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Spoken Word vinyl record albums
Poetry and other readings, speeches, interviews, tributes
(For drama recordings, please see Soundtracks)
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Spiro T. Agnew
Spiro T. Agnew Speaks Out / 197? / RCA Victor PRM-316
NM
/ VG++ / $18.00
"Effete corps of impudent snobs" and other fulminations by Nixon's veep
Laurie Anderson / John Giorno / William S. Burroughs
You're The Guy I Want To Share My Money With (2 LPs) / 1981 / Giorno Poetry Systems GPS 020-021
NM / VG++ / VG++ / $35.00
Judith Anderson / Claire Bloom
Judith Anderson Reading The Book of Judith / Claire Bloom Reading The Book of Ruth / 195? / Caedmon TC 1052 mono
VG+
/ NM / $18.00
Alben W. Barkley
Veep - Alben W. Barkley Tells His Own Story / 197? / Folkways FS 3870
Sealed / $25.00
Sidney Shalett interviews Truman's vice president. Includes insert with descriptive notes
The Best Of The Sherlock Holmes Radio Series (radio track)
1977 / Biograph BLP-2002
NM / NM / $16.00
The Yatsley Case Holmes' Christmas celebration is interrupted by a goose that swallowed the precious "Blue Carbuncle" jewel. With Sir John Gielgud as Sherlock, Sir Ralph Richardson as Dr. Watson
Colette
Colette Reading Gigi Selections, Chéri Selections / 1954 / Caedmon TC 1020
VG+ / VG++ / $30.00
Blue label, with booklet
Comédie Française
Fables De La Fontaine Vol. II / 196? / Period FRL 1520
VG++ / NM / $16.00
Robert Donat / Dame Edith Evans
Practical Cats / Shakespeare: 20 Sonnets / 196? / Seraphim M-60042 mono
NM / VG++ / $24.00
Side 1: Donat reads six poems from T.S. Eliot's "Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats," with accompaniment by the Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Alan Rawsthorne. Side 2: Evans reads 20 Shakespeare Sonnets
Roy Dotrice
A Christmas Carol (2 LPs) / 1977 / Argo ZSW 584/5
VG++ / NM, NM / $18.00
U.K. release. Dotrice relives Dickens' public readings
Ruth Draper
The Art Of Ruth Draper Vol. 1 / 195? / Spoken Arts 779
VG++ / VG++ / $50.00
The empress of one-woman theater, recorded at the Vanderbilt Theater, January 1954, during what she announced as her farewell New York engagement. Includes "The Italian Lesson," "Three Generations in a Court of Domestic Relations" and "The Scottish Immigrant." Produced by Arthur Luce Klein, cover design by Roy Kuhlman, liner notes by Brooks Atkinson, then drama critic for the New York Times. A quality recording in fine condition
Equus (soundtrack) (more Soundtracks)
Richard Rodney Bennett / 1977 / United Artists UA-LA839-H
NM is / VG++ / $15.00
Includes five Richard Burton monologues and Burton dialogue with Peter Firth
Richard Harris
Jonathan Livingston Seagull / 1970 / ABC / Dunhill DSD-50160
VG++ / NM / $16.00
Harris narrates the Richard Bach favorite. Music by Terry James
Richard Harris (more Richard Harris)
I, In The Membership Of My Days / 1974 / Dunhill DSD-50159
VG++ / NM / $15.00
Harris and his sons Damian, Jared and Jamie perform Harris' poems and songs. Gatefold cover with words/lyrics
Richard Harris
The Prophet / 1974 / Atlantic SD 18120
NM / NM / $17.00
Musical interpretation of the Gibran classic, text read by Harris. Music by Arif Mardin
Richard Harris
The Prophet / 1974 / Atlantic SD 18120
VG++ / VG+ / $12.50
Musical interpretation of the Gibran classic, read by Harris. Music by Arif Mardin
Jonathan
Livingston Seagull
Richard Harris / 1970 / ABC / Dunhill DSD-50160
VG+ / VG+ / $11.00
Harris narrates the Richard Bach favorite. Music by Terry James. Ringwear on cover
Erica Jong
Fear Of Flying / 197? / Spoken Arts SA 1140
VG++ / VG++ / $30.00
Jong reads her poems: Fruits And Vegetables, Half-Lives, Loveroot; and excerpts from her seminal novel, Fear Of Flying
James
Kavanaugh
There Are Men Too Gentle To Live Among Wolves / 1973 / Karo K100
NM is / NM / $25.00
Music by Elmer Bernstein
John F. Kennedy
A Memorial Album / 1963 / Premier 2099 mono
NM / NM / $16.00
Produced and broadcast by Radio WMCA, New York, Friday, Nov. 22, 1963. Highlights of JFK speeches including Inaugural Address, Civil Rights, Cuban Rockets, Nixon-Kennedy debate, Berlin Wall, New Frontier, Alliance for Progress
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy - The Presidential Years 1960-1963 / 196? / Pickwick DLP-169 mono
VG++ / VG++ / $14.00
Speeches include Nomination 1960, Election Night 1960, Inaugural Address 1961, State Of The Union 1961, "So I Go To Krushchev In Vienna" May 1961, Cuba - Another Crisis October 1962, Birmingham, Alabama, May 1963, Final Address, Fort Worth, Texas, Nov. 22, 1963
Lotte Lenya
Lotte Lenya Reading The Stories Of Kafka / 1962 / Caedmon TC 1114 mono
VG++ /
VG++ / $20.00
Mark Twain Tonight!
Hal Holbrook / 1967 / Columbia OS 3080
NM / NM / $18.00
Mark Twain Tonight!
Hal Holbrook / 1967 / Columbia OS 3080
VG++ / VG++ / $15.00
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Great March To Freedom / 1968 / Gordy G-906 mono
VG+ / NM / $20.00
Reissue. King speaks at the Detroit Freedom Rally, June 23, 1963
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
A Knock At Midnight / 1968 / Creed 3008 mono
VG++ / VG+ / $18.00
Sermon recorded at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Cincinnati, June 11, 1967
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
I Have A Dream / 1968 / 20th Century-Fox TFS-3201
VG++ / VG++ / $22.00
Complete historic address from the March on Washington, Aug. 28 1963. Also includes addresses by A. Phillip Randolph, Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, John Lewis, Whitney M. Young Jr., Roy Wilkins. Liner notes by Nat Hentoff
The Language And Movement Of The Wolves
Robert Redford / 1971 / Natural History Magazine 003
VG++ / VG++ / $14.00
Redford narrates "The Wolf You Never Knew" on side 1, sounds of the wolf on side 2. Magazine subscribers' bonus record
The
Language And Movement Of The Wolves
Robert Redford / 1971 / Natural History Magazine 003
VG+ / VG++ / $12.00
Redford narrates "The Wolf You Never Knew" on side 1, sounds of the wolf on side 2. Magazine subscribers' bonus record
L. Jesse Lemisch
Benjamin Franklin Autobiography / 197? / Folkways FW 9771
Sealed / $20.00
Includes insert with descriptive notes
The Living Bible 8: A Chariot Of Fire
196? / Mercury ROM 2408 mono
NM / VG++ / $24.00
Sir Laurence Olivier reads from the Old Testament - Naboth's Vineyard, Ahab and Jezebel, Elisha, Naaman and Job. With music from the Holy Land by Paul Ben-Haim. Includes insert with excerpts from the Old Testament
Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer Reads Norman Mailer / 1964? / Prestige-Lively Arts LA 30009
VG++ co / VG++ / $50.00
The author reads from Death For The Ladies, More Poems, The Time Of Her Time
John Masefield
"The Western Hudson Shore (The Palisades)" and "To The Great Friends In Lifetime" / 1977 / Folkways FL 9843
Sealed / $25.00
The English poet laureate reads his poems. Includes insert with descriptive notes
Rod McKuen
Life Is / 1968 / Everest 3267
NM / NM / $14.00
Poetry with a beat flavor
Edward R. Murrow
I Can Hear It Now: 1933-45 / 195? / Columbia ML 4095 mono
VG++
/ VG+ / $25.00
"6-eye" Masterworks label. Murrow narrates World War II historical highlights, including Neville Chamberlain returns from Munich, 1938; Hitler attacks the Sudetenland, Sept. 26,1938; Elmer Davis announces the Invasion of Poland, Sept. 3, 1939; Mussollini’s Declaration of War, June 10,1940; French Premier Reynaud pleads for aid as Nazis overrun France, June 10, 1940; New York Philharmonic broadcast interrupted for Pearl Harbor announcement, Dec. 7, 1941; broadcast from D-Day invasion flagship Ancon, June 6, 1944; Chaplain William Downey, USAF, says a prayer at Tinian before takeoff of the Enola Gay, which carried the first atomic bomb, Aug. 6, 1945. With Fred W. Friendly. Cover sketch by R.R. Bouche
Frank Pettingell
Frank Pettingell Presents Oscar Wilde / 1956 / Westminster/Spoken Arts 724 mono
VG+ / VG+ / $30.00
Reading from "The Selfish Giant," Witticisms, A Scene from the Trial of Oscar Wilde, A Talk with Mr Oscar Wilde, "The Remarkable Rocket." Directed by Arthur Luce Klein. Small writing on back cover, 3" tape on cover
The
Poetry of Blake
Read by Sir Ralph Richardson / 196? / Caedmon TC-1101 mono
NM / VG++ / $25.00
Readings from Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience
Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound Reading His Poetry / 1960 / Caedmon TC 1122 mono
VG+
co / VG+ / $20.00
Recorded in Washington, D.C., June 1958. The author reads Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, Cantico del Sole, Moeurs Contemporaines, Cantos 1,4, 36 & 84. Two stickers & cutout hole in cover
Anthony Quayle
Shakespeare's Sonnets / Elizabethan Lyrics / 196? / Spoken Arts 729 mono
VG++ / VG++ / $20.00
Quayle reads 24 Shakespeare sonnets, plus selections from Donne, Sidney, Marlowe, Spenser, Drayton, Peele, Raleigh, Nashe
Robert Scheer's A Night At Santa Rita
1969 / Flying Dutchman FDS-111
VG++ / NM / $25.00
Bill "Rosko" Mercer narrates Scheer's experience in the Alameda County, California lockup. With James Spaulding, flute, and Ron Carter, bass. In the liner notes, Nat Hentoff says Scheer's account "raises the most basic of all questions in this country ... whether freedom can survive here."
George Riquier
Contes Choisis de Guy de Maupassant Vol. III / 196? / Spoken Arts SA 930
VG++ / NM / $20.00
The San Sebastian Strings
The Sea, The Earth,
The Sky (3 LP box set) / 1968 / Warner Bros 3WS-1730
VG+ / VG++, VG++,
VG++ / $16.00
Original release. Words by Rod McKuen, music by Anita Kerr. McKuen narrates "The Earth".
With 8-page photo/bio/poetry booklet
Scenes
From American Novels (2 LPs)
1962 / EAV Lexington LE 7677/78
VG+ / VG+, VG+ / $25.00
Read by John Randolph, Lonny Chapman, Jean Barker. Email for track list
Sir Michael Redgrave Reads The Harmfulness of Tobacco, A Transgression, The First-Class Passenger by Anton Chekhov
1962 / Spoken Arts 828
NM is / VG++ / $18.00
Directed by Arthur Luce Klein. Liner notes by Marc Slonim
Edith Sitwell
Edith Sitwell Reading Her Poems / 195? / Caedmon TC 1016 mono
VG+ / VG++ / $30.00
Recorded March 2, 1955. The Wind's Bastinado, Trio For Two Cats And A Trombone, Said King Pompey, Spinning Song, Green Flows The River Of Lethe-O, Serenade: Any Man To Any Woman, Tattered Serenade: Beggar To Shadow II, Street Song, An Old Woman, The Youth With The Red Gold Hair, A Sylph's Song, Most Lovely Shade. The Queen Of Scotland's Reply To A Reproof From John Knox, Who Shall Have My Fair Lady, The Bee Oracles, 1: The Bee Keeper, Dido's Song, The Canticle Of The Rose, The Gardener's And Astronomer's Sailor, What Of The Isles?, Song Of Queen Anne Boleyn; At Cockcrow, Where Is All The Bright Company Gone?
Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein Reads From Her Works / 196? / Caedmon TC 1050 mono
VG+
/ VG++ / $25.00
The Making Of Americans Parts 1 & 2; A Valentine To Sherwood Anderson; If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso; Matisse; Madame Recamier: An Opera
Adlai E. Stevenson
The Man, The Candidate, The Statesman / 1965 / Audio State AS 101 mono
Sealed / $25.00
Excerpts from his speeches, including his confrontation with the Soviet Union during the U.N. Security Council debate on the Cuban missile crisis, Oct. 26, 1962. Narrated by Bill Scott
Stevie (soundtrack)
Patrick Gowers / 1978 / Epic SE 37726
NM / VG++ / $16.00
Glenda Jackson reads the poetry of Stevie Smith. With John Williams guitar solos
The
Stories Of Sherlock Holmes Volume 2: The Redheaded League
Arthur Conan-Doyle / 1963 / Caedmon TC 1208 mono
NM is / VG++ / $25.00
Read by Basil Rathbone
That Was The Week That Was
The British Broadcasting
Corporation's Tribute to John Fitzgerald Kennedy / 1963 / Decca DL-79116
VG+ / VG++ / $15.00
A memorable live telecast from Nov. 23, 1963. With David Frost, Millicent Martin, Roy Kinnear, Bernard Levin, William Rushton and Dame Sybil Thorndike
Dylan Thomas (more Christmas records)
Dylan Thomas Reading A Child's Christmas In Wales / 1964 / Caedmon TC 1002 mono
VG++ / NM / $18.00
Dame Sybil Thorndike / Sir Lewis Casson
Poetry Of Tennyson / 1957 / Caedmon TC 1080 mono
VG sps / VG+ / $15.00
Original release, red label. Thorndike reads The Lady Of Shalott, In Memoriam, Tears Idle Tears, Morte d'Arthur (lines 213-323), Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal, Crossing The Bar. Casson reads Ulysses, Merlin And The Gleam, The Revenge
Dame Sybil Thorndike / Sir Lewis Casson
Poetry Of Tennyson / 196? / Caedmon TC 1080 mono
VG++ / VG+ / $15.00
Blue & white label. Thorndike reads The Lady Of Shalott, In Memoriam, Tears Idle Tears, Morte d'Arthur (lines 213-323), Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal, Crossing The Bar. Casson reads Ulysses, Merlin And The Gleam, The Revenge
J.R.R. Tolkien
Reads And Sings His Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers - The Return Of The King / 1975 / Caedmon TC 1478 mono
VG++ / VG++ / $28.00
Excerpts from the second and third books of the trilogy, recorded in 1952
The Trial Of Socrates By Plato
Read by Steve Allen / 1960? / Hanover HM 5009 mono
VG++ / NM / $30.00
Ulysses
James Joyce / 196? / Caedmon TC 1063 mono
VG++ / NM / $25.00
Soliloquies of Molly & Leopold Bloom read by Siobhan McKenna & E.G. Marshall
The Wind In The Willows
Kenneth Grahame / 1973 / Caedmon TC 116
VG++ / VG+ / $14.00
Read by David McCallum