Spoken

In 1960, the play The Wall hit Broadway stages. Little remembered now, this piece by Millard Lampell (based on a novel by John Hersey) was about the Warsaw Ghetto uprising against the Nazis. Here is the music from the play-ghetto, partisan, folk and love...

In 1959, comedian Rudy Ray Moore released his first album, "Below The Belt." Fifty years and over 30 albums later, Warrior Records continues to celebrate Moore's extensive comedic career with the release of his fourth album from 1970 entitled, "Let's...

In 1947, famed Spanish actor Jorge Juan Rodriguez was chosen to play the part of Don Quijote in a BBC network broadcast of the story for Cervantes' 400th birthday. Several years later Rodriguez released this recording of Don Quijote in Spanish on...

If Redd Foxx was the king of the party record during the '50s and '60s, then certainly Rudy Ray Moore upped the ante during the '70s with a succession of triple-X-rated platters that were so hot most stores could only sell them under the counter, even...

I find in writing songs that I'm often walking that thin line - I'm trying to make a personal, individual experience universal, muses singer-songwriter Lisa Marie Simmons. From homebase on the coast of Italy's beautiful Lake Garda, Simmons...

Hungarian writer and teacher Miklos Radnoti was the son of a textile vendor and was born in Budapest. He followed in his father's footsteps in the textile business until 1930, when he decided to pursue studying philosophy, Hungarian and French language...

Holmes cultivates his image as the goofy man-boy; the jovial, harmless jokester just out to make you laugh. We've seen him on Best Week Ever & Comedy Central's Premium Blend and we'll be seeing/hearing a lot more from him.

Here's one for sadists (or masochists, depending upon your point of view): Don Rickles insulting a captive Las Vegas audience for about 40 minutes. A re-issue of the 1968 album.1. Hello Dummy!

Here, reissued for the very first time, are the seminal recordings of Brother Theodore. Theodore was a staple of late-night talk shows like the Late Night With David Letterman show, a denizen of dubious '70s exploitation films such as the 'Jaws'...

Here are four more stories from 'Les lettres de mon moulin' by Fernandel, one of the most popular French actors of the 20th century. 'Les Letters de mon moulin' by Alphonse Daudet, is a masterpiece of French 19th century's literature. Fremeaux. 2006.1...

Henri Bergson, Nobel price in Litteratur, went into the XXe century refusing the world of determinism.1. Dynamique de la Vie Inteure 2. Mire Pure Et Mire-Habitude 3. Art, Vision Directe de la Rit 4. Temps Est Invention 5. Homo Faber 6. Joie de la Crion -...

Hector Lee - the Folklore of the Mormon Country. Scholar, folklore collector and raconteur, Hector lee gathered many humorous "J. Golden Kimball Stories" and "Brother Petersen Yarns" in Utah. He tells them here to some delighted college students.1. The J...