Quote from: John G. on July 09, 2024, 07:05:36 AMSince I have been largely bed ridden, I always seem to have one charging. So that’s one less in the equation. Sending hugs. Any chance of getting that MRI approved?
Since I have been largely bed ridden, I always seem to have one charging. So that’s one less in the equation.
Quote from: Rodzinski on July 09, 2024, 10:51:42 AMQuote from: ChasSmith on July 09, 2024, 08:57:36 AMQuote from: Rodzinski on July 09, 2024, 08:14:20 AMIt’s a little bit of everything. And yes it’s unwieldy. Lots of pop, rock, easy listening oddities, a good section of soundtracks and cast albums. My pride is in my garage, a section of cultural curiosities: home-recorded albums by unknowns, spoken word, or bizarre recordings of animal heartbeats, albums from tourist attractions. Big section of organs and carillons, a futile attempt to buy every Rod McKuen record, a hole to which there is no bottom.Love the curiosities. I've probably had but a handful of true oddities, but I know some of the stuff is just out of this world. In the spoken word category, my passion is the recorded plays from, I guess, the late 50's through the '70s when such things were a "thing".What’s the label that specialized in a lot of that stuff? Caedmon. Though big labels used to put out whole plays as well. Caedmon has a lot of poets reading their work, or actors reading older poets’ stuff.Columbia. Some superb ones! Mercury, too. Yes, loads of them on Caedmon. Shakespeare plays on Argo. Well, that guy got around to all the labels. What am I not thinking of without going in and looking at my shelf?
Quote from: ChasSmith on July 09, 2024, 08:57:36 AMQuote from: Rodzinski on July 09, 2024, 08:14:20 AMIt’s a little bit of everything. And yes it’s unwieldy. Lots of pop, rock, easy listening oddities, a good section of soundtracks and cast albums. My pride is in my garage, a section of cultural curiosities: home-recorded albums by unknowns, spoken word, or bizarre recordings of animal heartbeats, albums from tourist attractions. Big section of organs and carillons, a futile attempt to buy every Rod McKuen record, a hole to which there is no bottom.Love the curiosities. I've probably had but a handful of true oddities, but I know some of the stuff is just out of this world. In the spoken word category, my passion is the recorded plays from, I guess, the late 50's through the '70s when such things were a "thing".What’s the label that specialized in a lot of that stuff? Caedmon. Though big labels used to put out whole plays as well. Caedmon has a lot of poets reading their work, or actors reading older poets’ stuff.
Quote from: Rodzinski on July 09, 2024, 08:14:20 AMIt’s a little bit of everything. And yes it’s unwieldy. Lots of pop, rock, easy listening oddities, a good section of soundtracks and cast albums. My pride is in my garage, a section of cultural curiosities: home-recorded albums by unknowns, spoken word, or bizarre recordings of animal heartbeats, albums from tourist attractions. Big section of organs and carillons, a futile attempt to buy every Rod McKuen record, a hole to which there is no bottom.Love the curiosities. I've probably had but a handful of true oddities, but I know some of the stuff is just out of this world. In the spoken word category, my passion is the recorded plays from, I guess, the late 50's through the '70s when such things were a "thing".
It’s a little bit of everything. And yes it’s unwieldy. Lots of pop, rock, easy listening oddities, a good section of soundtracks and cast albums. My pride is in my garage, a section of cultural curiosities: home-recorded albums by unknowns, spoken word, or bizarre recordings of animal heartbeats, albums from tourist attractions. Big section of organs and carillons, a futile attempt to buy every Rod McKuen record, a hole to which there is no bottom.
Caedmon was purchased in the 1980s by Harper & Row, who then destroyed the label and took most of the catalog out of print. The company was begun by a lesbian couple, and I used to place my Drama Book Shop orders with them over the phone. They used great performers, and a few of my favorite Caedmon recordings were: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: Carol Channing reads the novel, accompanied by a 1920s dance band Eudora Welty Reads "Why I Live at the P.O." Mother Goose with Celeste Holm, Boris Karloff, Cyril Ritchard and music by Hershey Kay Tartuffe translated by Richard Wilbur, performed by the Stratford Festival Marat/Sade performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company A Streetcar Named Desire starring Rosemary Harris and James Farentino
