I have a recording of Usher 2 which I recorded of the radio in Australia in the late 70s or very early 80s. The sound track includes Frank Zapper and Pink Flyod. I don't have any details as to the narrator. Does anyone else have it or have details about it.

bliim,

could you DESCRIBE the narrator - Australian, American, British? It could be from a radio series such as Mind Webs, which came from an American university radio station in the 70s/80s.

Hi Phil,
The narrator is I think American. Sounds a lot like Leonard Nimow but the recording is toearly for him.

bliim

I think Leonard Nimoy may have recorded Usher II for an album, so it could be him. I don't recall it having any music, though (but my memory could be faulty). How old do you think the recording is?

Recommend doing a Google search using the keywords “usher II” and “Nimoy”. You may get results similar to the following:

“Green Hills of Earth/Gentlemen Be Seated, Caedmon, read by Leonard Nimoy, 1977
…currently difficult to find. (Others to look for from this same period: Ray Bradbury's Usher II, also read by Leonard Nimoy…”

Good Luck!

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"Zappa" ??

I don't know how old the recording is only that I first heard on the radio inthe late 70'. or early 80's. It was part of a radio broadcast which started with the orriginal Edgar A Poe version. Perhaps it was put together at the Sydney radio staion 2JJ.

Bliim, please, tell what Pink Floyd song are on this record?

Bliim, I suspect this will get you what you're after, though no background music is mentioned.

http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Set/1931/records3.html

Worth a call, maybe?

Oh, one caviat. I haven't heard the Bradbury readings, but I'd give the LA Theatre Works' version of "War Of The Worlds" a miss. Doesn't even come close to the Orson Welles broadcast.

The Pink Floyd is Pigs and the Zappa is Dungeon of depair.