Performance audiobooks
Abbott and Costello: Lou Goes to Jail
By: Bud Abbott & Lou Costello
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Costello has to get rid of $38,000 before the income tax is due, so the boys visit the race track. Read more
View audiobookAbbott and Costello: Matrimonial Agency
By: Bud Abbott & Lou Costello
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Costello's cousin Hugo has gotten married. The boys plan to open a matrimonial agency. Costello's kid brother Sebastian (played by Costello) pretends to be Abbott's son. Read more
View audiobookAbbott and Costello: Job at a Department Store
By: Bud Abbott & Lou Costello
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Costello has just returned from his uncle's farm, where he's been working. Costello gets a Mother's Day job at Beaglebottom's Department Store. Guest Claire Trevor visits the store to buy perfume. Read more
View audiobookAbbott and Costello: Investment Advice
By: Bud Abbott & Lou Costello
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Lou is at Los Angeles railroad station coming back from trip at his uncle's farm. Bud and Lou do the Sow the Seed routine. Ken Niles says he is glad to be back at the microphone. Bud and Lou look to invest Lou's $75 and decide to invest in war bonds. Lou falls asleep and dreams 10 years later, 1954. Listens to Abbott and Costello on the radio.... Read more
View audiobookAbbott and Costello: Gold Mine
By: Bud Abbott & Lou Costello
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Bud is going to invest Lou's $75. They launch into the do gold orr routine. Bud has convinced Lou to invest his $75 in a gold mine. Abbott and Costello arrive in Gold Tooth. They go to the Red Dog saloon. They then start mining for gold in the mine. The mine is giving way but it turns out it was all just a dream. Read more
View audiobookAbbott and Costello: Christmas Party
By: Bud Abbott & Lou Costello
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Costello is throwing a Christmas party for his little brother. Read more
View audiobookAbbott and Costello: Lou Shoots an Orange Picker
By: Bud Abbott & Lou Costello
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Mrs. Beanbag is suing Costello for shooting at her. He tries to settle for fifty cents, but Abbott hires Mr. Kitzel, the lawyer to defend Costello. Read more
View audiobookAbbott and Costello: Going Back to School
By: Bud Abbott & Lou Costello
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Frank takes another merciless ribbing about his physique. Frank, Bud, Lou and Connie are back in school in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey. Who invented the steam engine? Not Watt! Frank and Lou sing a duet to, One Meatball. Frankie sings, If You Were But A Dream. Read more
View audiobookAbbott and Costello: Hertz You Drive
By: Bud Abbott & Lou Costello
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Lou has a date with Tessie Tinfoil, but first, he visits the barber and a dance studio. Costello loses his place in the script and tries unsuccessfully to tell a joke. Read more
View audiobookAbbott and Costello: Lou Wants to Join the Merchant Marines
By: Bud Abbott & Lou Costello
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Bud gives Lou a hard time for wanting to join the Merchant Marines, and tries to teach him about sailing. Read more
View audiobookAbbott and Costello: Jack and the Beanstalk
By: Bud Abbott & Lou Costello
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
The cast does, Jack and The Beanstalk, with Rudy monopolizing most of the lines. Read more
View audiobookAbbott and Costello: Spanish Acting School
By: Bud Abbott & Lou Costello
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Costello wants to become a dramatic actor from Brazil...another Carmen Veranda! Bob Matthews (an ex-aerial gunner) sings for the first time on the show (and sounds like an off-key Mel Torme). Read more
View audiobookAbbott and Costello: Lou Promises His Girlfriend a Job
By: Bud Abbott & Lou Costello
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
The boys have just returned from New York. Lou has claimed to be the owner of NBC and has promised to get Lena Genster (say it fast) into the movies. Read more
View audiobookAbbott and Costello: Appearing with the Andrews Sisters
By: Bud Abbott & Lou Costello
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Abbott and Costello talk about the Andrew Sisters. Bud is going to help Lou sing. An attorney representing the Andrew Sisters appears on show. They are suing Abbott and Costello for slander for having the Andrew Brothers on the show 3 weeks ago. Andrew Sisters appear. They agree to drop the suit if Lou appears in one of their pictures. Read more
View audiobookAbbott and Costello: Trying to Hire the Andrews Sisters
By: Bud Abbott & Lou Costello
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Lou runs over Mr and Mrs Niles in their car. Now Bud and Lou need to rent a car. Abbott and Costello do U Drive routine. They are going to the Andrews sisters ranch.They check into a hotel while looking for the ranch. They have the Andrews Brothers on this show instead. Read more
View audiobookAbbott and Costello: Lou the Firearm
By: Bud Abbott & Lou Costello
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Abbott and Costello are working as fireman. Mrs. O'Lay Hee's house is on fire. Abbott explains vitamins to Costello (vitamins go from A to H...go to H?). Read more
View audiobookAbbott and Costello: Return to Paterson
By: Bud Abbott & Lou Costello
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Abbott and Costello discuss Valentine's day. Guest Charles Laughton joins the cast in, The Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe. Ted R. Gamble (of the Treasury Department), speaks from Washington, D. C. about the Fourth War Loan. Read more
View audiobookAbbott and Costello: New Press Agent
By: Bud Abbott & Lou Costello
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Bud has hired a publicity man to advance Costello's career. Costello knows a Turkish civilian who hasn't been drafted, his name is Hassan Ben Drafted. The cast does a play titled, The Two (dirty) Bedouins. Read more
View audiobookAbbott and Costello: Lou's House Needs Another Bathtub
By: Bud Abbott & Lou Costello
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
The program's opening is about Costello paying his income tax (in reality, he would later have problems with the IRS). Lou has purchased a house in the country and he now needs a bathtub. Don't miss the brief appearance by Mr. Kitzel's brother. Read more
View audiobookAbbott and Costello: Lou Hides From His Girlfriend
By: Bud Abbott & Lou Costello
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Abbott and Costello discuss the bees on the farm of Lou's uncle. Read more
View audiobookAbbott and Costello: Opening a Gas Station
By: Bud Abbott & Lou Costello
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Abbott and Costello decide to open a gas station. Will it work? Read more
View audiobookAbbott and Costello: Melonhead's Department Store
By: Bud Abbott & Lou Costello
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Costello has gotten a job in Melonhead's department store. Read more
View audiobookAbbott and Costello: Costello's Beauty Shop
By: Bud Abbott & Lou Costello
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Old Time Radio - Costello is running a beauty salon. Read more
View audiobookAbbott and Costello: Napoleon and Josephine
By: Bud Abbott & Lou Costello
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Lou is dressed up like Napoleon. He wants that part in a movie. Bud says he is not the type. Bud rehearses Lou on how to be romantic. Lou asks people if they would like him to be Napoleon. They enact the play with Melonhead being the director Read more
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