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spoken word album
A spoken word album is a record album that does not consist mainly of music or songs, but of spoken material. It could be said to be the ancestor of today's audiobook format. Spoken word albums range from such items as recordings of actual political speeches and/or dramatic readings of historical documents, to dialogue from the soundtrack of a film, to condensed dramatized versions of literary classics, to complete performances of plays by Shakespeare or other great authors, to stories for children, or to standup comedy routines recorded live in nightclubs.
==Early beginnings==
Spoken word albums have been made since the early days of recording; examples include the popular Ronald Colman 1941 version of Charles Dickens' ''A Christmas Carol'' on American Decca Records. However, a true milestone was reached when Columbia Masterworks, which had previously released an album of excerpts from Shakespeare's ''Richard II'' with Maurice Evans, made a complete recording of Margaret Webster's famed (and never filmed) 1943 Broadway production of ''Othello'', starring Paul Robeson, José Ferrer, and Uta Hagen, on an 18-record 78-RPM set running a total of two hours and eight minutes. It was later transferred to LP.〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=masterworksheritage.com )〕 It was the longest spoken word album made up to that time. The album gave millions of listeners who otherwise were unable to attend a theatrical performance a chance to hear Robeson as Othello and Ferrer as Iago.
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