Rare & Collectible
For drama recordings, please see Soundtracks. See also Children's records.
Grading order is cover / vinyl. Grading standards and terms
To order on Amazon:
(more Rarities) (more Sealed albums)
1972, Chess CH 50032
Original Chess release, factory sealed, with slight corner bumps and small cut corner. Track list: I Got Soul, Welfare Slave, Nothingness, Thanksgiving, Ghettos Of The Mind, The Right To Be Wrong, Blessed Marie, Justice Isn't Blind, Social Narcotics, Black Man My Brother, Drunken Sister.
(more Sealed albums)
196?, Folkways FS 3870
Sidney Shalett interviews Truman's vice president. Includes insert with descriptive notes
(more Sealed albums)
197?, Folkways FW 9771
Includes insert with descriptive notes
1966, Columbia Masterworks PC-1
Vinyl in new condition, still sealed in inner plastic sleeve. Casals in his own words - speeches, interviews, press conferences and conversations, plus selections from his recordings. Commentary by Isaac Stern.
197?, Folkways FC 7719
"Distributed by Rounder Records" sticker on cover.
1983, Musical Heritage Society 4716K mono
English Poets from Chaucer to Years series. Includes "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" wIth Richard Burton, John Neville and Robert Hardy. Also Burton reads "Frost at Midnight," Neville reads "Dejection: An Ode" and "The Pains of Sleep." William Devlin reads "Kubla Khan" and Yvonne Bonnamy reads "Christabel."
(more Sealed original vinyl)
1970, Warner Bros BS 2570
Original release in new, factory-sealed condition. Includes poster with Max Ehrmann's classic poem that begins "Go placidly amid the noise & haste ...". Track list: Prologue, Desiderata, Vision, Friends, Beauty (Shining From The Inside Out), Happiness (I Got No Cares), Esperanza (Hope), Nature (Wilderness), Courage (Eyes That See), Independence (A Different Drummer), Love (Children Learn What They Live), Epilogue.
1983, Caedmon TC 1719
Ferber reads from her works
(more Children's records)
198?, Caedmon TC 1062
Reissue of 1956 album, with Tom Thumb, The Old Man And His Grandson, The Frog Prince, The Elves And The Shoemaker, Sleeping Beauty (Briar Rose), Rumpelstiltskin, The Star-Money, Rapunzel.
1974, Atlantic SD 18120
Original release, Monarch pressing. Musical interpretation of the Gibran classic, read by Harris. Gatefold cover with Gibran bio and art. Music by Arif Mardin and with an appearance by Barry Manilow on background vocals.
1974, Atlantic SD 18120
Original release, Monarch pressing. Musical interpretation of the Gibran classic, read by Harris. Gatefold cover with Gibran bio and art. Music by Arif Mardin and with an appearance by Barry Manilow on background vocals.
(more Sealed vinyl)
198?, Columbia Masterworks OS 2019
Vintage vinyl issue, still sealed with just a touch of corner wear. "Nice Price" sticker on shrink dates this edition to the early '80s. Track list: Introduction, On Smoking, Journalism On Horseback, My Encounter With An Interviewer, Huck Battles His Conscience, The Creator's Pet.
1964, CBS OL 7020 mono
Dame Edith Evans, Sir John Gielgud and Margaret Leighton read Shakespeare in the opening event of the Lincoln Center World's Fair Festival at Philharmonic Hall, New York. Liner notes by Judith Robison.
1965, Caedmon TC 1196
Original release, library copy with library pocket & card on back cover. Includes NM booklet with complete text of the recording and inner sleeve with Caedmon catalog.
197?, Spoken Arts SA 1140
Jong reads her poems: Fruits And Vegetables, Half-Lives, Loveroot; and excerpts from her seminal novel, Fear Of Flying
(more Spoken Word)
1973, Karo K100
With score by Elmer Bernstein, Kavanaugh reads his poems: Intro - There Are Men Too Gentle - Little Boy, My Easy God, The Rest Of My Life, I Dream On Words, I Saw My Face, Oakwood Gardens, Desperate City, Come To The Beach With Me, Old Man, Football Game, I Played God, Little World, Soft And Silent, Maybe If You'd Known Me, Remember When We Laughed, Where Are You Hiding My Love?, Quite Mornings - There Are Men Too Gentle - Finale.
(more Collectors Items)
196?, Longines Symphonette Recording Society LW-125/6/7
Rare box set in as-new condition, licensed and authorized by the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library. News-making moments from JFK's inauguration to his assassination. Records 1 & 2: Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk narrates and introduces famous speeches and press conferences. Record 3: News anchorman Chet Huntley reporting on key moments of the Kennedy presidency. Includes certificate of appreciation from trustees of the JFK Library
(see also Yoko Ono)
1983, Polydor 422-817 238-1 Y-1
Candid interviews with John and Yoko in the summer and fall of 1980, shortly before his death. Background sounds of Central Park West and the Lennons' kitchen are heard. Includes insert letter by Yoko outlining the circumstances of the conversations.
1977, Watt 5
An adapatation of the Harold Pinter play, with Carla Bley, Robert Wyatt, Kevin Coyne, Chris Spedding, Ron McClure. Gatefold cover with play script.
1971, Natural History Magazine 003
Redford narrates "The Wolf You Never Knew" on side 1, sounds of the wolf on side 2. Magazine subscribers' bonus record
1971, Natural History Magazine 003
Redford narrates "The Wolf You Never Knew" on side 1, sounds of the wolf on side 2. Magazine subscribers' bonus record
196?, Mercury ROM 2408 mono
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
1977, Mountain Railroad MR 52779
Original release. Gatefold cover with lyrics.
1957, Lyrichord LL66 mono
17 poems by a great voice of Chicago. The Good Boy, Boll Weevil Song, Careless Love, In De Vinter Time, Moanish Lady, Foggy Foggy Dew, I Wish I Was A Little Bird, I'm Sad And I'm Lonely, Cigarettes Will Spoil Yer Life, We'll Roll Back The Prices, The Horse Named Bill, Jay Gould's Daughter, He's Gone Away, Casey Jones, I Ride An Old Paint, Man Goin' Roun', Gallows Song. Small writing on back cover
1968, Caedmon TC 1263 mono
Original release. Track list: Fog, Child, Broken-face Gargoyles, Bright Conversations with Saint-Ex, Night Bells, On a Flimmering Floom You Shall Ride, We Have Gone Through Great Rooms Together, Baby Song of the Four Winds, Far Rockaway Night Till Morning, How Much?, Wind Song, Flash Crimson, Losers, A Couple, Omaha, Sea-Wash, Precious Moments, Explanations of Love, Upstream, Wilderness, Little Candle, Cornucopia, Light and Moonbells, Special Starlight, Mr. Attila, Is There Any Easy Road to Freedom, The Man with the Broken Fingers, When Death Came April Twelve 1945, River Moon. Liner notes by William A. Smith.
1962, Spoken Arts 841 mono
Includes insert with complete text
1962, Spoken Arts 828
Directed by Arthur Luce Klein. Liner notes by Marc Slonim
195?, Caedmon TC 1016 mono
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?
1960?, Spoken Arts SA 916 mono
Readings on the subject of U.S. race relations by the author of "Strange Fruit." Very clean library copy. Track list: It's A Terrible Sleep When You Can't Wake Up, You Think About The Three Who Were Killed, We Were There, Man, And We Knew We Were There, Nonviolence? Deep In My Heart I Wonder.
(more Sealed albums)
1965, Audio State AS 101 mono
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
(more Sealed albums)
1959, Folkways SC 7779
Anthology of folk tales and stories from the United Nations. Includes insert with descriptive notes
1963, Caedmon TC 1157
Original release. Recorded at the University of California Los Angeles on April 10, 1950: An Irreverent Introduction, The Traveler's Curse After Misdirection, A Glass Of Beer, One Poet Visits Another, An Introduction To Thomas Hardy, To Lizbie Brown, The Ruined Maid, Lent, Song, To My Son Aged Eight, I Walked Out One Evening, Master And Bos'n Song, Passing The Graveyard, In Tara's Halls, The Three Bushes, Lapis Lazuli, This Side Of The Truth, In My Craft Or Sullen Art. Also includes BBC recordings from Sept. 24, 1949: On Reading Poetry Aloud, If My Head Hurt A Hair's Foot, Poem In October.
(more Children's records) (more Christmas records)
1964, Caedmon TC 1002 mono
Recorded in New York, Feb 22-23, 1952. Includes Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, In The White Giant's Thigh, Ballad Of The Long-Legged Bait, Ceremony After A Fire Raid
1981, Caedmon TC 1678
Narrated by James Mason
1976, CMS 679
One of the Yale Series of Recorded Poets. Includes Mortmain (After night flight, A dead language, Fox-fire, In the turpitude of time, A Vision), Clearly About You, The Letter About Money ..., Arrogant Law, Tiberius On Capri, The Garden, Founding Fathers, Country Burying, Debate: Questions, Quarry, Dream, Original Sin, Dragon Country, Two Studies in Idealism (Bear Truck Plantation, Harvard '61: Battle Fatigue). Liner notes by Cleanth Brooks. Slight edge and corner wear, piece of scotch tape on back cover.
1976, Caedmon TC 1512
With historical liner notes by Michael Patrick Hearn. Music by Don Heckman. Faint rubber stamp mark on cover.
These records have sold. Email us if you are looking for another copy.
Questions? Email gregsgrooves@gmail.com