#caedmon records

[fitsofgloom]

The World Bewitch'd

[musicmakesyousmart]

Uncle Vanya

Caedmon Records

1964

[randomnessoffiction]

OK if any gramophile has these in their collections and would be willingly to convert them to mp3 and share them on the Internet that would be nice.

[lesbianhorse]

@retroscifiart

[70sscifiart]

A selection of Caedmon Records audiobook cover art

[darthemed]

Studs Terkel - Hard Times [1971, Caedmon Records]

Recorded in a variety of environments, the interviews on these records capture people's recollections of The Great Depression, its effects, and its influence on behavior for decades to come.  Tales of trouble at school and work, scuffles with police and railway patrolmen, organization of labor and farmers, and children's memories of how their parents reacted to the pressures all come together in a fascinating patchwork of history on a variety of personal levels.

[darthemed]

Tammy Grimes - Gorey By Grimes [1980, Caedmon Records]

On this album, Broadway actress Tammy Grimes reads the stories of Edward Gorey, an author perhaps best known for his Gashlycrum Tinies, in which small children with unusual names meet gruesome deaths.  Grimes' delivery is frequently overly dramatic, doing a disservice to the poems and stories, which need no exaggeration for their humor to succeed; aside from that detail, the record is put together well, with effective samplings of Bach, Liszt, and Delibes serving as under-current propulsion for a few of the readings.  Not bad, but not as good as the material deserves.

[booksavor]

When a Book Is Not a Book, But a Record: Dylan Thomas

When a Book Is Not a Book, But a Record: Dylan Thomas

  When a book is not a book but a record

you can hear the full orchestra

of  Dylan Thomas’ voice

reciting

his poems,

as if he stood

before you.

Given the choice,

Yes! Yes!

I would choose hearing

the great Wales

poet

speak aloud

the

words his heart

always

meant to say:

The Art Part

of him, so sonorous,

so

commanding/  proud,

words

nailed down like

hardened steel -

how the timber

of his voice

esca…

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