Poetry for the Beat Generation
Poetry for the Beat Generation | ||||
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Studio album (spoken word) by Jack Kerouac | ||||
Released | 1959 | |||
Recorded | 1958 | |||
Genre | Jazz, spoken word | |||
Length | 40:08 | |||
Label | Hanover Signature Record Corp LP #5000 | |||
Producer | Bob Thiele | |||
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Poetry for the Beat Generation is the debut album of American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac and was originally released in 1959. Initial performances of these poems were poorly received by an audience at the Village Vangard in 1957. However, Kerouac was so impressed with how the poems sounded when accompanied by Steve Allen's piano that it became the first record Kerouac committed to audio.[2]
History
Kerouac is accompanied by Steve Allen on the piano. All songs were written by Kerouac. The album is included in the CD box set The Jack Kerouac Collection.
Track listing
Side One
- "October in the Railroad Earth" – 7:08
- "Deadbelly" – 1:02
- "Charlie Parker" – 3:43
- "The Sounds of the Universe Coming in My Window" – 3:14
- "One Mother" – 0:47
- "Goofing at the Table" – 1:42
- "Bowery Blues" – 3:48
Side Two
- "Abraham" – 1:14
- "Dave Brubeck" – 0:27
- "I Had a Slouch Hat Too One Time" – 6:11
- "The Wheel of the Quivering Meat Conception" – 1:51
- "McDougal Street Blues" – 3:23
- "The Moon Her Majesty" – 1:36
- "I'd Rather Be Thin Than Famous" – 0:37
Bonus Tracks on 1990 CD issue
(Taken from the Steve Allen Plymouth Show, NBC Broadcast, Monday 10:00pm, 16 November 1959 Eastern time) [3]
- "Readings from On the Road & Visions of Cody" – 3:31
References
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- The Sea Is My Brother (1942)
- And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (1945/2008; with William S. Burroughs)
- The Town and the City (1950)
- On the Road (1957)
- The Subterraneans (1958)
- The Dharma Bums (1958)
- Doctor Sax (1959)
- Maggie Cassidy (1959)
- Book of Dreams (1960)
- Tristessa (1960)
- Visions of Cody (1960)
- Lonesome Traveler (1960)
- Big Sur (1962)
- Visions of Gerard (1963)
- Desolation Angels (1965)
- Satori in Paris (1966)
- Vanity of Duluoz (1968)
- Pic (1971)
- Orpheus Emerged (2002)
- Pull My Daisy (late 1940s)
- Mexico City Blues (1959)
- The Scripture of the Golden Eternity (1960)
- Scattered Poems (1971)
- Old Angel Midnight (1973)
- Book of Haikus (2003)
- Book of Sketches (2006)
- Beat Generation (2005)
- Atop an Underwood (1991)
- Good Blonde & Others (1993)
- Poetry for the Beat Generation (1959)
- Blues and Haikus (1960)
- Readings by Jack Kerouac on the Beat Generation (1960)
- The Jack Kerouac Collection (1990)
- Kerouac: Kicks Joy Darkness (1997)
- Jack Kerouac Reads On the Road (1999)
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