LP Insert Booklet (Only) From MOONDOG 2 Columbia KC30897 Louis Thomas Hardin

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INSERT BOOKLET FROM

   MOONDOG 2   

 

Original eight page stapled insert booklet from the Columbia LP "Moondog 2".
Measures 11" x 11".
In very good condition with minor storage. 
(Information for the record this insert came from):

Title: Moondog 2 (Moondog II) 
Artist: Moondog 
Label: Columbia – KC 30897
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1971
Genre: Classical
Style: Modern
Tracklist: Bells Are Ringing 1:19 Voices Of Spring 1:47 What's The Most Exciting Thing? 2:31 All Is Loneliness 1:16 My Tiny Butterfly 1:12 Why Spend A Dark Night With Me? 1:09 Coffee Beans 2:10 Down Is Up 1:07 Be A Hobo 1:09 Remember 1:52 I Love You 1:08 Nero's Expedition 1:52 No, The Wheel Was Never Invented 1:20 With My Wealth 1:35 This Student Of Life 1:24 Some Trust All 1:28 Wine, Woman And Song 2:23 Sadness 1:22 Maybe 2:03 Each Today Is Yesterday's Tomorrow 1:37 Imagine 2:16 You The Vandal 2:08 Trees Against The Sky 1:18 Behold 1:27 Sparrow 1:37 Pastoral 2:42
Companies, etc. Manufactured By – Columbia Records Record Company – CBS Inc. Copyright © – James William Guercio Published By – Big Elk Music Mastered At – Customatrix Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Pitman
Credits: Design [Album Design] – Ron Coro, Teresa Alfieri Engineer – Don Puluse Harp [Troubadour Harp] – Gillian Stephens Liner Notes – Moondog (2) Percussion [Various Percussion Parts] – June*, Mary*, Specs Powel* Performer [Schom] – Stephen Silverstein Photography By – Columbia Records Photo Studio Producer – James William Guercio Producer [Associate Producer] – Alfred V. Brown* Recorder [Recorders], Guitar – Michael Jaffee Transcription By [Music Manuscript] – Gillian Stephens Typography [Handwriting] – Beverly Scott Viol [Viola Da Gamba] – Judith Davidoff Virginal, Recorder [Recorders], Piano, Harpsichord, Organ [Ancient Organ] – Kay Jaffee Vocals, Percussion – June Hardin, Louis Hardin Written-By – L. Hardin*
Notes: A US pressing with different matrix and label numbers.
Title on cover & spine: Moondog 2 Title on labels: Moondog II
Manufactured by Columbia Records/CBS, Inc./51 W. 52 Street, New York, N.Y. Printed in U.S.A.
All selections are published by Big Elk Music (ASCAP)
Copyright © 1971 1971 James William Guercio
Biography:
Louis Thomas Hardin (May 26, 1916 – September 8, 1999), known as Moondog, was an American musician, composer, theoretician, poet and inventor of several musical instruments. He was blind from the age of 16.
Hardin lived in New York City from the late 1940s until 1972, and during this time he could often be found on 6th Avenue, between 52nd and 55th Streets, wearing a cloak and a horned helmet sometimes busking or selling music, but often just standing silently on the sidewalk. He was recognized as "the Viking of 6th Avenue" by thousands of passersby and residents who were not aware of his musical career.
From the late 1940s until 1972, Moondog lived as a street musician and poet in New York City, playing in midtown Manhattan, eventually settling on the corner of 53rd or 54th Street and 6th Avenue in Manhattan. He did not experience homelessness, however, or at least not often: he maintained an apartment in upper Manhattan and had a country retreat in Candor, New York, to which he moved in 1972. He partially supported himself by selling copies of his poetry and his musical philosophy. In addition to his music and poetry, he was also known for the distinctive fanciful "Viking" cloak that he wore. Already bearded and long-haired, he added a Viking-style horned helmet to avoid the occasional comparisons of his appearance with that of Christ or a monk, as he had rejected Christianity in his late teens. He developed a lifelong interest in Nordic mythology, and maintained an altar to Thor in his country home in Candor.
Moondog's music took inspiration from street sounds, such as the subway or a foghorn. It was characterized by what he called "snaketime" and described as "a slithery rhythm, in times that are not ordinary [...] I'm not gonna die in 4/4 time". Many of his works were highly contrapuntal, and he worked hard on counterpoint.
Moondog's work was praised by Artur Rodzi?ski, the conductor of New York Philharmonic in the 1940s. He released a number of 78s, 45s and EPs of his music in the 1950s, including an unusual record of stories and songs for children with Julie Andrews and Martyn Green, in 1957, called Songs of Sense and Nonsense - Tell it Again, as well as several LPs on the Prestige, a jazz label. For ten years no new recordings were heard from Moondog until producer James William Guercio took him into the studio to record an album for Columbia Records in 1969. "Stamping Ground" from the Moondog album was included on the 1970 CBS sampler Fill Your Head with Rock.
A second album produced with Guercio featured one of Moondog's daughters as a vocalist and contained song compositions in canons and rounds. The album did not make as large an impression in popular music as the first had. The two Columbia albums were re-released as a single CD in 1989.

creditseleased July 1, 1981 All music by Storm Bugs, sleeve design by Yann Farcy of L'invitation au Suicide.

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