THE ART OF CAEDMON RECORDS
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A personal Favorite of mine, the Caedmon record label was started in 1952 by Barbara Holdridge and Marianne Roney. In my last blog I covered their wonderful version of the infamous Malleus Maleficarum. The releases spanned the worlds of legitimate theatre, poetry, oration, kids stories, literature and anything in between. Singlehandedly, the ladies kick started the book-on-tape business. Poking around on sites like discogs, it's amazing how few of the label releases are listed. From the innersleeve catalogs in my personal collection of Caedmon releases, their output was immense. Check out our spoken word section sometime and you'll find at least a handful of Caedmon treasure. I've always enjoyed the utilitarian aspects of their packaging and the tastefulness of their art. The blue, green and white label design is an absolute classic...
For links to comprehensive overviews of Caedmon's history click on either Dylan Thomas LP pictured below. He was their first signing...
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I've been commissioned to write a book on Dickens for the bicentenary of his birth in 2012. Does anyone know what roles Ralph Richardson and Paul Scofield took in the Caedmon recording of their reading of A Christmas Carol in the 1950s? Presumably one of them was Scroge. But which? And what part(s) did the other of them take?
I have that Robert Frost record, grabbed it at our backwards town's only record store before it shut down. I long for the Camus one though...