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Bob & Ray: The Wally Ballou Story, Vol. 1
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Bob & Ray: The Wally Ballou Story, Vol. 1

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Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding, legendary American humorists, were loved by fans and by fellow humorists, comedians and broadcasters.  Every humorist and comedian from 1946 to the present was influenced by Bob & Ray including Johnny Carson, David Letterman, Jay Leno, George Carlin, Al Franken, Garrison Keillor and Kurt Vonnegut.  Bob & Ray have won three Peabody Awards and three Grammy nominations, as well as many other pretigious honors.

This 4-CD set stars Bob as Wally and Ray as almost everyone else!  It contains 79 Bob & Ray rountines including favorites such as Wally Ballou for Mayor; commercials for transistor radios and swiss vacations with actual yodeling; Mary McGoon's Inn and the incomprehensible Dean Archer Armstead.  There are many more routines that will make you smile and laugh, as you rediscover the timeless humor of the legendary Bob & Ray.

DISC 1 (58:19)
Wally Ballou for Mayor
Wally's decides to run press conference announcement 
Dean Archer Armstead snow rot
Wally Ballou Transistor Radio Campaign # 1 - Professor Pulsiver
Woman in the audience
Wally Ballou reporting from the Acme Firetruck Factory
Wally hits the hustings
Invisible Weaving Man
Wally introduces his family
Natalie Attired, Song Sayer 
Wally Ballou & Artie Schermerhorn in the caves of Nitro, West Virginia 
Wally kills time before the parade
Wally & Artie cover the 4th of July Parade
Angry announcer
Howie Sumatra sings?
Wally Ballou Tranistor Radio Campaign # 2 - man on the street 
Wally & Artie on Fifth avenue waiting for the parade
Wally Ballou on the price of food 
Letter from a Listener Dr. Darrel Dexter
Wally announces his candidacy at a press conference
 
DISC 2 (55:53)
Wally Ballou press conference follow-up
Wally finds a platform
Wally's mail bumper stickers
Webley Webster becomes campaign manager
Wally's campaign manager Meet the Presser
Wally Ballou Transistor Radio Campaign # 3 - Clifford Flemming
Wally Ballou Henry Gladstone complains
Wally covers a kazoo festival at the Boca Raton Hotel 
Wally discusses the mayoral race
Henry Gladstone complains about Wally's car 
Wally Ballou at the Times Square Tap
Wally is not throwing in the towel
Bob & Ray Coffee Shop special of the day - tunafish enchilada
Wally Ballou Transistor Radio Campaign # 4 - sportscaster
Bob & Ray Coffee Shop no water
Henry Gladstone is not supporting Wally for Mayor
Audience Member beaver dam builder 
Henry Gladstone denounces Wally's campaign
Wally chats with Bob & Ray about the campaign
Wally Ballou Henry trashes Wally again
Steve Bosco calls in from Sarasota
Leonard P. Harkness, shrimp de-veiner
Henry accuses Wally slug in the vending machine
Sound Effects Salesman
Wally Ballou covers a firehouse cribbage game
Dean Archer Armstead mulberries
Wally Ballou The Cranberry Man in Times Square

DISC 3 (56:54)
Mary's Inn plans 
Tex Blaisdell auditions for Mary's Inn
Kent Lyle Birdley tryout at Idlewild Airport
Wally Ballou on the set of "The Proud and the Pooped" 
Salvatore Bagatelli The Nina, Pinta and the Santa Maria, Swiss vacation contest
Wally Ballou Transistor Radio Campaign # 5 - man with 7 transistor radios
Wally Ballou at the Uncomfortable Air Conditioning company
Wally visits the Sure Fire Tranquilizer Company
Wally Transistor Radio Campaign # 6 - man with old radio
Bob & Ray looking through a telescope
Mary's Inn update, recipe preview
Telescope poet
Mary's Inn food ideas 
Gore says a song; Webley accompanies
Wally Ballou Mary's Inn burns to the ground 
Wally Ballou at the Paper Clip Factory

DISC 4 (57:18)
Wally Ballou from other end of the studio 
Webley Webster Wisdom of the Ages
Wally interviews a hot dog vendor at Cape Canaveral 
Ray Sings "The Good Ship Lollipop" 
Wally Ballou Transistor Radio Campaign # 7 - how does radio help you? 
House of Puttees
Wally Ballou on a power launch on Long Island Sound 
Wally introduces his family - again
Dean Archer Armstead talks about your lawn; Bob translates
Wally Ballou covers a jump rope championship in Kankakee, Illinois 
Wally Ballou Dr. Matthew E. Pulsiver demonstrates the Fact Datatron Machine 
Wally Ballou Transistor Radio Campaign # 8 - radio on the beach
Wally reports from the Trans-Atlantic Bridge
Artie Schermerhorn at a Cotton Pickin' Contest in Jessup, Georgia
Wally Ballou on location at the Norton Nasagraph Company
Wally aboard an airliner
Wally Ballou visits the Fordice Flour Works 
Bob & Ray Christmas party - sing carols, exchange presents, ride off on a sleigh