Spoken Word

Instructional Recordings, Poetry, Speeches, Lectures, Sermons, etc, etc, etc…

  • Pin Points - No Dressing Pin Points - No Dressing

    Stock cover, late 70’s, DIY looking from Southeast Washington DC, the song titles stood out, looking mostly gospel, with “It’s Got To Be That Dope” raising curiosity. The sounds impressed, gospel, modern soul, drum and rap. With further research i discovered their web site, Pin Points is an activist inner city theatre group that works […]

  • NRA - Legacy NRA - Legacy

    Found two years ago in a thrift, sealed, wasn’t untill this spring that i cracked it open to discover a dozen public service announcements promoting not the shoot em up unregistered bill of rights side of the organization, but the kinder, gentler conservation side of the group. Among the usual suspects are Ed Ames, Walter […]

  • Bobby And Betty Go To The Moon Bobby And Betty Go To The Moon

    Way in the future, 1985, these 2 kids are the first to fly solo to the moon. Loads of fun science facts and cheesy effects, girls don’t care much for engineering in the future, where scientists sound like cheap impersonations of Bela & Boris. More fun on side two, tame library versions of soul […]

  • L Cpl Charles E Scott (USMC) - From Vietnam With Love L Cpl Charles E Scott (USMC) - From Vietnam With Love

    Still a mystery to me, found a stack of these in Richmond VA (the label’s hometown) almost a decade ago, many years of questions and research has yielded nada. The label is known for some hard 60’s garage rockers, this spoken recitation with folky guitar strumming & humming of the Stone’s “As Tears Go By” […]

  • Les Bardanes - Vers l'homme, Gospel Night N°4 Les Bardanes - Vers l’homme, Gospel Night N°4

    Right people, like with my last post, if you want the sound clip you have to patiently plug into my webpage and hear mix 1 at http://dr.lloyd.free.fr/ I have this propensity I can’t shake for sonic and sensual overload and I totally recognise that one of my biggest faults is overuse of the tape echo function on […]

  • C - Dream One / In 1 Ear C - Dream One / In 1 Ear

    For 7 or 8 years in the 90s I was selling records with my brother. I’m not going to pretend to you I was knowing my sh1t inside and out, my tiny mind was baffled from raves and with 2 hemispheres like Swiss cheese now it is just impossible for me to retain all the […]

  • Gertrude Behanna - God Isn't Dead! Gertrude Behanna - God Isn’t Dead!

    Here is the “highly personal story” of Mrs. Gertrude Behanna, a story of alcohol, drug addiction, three broken marriages and attempted suicide. Just look at Gertrude, doesn’t she exude the aura of misbehavior and a youth gone wild?! But who am I to know. Maybe God healed her visage of all that was ugly and […]

  • Signals From Outer Space Signals From Outer Space

    This came as a present from a friend and the physicist in me went ape-sh*t. This is a 45 themed around recordings from Sputnik, the first satelite to make it into space (launched from the former U.S.S.R. in 1957). Side one is a recording of the data being sent from Sputnik while in space. Lots […]

  • Kit Ream - All That I Am Kit Ream - All That I Am

    I’m finishing this up at about 3:30 AM Pacific standard time, a perfect middle-of-the-night moment to finalize my thoughts on the infamous Kit Ream - All That I Am LP on Creative Records from 1978. Catalog number MW001. A “Waxidermist’s” wet dream.
    What started for me a few years ago as yet another late afternoon work-break […]

  • The Slits / American Radio Interview The Slits / American Radio Interview

    The Slits’ brief catalog is full of oddities bookmarked by two full-length LPs, their acknowledged dub/punk classic Cut and the misunderstood and very underrated Return of the Giant Slits. (If you have not yet done so, get these albums now.)
    This 1981 7″ came packaged with the (Europe only?) Return LP, and it’s a perverse piece […]

  • Victor Uman - The Celestial Visitor From Planet Wisdom Victor Uman - The Celestial Visitor From Planet Wisdom

    This comes to us from ‘The Scientific Peace Builders Foundation’ out of Santa Monica, CA. On side one, narrator Charles Evans explains to us how the world is and always has been: war, power struggles and greed pitting human against human, racism, disease, etc. Side two has the nasally voiced alien-human Mr. Uman explaining how […]

  • Various - Pornophone / Sänghingsten Various - Pornophone / Sänghingsten

    Oh Oh, this cover is quite explicit, when i bought this 45 i thought it was punk underground stuff, it was written in swedish, the only thing i understood was “pornophone” and “Made in Sweden”, the rest is swedish, anyway i bought it. Back home, i listened to it and i was disapointed: only spoken. […]

  • David Wilkerson: The Coming Persecution David Wilkerson: The Coming Persecution

    Definitely one of the best Christian covers I’ve ever seen. I, however, was hoping the sermon would be a bit more crazed based on the liner notes. But, while Mr. Wilkerson’s prophecies seem pretty radical in print, the way he explains them leaves one wondering just how much divine help was actually needed to come […]

  • Jackson White, MD: Deep Relaxation Jackson White, MD: Deep Relaxation

    I’ve had like a million of these mind control/relaxation/meditation records, but for some reason I like this one better than most. Maybe it’s the guitar accompaniment. It’s also kind of unintentionally funny because he must say “deeply relaxed” about 300 times over the course of the 2 sides.
    Listen

  • Ford Lile: Track of the Scarab Ford Lile: Track of the Scarab

    Totally bugged out (no pun intended) album that Douglas recommended to me recently. Ford Lile manages to sound, mystical, erotic, and really creepy all at the same time - which, to me, seems like no small feat! Imagine if Barry White had taken a Paul Horn style career turn and ended up dabbling in new-age […]

  • Frank Rocco - Audio Therapy Frank Rocco - Audio Therapy

    Spoken word LP for those looking to shed a few pounds through the use of “progressive relaxation.” It is pretty self-explanitory and I probably shouldn’t waste any time discussing it. Basically the dialogue is this: “You will relax.” “You will relax more.” “You will relax more and more.” (etc)
    I am […]

  • Instructions To Train Personnel When Speaking To Passengers Instructions To Train Personnel When Speaking To Passengers

    Canada is a bilingual country and owing to the distances trains traveled, it was necessary to understand both English and French. This is an instructional record to help CN Rail staff understand the most basic, common-sense French and English phrases. I had hoped to hear something funny or awkward, but it really is just basic […]

  • The New World Money System by Willard Cantelon The New World Money System by Willard Cantelon

    Being an avid conspiracy theorist, my mouth started drooling when I came across this piece at a long forgotten (translation: I don’t remember where I got this) LA spot. Behold A Pale Horse? The Illuminati? The Da Vinci Code? Eff all those - this guy will scare the crap out of you. The record starts […]

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