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Spoken Word vinyl record albums
Poetry and other readings, speeches, interviews, tributes

(For drama recordings, please see Soundtracks). See also Children's records

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Spiro T. Agnew

Spiro T. Agnew Speaks Out / 197? / RCA Victor PRM-316

NM / VG++ / $20.00

"Effete corps of impudent snobs" and other fulminations by Nixon's veep

Bama The Vilage Poet (more Rarities) (more Sealed albums)

Ghettos Of The Mind / 1972 / Chess CH 50032

Sealed co / $95.00 BUY AT GREG'S GROOVES ON AMAZON MARKETPLACE

Original release, factory sealed, with small cut corner on cover. 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.

Alben W. Barkley (more Sealed albums)

Veep - Alben W. Barkley Tells His Own Story / 196? / Folkways FS 3870

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Sidney Shalett interviews Truman's vice president. Includes insert with descriptive notes

Benjamin Franklin Autobiography (more Sealed albums)

Edited and read by L. Jesse Lemisch / 197? / Folkways FW 9771

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Includes insert with descriptive notes

Pablo Casals

Casals: A Living Portrait / 1966 / Columbia Masterworks PC-1

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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.

Chantons En Francais Vol. 1

Alan Mills & Helen Baillargeon / 197? / Folkways FC 7719

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"Distributed by Rounder Records" sticker on cover.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Various Readings / 1983 / Musical Heritage Society 4716K mono

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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."

 Les Crane (more Sealed original vinyl)

Desiderata / 1970 / Warner Bros BS 2570

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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.

Documentary History of Broadcasting: 1920-1950 - Radio Before Television, Volume One

1971 / Folkways FB 9171

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Introduction: The Arts of Language: "A Word in Your Ear"/"I Know What I Like" Includes insert with descriptive notes.

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

The Eisenhower Story

1956 / ABC-Paramount ABC-128 mono

VG+ / VG++ / $30.00

Dramatic moments from the career of Dwight D. Eisenhower including D-Day: his Order of the Day, broadcast from Paris on Liberation Day, VE-Day announcement, 1952 nomination acceptance, 1952 election victory, Korea news conference, Atoms-For-Peace announcement, and other historic moments. Narrated by Ted Mallie. Small writing on back cover

Edna Ferber

A Reminiscence of Show Boat and "The Gay Old Dog" / 1983 / Caedmon TC 1719

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Ferber reads from her works

Grimm's Fairy Tales (more Children's records)

Read by Joseph Schildkraut / 198? / Caedmon TC 1062

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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.

Richard Harris

The Prophet / 1974 / Atlantic SD 18120

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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.

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Richard Harris

The Prophet / 1974 / Atlantic SD 18120

VG++ / NM/ $25.00

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.

Hal Holbrook (more Sealed vinyl)

Mark Twain Tonight! (original cast) / 198? / Columbia Masterworks OS 2019

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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.

A Homage To Shakespeare / 1964 / CBS OL 7020 mono

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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.

Homer: The Iliad Books Fifteen, Sixteen and Seventeen

Read by Anthony Quayle / 1965 / Caedmon TC 1196

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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.

The House Committee On Un-American Activities (more Rarities)

1962 / Folkways FD 5530 mono

VG++ / NM / $60.00

Excerpts from hearings in San Francisco, May 1960. Includes interviews outside the courtroom and eyewitness accounts of the accompanying violent protests. Includes insert with San Francisco Chronicle newspaper stories and transcription of the hearing excerpts

Laura Huxley

Recipes For Living And Loving / 1973 / Everest 3361

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Huxley reads her recipes for spiritual refreshment - "Rainbow Walk" and "Your Favorite Flower" - two recipes not included in her landmark book, "You Are Not The Target"

Is Freedom Academic?

1964 / KPFA-Pacifica Foundation

VG++ wobc / VG++ / $25.00

A documentary of the Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley, fall 1964. Includes reports from rally at Sproul Hall, Dec. 2; police action, arrests; university and political statements; academic senate meeting, Dec. 8; interview with movement leader Mario Savio. Small writing on back cover

Erica Jong

Fear Of Flying / 197? / Spoken Arts SA 1140

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Jong reads her poems: Fruits And Vegetables, Half-Lives, Loveroot; and excerpts from her seminal novel, Fear Of Flying

James Kavanaugh (more Spoken Word)

There Are Men Too Gentle To Live Among Wolves / 1973 / Karo K100

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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.

The Kennedy Years 1956-1963 (3-LP box) (more Collectors Items)

196? / Longines Symphonette Recording Society LW-125/6/7

NM / NM, NM, NM / $30.00 $20.00 BUY AT GREG'S GROOVES ON AMAZON MARKETPLACE

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

John Lennon/Yoko Ono (see also Yoko Ono)

Heart Play - Unfinished Dialogue / 1983 / Polydor 422-817 238-1 Y-1

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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.

John Lennon/Yoko Ono (see also Yoko Ono)

Heart Play - Unfinished Dialogue / 1983 / Polydor 422-817 238-1 Y-1

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Original release. 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. No insert.

The Man Without A Country

Edward Everett Hale / 1963 / Caedmon TC 1178 mono

VG++ / VG++ / $40.00

Edward G. Robinson reads Hale's parable of American patriotism

Michael Mantler

Silence / 1977 / Watt 5

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An adapatation of the Harold Pinter play, with Carla Bley, Robert Wyatt, Kevin Coyne, Chris Spedding, Ron McClure. Gatefold cover with play script.

Robert Francis Kennedy - A Memorial (2 LPs)

1969? / Columbia Masterworks ML 6601 mono (disc 1) / MS 7202 (disc 2)

VG++ / VG++, VG++ / $25.00

Record 1: Robert F. Kennedy In His Own Words, including memorial to JFK at the Democratic convention, Altantic City, NJ, Aug. 27, 1964; speeches during the 1968 presidential campaign; "The Measure Of A Nation" address at the University of Kansas, March 1968; "Toward a Better World" address in South Africa, June 6,1966 ... Record 2: Excerpts from his funeral service at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, June 9, 1968, including eulogy by Edward M. Kennedy. Includes insert with contents. Gatefold cover with multiple small images of RFK and dedication by Coretta Scott King. Mismatched issues - one disc is mono, the other stereo

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

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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

The Living Bible 8: A Chariot Of Fire

196? / Mercury ROM 2408 mono

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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

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

The Negro Woman

Compiled by Jean M. Brannon / 1966 / Folkways FH 5523

NM / VG++ / $30.00

Selections from the writings of Phillis Wheatley, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Ida B. Wells Barnett, Mary Church Terrell, Mary McLeod Bethune, read by Dorothy Washington. Includes 12-page booklet with texts, images and biographical sketches of the women

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

Gamble Rogers

The Lord Gives Me Grace, And The Devil Gives Me Style / 1977 / Mountain Railroad MR 52779

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Original release. Gatefold cover with lyrics.

Carl Sandburg

The Great Carl Sandburg / 1957 / Lyrichord LL66 mono

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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

Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg Reading Fog And Other Poems / 1968 / Caedmon TC 1263 mono

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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.

Scenes de la Vie Francaise

1962 / Spoken Arts 841 mono

NM / VG++ / $14.00 BUY AT GREG'S GROOVES ON AMAZON MARKETPLACE

Includes insert with complete text

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

Shakespeare: Soul Of An Age (TV soundtrack) (more Soundtracks)

Sir Michael Redgrave & Sir Ralph Richardson / 1962 / Caedmon TC 1170 mono

VG++ / NM / $30.00

Soundtrack for the NBC television special, with readings from Shakespeare's immortal plays. Includes 8-page insert with images and text from the soundtrack

Sir Michael Redgrave Reads The Harmfulness of Tobacco, A Transgression, The First-Class Passenger by Anton Chekhov

1962 / Spoken Arts 828

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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?

Lillian Smith

Our Faces, Our Words / 1960? / Spoken Arts SA 916 mono

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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.

Adlai E. Stevenson (more Sealed albums)

The Man, The Candidate, The Statesman / 1965 / Audio State AS 101 mono

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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

Stories From Ride With The Sun (more Sealed albums)

Told by Kathleen Danson Read / 1959 / Folkways SC 7779

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Anthology of folk tales and stories from the United Nations. Includes insert with descriptive notes

Dylan Thomas

An Evening With Dylan Thomas Reading His Own And Other Poems / 1963 / Caedmon TC 1157

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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.

Dylan Thomas (more Children's records) (more Christmas records)

Dylan Thomas Reading A Child's Christmas In Wales And Five Poems / 1964 / Caedmon TC 1002 mono

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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

The Time Machine

H.G. Wells / 1981 / Caedmon TC 1678

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Narrated by James Mason

J.R.R. Tolkien (more Rare & Collectible)

Poems And Songs Of Middle Earth / 1967 / Caedmon TC 1231

VG++ / NM / $65.00

The author reads in English and "Elvish" from The Lord Of The Rings and The Adventures Of Tom Bombadil. William Elvin sings The Road Goes Ever On with piano accompaniment by Donald Swann. Liner Notes by W.H. Auden.

J.R.R. Tolkien (more Rare & Collectible vinyl)

J.R.R. Tolkien Reads And Sings From His The Hobbit And The Fellowship Of The Ring / 1975 / Caedmon TC 1477

VG+ / VG+ / $125.00

Original stereo release. Side 1 is Riddles In The Dark (Chapter V of The Hobbit), side 2 is excerpts from the first book of the Lord Of The Rings trilogy. Cover illustration is Tolkien's "Conversation With Smaug." Liner notes by George Sayer.

Voices Of The Loon

Narrated by Robert J. Lurtsema / 1980 / National Audubon Society NAS -1001

VG++ / VG+ / $12.00

Introduction to, and identification of, the haunting calls of the loon.

Robert Penn Warren

Robert Penn Warren Reads From His Works / 1976 / CMS 679

VG+ / NM / $75.00 BUY AT GREG'S GROOVES ON AMAZON MARKETPLACE

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.

The White House Or Bust: Seven Steps To The Presidency (more Sealed albums)

Anthony G. Pilla / 1964 / Folkways FH 5503

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Documentary traces a politician’s progress through nomination, the campaign, the vote, and - for the winner - inauguration. Includes NBC audio clips from Barry Goldwater, John F. Kennedy, Everett Dirksen, Lyndon B. Johnson and others

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 The Wizard Of Oz

L. Frank Baum, Read by Ray Bolger / 1976 / Caedmon TC 1512

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With historical liner notes by Michael Patrick Hearn. Music by Don Heckman. Faint rubber stamp mark on cover.

Virginia Woolf: A Room Of One's Own

Read by Claire Bloom / 1982 / Caedmon TC 1718

Sealed / $35.00

Bloom reads abridged version of the Woolf classic. Liner notes by Mitchell Leaska

World War I: Historic Music And Voices

Robert Lewis Shayon / 1964 / American Heritage RB 408/9 mono

VG++ / NM / $14.00

Narrated by Charles Collingwood. Companion record to the book "The American Heritage History Of World War I"

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