This article is about a record label. For the Anglo-Saxon poet, see Cædmon.
Caedmon Audio and HarperCollins Audio are record label imprints of HarperCollins Publishers that specialize in audiobooks and other literary content. Formerly Caedmon Records, its marketing tag-line was Caedmon: a Third Dimension for the Printed Page. The name changed when the label switched to CD-only production.
Caedmon Records was a pioneer in the audiobook business, it was the first company to sell spoken-word recordings to the public and has been called the seed of the audiobook industry.[1] Caedmon was founded in New York in 1952 by college graduates Barbara Holdridge and Marianne Roney.[2]
The label's first release was a collection of poems by Dylan Thomas as read by the author. The B-side contained A Child's Christmas in Wales, which was added as an afterthought; the story was obscure and Thomas himself could not remember its title when asked what to use to fill up the LP's B-side. However, this recording went on to become one of his most loved works, and launched Caedmon as a successful company.[1] The original 1952 recording was a 2008 selection for the United States National Recording Registry, stating it is "credited with launching the audiobook industry in the United States".[3]
^ ab"Caedmon: Recreating the Moment of Inspiration". NPR Morning Edition. December 5, 2002. Retrieved March 6, 2014.
^"Caedmon: Recreating the Moment of Inspiration". NPR.org.
^"The National Recording Registry 2008". National Recording Preservation Board of the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
^Mitgang, Herbert. “Recorded Books Help Make the Ear Faster than the Eye” (August 27, 1987). Retrieved from Recorded Books Help Make the Ear Faster Than the Eye The New York Times.com on June 14, 2009.
^. Archived from the original on 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2010-12-30.
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This article is about a record label For the Anglo Saxon poet see Caedmon This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Caedmon Audio news newspapers books scholar JSTOR May 2020 Learn how and when to remove this template message Caedmon Audio and HarperCollins Audio are record label imprints of HarperCollins Publishers that specialize in audiobooks and other literary content Formerly Caedmon Records its marketing tag line was Caedmon a Third Dimension for the Printed Page The name changed when the label switched to CD only production Caedmon AudioFounderBarbara HoldridgeMarianne RoneyDistributor s HarperAudioGenreSpoken WordCountry of originUnited StatesOfficial websiteHarper Audio Contents 1 Caedmon history 2 Selected discography 3 See also 4 References 5 External linksCaedmon history EditCaedmon Records was a pioneer in the audiobook business it was the first company to sell spoken word recordings to the public and has been called the seed of the audiobook industry 1 Caedmon was founded in New York in 1952 by college graduates Barbara Holdridge and Marianne Roney 2 The label s first release was a collection of poems by Dylan Thomas as read by the author The B side contained A Child s Christmas in Wales which was added as an afterthought the story was obscure and Thomas himself could not remember its title when asked what to use to fill up the LP s B side However this recording went on to become one of his most loved works and launched Caedmon as a successful company 1 The original 1952 recording was a 2008 selection for the United States National Recording Registry stating it is credited with launching the audiobook industry in the United States 3 The company went on to record other notable writers reading their own works such as W H Auden Robert Frost T S Eliot Ernest Hemingway Gertrude Stein and many more The label expanded further to encompass other types of spoken word recordings including children s stories speeches plus English and foreign language classics Theater performances were also staged for the label starring either the Shakespeare Recording Society or the Theatre Recording Society depending on the playwright These performances included many famous actors and actresses including Anthony Quayle Claire Bloom Richard Burton Albert Finney John Gielgud Siobhan McKenna Michael Redgrave Vanessa Redgrave Felix Aylmer Paul Scofield Alec McCowen Donald Pleasence Ralph Richardson Max Adrian and Maggie Smith among others Other notable readers for the label included Vincent Price Basil Rathbone and Louis Jourdan Raytheon which also owned D C Heath and Company bought Caedmon in 1971 Harper amp Row now HarperCollins purchased the label in 1987 4 Selected discography EditThis partial discography provides an idea of the range of literary and acting talent that Caedmon was able to record and distribute Dylan Thomas Reading Volume 1 TC 1002 Laurence Olivier TC 1003 Thomas Mann Reading German TC 1004 Tennessee Williams Reading TC 1005 Katherine Anne Porter Reading Downward Path TC 1006 Catcher in the Rye read by Ray Hagen TC 1007 Chaucer Nun s Priest s Pardoner s Tales Middle English TC 1008 Archibald MacLeish Reading TC 1009 Eudora Welty Reading TC 1010 Peter Marshall Speaks TCR 101 TC 1011 Sean O Casey Reading TC 1012 Osbert Sitwell Reading TC 1013 Israel is Born TC 1014 Ogden Nash Reading TC 1015 Edith Sitwell Reading TC 1016 e e cummings Reading TC 1017 Dylan Thomas Reading Volume 2 TC 1018 W H Auden Reading TC 1019 Colette Reading TC 1020 Hearing Poetry Volume 1 TC 1021 Hearing Poetry Volume 2 TC 1022 The Rubiyat read by Alfred Drake TC 1023 Millay Poetry read by Judith Anderson TC 1024 Marianne Moore Reading TC 1025 Wordsworth Poetry read by Cedric Hardwicke TC 1026 Mark Twain read by Walter Brennan Brandon deWilde TC 1027 Edgar Allan Poe read by Basil Rathbone TC 1028 Baudelaire Reading read by Eva LeGallienne Louis Jourdan French TC 1029 Wellsprings of Drama TC 1030 Everyman read by Burgess Meredith TC 1031 The Second Shepherd s Play TC 1032 Dr Faustus read by Frank Silvera TC 1033 Greek Prose and Poetry Greek TC 1034 William Faulkner Reading TC 1035 Frank O Connor Reading TC 1036 Leaves of Grass Volume 1 read by Ed Begley TC 1037 Just So Stories Volume 1 read by Boris Karloff TC 1038 Conrade Aiken Reading TC 1039 Red Badge of Courage read by Edmond O Brien TC 1040 Vachel Lindsay Reading TC 1041 Poetry of Byron read by Tyrone Power TC 1042 Dylan Thomas Reading Volume 3 TC 1043 Wilde Fairy Tales read by Basil Rathbone TC 1044 T S Eliot Reading TC 1045 Walter de la Mare Reading TC 1046 William Carlos Williams Reading TC 1047 Poetry of Browning Volume 1 read by James Mason TC 1048 17th Century Poetry read by Cedric Hardwicke Robert Newton TC 1049 Gertrude Stein Reading TC 1050 Sermons of Donne read by Herbert Marshall TC 1051 Book of Judith Ruth read by Judith Anderson Claire Bloom TC 1052 Psalms and David read by Judith Anderson TC 1053 Cambridge Treasury of English Prose Malory to Donne Volume 1 TC 1054 Cambridge Treasury of English Prose Burton to Johnson Volume 2 TC 1055 Cambridge Treasury of English Prose Defoe to Burke Volume 3 TC 1056 Cambridge Treasury of English Prose Austen to Bronte Volume 4 TC 1057 Cambridge Treasury of English Prose Dickens to Butler Volume 5 TC 1058 Poetry of Shelley read by Vincent Price TC 1059 Robert Frost Reading TC 1060 Dylan Thomas Reading Volume 4 TC 1061 Grimm s Fairy Tales read by Joseph Schildkraut TC 1062 Joyce s Ulysses read by Siobhan McKenna E G Marshall TC 1063 Frank Lloyd Wright Speaking TC 1064 Diego Rivera Speaking Spanish TC 1065 Robert Graves Reading TC 1066 Lorca read by Maria Douglas Raul Dantes Spanish TC 1067 Wallace Stevens Reading TC 1068 Noel Coward Duologies read by Noel Coward Margaret Leighton TC 1069 Ecclesiastes read by James Mason TC 1070 E B Browning Sonnets Barretts of Wimpole Street read by Katharine Cornell Anthony Quayle TC 1071 German Lyric Poetry read by Lotte Lenya German TC 1072 Andersen Fairy Tales TC 1073 Reluctant Dragon read by Boris Karloff TC 1074 Pied Piper Hunting of the Snark read by Boris Karloff TC 1075 The Book of Job read by Herbert Marshall TC 1076 Child s Garden of Verses read by Judith Anderson TC 1077 Nonsense Verse read by Beatrice Lillie Cyril Ritchard Stanley Holloway TC 1078 Juan Ramon Jimenez Reading Spanish TC 1079 Poetry of Tennyson read by Sybil Thorndike Lewis Casson TC 1080 Poetry of Yeats read by Siobhan McKenna Cyril Cusack TC 1081 Henry Mencken Speaking TC 1082 Jean Cocteau Reading French TC 1083 Stephen Spender Reading TC 1084 Song of Songs Heloise amp Abelard read by Claire Bloom Claude Rains TC 1085 Joyce s Finnegans Wake read by Siobhan McKenna Cyril Cusack TC 1086 Poetry of Keats read by Ralph Richardson TC 1087 Just So Stories Volume 2 read by Boris Karloff TC 1088 Rootabaga Stories read by Carl Sandburg TC 1089 5 Moll Flanders read by Siobhan McKenna TC 1090 Mother Goose read by Cyril Ritchard Boris Karloff Celeste Holm TC 1091 Poetry of Coleridge read by Ralph Richardson TC 1092 Boswell s London Journal read by Anthony Quayle TC 1093 Apple Cart and Poems by Noel Coward read by Noel Coward Margaret Leighton TC 1094 Picture of Dorian Gray read by Hurd Hatfield TC 1095 Genesis read by Judith Anderson TC 1096 Alice in Wonderland read by Joan Greenwood Stanley Holloway Cast TC 1097 Through the Looking Glass read by Joan Greenwood Stanley Holloway Cast TC 1098 Gulliver s Travels read by Michael Redgrave TC 1099 Kipling s Jungle Books How Fear Came read by Boris Karloff TC 1100 The Bab Ballads of WS Gilbert and The Cautionary Tales by Hilaire Belloc read by Stanley Holloway and Joyce Grenfell TC1104 Jeeves PG Wodehouse Indian Summer of an Uncle Jeeves Takes Charge readings by Judith Furse Miles Malleson Terry Thomas Rita Webb and Roger Livesey TC 1137 mono 1958 and TC01137 S stereo 1964 Poems and Songs of Middle Earth read by J R R Tolkien TC 1231 What is Puerto Rico read by Geraldo Rivera and So Far read by Miguel Robles TC 1431 Alligator Pie and other poems read by Dennis Lee TC 1530 Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People s Ears and Other Tales read by Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis TC 1592 Churchill in His Own Voice and the Voices of His Contemporaries read by Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud TC 2018 See also EditList of record labelsReferences Edit a b Caedmon Recreating the Moment of Inspiration NPR Morning Edition December 5 2002 Retrieved March 6 2014 Caedmon Recreating the Moment of Inspiration NPR org The National Recording Registry 2008 National Recording Preservation Board of the Library of Congress The Library of Congress Retrieved 9 January 2012 Mitgang Herbert Recorded Books Help Make the Ear Faster than the Eye August 27 1987 Retrieved from Recorded Books Help Make the Ear Faster Than the Eye The New York Times com on June 14 2009 16 33 45 78 Archived from the original on 2011 07 18 Retrieved 2010 12 30 External links EditOfficial Website HarperCollins Audio Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Caedmon Audio amp oldid 1119425336, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
