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Desiderata is a 1971 album by Les Crane with music by Broadway composer Fred Werner and concept and various lyrics by David C. Wilson. It is a spoken-word album with sung refrains and instrumental accompaniment. The title and title track come from the widely circulated poem "Desiderata", which was widely perceived as ancient wisdom and not ...
Desiderata"(Latin: "things desired") is a 1927 prose poem by the American writer Max Ehrmann. The text was widely distributed in poster form in the 1960s and 1970s. The text was widely distributed in poster form in the 1960s and 1970s.
Les Crane (born Lesley Stein; December 3, 1933 – July 13, 2008) was a radio announcer and television talk show host, a pioneer in interactive broadcasting who also scored a spoken word hit with his 1971 recording of the poem Desiderata, winning a "Best Spoken Word" Grammy. He was the first network television personality to compete with Johnny ...
It is a parody of Les Crane 's 1971 spoken word recording of "Desiderata", the early 20th-century poem by Max Ehrmann. ("Desiderata" is Latin for "desired things"; "deteriorata" is a portmanteau of the verb "deteriorate" and "desiderata".) The parody was written by Tony Hendra for National Lampoon, and was recorded for the album Radio Dinner.
Radio Dinner. Radio Dinner is the debut album by the creators of the American satirical magazine National Lampoon. It was released on Blue Thumb Records in 1972 after RCA Records had declined to issue the record. The humor on the album is steeped in the pop culture and politics of the era. It includes "Deteriorata", a parody of Les Crane's hit ...
Desiderata, plural of a desideratum, the objects of desire. Desiderata of the Lombards (fl. 770–771), wife of Charlemagne. Kerckhoffs's desiderata. 344 Desiderata, a main belt asteroid. Desideratum, a horse which won the Prix du Lys in 2006. Desiderata Valley, a fictional neighborhood in The Sims 2: FreeTime.
"Child of the Universe", a song by Robyn Hitchcock from the 1991 album Perspex Island "Desiderata", a song on Les Crane's 1971 album Desiderata , which repeats in its chorus "You are a child of the universe"
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