotional, painfully honest, funny, informative and ridiculous. It's also a celebration of the life-changing magic of music.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/528915 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In the Presence of Greatness: My Sixty-Year Journey as an Actress Author: Patty Duke, William J. Jankowski Narrator: Kathy Garver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 54 minutes Release date: March 23, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Patty first gained national attention and praise playing Helen Keller in both the Broadway stage and film versions of The Miracle Worker. As identical cousins on The Patty Duke Show, her name became an American household word. Her later work in Valley of the Dolls, Me, Natalie, My Sweet Charlie, a later television remake of The Miracle Worker, and dozens of other productions established her as one of America’s leading actresses. Patty’s previous autobiographical works, Call Me Anna and A Brilliant Madness, achieved New York Times bestseller status. Now, her indelible show business legacy echoes enduringly with untold stories of her six-decade career and the legends of her time, including Richard Burton, Laurence Olivier, Helen Hayes, Fred Astaire, Anne Bancroft, Judy Garland, President John F. Kennedy, Helen Keller, Margaret Cho, Garth Brooks, Gloria Vanderbilt, Lucille Ball, Darren Criss, Richard Crenna, Patricia Neal, Liza Minnelli, and Helen Hunt. For the first time, Patty also talks openly of her friendship with actress Sharon Tate and her grisly murder at the hands of Charles Manson.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/527600 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Classic Radio's Comedy Duos, Vol. 2 Author: Black Eye Entertainment Narrator: A Full Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 43 minutes Release date: March 16, 2021 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The Golden Age of radio featured many of the greatest comedy teams of all time, and this collection features the best of the best! This seventeen-episode collection features duos including Abbott and Costello, the Bickersons, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Fibber McGee and Molly, Baby Snooks and Daddy, Lum and Abner, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, and Phil Harris and Alice Faye. You’ll laugh till your sides ache at these great comedy duos! The Abbott and Costello Show, 11/18/48 - “Secretary Show Sitting on Her Boss’s Knee” The Abbott and Costello Show, 3/31/49 - “The Case of the Gorgeous Blonde Model” Baby Snooks and Daddy, 4/17/41 - “Baseball Game” Baby Snooks and Daddy, 4/24/41 - “In the Kitchen” The Burns and Allen Show, 5/23/46 - “Newlywed Advice” The Burns and Allen Show, 11/6/47 - “Gift of a Pig” The Charlie McCarthy Show, 1/17/54 with guest Liberace The Charlie McCarthy Show, 1/24/54 with guest Dorothy Kirsten The Bickersons, 2/9/47 - “New Tuxedo” Fibber McGee and Molly, 1/12/43 - “Billy Mills in the Hospital” Fibber McGee and Molly, 6/22/43 - “Getting Ready for a Camping Trip” Fibber McGee and Molly, 9/28/43 - “McGees Go the Movies” The Fred Allen Show, 10/7/45 - “An Audition with Charlie McCarthy” Lum and Abner, 12/12/48 - “Lum’s Elopement” The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show, 3/1/53 - “The 4-D Camera” The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show, 3/15/53 - “The Gang Leader’s Phone Number” Sealtest Variety Theater, 10/21/48 starring Dorothy Lamour, with guests Abbott and Costello and Dick Powell

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/542280 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Großmama packt aus Author: Irene Dische Narrator: Hannelore Hoger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 3 minutes Release date: March 15, 2021 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Eine bitterbös-humorvolle Familiensaga: Um sich bei der Erzählung über die eigenen Familienverhältnisse nicht in Lügen zu verstricken, lässt Irene Dische lieber ihre resolute Großmutter Elisabeth Rother, genannt 'Mops', zu Wort kommen. Und schnell wird klar, dass Großmama Elisabeth, für die ihr jüdischer Mann zum Katholizismus konvertierte, kein Blatt vor den Mund nimmt. Eine komplexe Saga über eine deutsch-amerikanische, jüdisch-katholische Familie und ihre eigenwilligen Familienmitglieder. -

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/525781 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Classic Radio's Greatest Western Shows, Vol. 6 Author: Black Eye Entertainment Narrator: A Full Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 43 minutes Release date: March 9, 2021 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Enjoy fifteen of the greatest western shows from radio’s Golden Age and the Hollywood celebrities that starred in them. The Golden Age of radio had incredible western shows that kept Americans glued to their radio sets. Families gathered around their living room radios to hear western heroes catch the bad guys and save ladies in distress. This collection includes James Stewart in “Broken Arrow” on Screen Directors Playhouse, Fredric March as Wild Bill Hickok in “The Plainsman” on Lux Radio Theatre, William Boyd as “Hopalong Cassidy,” William Conrad as US Marshal Matt Dillon in Gunsmoke, John Dehner as the man known as “Paladin” in Have Gun—Will Travel, Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, The Cisco Kid, Tom Mix, and many more! The Cisco Kid, 1950s - “Two Sheriffs of Mesa” Dr. Sixgun, 7/8/54 - “Jerrod P. Kale” Escape, 5/3/53 - “Lily and the Colonel” Frontier Gentleman, 3/2/58 - “The Lost Mine” Frontier Town, 12/26/52 - “The Guns of Wrath” Gene Autry’s Melody Ranch, 1950s - “Graft in Desert Springs” Gunsmoke, 1/17/53 - “Paid Killer” Have Gun—Will Travel, 8/23/59 - “Bonanza” Hollywood Star Playhouse, 4/13/52 - “The Six-Shooter” Hopalong Cassidy, 1/12/52 - “Gambler’s Luck” Luke Slaughter of Tombstone, 3/9/58 - “Yancy’s Pride” Lux Radio Theatre, 5/31/37 - “The Plainsman” (1 hour) The Roy Rogers Show, 11/16/51 - “Badge from a Dead Lawman” Screen Directors Playhouse, 9/7/51 - “Broken Arrow” (1 hour) Tom Mix Ralston Straight Shooters, 6/21/44 - “The Vanishing Herd” (15 min.)