Spoken Word Record Labels - Alternative Tentacles, 2.13.61, Caedmon Audio, Columbia Masterworks Records, Hangman Records, Sounds True (Paperback)

Chapters: Alternative Tentacles, 2.13.61, Caedmon Audio, Columbia Masterworks Records, Hangman Records, Sounds True, Claddagh Records, Hathut Records, Ariola Records, Speakeasy Records, Deep Shag Records. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 40. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Caedmon Audio is a record label that specializes in audio books and other literary content. Formerly Caedmon Records, the name was changed when the label switched to CD-only production. Its marketing tag-line was Caedmon: a Third Dimension for the Printed Page. Caedmon was formed in 1953 by college graduates Barbara Holdridge and Marianne Roney. Its first release was a collection of poems by Dylan Thomas as read by the author himself. The company went on to record other notable writers reading their own works, such as W. H. Auden, Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and many more. The label expanded further to encompass other types of spoken word recordings, including children's stories, speeches, plus English- and foreign-language classics. Theater performances were also staged for the label, which were by the Shakespeare Recording Society or the Theatre Recording Society, depending on the playwright. These performances included many famous actors and actresses, including Anthony Quayle, Claire Bloom, Richard Burton, Albert Finney, John Gielgud, Siobhan McKenna, Michael Redgrave, Vanessa Redgrave, Felix Aylmer, Paul Scofield, Alec McCowen, Donald Pleasance, Ralph Richardson, Max Adrian and Maggie Smith among others. Other notable readers for the label included Vincent Price, Clare Bloom, Ralph Richardson, and Louis Jourdan HarperCollins Publishers purchased the label in 1987. This partial discography (first 100 recordings) provides an idea of the range of literary and acting talent that...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=564028