1) The Experience of the McWilliamses with Membranous Croup (13:56)

2) The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm (14:49)

3) Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning (14:42)

NOTE: The following sketch is unlike anything you've ever read or heard by Mark Twain. It contains, ahem, frankly scatological language besides pointed references to body parts normally kept modestly covered. If blue language isn't your style, skip it, I implore you. Yes, it was written by Mark Twain, honest.

4) 1601 - Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors (15:57)

All tracks recorded by Steve Erbach, Dec. 28, 2002, at the WTDY radio studios in Madison, WI.  My thanks to John "Sly" Sylvester, Program and Production Director for WTDY as well as excellent morning talk host, and Tim Morrissey, ancient radio comrade and award-winning broadcast newsperson for the same WTDY-AM, Madison.  They were kind enough to let me back in front of the microphone again.

Audio Samples and Complete Tracks

You may download either sample or complete tracks.  They're all in Windows Media and MP3 formats:

1) The Experience of the McWilliamses with Membranous Croup

SAMPLE	0:42	343 KB	WMA	1341 KB	MP3
COMPLETE TRACK	13:56	19,376 KB	WMA	32,610 KB	MP3

2) The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm

SAMPLE	0:51	410 KB	WMA	1606 KB	MP3
COMPLETE TRACK	14:49	21,320 KB	WMA	27,737 KB	MP3

3) Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning

SAMPLE	0:40	326 KB	WMA	1276 KB	MP3
COMPLETE TRACK	14:42	19,213 KB	WMA	34,380 KB	MP3

4) 1601 - Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors (R-rated!)

SAMPLE	0:51	411 KB	WMA	1609 KB	MP3
COMPLETE TRACK	15:57	21,402 KB	WMA	37,403 KB	MP3

I thoroughly enjoyed the entire CD.  Slapped it in at 4 o'clock and listened straight through... even the naughty parts!

You are certainly a master of the dramatic read; my hat is off to you, sir, for a fine performance, one that I'm proud to have in my eclectic CD collection.

Your CD is very professional and entertaining, high quality, and your voice characterizations are rich... and of course your readings from some of Twain's best humor kept the laughs and smiles coming.  I'm in the 2nd run now and, like a good movie, I catch things I'd missed before. The CD is very professionally packaged with high quality graphics... this is no throw-a-way... I'm pleased as hell! 

You sound like Clark Gable looked. Its a shame you didn't stay with radio because you certainly have the voice for it... yeah, yeah, I know the pay sucks :)

I thought it was really well done.  Very professional and beautifully read.  You have such a marvelous voice and Twain himself would have been pleased to have you reading his material.  I've often thought it's too bad my Grandpa wasn't still alive.  Twain was his favorite author and he'd have loved the way you read it.

Drove home last night listening to the adventures of the McWilliamses. Fabulous!!  I gather you did radio professionally?  Why don't you still?  I knock down a couple of books on tape a month, and you're as good as the best and better than most.  Thank you so much.  I must keep it from falling into my husband's hands! ... I still bust out your Mark Twain CD when I need a belly laugh.

It is delightful!  That last section is incredibly obscene and crude even by modern standards, let alone late Victorian double standards. I laughed and laughed! You have a really nice voice. Thanks for the fun.

I had no idea your background was in radio!!! Yessss, I loved the recordings, your voice is fantastic!!! I would've loved to listen to you narrate on my drives. Why aren't you still in radio??? Soothing, melodic, yet authoritative, you command the air!!! Dude, go back to your roots!!!