Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. San Francisco Scene (The Beat Generation) - Jack Kerouac
2. Beat Generation, The - Bob McFadden & Dor
3. Footloose in Greenwich Village - WNYC Radio
4. Blues Montage - Langston Hughes/Leonard Feather
5. Manhattan Fable - Babs Gonzales
6. Reaching Into In - Ken Nordine
7. Parker's Mood - King Pleasure
8. Route 66 Theme - Nelson Riddle
9. Diamonds on My Windshield - Tom Waits
10. Naked Lunch (Excerpt) - William Burroughs
11. Bernie's Tune - Lee Konitz/Gerry Mulligan Quartet
12. Like Rumpelstiltskin - Don Morrow
13. Oop-Pap-a-Da - Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra
14. Basic Hip - Del Close/John Brent
15. Christopher Columbus Digs the Jive - John Drew Barrymore
16. Clown, The - Charles Mingus/Jean Shepherd
17. Murder of Two Men by a Young Kid Wearing Lemon Colored Gloves - The Chamber Jazz Sextet/Kenneth Patchen
DISC 2:
1. Hip Gahn, The - Lord Buckley
2. Twisted - Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
3. Hip Roc Heresy - Slim Gaillard & His Middle Europeans
4. Ha - Charlie Ventura & His Orchestra
5. Pull My Daisy - David Amram Quintet/Lynn Sheffield
6. October in the Railroad Earth - Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen
7. Cool Rebellion, The - Howard K. Smith
8. Cosmic Rays - Charlie Parker Quartet
9. Kookie's Mad Pad - Edd Byrnes
10. Bebopper - The Gordons/Hank Jones Trio
11. Hunger Is From - Ken Nordine
12. No Pictures, Please - Rod McKuen
13. Like Young - Perry Como/Mitchell Ayres & His Orchestra
14. Married Blues - Kenneth Rexroth
15. Psychopathia Sexualis - Lenny Bruce
DISC 3:
1. Jack & Neal / California, Here I Come - Tom Waits
2. Readings From "On the Road" And "Visions of Cody" - Jack Kerouac/Steve Allen
3. Interview With Jack Kerouac - Ben Hecht
4. Kerouazy - Don Morrow
5. Cool - Del Close/John Brent
6. But I Was Cool - Oscar Brown Jr.
7. Uncool - Del Close/John Brent
8. High School Drag - Phillipa Fallon
9. Oop-Bop-Sh'bam - Dizzy Gillespie & His Sextet
10. Professor Bop - Three Bips & A Bop/Babs Gonzales
11. Beatnik's Wish - Patsy Raye & The Beatniks
12. Like Having Fun - Elmer Bernstein
13. On Beatniks - Carl Sandburg
14. Swinghouse - Gerry Mulligan Quartet
15. Greenwich Village Poets, The - Charles Kuralt
16. America - Allen Ginsberg
| Details | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Editorial Reviews
4 Stars - Excellent - ...highlights the legacy of the Beat era in all its manifestations...illustrates how firmly the Beats gripped the American psyche and confirms their historical significance...
Rolling Stone (02/04/1993)
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