[78-L] Library of Congress 78s was Large University Throwingaway records?

[David Lennick]

What other institutions had similar programs? I have a number of poets on 
Harvard Vocarium, including Eliot, and of course there was that series by the 
National Council of Teachers of English, those silver label discs of Robert 
Frost and Gertrude Stein (and presumably others)....

I picked up a few of the LoC Folk Music albums in a Detroit Sally Ann for next 
to nothing a few years ago and 4 or 5 of the poetry albums when someone began 
selling off surplus library books and records on eBay a while back. Nothing 
like that recently.

dl

Dan Van Landingham wrote:
> I stand corrected on the LoC recording I gave to a friend of mine;it was e.e.cummings as I 
> now recall.I have the rest of those records in a shed behind my house here in North Bend,Oregon.
> 
> --- On Tue, 7/7/09, Thomas Stern <sternth at attglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> From: Thomas Stern <sternth at attglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Library of Congress 78s was Large University Throwingaway records?
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Tuesday, July 7, 2009, 7:18 PM
> 
> 
> Correction:Â  BRIDGE issued a bunch of LoC material, including Dorothy
> Maynor, Budapest String
> Quartet, Nathan Milstein, and the Josh White/Golden Gate Quartet/Alain
> Locke/Alan Lomax concert
> titled FREEDOM.
> Thomas.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com]On Behalf Of Thomas Stern
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> Subject: Re: [78-L] Library of Congress 78s was Large University
> Throwingaway records?
> 
> 
> The Library of Congress issued two series of 78s which I am aware of,
> Â  a series of traditional (folk) music from the Archive of American Folk
> Song
> Â  a series of Poetry Readings held at the LoC.
> Most or all the 78s were transferred to LP.
> PL 1 Katherine Garrison Chapin, Mark Van Doren, Wystan Hugh Auden and
> Richard Eberhart
> PL 2 Louise Bogan, Paul Engle, Marianne Moore, and Allen Tate
> PL 3 T.S. Eliot
> PL 4 John Gould Fletcher, John Malcolm Brinnin, William Carlos Williams, and
> Robert Penn Warren
> PL 5 e.e. cummings, Robinson Jeffers, Theodore Spence, and John Crowe Ransom
> PL 6 Robert Frost
> PL 7 William Meredith, Yvor Winters, Randall Jarrell, and Karl Shapiro
> PL 8 Herbert Read, Phelps Putnam, John Berryman, and Horace Gregory
> PL 9 Delmore Schwarts, Richard Blackmur, Stephen Spender, and Elizabeth
> Bishop
> PL 10 Theodore Roethke, Witter Bynner, Robert Fitzgerald, and Mary
> Zaturenska
> PL 11 Robert Lowell, Conrad Aiken, William Empson and Archibald MacLeish
> PL 12 Muriel Rukeyser, Howard Baker, L onie Adams and Janet Lewis
> PL 13 - PL 17 LEAVES OF GRASS CENTENNIAL
> PL 13 Whitman the Man, a lecture by Gay Wilson Allen
> PL 14 Whitman the Poet, a lecture by Mark Van Doren
> PL 15 Whitman the Philosopher, a lecture by David Daiches
> PL 16 Walt Whitman Speaks for Himself, a reading by Arnold Moss, pt. 1
> PL 17 Walt Whitman Speaks for Himself, a reading by Arnold Moss, pt. 2
> PL 18/19 Interview with H.L. Mencken (Two recordings)
> PL 20/21/22 An Album of Modern Poetry: An Anthology Read by the Poets
> PL 23 Stephen Vincent Benet and Ben Muir
> PL 24 John Peale Bishop and Maxwell Bodenheim
> PL 25 Robert Hillyer and John Hall Wheelock
> PL 26 I.A. Richards and Oscar Williams
> PL 27 John Ciardi and W.D. Snodgrass
> PL 28 Daniel G. Hoffman and Ned O’Gorman
> PL 29 Nine Pulitzer Prize Poets Reading Their Own Poems
> PL 30 William Jay Smith Reading His Poems for Children
> PL 32/33 Robert Lowell Reading His Own Poems
> POETRY IN SPANISH
> HPL 1 El Contemplado: Tema con Variaciones by Pedro Salinas
> HPL 2 Gabriela Mistral
> HPL 3 Two Colombian Poets: Eduard Carranza and Germain Pardo Garcia
> HPL 4 Readings by Julio Cortazar
> 
> Â  Many of the folk series were reissued on CD by Rounder Records.
> Â  The Poetry series is available on Tape.
> Â  So far I don't think they have discovered CD-R.
> 
> An LP series of folk recordings from commercial sources was issued for the
> bi-centennial and
> are available on tape.  I have a vague sense they were looking into
> re-releasing them
> on CD but licensing problems may have killed this.
> Â  There were also a series of chamber music concerts at LoC which were
> recorded, some
> were issued on CD by ALBANY Records (that may not be the label, but one like
> it)... also
> a concert with Josh White iirc....
>   Other Library of Congress recordings have been issued commercially.  Jelly
> Roll Morton/Alan Lomax - issued on 78's by Circle, LP's by Riverside, CJM,
> Swaggie, completely reprocessed on CD by Rounder.
> Mississippi John Hurt, Son House, Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, etc.
> 
> ANYONE AT LoC KNOW plans for CD's ????
> 
> Best wishes, Thomas.
>