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Product Description<br/><br/><br/>MP3 CD Format<br/>A Jimmy Durante Festival is a collection of tributes, parodies, and rarities of ""The Great Schnozzola"" entertainer with the gruff voice--written, produced, and performed by Joe Bev. Bonus tracks feature remastered audio from classic radio, TV, and cartoons.<br/>Included in this set:<br/><br/>Who Gets All Da Mackerel?<br/>My Little Worm is Lost!<br/>A Possum's Tail wit' a Crow Cameo<br/>Doggy Daddy's Dude Ranch<br/>Durante Eats Kellogg's Cornflakes<br/>Happy Fadder's Day, Dear Ol' Dad!<br/>Alias Jack Geronimo<br/>Durante Meets Bogie & Bacall<br/>Desi Arnaz Teaches Durante Spanish<br/>Durante Makes a Movie with Lucille Ball<br/>Durante & Dino<br/>Good Night, Mrs. Calabash!<br/><br/>James Francis Durante (February 10, 1893-January 29, 1980) was an American singer, pianist, comedian, and actor. His distinctive clipped gravelly speech, Lower East Side Manhattan accent, comic language-butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and prominent nose helped make him one of America's most familiar and popular personalities of the 1920s through the 1970s.<br/><br/><br/>About the Author<br/><br/><br/>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.