The Many Men of Martha Manning
This six-episode "StereoSonic Adventure"  unspooled as part of the 2007 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival/Philly Fringe, and the reviewers called it "Hilarious!" and "Delightfully demented!" It's available as an iTunes podcast and from the website Martha herself created, which is a pretty impressive feat for someone who lives in 1957. Here's "Episode 1: A Mysterious Message", featuring Karen Getz, Grace Gonglewski, Jim Nettleton, Tom Richards and Sharon Geller, with Len Miller at the mighty Wurlitzer plug-in. Pickle?

Telenium On-Hold
By popular demand, here's the on-hold messaging from Telenium Communications Group, which is now Fusion, so there goes the on-hold neighborhood. (Fusion has an all-new messaging--if you'd like to hear it, call [215] 629-2000 and pretend you're booking a big job.)  Our giggly on-hold messaging has been used by all sorts of companies, including our beloved Spencer Gifts, and we provide it gratis to companies who spend too much money with us in too short a time. DW and Eileen Brady do the vocal honors.

Spencer Gifts
One year's big award-winner becomes the next year's returning campaign, thus defeating my profit model based on "repeat business".  "Halloween" features Bruce Hames pounding the snot out of the ever-hapless Wes Shainline in a Scorsese-tinged epic written, produced and engineered by DW. 
Winner, Best National Radio :60, 2000 ADDY Awards! 

The "Valentine 2000" spot, in which Eileen Brady, Eliana and DW bring new meaning to the word "romantic" as we await a midnight visit from the Radio Sex Police.  Finalist, 2000 AIR Awards! 

Saul Ewing
The East Coast's most perceptive corporate counsel wraps its "Thinking Ahead" message around its sponsorship of Philadelphia's new Kimmel Center For The Performing Arts.  Jack Moore voices the vision in a trio of spots, "Ballerina", "Violin" and "Jazz", the last of which features Wally Hayman's all-too-convincing simulation of preadolescent keyboardistics, clearly the touch that catapulted this commercial into winning Best Agency Radio Spot, 2001 AIR Awards! 

Jack Moore heads directly to the podium for "Conductor", which evolves the "Thinking Ahead" campaign with unexpected authenticity, as he'd just returned from a stint serving as Principal Guest Conductor of the State Philharmonic of Vidin, Bulgaria, giving this spot the extra little whack of the baton needed to become a Finalist, Best Agency Radio Spot, 2003 AIR Awards! 

Delilah's

Delilah's specializes in pre-nup nuttiness, hence the puzzlement expressed by Andi Rose on the "Bachelor Party"  spot. Kim Ashley laps the hot seat. Winner, Best Local Radio :60, 2002 ADDY Awards!  Winner, Best of Radio, 2002 ADDY Awards!  Winner, Best Local Radio :60, 2002 Philly Gold Awards!   Finalist, 2001 AIR Awards!

If you were in the White House, whose phones would you choose to tap?  This spot, touting Delilah's "Wing Ding", may hold the answer, but we can't talk about it; it's classified. So if we even told you who the voiceovers were, we'd have to fly you to a Turkish prison in the dead of night. Finalist, 2006 AIR Awards!

A jawdropping first-take tour-de-force by Eliana Kelly propels this happy hookup of sex and violence in which Delilah's celebrates "Football".  Many thanks to the Philadelphia Eagles for their inadvertent aid as our narrator's hapless targets. Finalist, Best Commercial Performance By A Voice Talent, 2003 AIR Awards! 

The "Carnaval" was a bizarre hybrid of the annual Brazilian bash and Mardi Gras, and the spot is appropriately schizophrenic. Front end features Kim Ashley in full brag, with Delilah's own Ariel following up with Portuguese yips around the irrepressible Eliana. Also starring Rocky Lee as "A Body". Note: this may be the first strip-club radio commercial that uses the word "paramecium", reason enough for it to have been awarded a Finalist, 1999 AIR Awards!

And what better way to get the bird's-eye perspective on Delilah's entire showroom than to send Eliana slithering up that 30-foot pole as she declaims the wonders of the annual "Entertainer of the Year" competition?  Not a prestigious gentlemen's club but an incredible simulation, created by Telenium's audio astonisher Jeff Gordon. Winner, Best Agency Radio Spot, 2002 AIR Awards! 

Honoring one's roots (whatever their original shade may have been) is always vital to a keen understanding of one's art, which is why Delilah's opted for a party celebrating "Burlesque". Pete Salzer channels Billy Sunday, with Eliana effectively blocking souls on their way to salvation. Finalist, Best Agency Radio Spot, 2003 AIR Awards! 

For a flawless demonstration of Method acting,  take a listen to how Eileen Brady delivers her last line in Delilah's "12th Anniversary Party" spot, and be relieved you're not the one on the receiving end of her withering wrath. Joan Jones plays the obviously-blonde receptionist while Eliana rappels the sell. Best Agency Radio Spot, 2004 AIR Awards! 

The Inn Of The Dove
The Hilton of hasty hideaways flips two more fingers in the face of the Radio Sex Police with "Bingo".  Eliana edges DW closer to the Jacuzzi as Eileen Brady does color commentary. Winner, Best Agency Radio Spot, 2000 AIR Awards! 

Cold-Eeze
A giant jingle job masterfully created by Joe Fusco, "Beethoven" showcases opera students from the Curtis Institute, titanically recorded at Maja Music. Based on an idea by Claudine Quigley, who also did the insert copy. I handled the bagel management. Winner, Best Agency Radio Spot, 1999 AIR Awards!

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