2-CD (digisleeve) with 36-page booklet, 52 single tracks. Total playing time approx. 150 minutes.

Bear Family Records® tribute to Jack Kerouac on the occasion of his 100th birthday in March 2022. Jack Kerouac, who along with Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs formed the core cell of the Beat Generation.

The beatniks, as representatives of pop literature, listened to a wide range of specific styles of music; we have compiled 52 songs and historical audio documents from 1946 to 1963, from the core of the beatnik era.

Be Bop Jazz as the favorite music of the Beat Generation is featured with Chet Baker, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker and others, as well as 'Word Jazz', the combination of jazz and beatnik poetry, such as by Oscar Brown, Jr., Don Morrow and of course Jack Kerouac himself with Steve Allen!

Contemporary pop music and rock 'n' roll around the beatnik subject are also represented, including satirical novelty numbers.

Featuring Big Jay McNeely, Babs Gonzales and others, rhythm 'n' blues is essential as a bridge between beatnik jazz and rock 'n' roll!

Historical sound documents, such as a Jack Kerouac reading, an interview, or the Allen Ginsberg recitation, round out the sound picture!

Two readings from the movie 'High School Confidential', which appeared on an MGM single in 1958, are here on CD for the first time!

And sounds from the 1959 film 'The Beat Generation'!

The colorful 36-page booklet contains rare photos and memorabilia as well as the history of the Beat Generation and its music, written by a connoisseur of the Beatnik scene, Roland Heinrich Rumtreiber!

On March 12, 2022, Jack Kerouac would have celebrated his 100th birthday, reason enough to remember him and his companions with a unique compilation! Kerouac is, together with Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs the nucleus of the Beat Generation, the Beatniks, who from the late 1940s, across the Fifties, until the mid-Sixties acted mainly in California. Their type of pop literature was revolutionary at the time, like Rock'N'Roll in music.

 

Cast & Crew

Director: 

Track Listing

Disc 1:

• Don Morrow - Kerouazy
• Jack Kerouac - San Francisco Scene (The Beat Generation)
• Bob McFadden & Dor - The Beat Generation
• Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars - The Beat Generation
• Chet Baker Quintet - A Night On Bop Mountain
• Oscar Brown, Jr. - But I Was Cool
• Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen (Piano) - Readings From 'On The Road' and 'Visions Of Cody' (T. V. Broadcast)
• Paul Gayten - Beatnik Beat
• Perry Como - Like Young
• Edd Byrnes & Friend (Joanie Sommers) - Like I Love You
• John Drew Barrymoore - Christopher Columbus Digs The Jive
• Kenny Clarke & His 52nd Street Boys - Oop-Bop Sh-Bam
• Ken Nordine - Reaching Into In
• Slim Gaillard & His Middle Europeans - Yip Roc Heresy
• Johnny Beeman - Laffin' Beatnik
• Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra - Oop-Pop-A-Da
• Bing Day - Mama's Place
• Mamie Van Doren - The Beat Generation
• Paul Evans - Beat Generation
• Louis Nye - Teenage Beatnik
• The Bee Hives - Beatnik Baby
• Barbara Evans - Beatnik Daddy
• Jimmy Van Eaton - Beat-Nik
• Carl Sandburg - On Beatniks (T. V. Broadcast)
• Charlie Parker Quartet - Cosmic Rays
• Charlie Ventura & His Orchestra - Ha
• Patsy Raye & The Beatniks - Beatnik's Wish
• Three Bips & A Bop feat. Babs Gonzales - Professor Bop
• Babs Gonzales - Manhattan Fable
• Ken Nordine & The Fred Katz Group - Hunger Is From

Disc 2:

• Big Jay McNeely - Real Crazy Cool
• The John Barry Seven - Beat Girl Main Title
• The John Barry Seven - Beat For Beatniks
• Adam Faith & The John Barry Seven - The Beat Girl Song
• Edd Byrnes - Cookie's Mad Pad
• Huey 'Piano' Smith & His Clowns - Beatnik Blues
• Lambert, Hendricks & Ross - Twisted
• Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen (Piano) - October In The Railroad Earth
• King Pleasure - Parker's Mood
• The Champs - Beatnik
• Bobby Summers - Pad
• Don Morrow - Like Rumpelstiltskin
• Joe Hall & The Corvettes - Bongo Beating Beatnik
• Phillipa Fallon - High School Drag
• The Royal Jokers - Beatnik
• The Untouchables - Benny The Beatnik
• The Beats - Beatnik Bounce -part I
• Ben Hecht - Interview with Jack Kerouac (T. V. Broadcast)
• Shel Silverstein - Have Another Espresso
• Lenny Bruce - Psychopathia Sexualis
• Rune Overman - Beatnik Walk
• Allen Ginsberg - America

Additional Details

Label: Bear Family Records

Genre: Pop/Rock

Language: English

Run Time: 150:00 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 03/04/22

UPC: 5397102176531