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Allen Ginsberg / William Blake
Songs Of Innocence And Experience

Album US 1970 on MGM Records label
Jazz and Spoken Word (Spoken Word, Poetry, Avant-garde Jazz)

Cat# on front cover and spine: FTS-3083 Cat# on center labels, right of spindle hole: FTS3083 Recorded at Apostolic Studios New York City June & July 1969. The original volume of William Blake’s collection of poems Songs Of Innocence And Experience Showing the Two Contrary States Of The Human Soul was published in 1789 and since then many have tried their hand at putting some of his “songs” to music, including poet Allen Ginsberg who believed that Blake had originally intended for his poems to be sung. Ginsberg also believed that by studying their meter and verse he could roughly figure out how Blake himself would have performed them. This album then, originally released in 1970 on Verve, is the result of his efforts. Originally recorded for The Beatles Zapple label but unreleased.

Musicians

	Allen Ginsberg voc, har, 1926-1997 US chorus, finger cymbals, harmonium, piano, 2nd, vocals, album by
	William Blake , 1757-1827 GB album by
	Jon Sholle g, *1949 US autoharp, drums, bass, electric bass, guitar
	Herman Wright b, US bass
	Don Cherry tr, cor, 1936-1995 US percussion, beaded gourd, bells, sleigh, chorus, finger cymbals, harpsichord, tom tom, bass tom, trumpet, flute, wooden
	Bob Dorough voc, p, *1923 US chorus, harpsichord, organ, piano
	Cyril Caster chorus, french horn, guitar, trumpet
	Janet Zeitz chorus, flute
	Matt Hoffman chorus
	Michael Aldrich chorus
	Elvin Jones dr, 1927-2004 US drums
	Julius Watkins frh, 1921-1977 US french horn
	Peter Orlovsky , 1933-2010 US vocals

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