Andy Rooney once observed, “A lot of people think, as I do, that they appreciate Bob and Ray more than anyone else does.” Included in that “lot of people” are undoubtedly classic radio fans, many of whom have delighted in the offbeat radio antics of Messrs. Elliott and Goulding for the past half-century. Both men capitalized on their uncanny ability to intuit what each other was thinking to carve a small niche in the field of entertainment, generating big laughs by gently skewering and mocking the banality and pomposity of the business in which they had devoted both their careers: radio.
In this collection, you’ll enjoy Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding at their early freewheeling best in 20 hilarious full-length broadcasts of “Matinee with Bob and Ray”, their very first radio series.