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Friday, October 15, 2010

The spoken word

We just received a number of unusual spoken word recordings on vinyl LPs.  These are available in our record bins at $1 per disk, and include:
  • The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien, read by Nicol Williamson (4 disks) -- SOLD
  • The JRR Tolkien Soundbook, a 4-disk set including Tolkien reading and singing excerpts from The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and Poems and Songs of Middle Earth, and Christopher Tolkien reading from The Silmarillion -- SOLD
  • Tennessee Williams reading from The Glass Menagerie, The Yellow Bird, and Five Poems (1 disk) -- SOLD
  • A selection of readings from the works of Stephen Crane by Jared Reed (1 disk) -- (SOLD)
  • Stephen Vincent Benet's John Brown's Body read by Tyrone Power, Dame Judith Anderson, and Raymond Massey (2 disks)  -- SOLD
  • America the Beautiful: The Heart of America in Poetry read by Vincent Price (1 disk, popular American poems) -- SOLD
  • Emily Dickinson's Letters read by Samuel Charters (1 disk) -- SOLD
  • Readings from Walt Whitman (excerpts from Leaves of Grass) read by the University Players (1 disk) -- SOLD
  • New York 19, local lore of Manhattan's 19th Ward, recorded and narrated by Tony Schwartz (1 disk) -- SOLD
  • Selections from Herman Melville's Moby Dick read by Louis Zorich (1 disk) -- (SOLD)
Stop in and check out these and the other new selections we put out each day.