Joe Bev the Musical
A Joe Bev Cartoon, Volume 11

In the variety hour, Joe Bevilacqua performs his own jazz compositions, accompanied by Paul Salomone on piano, Edward Fuqua on bass, Leif Eric on guitar, and Jim Mason on drums. In addition, Joe Bev performs Daws Butler’s Magic Drums with Joe Gatto on drums, and sings Cab Calloway and Irving Mills’ Minnie the Moocher as his Camp Waterlogg character Sgt. Lefty and the Chipmunks, featuring Julian Baker on trombone and keyboard. The selections are gleaned from Bevilacqua’s hundreds of hours of audio work that spans more than 40 years, including The Whithering of Willoughby and the Professor, Uncle Dunkle and Donnie, and Camp Waterlogg, including: “Do I Dare Believe”, “I’m Big, You’re Small”, “You Can’t Tell Me What to Do” (instrumental), “You Can’t Tell Me What to Do” (vocal), “Make the Earth Say Beans”, “What You See, You Must Believe”, “The Magic Drums”, “Living in a Witchway” (rehearsal), “Living in a Witchway (vocal)", “Living in a Witchway” (instrumental), “Minnie the Moocher,” “Mosquito Mother”, “Dances-with-Sven”, “Which Way is it that a Witchway Goes” (instrumental), “Which Way is it that a Witchway Goes” (vocal), “Ring-Around-the-Rosey Blues”.