Matinee with Bob & Ray, Volume 5

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Matinee with Bob & Ray
Volume 5

Boston native Bob Elliott was hired by 5000-watt radio station WHDH, working the station's morning drive time slot as a disc jockey. Ray Goulding was doing WHDH's hourly newscasts. The two men soon discovered that they enjoyed a real rapport over the airwaves and, after Goulding's newscast was over, he would often join Elliott in witty, ad-libbed skits that slowly and surely developed a devoted fan base. When WHDH obtained the rights to the Braves-Red Sox games, management offered the two men twenty-five minutes before the start of each game to showcase their unique buffoonery, and dubbed the proceedings with the catchy title Matinee with Bob and Ray.

For Bob and Ray fans that are only familiar with their network offerings on NBC, CBS, or NPR, the programs make for fascinating listening, offering a revealing insight into the workings of local radio during the 1940s. Matinee can best be described as sort of a free-form style of comedy jazz; nothing is scripted (well, about 90% is unscripted) and the program allows both men to indulge in flights of fancy, often veering onto offbeat comedic tangents from the most mundane mentions.

Matinee with Bob and Ray continued on WHDH in various formats and time slots until 1951. Beginning with quarter and half-hour shows on NBC and also launching their television show. Their five-minute appearances on NBC Radio's Monitor began in 1955, and four years later they moved to CBS for what many fans consider their finest hour, Bob and Ray Present the CBS Radio Network (1959-60). After a two-year period of concentrating on work in commercials, they returned to New York's WHN for an all-afternoon show, and moved to WOR around 1973. In the 1980s, they were entertaining public radio audiences with their NPR series, which ended in 1987.

Radio Archives is proud to present the two men at their finest, with Volume 5 of hilarious Matinee with Bob & Ray shows in Sparkling sound.

Tex Sings Blood on the Saddle

Tuesday, November 1, 1949 - WHDH Boston

Chesterfield, The Park Lane Restaurant commercials

Linda Lovely, Mary McGoon and Bob Sing Mule Train

Wednesday, November 2, 1949 - WHDH Boston

Chesterfield, Cynthia Sweets commercials

Guest Judy Valentine, a Young MGM Recording Artist

Thursday, November 3, 1949 - WHDH Boston

Chesterfield commercials

Guest Kenny Delmar

Friday, November 4, 1949 - WHDH Boston

Healer Motors, Chesterfield commercials

Peter Gory With the News

Saturday, November 5, 1949 - WHDH Boston

No commercials

Bob Sings Toot Toot Tootsie

Monday, November 7, 1949 - WHDH Boston

Chesterfield, Nutro Anti-freeze commercials

Mary McGoon Sings Mule Train

Tuesday, November 8, 1949 - WHDH Boston

Chesterfield, The Park Lane Restaurant commercials

Dr. Goulding Performs Heart Surgery

Friday, November 11, 1949 - WHDH Boston

Healer Motors, Chesterfield, Nutro Anti-freeze, Soapene commercials

The Life of Bill Green

Saturday, November 12, 1949 - WHDH Boston

No commercials

I'd Like to Be a Cow in Switzerland

Friday, November 18, 1949 - WHDH Boston

Chesterfield, Healer Motors, Soapene, Pick-Sweet Foods,. Nutro Anti-freeze commercials

Actor's Auditions

Saturday, November 19, 1949 - WHDH Boston

Chesterfield commercials

Arthur Sturdley Talent Scouts

Friday, December 23, 1949 - WHDH Boston

Chesterfield, Healer Motors commercials

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	June 23, 2022
Reviewer: James Mote from Woodbury, TN United States

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Still Fresh, spontanious.	March 28, 2020
Reviewer: Todd Zimmerman from Kalamazoo, MI United States

While it is more chaotic than later periods, it is never the less quite humorus, and very entertaining. If you are a fan of Bo and Ray you will see them at the inception of their comedic style.

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