This handsome boxed set features 96 of Bob & Ray's most-beloved routines including The Slow Talkers of America; The Komodo Dragon; Wally Ballou in Times Square; Mary Backstayge; Biff Burns in the Sports Room; Wally Ballou at the Paper Clip Factory; Elmer W. Litzinger, Spy; and the echolalic McBeeBee Twins, all taken from their 1984 sold-out Carnegie Hall concert CD. 

Also a generous sample of soap operas: eight Mary Backstayge episodes including their courageous parody of the Army-McCarthy hearings. Plus The Lives and Loves of Linda Lovely; One Fella's Family; Matt Neffer, Boy Spotwelder; Wayside Doctor (Yoo hoo, Dr. MuHu); and Lawrence Fechtenberger, Interstellar Officer Candidate.

One of the 4CDs is devoted entirely to real and fake commercials for Piels Beer; Wally Ballou for Transistor Radios; Rudolph and Irma’s Dance Studio; Webley Webster for Lap Master Napkins; and Kent Lyle Birdley as a GE spokesman, a worthy successor to Ronald Reagan; Einbinder Flypaper; Monongahela Metal Foundry, makers of steel ingots for the home, and an Anchovy Ironer.

Another CD features self-important experts: Word Wizard Dr. Elmer Stapley; Fred Falvey, the Do-It-Yourselfer; Dr. Merton Chesney, the bloviating radio shrink; and Mr. Science, whose experiments always end in disaster.  Plus Smelly Dave, the dead whale; Mr. Trace, Keener Than Most Persons; Wing Po, Itinerant Philosopher; Aunt Penny’s Sunlit Kitchen; Mary McGoon’s recipe for Frozen Ginger Ale Salad, the apotheosis of WASP cuisine; and a movie trailer for Grub, The Story of Food.  

In a class by itself is Ray’s falsetto rendition of “I’d Like To Be A Cow in Switzerland,” with machine gun accompaniment.

The CD booklet includes a long, loving appreciation of Bob & Ray by the Canadian critic Kerrie Mills.  One of the best ever written.

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