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  Bob and Ray - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding were an American comedy duo that began in radio in 1946 with a daily 15-minute show titled Matinee With Bob and Ray.
Bob and Ray also gained fame as the voices of Bert and Harry Piels, two animated characters from a very successful ad campaign for Piels Brothers Beer.
Bob and Ray were inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1995.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bob_and_Ray   (513 words)

  
 Bob and Ray -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Some episodes were released on (Machine in which rotating records cause a stylus to vibrate and the vibrations are amplified acoustically or electronically) phonograph records, and the pair had a 15-minute (A telecommunication system that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points) television show that ran from 1951 to 1953.
While Bob and Ray wrote much of their material, they later came to rely on writers, including Tom Koch, who wrote many of their best-known routines.
Bob and Ray also gained fame as the voices of Burt and Harry Piel, two animated characters from a very successful ad campaign for Piel Brothers Beer.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bo/bob_and_ray.htm   (285 words)

  
 Radio Hall of Fame - Bob & Ray, Comedy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Bob Elliott was a disk jockey at Boston’s WHDH when he met newscaster Ray Goulding in 1946.
In July 1951, Bob and Ray left Boston for New York.
Bob and Ray created and gave voice to a universe of wonderful, offbeat characters, including domestic advisor Mary McGoon, adenoidal reporter Wally Ballou and incompetent showman Barry Campbell.
www.radiohof.org /comedy/bobray.html   (215 words)

  
 Bob - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Bob is a shortened version of the name Robert.
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Bob (New Earth), The name for the fictional planet in Titan A.E. Bob FM, a brand for numerous radio stations in Canada and the United States
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Bob_%26_Ray   (289 words)

  
 A Bob and Ray Retrospective
Bob and Ray, the radio performance, extends from 1946, their first show on WHDH in Boston, "Matinee with Bob and Ray," to 1986, their final show on NPR, "The Bob and Ray Public Radio Show." It is one of the great oeuvres in American humorous literature.
Bob and Ray, both serious radio announcers at one time, one day discovered that they could be comedians by intentionally trying and failing to be wonderful when less than nothing was going on.
Bob and Ray's principal mode is the radio interview, which is perforce the interrogation of an expert, if only a witness, an interrogation of experience and knowledge.
wings.buffalo.edu /AandL/english/faculty/schmitz/bobray.htm   (5239 words)

  
 Bob and Ray's Home Run Hitters Club
Bob Honecker, in whose city the 2nd trial was held: "This conviction was obtained primarily by the determined and inspiring efforts of Jim Lynch.
Bob has been described by the Washington press as a "hard-charging ex-marine" which is both accurate and a badge of honor and pride for Bob.
Bob is a lecturer on the subject of prosecution professionalism.
www.ndaa-apri.org /newsroom/home_run_hitters_july_2003.html   (4735 words)

  
 St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Bob and Ray
Bob and Ray began their professional career at Boston radio station WHDH on an early morning talk and music program.
Bob was the show's host and Ray the announcer, with each playing a variety of characters in different voices.
Bob and Ray were forced to retire in the late 1980s due to the illness of Ray, who died of a heart attack in 1990.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200115   (719 words)

  
 Something Old, Nothing New: An Honest Politician   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Bob and Ray are the forefathers of the routines on shows like The Daily Show, where the correspondents play on our knowledge of the cliches of broadcast journalism, and of the lengths to which reporters and interviewees alike will go to keep from speaking plainly.
Anyway, the "Corrupt Mayor" routine, like many of Bob and Ray's routines, is set up as a mock news interview, with Bob as the interviewer and Ray as the interviewee.
BOB: That was only the beginning, and now, through your various administrations, you've managed to riddle each and every department with corruption, from the top all the way through even to the visiting nurse association...
zvbxrpl.blogspot.com /2004/09/honest-politician.html   (440 words)

  
 Bob and Ray OTR MP3 List   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Many of Bob and Ray's sketches are famous, such as their lampoon of Mr.
Bob and Ray loved to skewer radio soap operas with The Gathering Dusk, and Mary Backstayge, Noble Wife (based off Mary Noble, Backstage Wife of course!).
Bob and Ray are really singular talents, but if you like them, you might enjoy the Americana odd-personality serial humor of Vic and Sade, the verbal fireworks of the Marx Brothers.
otrcat.com /bobray.htm   (436 words)

  
 98.7WFMT Radio Network | Classic Ray and Bob   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Bob and Ray parodied soap operas, game shows, "experts" and commercials --- all still with us today, only more so.
All of the comedians and humorists of our time love Bob and Ray -- Johnny Carson, Jay Leno, David Letterman, George Carlin, Jerry Seinfeld and Al Franken are fans, and have acknowledged Bob and Ray's influence.
Bob and Ray CDs are available at a discount for use as fundraising premiums.
www.wfmt.com /radionetwork/rayandbob.html   (277 words)

  
 Printer Friendly Version - Mining Bob & Ray archives
yields old gold
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Elliott and his partner, Ray Goulding, were largely retired even before Goulding died in 1990, but their work is way too good ever to fade away.
All these were taken from Josephson's "Bob and Ray Permanent Archive," which has hundreds of hours of shows plus other B&R memorabilia.
Bob and Ray got together in Boston in 1946.
www.nydailynews.com /entertainment/v-pfriendly/story/70018p-65155c.html   (332 words)

  
 Bob Blair and Ray Fisher (House Concert)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Bob Blair is a singer especially noted for his interpretation of Scottish lyrical songs and traditional ballads.
Ray Fisher is one of Scotland's leading singers of the folk song revival and has been at the forefront of traditional singing since the early 1960's.
Ray accompanies herself on guitar but often sings the songs and ballads a capella.
www.fssgb.org /blairfisher01.html   (154 words)

  
 Billy Bob and Ricky Ray
Granny impressed everyone with her expectorating abilities and Billy Bob bathed in the attention of having a woman of such high class and breeding.
That was the one touchy point between she and Billy Bob, he felt threatened by the tattoo.
Ricky Ray had his best lounging clothes on.He had gotten his old smoking jacket away from the momma blue healer and her pups last night and it had been washed.
www.angelfire.com /tx2/defib/billybob.html   (4349 words)

  
 Bob Ray, Governor of Iowa
We should have gotten almost half of the committee assignments and other things, to be fair, but Bob Ray and his goons (one literally twisted my arm behind my back while telling me to vote a certain way at the district convention) shut us out entirely and no Reagan people had seats on anything.
For a dozen years, Bob Ray has snubbed Ronald Reagan every time he visited the state, always arranging to be out of town -- once even scurrying out of the state a day early for another meeting.
Now Reagan is President and coming to Iowa, and Ray's traveling buddies have already flown off to visit Russia without him, so he will be stranded in his capitol office when the President comes to call.
home.earthlink.net /~stanzegel/webdocs/letters/bobray.htm   (345 words)

  
 The Bob and Ray Home Page
The Bob and Ray Permanent Archive is my project to collect everything Bob and Ray ever did in any medium--radio, television, books, movies, commercials and ephemera like Piels Beer coasters, Wally Ballou for Mayor Buttons, and Mary McGoon marygold seeds.
It's a labor of love, a personal obsession to keep Bob and Ray alive and available to you and to future generations.
The Al Hirschfeld Caricature of Bob and Ray is used by special arrangement with Margo Feiden Galleries, New York.
www.bobandray.com   (580 words)

  
 Bob and Ray --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The bob is the first line in the group and is shorter than the rest; the wheel is the quatrain that follows the bob.
Primarily slow-moving, bottom-dwelling fishes of the oceans, the skates and rays are close relatives of the sharks.
The 1945 rookie of the year for the Cleveland Rams, U.S. football coach and quarterback Bob Waterfield was born in Elmira, N.Y., on July 26, 1920.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9000592   (904 words)

  
 Neanderpundit: Ray Rayner. Bob Keeshan. Fred Rogers.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Ray Raynor, Bob Keeshan, they were there for me, long before Sesame Street.
Bob Keeshan once said, when asked about the innocence of his show and how it left children unprepared for the violence and strife of adulthood, that there were many networks providing children with all the education about violence they needed, and then some.
As for Ray Rayner and Bob Keeshan- I watched 'em every morning in the summer, but would have to miss the Captain when school was in, and they are without doubt the two men I admire most right after my dad.
www.neanderpundit.com /archives/000004.html   (823 words)

  
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This is a gelatin silver archival photograph, signed and numbered by Bob Willoughby (edition of 200).
In the early 1950’s, Los Angeles born Bob Willoughby began his career photographing for Harper’s Bazaar.
He was soon discovered by the film studios, becoming the first ‘special’; photographer, when Warner Brothers assigned him to photograph Judy Garland on “A Star Is Born”, beginning a non-stop 20 year collaboration with the publicity departments of all of the major Hollywood studios.
www.shop.com /op/aprod-p11514637   (332 words)

  
 Re: Ray Santilli V Bob Kiviat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Ray who claimed that we was going to make a few frames of the film available to be sent to Kodak.
Ray who has spun web after web until finally when you pressure Ray, he defaults to "Well Volker owns...blah blah.
Bob and the Fox attorneys would eat him alive during the discovery phase of the civil suit and we might get some answers that Ray is otherwise unwilling to provide.
www.virtuallystrange.net /ufo/updates/1998/may/m13-006.shtml   (500 words)

  
 Saturday Evening Post: Secrets of the celebrity trainers - excercise suggestions by Bob Greene, Ray Kybartas, Karen ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Here is a sampling of their fitness philosophy gleaned from telephone interviews and their new books.
Bob Greene holds a master's degree in exercise physiology from the University of Arizona, is traveling the country speaking about exercise for the Easy Spirit Fitness Forum, and is coauthor, with Oprah Winfrey, of Make the Connection: Ten Steps to a Better Body and Better Life (Hyperion, 1996).
Ray Kybartas was manager of the original Gold's Gym in Venice Beach, California, has been a fitness trainer since 1979, and is the author of Fitness Is Religion: Keep the Faith, with an introduction by Madonna (Simon & Schuster, 1997).
www.findarticles.com /cf_dls/m1189/n4_v270/20939416/p1/article.jhtml   (1560 words)

  
 Bob and Ray - SternFanNetwork
Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding were a comedy duo that began in radio in the late 1940s with a daily 15-minute show titled "Matinee With Bob & Ray." They continued on the air for over 40 years on NBC, CBS, the Mutual Broadcasting System, and NPR, ending in 1987.
Howie and Robin, around the WNBC and early WXRK days, decided to goof on Bob and Ray by deeping their voices and pretending to be the duo who acted homosexual around each other.
Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding were a comedy duo that began in radio in the late 1940s with a daily 15-minute show titled "Matinee With Bob & Ray."
www.sternfannetwork.com /forum/showthread.php?threadid=46892   (702 words)

  
 The News-Herald - News - 06/25/2005 - Robert "Bob" Ray Mason Jr.
The News-Herald - News - 06/25/2005 - Robert "Bob" Ray Mason Jr.
Funeral services for Robert "Bob" Ray Mason Jr., 70, of Burton Village, will be 10 a.m.
His parents, Evelyn (Burd) and Robert Ray Sr., are deceased.
www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=14752646&BRD=1698&PAG=461&dept_id=21847&rfi=6   (249 words)

  
 Bob and Ray
After Ronald Reagan's death, Ray Charles's version of "Amazing Grace," one of Reagan's favorite songs, kept popping up on radio and TV.
Brother Ray really was a Great Communicator, a shining example of pop culture as melting pot.
In that way and others--his fierce individuality and self-reliance and drive to electrify mass audiences with his art--he was one of Louis Armstrong's truest heirs.
www.thenation.com /docprem.mhtml?i=20040712&s=santoro   (532 words)

  
 13 Questions For...Bob Ray   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
One of the first true Austin film events I was allowed to witness, after moving here last summer, was the premier of Bob Ray's "Rock Opera" at the Alamo Draft House.
Bob's film amazed me with it's rambunctious counter culture spirit and it middle finger salute to the norm.
Since that day, I've seen Bob quite a bit here and there, at clubs, in Park City (where he showed "Rock Opera" as a part of the No Dance Film Festival), at the CD release party for the soundtrack at Red Eye Fly, at the Paramount Theater.
www.filethirteen.com /interviews/bobray.htm   (1910 words)

  
 Welcome to Bob and Ray's Road Trip Page!
Bob and Ray's Road Trip Page Site uses JavaScript (which is not the same as Java - it cannot hurt your machine), so you might want to get Netscape Navigator 2.0 or later, or Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 or later in order to enjoy it to its fullest.
Bob and Ray's Road Trip Page site is [still] undergoing a massive reworking over the Summer of 2005.
Bob and Ray are pleased to announce that Disney will not be serving shark fin soup at Hong Kong Disney.
www.bobandray.net   (180 words)

  
 Comedy Catalog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Bob and 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 and Ray's Mailbag;Linoleum's Millionth Customer; Charlie Chew (Cheap Motel Mystery); Faces in the News;Bob and Ray's Lost and Found.
Bob and 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 and Ray's "Hidden Microphone"; Teen Idol Pat Broome; Lloyd Fenton and the Bob and Ray Waiter Training School.
Bob and Ray receive a crank call on the 100th anniversary of the telephone.
www.bobandray.com /catalog   (5653 words)

  
 The Bob and Ray Home Page
Bob & Ray: A Night of Two Stars, recorded live in Carnegie Hall.
Recordings from the Archive--mostly contributed by fans like you--are the source for new Bob and Ray albums.
Our Bob and Ray project is not really a business; it does not make money.
www.bobandray.org   (580 words)

  
 Mike Harney: Bob and Ray's Overstocked Warehouse
Welcome to the great Bob and Ray Giant Surplus Overstocked Warehouse Specials page, where the Generous Bob and Ray Organization lets you in on what we like to think are the Bargains of the Century.
But, friends, this is backed up by the unconditional Bob and Ray guarantee: Not one of the kiddies will know these were once rabbits.
The Bob and Ray Giant Overstocked Surplus Warehouse still has a good selection of both male and female stuffed owls mounted on a variety of walnut, mahogany, and Early American maple twigs.
mywebpages.comcast.net /mharneyma/brow.html   (955 words)

  
 Review: "Bob " Ray Throw a Stereo Spectacular"
The five "Narrations with sound effects" by Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding are wild and wacky stereo experiments, performed by the mad Doctor Ahkbar.
PS: a big thank you to visitor Lee Withers, who pointed out to me that the duo that actually performed the comedy bits were Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding, and NOT Bob Bollard and Ray Hall.
Bollard and Hall are the only names mentioned on the CD booklet, as producers, and this made me believe THEY were THE Bob and Ray.
users.skynet.be /dada/critiq/T/Bobray.htm   (366 words)

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