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Desiderata | 
 enlarge | Artist: Les Crane
Label: Wea International
Category: Music
List Price: $17.49
Buy New: $7.85
You Save: $9.64 (55%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 174367
Format: Explicit Lyrics, Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 766485462527
EAN: 0075992611923
ASIN: B00000DB2L
Release Date: December 28, 1999
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Desiderata - Les Crane, Ehrmann | | • | Vision - Les Crane, Traditional | | • | Friends - Les Crane, Crane, Les | | • | Beauty (Shining from the Inside Out) - Les Crane, Wilson | | • | Happiness (I Got No Cares) - Les Crane, Wilson | | • | Esperanza (Hopme) - Les Crane, Gorky | | • | Nature (Wilderness) - Les Crane, Thoreau | | • | Courage (Eyes That See) - Les Crane, Wilson | | • | Independence (A Different Drummer) - Les Crane, Thoreau | | • | Love (Children Learn What They Live) - Les Crane, Noite | | • | Epilogue - Les Crane, |
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Album Description
Unavailable on CD in the U.S., this is a reissue of Crane's Grammy-winning 1971 album. Similar to & thanks to the popularity of Baz Luhrman's 'Everybody's Free', the spoken word recording is based on a 1927 poem by Max Ehrmann that hippies clung to in the '60s. The rest of the tracks on the long player continue along the same touchy-feely self-help theme, with musical accompaniments varying from Native American vibes to gospel to rock to opera. 12 tracks (though only 10 are actually printed on the CD).
Album Details
1971 Grammy Award Winning Spoken Word Album.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 11 more reviews...
 Perfect...absolutely perfect! April 4, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
 Desiderata January 8, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I agree with the reviewers who say that this is not the voice recording that we remember from the early 70s. The voice that I remember was lower and more soothing than what I heard on this recording. The back ground music seems more distracting than I remember as well. Since I was looking forward to the old sound, I was disappointed,
This is the real thing... August 21, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
... and it is awesome! It was great hearing these familiar lyrics from my childhood. My intent is to pass them on to my only child. My hope is that she will use these kind and insightful words to help mould her life.
Very Inspiring March 3, 2004
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
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.....
Original Recording October 2, 2003
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Contrary to what some have posted, this is the original recording of Desiderata by the original artist, Les Crane. If you'll do a little digging on the web, you'll find that Les won a grammy for this song in 1971 for Best Spoken Word Recording. Excellent rendition. Worth every penny.
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