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Spoken Word Songs Only
| Spoken Word Songs Only | |
| Created by: | RetroJoe |
| Tracks: | 14 |
| Length: | 00:48:24 |
| Keywords |
1. narration 2. spoken 3. word |
| Created on | 12/14/10 04:07pm |
| Level | 1 |
| Points | 1120 |
| Total visitors | 7 |
| Unique visitors | 3 |
description:
Although many stories are well told when sung, some seem to have a greater impact when spoken, with a musical background. This is also a devise used by those who are incapable of singing, such as William Shatner's narration of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". That song unfortunately is one that, for me at least, induces repeated cringes, and I've spared most everyone by not including it here.
William Shatner is not the only actor to have narrated a song. I've chose to include four others here by actors (tracks 4, 5, 12 & 13).
This is one of my shorter mixes, clocking in at just 48m19s.
William Shatner is not the only actor to have narrated a song. I've chose to include four others here by actors (tracks 4, 5, 12 & 13).
This is one of my shorter mixes, clocking in at just 48m19s.
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| 1 | Les Crane : Desiderata |
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Thought it would be a great idea to start off the mix with this one since there is a parody of it that I felt [...]
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Track 2 from Desiderata
Length: 00:04:39 Year: 1972 |
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Thought it would be a great idea to start off the mix with this one since there is a parody of it that I felt could be used last as a bookend (1971 #8). SHOW LESS
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| 2 | Byron MacGregor : Americans |
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A patriotic song with narration by a Detroit radio news director (1974 #4).
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Track 0 from
Length: 00:03:48 Year: |
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A patriotic song with narration by a Detroit radio news director (1974 #4). SHOW LESS
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| 3 | Billy Vaughn : The Shifting Whispering Sands (parts 1 and 2) |
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Ken Nordine tells this tale that reached #5 on the charts in 1955.
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Track 17 from Best of Billy Vaughn and His Orchestra
Length: 00:05:56 Year: 2001 |
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Ken Nordine tells this tale that reached #5 on the charts in 1955. SHOW LESS
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| 4 | Lorne Greene : Ringo |
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Thought that this song lined up well with the song before it and after. My first track narrated by a well kno [...]
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Track 7 from Welcome to the Ponderosa
Length: 00:03:14 Year: 1964 |
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Thought that this song lined up well with the song before it and after. My first track narrated by a well known actor (1964 #1). SHOW LESS
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| 5 | Walter Brennan : Old Rivers |
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Another well known actor with a distinctive voice narrates this country and western tale that leaves you with [...]
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Track 0 from Old Rivers
Length: 00:02:46 Year: 1962 |
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Another well known actor with a distinctive voice narrates this country and western tale that leaves you with a lump in the throat (1962 #5). SHOW LESS
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| 6 | Jimmy Dean : Big Bad John |
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This classic country number just had to be included here (1961 #1).
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Track 1 from Big Bad John
Length: 00:03:03 Year: 1962 |
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This classic country number just had to be included here (1961 #1). SHOW LESS
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| 7 | Jim Stafford : Swamp Witch |
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Two songs in a row narrated by a guy named Jim. This mix just wouldn't be complete without at least one numbe [...]
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Track 11 from Jim Stafford
Length: 00:03:48 Year: 1974 |
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Two songs in a row narrated by a guy named Jim. This mix just wouldn't be complete without at least one number spoken by the distinctive Jim Stafford. Also, I thought this song would go well with the next one (1973 #39). SHOW LESS
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| 8 | Jimmy Dean : The Cajun Queen |
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This second tune by Mr. Dean is a spooky tale that brings Big Bad John back to life (1962 #22).
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Track 0 from
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This second tune by Mr. Dean is a spooky tale that brings Big Bad John back to life (1962 #22). SHOW LESS
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| 9 | Jim Stafford : Wildwood Weed |
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Another song narrated by Mr. Stafford and again, this mix would be incomplete without this classic and humorou [...]
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Track 4 from Jim Stafford
Length: 00:02:41 Year: 1974 |
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Another song narrated by Mr. Stafford and again, this mix would be incomplete without this classic and humorous little story (1974 #7). SHOW LESS
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| 10 | Johnny Cash : What is Truth? |
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Takes a man in black to tell us all about the truth and that's just what Mr. Cash does here (written by him) ( [...]
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Track 14 from Man in Black: His Greatest Tunes
Length: 00:02:37 Year: 1999 |
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Takes a man in black to tell us all about the truth and that's just what Mr. Cash does here (written by him) (1970 #19). SHOW LESS
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| 11 | Shangri-Las : Past, Present, and Future |
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This song doesn't necessarily fit the best with the song before it, but I felt it just had to be included in t [...]
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Track 19 from Best of the Shangri-Las
Length: 00:02:40 Year: 1996 |
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This song doesn't necessarily fit the best with the song before it, but I felt it just had to be included in this mix somewhere (1966 #59). SHOW LESS
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| 12 | Telly Savalas : If |
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Not the greatest version of this song, but hey, it's spoken by Telly Savalas (1975).
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Track 0 from Telly
Length: 00:03:08 Year: 1975 |
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Not the greatest version of this song, but hey, it's spoken by Telly Savalas (1975). SHOW LESS
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| 13 | John Wayne : Why I Love Her |
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Sure this is schmaltzy, but I had to include it. Not only does this 2nd to the last song mirror track 2 well, [...]
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Track 1 from America, Why I Love Her
Length: 00:02:58 Year: 1973 |
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Sure this is schmaltzy, but I had to include it. Not only does this 2nd to the last song mirror track 2 well, but it also mirrors an essay I wrote a few years before this song came out when I was in junior high. Labeled "Why I Love America", I chose to write it as if John Wayne had wrote it. I ended up winning the contest for the county in Upstate New York. SHOW LESS
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| 14 | National Lampoon : Deteriorata |
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Great way to end it all (IMHO). This one was narrated by Norman Rose with female vocals by Melissa Manchester [...]
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Track 1 from Radio Dinner
Length: 00:04:26 Year: 1972 |
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Great way to end it all (IMHO). This one was narrated by Norman Rose with female vocals by Melissa Manchester (1972 #91). SHOW LESS
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I know a suprisingly large amount of these. if I would have done something like this, I would have included British material that I am more familiar with like the Peter Sellers spoken word Beatles covers, "Help" & "A Hard Days Night" . In fact I did do a spoken word mix twenty years ago, both of those were on it, but the only other one I can remember is Zappa's "Dumb All Over"
12/15/10 09:06pm
