Beat Generation[CD] - This three-disc set is a gold mine for anyone with even a passing interest in the music, the poetry, and the people of the beat era. The stars Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs are here. But so are the players (Charles Mingus, Gerry Mulligan), the architects (Kenneth Patchen, Kenneth Rexroth), the cutups (Lenny Bruce, Lord Buckley), the pretenders (Rod McKuen, Edd Byrnes), the critics (Carl Sandburg, Howard K. Smith), and the heirs (Tom Waits).
Disc 1
1 San Francisco Scene (The Beat Generation) - Jack Kerouac - 3:09
2 The Beat Generation - Dor [Rod McKuen]; Bob McFadden - 2:03
3 Footloose in Greenwich Village 12:32
4 Blues Montage - Leonard Feather; Langston Hughes - 3:12
5 Manhattan Fable - Babs Gonzales - 2:36
6 Reaching into In - Ken Nordine - 1:53
7 Parker's Mood - King Pleasure - 2:57
8 Route 66 Theme - Nelson Riddle - 2:06
9 Diamonds on My Windshield - Tom Waits - 3:10
10 Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs - 6:26
11 Bernie's Tune - Lee Konitz; Gerry Mulligan - 3:31
12 Like Rumpelstiltskin - Don Morrow - 6:18
13 Oop-Pop-A-Da - Dizzy Gillespie - 3:08
14 Basic Hip - John Brent; Del Close - 1:11
15 Christopher Columbus Digs the Jive - John Barrymore - 3:04
16 The Clown - Charles Mingus; Jean Shepherd - 12:11
17 The Murder of Two Men by a Young Kid Wearing Lemon Colored Gloves - Chamber Jazz Sextet; Kenneth Patchen - 1:15
Disc 2
1 The Hip Gahn - Lord Buckley - 6:09
2 Twisted - Dave Lambert - 2:14
3 Yip Roc Heresy - Slim Gaillard - 2:28
4 Ha! - Charlie Ventura 2:46
5 Pull My Daisy - David Amram; Lynn Sheffield - 4:29
6 October in the Railroad Earth - Steve Allen; Jack Kerouac - 7:06
7 The Cool Rebellion - Howard Smith - 20:13
8 Cosmic Rays - Charlie Parker - 3:05
9 Kookie's Mad Pad - Edd "Kookie" Byrnes - 2:03
10 Bebopper - The Gordons; Hank Jones - 2:44
11 Hunger Is From - Ken Nordine - 3:48
12 No Pictures Please - Rod McKuen - 4:03
13 Like Young - Mitchell Ayers; Perry Como - 2:53
14 Married Blues - Kenneth Rexroth - 3:22
15 Psychopathia Sezualis - Lenny Bruce - 2:24
Disc 3
1 Jack and Neal / California, Here I Come - Tom Waits - 4:57
2 Readings from On the Road and Visions of Cody - Steve Allen; Jack Kerouac - 3:28
3 Interview with Jack Kerouac - Ben Hecht - 15:29
4 Kerouazy - Don Morrow - 2:06
5 Cool - John Brent; Del Close - 3:50
6 But I Was Cool - Brown - 2:53
7 Uncool - John Brent; Del Close - 0:58
8 High School Drag - Phillipa Fallon - 2:14
9 Oop-Bop SH-Bam - Kenny Clarke - 3:04
10 Professor Bop - Babs Gonzales; Three Bips & a Bop - 2:26
11 Beatnik's Wish - Patsy Raye - 2:28
12 Like Having Fun - Elmer Bernstein - 2:17
13 On Beatniks - Carl Sandburg - 0:27
14 Swinghouse - Gerry Mulligan - 2:53
15 The Greenwich Village Poets - Charles Kuralt - 1:36
16 America - Allen Ginsberg - 4:47
Best of William Burroughs [MP3] - William S. Burroughs reads excerpts from his works. From Giorno Poetry Systems.
Twilight's Last Gleamings - From Interzone
Roosevelt After Inauguration (excerpt) - From The Yage Letters
Dr. Benway Is Operating in an Auditorium - From Naked Lunch
Last Words of Hassan Sabbah (excerpt) - From Nova Express
Unworthy Vessel - From The Nova Express
The Name Is Clem Snide (excerpt) - From Cities of the Red Night
My Protagonist Kim Carson (excerpt) - From The Place of Dead Roads
The Mummy Piece - From The Place of Dead Roads
Call Me Burroughs[CD] - William S. Burroughs reads excerpts from his works. Recorded at the English Bookshop, Paris, France in 1965. Originally released on ESP-Disk (1050). Includes liner notes by Emmett Williams, Jean-Jacques Label, Barry Alfonso and Barry Miles.
Bradley the Buyer - From Naked Lunch
Meeting of International Conference of Technological Psychiatry - From Naked Lunch
The Fish Poison Con - From Naked Lunch
Thing Police Keep All Board Room Reports - From Naked Lunch
Mr. Bradley Mr. Martin Hear Us Through the Hole in Thin Air - From Naked Lunch
Where You Belong - From Nova Express
Inflexible Authority - From Nova Express
Uranian Willy - From Nova Express
Casablanca: Hollywood Playhouse Original Radio Broadcast [CD] - Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman reading of film script from Casablanca.
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The: The Complete Radio Series [CD] - BBC Audiobooks America; Unabridged Edition edition. Produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and Above the Title Productions. Author: Douglas Adams. With Simon Jones; Geoffrey McGivern; Peter Jones; William Franklyn; Mark Wing-Davey; Stephen Moore; Susan Sheridan; Jane Horrocks; Sandra Dickinson; Rula Lenska; Bill Wallis.
Old Angel Midnight - Lucien Midnight: The Sounds of the Universe In My Window (Part 1)
Old Angel Midnight - Lucien Midnight: The Sounds of the Universe In My Window (Part 2)
Fantasy: The Early History of Bop
The Subterraneans (excerpts)
Visions of Neal: Neal and the Three Stooges (Part 1)
Visions of Neal: Neal and the Three Stooges (Part 2)
Is There a Beat Generation?
James Joyce: Ullysses - The Film Soundtrack[LP] - Caedmon.
Stars Milo O’Shea and Barbara Jefford, who played Leopold and Molly Bloom in Joseph Strick’s 1967 film of Ulysses.
It’s on two records and is about 98 minutes long.
It’s all the dialogue, background noises and so on from the film. They took the sound part of the film and committed the whole thing to vinyl.
Maltese Falcon, The: Hollywood Playhouse Original Radio Broadcast [CD] - Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre read film script to The Maltese Falcon.
Ulysses[CD] - Donal Donnelly and Miriam Healy-Louie read James Joyce's Ulysses.
Put out by Recorded Books under the authorization of the James Joyce estate.
William Shakespeare[LP] - Caedmon.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
All's Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Hamlet - Paul Scofield
Hamlet - Richard Burton and Broadway Cast
Julius Caesar
King Lear
Macbeth
Measure for Measure
Henry the Fourth, Parts I and II
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
Taming of the Shrew
Troylus and Cressida
Twelfth Night
Winter's Tale, The
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