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unusual facts about spoken word



1999: The New Master

The track called "Rosario" featured actress Rosario Dawson performing a political spoken word over the chords of "Little Red Corvette".

Ben Winch

In 2004 he returned to the Australian literary scene briefly via a spoken word/music collaboration with Adelaide poet Tim Sinclair entitled Brothers of the Head, a concept album about an unborn foetus trapped in his brother's skull.

Bernard Braden Reads Stephen Leacock

Bernard Braden Reads Stephen Leacock is a spoken word record, performed by Bernard Braden, and was recorded in front of a live audience at the Oxford Union Society.

Bill Brochtrup

The best-selling book of essays I Love You, Mom! includes his original stories at Un-Cabaret and numerous spoken word events.

Cardinal Burns

Recurring characters included The Office Flirt, a pair of Cockney cabbies, and a middle-class spoken word poet, alongside parodies of Banksy and 'scripted reality' programmes such as The Hills and Made in Chelsea.

Daemon Records

Artists who have released albums with Daemon Records include Amy Ray herself, Rose Polenzani, Danielle Howle, Nineteen Forty-Five, Girlyman, New Mongrels, Magnapop, David Rovics and spoken word duo Athens Boys Choir.

Deep Shag Records

They are best known for the On The Road With Ellison series of releases by Harlan Ellison and for re-issuing rare 1980's modern rock, New Wave, comedy, and spoken word albums which were previously unavailable on CD.

Deteriorata

Deteriorata is a parody of Les Crane's 1971 spoken word recording of Desiderata, the early 20th century poem by Max Ehrmann.

Norman Nawrocki

Nawrocki’s spoken word tours continued throughout 2004 and 2005, firstly writing a show based on the life of Mohamed Harkat, an Algerian and one of Canada's Secret Trial Five and secondly adapting letters from The anarchist & the devil do cabaret to CD with musical accompaniment on Letters from Poland/Lettres de Pologne released in 2006.

Ragged Old Flag

The title track, and simultaneously the only single from the album, is a spoken word tribute to patriotism amid the Watergate scandal.

Shane Koyczan

In February of 2013 Koyczan released an animated video of his spoken word poem "To This Day" on YouTube and at the TED Conference.

Sini Anderson

Anderson was the co-founder and co-artistic director of the Sister Spit a weekly open mic series in San Francisco from 1994–1997 and Sister Spits Ramblin Road Show a spoken word tour from 1997-2000 she performs on I Spit on Your Country (1997), Sister Spit’s Ramblin Road Show (1999), Greatest Spits!

Steve Dalachinsky

His spoken word albums include Incomplete Directions, I thought it was the end of the world then the end of the world happened again with Federico Ughi, and Phenomena of Interference with Matthew Shipp.

The Valley of the Shadow of Death

The eighth track, "Drinking In the Day", begins with a reading of the poem "Clearing a Space", by the Irish poet Brendan Kennelly.

Unsound Methods

Spoken word artist Maggie Estep, Nitzer Ebb vocalist Douglas McCarthy, Songs of Faith and Devotion backup singer Hildia Campbell, and Siobhan Lynch were all vocalists.


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Bette Bright

In 1992 she provided spoken word on "Walk You Home", a track on Tim Finn's fourth album, Before & After.

Beverley Folk Festival

The Beverley Folk Festival is a three day celebration of music, workshops, comedy and spoken word that is held in and around Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

Big Rube

He has also contributed his spoken word poetry to Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam and the motion picture ATL, as well as appearing on albums by Truth Hurts, Eightball & MJG and CunninLynguists.

Billy Mavreas

His posters, featuring otherworldly creatures, especially bunnies, influenced by the Psychedelic art stylings of San Francisco artists such as Rick Griffin and Victor Moscoso, figured strongly in the Montreal literary and spoken word scene of the 1990s.

Broken Van

The spoken word at the end of the song was read by Chris and is a quote from Rigoberta Menchú's I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala.

Carl Jackson

The double-CD tells Twain's life in spoken-word and song and features Jimmy Buffett as Huckleberry Finn, Garrison Keillor as narrator, and Clint Eastwood as Twain.

Craig Ireson

The Word Collective's only regular spoken word event is "Howltearoa", a monthly open mic night at the Southern Cross Bar, off Cuba Street, Wellington.

Deep Shag Records

In 2001, Deep Shag was fortunate enough to secure the rights to the rare 1982 spoken word album On the Road with Ellison Volume 1 by noted author and raconteur Harlan Ellison.

Dj BC

The source material includes Jay-Z's American Gangster album, Brian Eno's Another Day on Earth album, Eno's song "Another Green World" as well as interviews and spoken word clips, additional sound effects, beats and scratches.

DJ Hen Boogie

2008 saw DJ Hen Boogie with additional production credits with spoken word artist Karen Gibson-Roc, a remix album titled "Time Off" with Chicago's Infinito 2017 on Nephew of Frank Records, remixes with Vanessa Daou, and production on Jeni Fujita's debut release "This Little Light of Mine..." on Low Self Discipline records.

Doc Corbin Dart

Dart opened up for Jello Biafra on his 'I Blow Minds For A Living' Spoken Word Tour.

Efim Alexandrov

Efim Alexandrov (born Efimian Ziсerman; 13 May 1960, Pidvolochysk Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukrainian SSR) — Russian artist of "spoken word” genre (stand-up comedian) and well known performer of Jewish music paying special attention to Yiddish folk songs as a part of the program of saving the culture of Yiddish which is considered an endangered language in Eastern Europe and Russia.

Ein schöner Tag

Ein schöner Tag (English: A beautiful day) is the first single from the 2001 Schiller gold album Weltreise with vocals by German singer Isgaard and spoken word passages by German actress and voice actress Franziska Pigulla (* 6 May 1965), who became famous in the German-speaking countries as a narrator of countless documentaries and as the voice of FBI Special Agent Dana Scully from the X-Files.

Experimental literature

The poet Isidore Isou formed the Lettrist group, and produced manifestoes, poems, and films that explored the boundaries of the written and spoken word.

Gaines-Burgers

In 1972, National Lampoon's Deteriorata (a spoof of Desiderata, then enjoying a measure of popular attention thanks to a spoken word recording) singled out Gaines-Burgers "with cheese" in order to poke fun at modern product advertising using the line, "Take heart amid the deepening gloom that your dog is finally getting enough cheese."

Golda Fried

While living in Montreal, she was involved in many spoken word events including the Lollapalooza festival in 1994.

Heather McElhatton

The show combined storytelling, spoken word, music and featured guests including Sebastian Junger, Ann Bancroft, Kevin Kling, Bill Holm and Robert Bly.

Ingrid Chavez

When Warner Bros. pushed for the album to have sung vocals in place of the spoken word, Prince abandoned the project.

Janet Brown

In 1990, she recorded a spoken word sequence in her Margaret Thatcher voice for Mike Oldfield's album Amarok.

Jimmy Buffett greatest hits compilations

"Stories From My Favorite Books" is a spoken-word track taken from a recording that originally aired on Radio Margaritaville of Buffett reading an excerpt of Mark Twain's travelogue, Following the Equator.

Julie Reeves

She was also featured on "Shoulda Shut Up", a song featuring Bill Engvall's spoken-word comedy and a sung chorus.

Kimmy Robertson

Robertson performed a short spoken-word segment on Roger McGuinn's 1990 album Back from Rio.

Land of Look Behind

In addition, Father Amde Hamilton of The Watts Prophets performs a spoken word piece during Marley's funeral service.

Liebesschmerz

Liebesschmerz (English: Love pain) is the second single from the 1999 Schiller debut album Zeitgeist with spoken word passages by German actor and voice actor Hans Paetsch (1909–2002).

Lunar Muzik

Don Preston (Dom DeWilde) – keyboards, spoken word, assorted tranzformations, engineering

Moev

Based in Vancouver, British Columbia their most successful album was Yeah Whatever in 1989, which combined dark, solemn, anthemic lyrics with disjointed beats, trickling electronics, and occasional spoken-word samples.

Mona – The Carnivorous Circus

"Carnivorous Circus" is a montage of song and spoken word, featuring interviews with a Hells Angel and Steve Took, the latter recounting time he spent in Ashford Remand Centre, as well as recordings of political speeches.

Mouthing

However, mouthing does not always reflect the corresponding spoken word; when signing 'thick' in Auslan, for example, the mouthing is equivalent to spoken fahth.

New Cross house fire

It featured contributions from Alex Pascall, Professor Gus John, filmmaker Menelik Shabazz, spoken-word artists El Crisis and Zena Edwards, novelist Courttia Newland and musicians Janet Kay and Carroll Thompson.

Perpetual Motion Roadshow

The first Roadshow was in April 2003, featuring New York spoken-word artist Corey Frost, Boston fiction writer Charlie-girl Anders and Toronto comic artist Marc Ngui.

Roger Rogerson

He also became an entertainer, telling stories of his police activities in a spoken-word stage show called The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, with former Australian footballers Warwick Capper and Mark "Jacko" Jackson.

Satwa Stories

Satwa Stories is a critically acclaimed spoken word piece/ photo-novella that was created and produced by Mahmoud Kaabour and Denise Holloway.

Seymour Centre

It has a Thrust stage configuration, with seats in a semi-circular, amphitheatre-style arrangement and is used for drama and musical performances, and spoken-word events.

Sonia Sanchez

One of her more recent contemporary endeavors includes a spoken word interlude on "Hope is an Open Window" a song co-written by Diana Ross from her 1998, "Every Day is a New Day" album.

Spoken Word Youth Choir

The Spoken Word Youth Choir (SWYC) of Edmonton, Canada, is a professional spoken word performance choir, directed by Gail Sidonie Sobat.

Sunara Begum

She has collaborated with a wide range of practitioners from the visual arts, music and dance including multi-media artist Trevor Mathison, spoken word artist HKB FiNN, classical composer Tunde Jegede and dancer/choreographer Bode Lawal.

Supermodel of the World

African-American actress/comedienne LaWanda Page (best known as Aunt Esther on the television series Sanford and Son) was featured in spoken word clips on several album tracks, though she is heard most notably on the hit single "Supermodel (You Better Work)".

Ted Milton

In 2001 Ted Milton staged a homage to the Russian author of the absurd Daniil Kharms: "In Kharm's Way", a mixture of music, puppeteering and spoken word, with the electronic musician Sam Britton.

The Great Gig in the Sky

During 1972 performances of The Dark Side of the Moon song cycle (prior to the album being recorded), it was simply an organ instrumental accompanied by spoken word samples from the Bible and snippets of speeches by Malcolm Muggeridge, a British writer known for his conservative religious views.

Thee Majesty

The first major Thee Majesty performance was in 1998 in Stockholm, Sweden at an international spoken word festival that included Michael Gira and Wanda Coleman amongst other notable spoken word artists.

Tim Sinclair

Best known for the verse novel Nine Hours North (Penguin Books, 2006), he is also the author of the poetry collections Re:reading the dictionary (Cottage Industry Press, 2011) and Vapour Trails, and a collaborator (with Ben Winch) on the spoken word concept album Brothers of the Head.

Unsavoury Products

Unsavoury Products is the fifth full length studio album by The Black Dog featuring Parisian spoken word artist Black Sifichi.

William Control

On July 13, he released a spoken word track "Eleonora" (written by Edgar Allan Poe) on iTunes.

William S. Tribell

Many of his poems have been recorded, spoken word and with instrumentation, most notably by John Blyth Barrymore and Gary Burbank.

Xaviera Hollander

In the early 1970s, she recorded a primarily spoken-word album titled Xaviera! for the Canadian GRT Records label (GRT 9230-1033), on which she discussed her philosophy regarding sex and prostitution, sang a cover version of The Beatles song, "Michelle", and recorded several simulated sexual encounters, including an example of phone sex, a threesome, and a celebrity encounter with guest "vocal" by Ronnie Hawkins.

Yes and No

Yes and No is a spoken word game similar to Twenty Questions played in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.