Les Crane - Desiderata
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Free Music Review: Perfect...absolutely perfect!
Hit: 5 Stars
I'm not sure why some of the reviewers write that this CD is not like the original. I still have my album (white jacket, poster and everything) and a turntable on which to play it...this CD sounds EXACTLY like the original...minus the few wear and tear sounds of my 30 something year old album.
I was excited to finally find a CD version so I could add it to my MP3 player.
I always found this was one of those recordings (talking about the entire set of tracks) that you should listen to alone and in a quiet place. Since it's primarily a recitation of poems and such; having others around talking really becomes annoying.
Listening brings a flood of memories! Of all the tracks Beauty and Happiness are my least favorite...they're just too...too sweet. I didn't care for them originally, and my opinion hasn't changed.
Free Music Review: Desiderata by Les Crane is my most remembered song.
Hit: 5 Stars
In 1966 I entered the Army and between 1966 and 1969 I was in Vietnam two years and when I returned home it was a nightmare, the people was divided, America was in turmoil and the returning Vietnam Veterans was called everything from baby killers to animals. In november of 1971 Desiderata came out and made it to the number 7 position on the R&B Charts. The song was a breath of fresh air for me and it was a release of pressure in the years after I came home from Vietnam. I have been hunting for the song for around 25 years, I have contacted every body but no one even know the song but finially I got on the internet and foung it in Amazon.com. Anyone who hears the song will have their life changed.Be gentle with yourself, let life surround you and enjoy life because it can be gone in a wink of an eye.
Free Music Review: Desiderata is a beautiful piece
Hit: 5 Stars
I finally found it. After buying several versions of the piece Desiderata, I finally found the version that my dad used to play when I was young. It had a real effect on my life. Les Crane reads the original Desiderata composition, written by Max Ehrmann, while beautiful music plays in the background. The following is the chorus that is sung at various times throughout the piece. "You are a child of the universe...no less than the trees and the stars...you have a right to be here...and where or not it is clear to you...no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should" This a great piece...I highly recommend it.Free Music Review: Very Inspiring
Hit: 5 Stars
I first heard this song in Germany back in 1983 when I was 17 and visiting there. The woman I was staying with had it and as I played it she told me that this song stopped her from committing suicide. That stayed with me always. Many years later I was working at a Women's Shelter and saw the words to Desiderata hanging on my Supervisor's bulletin board in her office. It all came back to me. I just had to get the song again. This is a beautiful song and I am now going to give a copy to my sister in law who is having some real problems. Hopfully it can inspire her, like it did the woman in Germany I stayed with.....Free Music Review: Highly Recommended
Hit: 5 Stars
My father played this 8-track a thousand times while we kids were sequestered in the back seat of his car--hearing it all again was a wonderful breath of fresh air. Les Crane was a radio personality in the 50s and 60s, known for his prose-style "songs". I got a copy of this CD for each of my brothers and sisters and all were thrilled with it again. I highly recommend the CD for an uplifting and thought provoking afternoon. Beautiful lyrics and beautiful music. Familiar and ever new.