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February 11, 2009
Song-poem Archived Music, Volume 1
One of my favorite websites of all time was the American Song-Poem Music Archive. Back in 2004, all the song-poem mp3s from the ASPMA site mysteriously disappeared. However, I've managed to collect all the tunes from the site and squirreled them away into my collection on randomly-sequenced audio CDs. I always wanted to make them available again and thanks to Otis Fodder and the WFMU team, I now have a means of doing so.
I humbly present the Song-Poem Archived Music series - I have at least nine volumes planned for re-release and I will be posting one each month. All tracks have been fixed up (I hesitate to say remastered) and re-encoded at a higher bitrate for maximum enjoyment. Any audio quality problems are with the original files, and this is the best they can be.
And of course, a huge thank you to Phil Milstein, who hosted these files in the first place. And from his original mp3 page he also thanks "MP3 contributors: John Fitzpatrick, Brian Linds, Tom Ardolino, Jeff Miller, Jeremy Pisani, Michael Greenberg, Will Louviere, Barbara Economon, Pea Hicks, John Trubee, Robert Dayton, Chuck Foster, Jim Blanchard, Bob Purse, Narkspud, Marc Smith and Gregg Turkington."
Volume 1: It's Not The World, It's What's In The World (download full artwork zip)
1. Joe Stanton -
A Has-Been
2. The Tune-Timers -
3. Sonny Marshall -
4. Jim Wheeler & The Swinging Strings -
5. unknown -
6. unknown -
7. unknown -
8. unknown -
9. unknown -
10. unknown -
11. unknown -
12. unknown -
13. Karen Kimberly and Big Action Sound -
14. Dick Kent -
15. Dick Kent -
16. Bobbi Blake -
17. Dick Kent -
18. Bobbi Blake -
19. Bobbi Blake -
20. Bill Joy -
21. Rodd Keith -
22. Rodd Keith -
23. Milford Perkins -
24. Rodd Keith -
25. Gene Marshall -
26. Gene Marshall -
27. Gene Marshall -
28. Gene Marshall -
29. Norman Burns -
30. Gary Roberts & The Satellites -
31. Gary Roberts -
32. Mary Kaye -
Posted by Listener Lee Rosevere on February 11, 2009 at 06:00 PM in Listener Lee Rosevere's Posts, MP3s, Music | Permalink
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Much thanks for these! I love me some song-poems...well, some of them, that is. I really look forward to the others in the series!
Posted by: motordog | February 11, 2009 at 06:10 PM
Excellent! What a great resource! Thanks for making them available again.
Posted by: Michael | February 11, 2009 at 09:17 PM
I hope you are going to post "Ripoff U.S.A", one of my favorites!
Posted by: John | February 12, 2009 at 02:02 AM
Yes, indeed, we shall raise a glass of Bourbon in your name.
Posted by: Dan Willems | February 12, 2009 at 11:05 AM
We don't deserve this. You are the best. And I miss "Fudgeland."
Posted by: Jeff Gee | February 12, 2009 at 12:12 PM
Thanks SO much for doing this. I lost some of the early tracks in a computer melt-down, and by that time, those tracks had been taken down from ASPMA to make way for newer ones (including a bunch of my own!).
Thanks again - Bob
Posted by: Bob Purse | February 12, 2009 at 01:16 PM
I'll join the chorus of praise. I've manage to hold on to a few of these (My Glory Ladder, Funk With Us) but the rest were lost to time. Thank you!
Posted by: simple mike | February 16, 2009 at 12:47 PM
I adore these Rodd Keith songs. Thanks to everyone who helped put this together.
Posted by: Joe | February 17, 2009 at 11:52 AM
Better throw a saddle over the stove, Mama, 'cause we're ridin' the range tonight!!
--Hawkster
Posted by: Hawkster | March 05, 2009 at 09:37 PM
Eight right now, with the possibility of more in the future...
Posted by: Lee R. | May 05, 2009 at 07:08 AM
Thanks for doing this. However, I just want to point out that re-encoding MP3s at a higher bitrate doesn't make them sound better. All the artifacts that were introduced the first time the files were encoded are still there, plus any new artifacts that occurred in the second encoding. Better to have just left the original files alone.
Posted by: Joe S. | May 17, 2009 at 09:27 PM
Hi Joe,
Yes, I realized that the files sound no better in the new encode. However, they are presented in 192 (instead of the original 128) simply because all of the mp3s were converted from 128 mp3 into .wav and then fixed (balanced, topped and tailed each one, and eliminated large pops).
Then they were burned onto CDs years ago, and now for this project I've re-encoded new mp3s from the CDs. I thought since there was more time spent on them, I wanted them to sound better than 128, so it didn't make sense to me to just encode them at the same 128 bitrate and introduce even more artifacts. I know there's artifacts with mp3s, no matter what - but I figured it wouldn't hurt to make them higher this time round.
Also, each mp3 had to be re-named and ID3 tagged, and if I'm going to do that much work, I might as well go a little further.
Plus this way, nobody can confuse these encodes with the originals if they discover them.
Posted by: Lee R. | May 19, 2009 at 07:24 AM
Thanks for your series of song-poem postings, it's been a very enriching listening experience. I noticed a striking similarity between three songs in your first installment, and decided to pursue the matter further. Admittedly, the results are a little uneven; perhaps the usage of headphones will prove more rewarding.
http://soundcloud.com/war-incident/pinch-whats-in-the-king
Happy listening!
Posted by: therichanator | November 18, 2009 at 10:05 AM
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