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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.
"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"
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.
In 1971, Les Crane used a spoken-word recording of the poem as the lead track of his album Desiderata. [20] His producers had assumed that the poem was too old to be copyrighted, but the publicity surrounding the record led to clarification of Ehrmann's authorship and the eventual payment of royalties.
"Desiderata" (Les Crane song), a 1971 reading of the poem and title track of the Grammy winning album "Desiderata", a song on the 2004 Lazyboy album Lazyboy TV "Desiderata", a song on the 2006 The Human Abstract album Nocturne
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.
From 1998 to 2022 it was awarded as Best Spoken Word Album. In 2020, spoken-word children's albums were moved here from the Best Children's Album category. [1] From 2023 it has been awarded as Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording. [2] Poetry reading now has its own Grammy category, Best Spoken Word Poetry Album.
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