[78-L] Carl Sandburg was Spoken work records...

[David Lennick]

I'll even consider offers for the 78s! They're red vinyl, 20 discs in an album 
that saw mild moisture damage long ago (discs are fine). As for CD-Rs, if 
people don't mind taking them exactly as they are, unjoined and unedited and 
un-declicked (I just don't have the time or resources at this point to process 
them, although if enough orders were out there, I'd ponder it). I've tried a 
couple of times to rouse interest in these as commercial CDs, but no luck.

dl

Thomas Stern wrote:
> Hi David,
>   Wonder if you would be willing to make the Muzak set available
> on CD-r, as with the Top Ten?  Anyone else interested??
>   Happy New Year!  Thomas.
> 
> -----Original Message-----

> CARL SANDBURG -- Recorded by MUZAK, 1942
> 
> Record 1A (mx BL-13802-B) The Man With Broken Fingers, Pt. 1
>   (Reading) 4:18
> Record 1B-1 (mx BL-13803-B) The Man With Broken Fingers, Pt. 2  1:44
> Record 1B-2 ("""") Lumber Workers (Song) 1:07
> Record 2A (mx BL-13804-B) Free America, 1775 (Song)  4:11
> Record 2B (mx BL-13805-B) Gallows Song  3:22
> Record 3A (mx BL-13806-B) Foggy Dew (Song)  2:39
> Record 3B (mx BL-13809-B) Cahoots; Ossawatamie; Night Stuff
>   (Readings) 3:38
> Record 4A (mx BL-13807-B) Snatch of Sliphorn Jazz; Maybe; Phizzog;
>   Fragment from The Windy City (Readings)  3:55
> Record 4B (mx BL-13808-B) Upstream; Primer Lesson; Is God, Too,
>   Lonely; Sea Chest (Readings)  3:37 (clicks)
> Record 5A (mx BL-13810-B) End Lines of Good Morning America
>   (Reading) 3:55 (clicks)
> Record 5B (mx BL-13811-B) Hells and Heavens; Precious Moments; Baby
>   Song Of The Four Winds; They All Want to Play Hamlet (Readings)  4:10
> Record 6A (mx BL-13863-B) Opening Sequence from "The People, Yes"
>   (Reading) 4:22
> Record 6B (mx BL-13864-B) Opening Sequence from "The People, Yes"
>   (Reading) 3:59
> Record 7A (mx BL-13865-B) Colorado Graveyard; Father And Son
>   (Readings--from "The People, Yes") 4:18
> Record 7B (mx BL-13866-B) Infantryman; Man and Sphinx; Salzman;
>   Every Man; An Even Whack (Readings--from "The People, Yes") 4:04
> Record 8A (mx BL-13867-B) Possessions; Right to a Job; Pioneer
>   Hoppers; Andy Adams (Readings--from "The People, Yes") 3:37
> Record 8B (mx BL-13923-B) Old Time Barn; Alive Yet; Purple Martins
>   (Readings--from "The People, Yes") 3:15
> Record 9A-1 (mx BL-13924-B) Struggle; The Arch (from "The People,
>   Yes") 1:48
> Record 9A-2 ("""") The Two Maggots (Story)  2:13
> Record 9B (mx BL-13942-B) Proverbs (Reading--from "The People, Yes")  3:04
> Record 10A (mx BL-13943-B) Proverbs and Miscellany (Reading--from
>   "The People, Yes") 2:45
> Record 10B (mx BL-14006-B) Skyline America (Reading--from "The
>   People, Yes") 3:08
> Record 11A (mx BL-14007-B) Many Occupations; Grand Canyon of
>   Humanity (Readings--from "The People, Yes") 4:17
> Record 11B-1 (mx BL-14010-B) Gags (Reading, from "The People--Yes")  1:30
> Record 11B-2 ("""") Waillie (Song) 1:58
> Record 12A (mx BL-14008-B) Snider's Vinegar, Inc. Part 1 (Story) 3:02
> Record 12B (mx BL-14009-B) Snider's Vinegar, Inc. Part 2 (Story) 3:23
> Record 13A (mx BL-13938-B) Lincoln Sequence, Part 1 (Reading) 4:04
> Record 13B (mx BL-13939-B) Lincoln Sequence, Part 2 (Reading) 3:02
> Record 14A (mx BL-13940-B) Lincoln Sequence, Part 3 (Reading) 3:28
> Record 14B (mx BL-13941-B) Lincoln Sequence, Part 4 (Reading) 3:53
>           from "The People, Yes"
> Record 15A (mx BL-13929-B) Lincoln Now, Part 1 (Reading) 4:44
> Record 15B (mx BL-13930-B) Lincoln Now, Part 2 (Reading) 3:30
> Record 16A (mx BL-13928-B) How Much?; Wind Song; Far Rockaway; Night
>   (Readings)  3:18
> Record 16B (mx BL-13931-B) Jazz Fantasia; Losers (Readings) 3:16
> Record 17A (mx BL-13932-B) Sea Wash; Chicago Boy Baby; M'Liss
>   (Readings) 4:42 (note: last word missing, is at start of next track!)
>       --Side 17B starts with what should probably be the last word of side
>     17A and possibly the last 55 seconds of the same reading)
> Record 17B (mx BL-13934-B) The Way of the World; We Have Gone
>   Through Great Roooms Together (Readings--from "Good Morning America) 3:06
>      (first named piece, intro occurs about 55" in!)
> Record 18A (mx BL-13925-B) Definitions of Poetry, Part 1 (Reading) 4:15
> Record 18B (mx BL-13926-B) Definitions of Poetry, Part 2 (Reading) 2:08
> Record 19A (mx BL-13935-B) For You (Reading--from "Smoke and Steel") 3:14
> Record 19B (mx BL-13927-B) Opening Sequence of Good Morning,
>   America; Milk White Moon Put the Cows to Sleep (Readings)  3:13
> Record 20A (mx BL-13936-B) The Press Is Peculiar, Part 1 (Reading) 4:10
> Record 20B (mx BL-13937-B) The Press Is Peculiar, Part 2 (Reading) 4:10
>           --from "The People, Yes"
> 
>   Inside front liner :
> 
> Chikaming Goat Farm, Harbert Michigan
> 
> December 22, 1942
> 
> Dear Bill Benton
> 
>       Pretty fine work Muzak did on those recordings. What we have
>   wandered into on this odd venture is a curious book. People may be
>   thanking us when our last toe-bones have become an ash-grey dust.
> 
>   As always
>   Carl Sandburg
> 
> --dl
>