Throwing you a bit of a curve ball -- Adlai Stevenson did an LP a few years before he died -- in it he related several stories of his service in France after the liberation of Paris -- now those are great stories by an extremely literate gentleman.
Those of us, of a generation, can remember the LP's with "Peter and the Wolf" and a description of the reason that particular instruments were chosen to represent the character parts.
Those of us, of a generation, can remember the LP's with "Peter and the Wolf" and a description of the reason that particular instruments were chosen to represent the character parts.
Upon looking up Adlai Stevenson those look mostly to be speeches.
I had forgot about Peter and the wolf
On a side note my Father had a bunch of 45's from Redd Harper
that were Children's Bible stories. I can still remember some of
them of them nearly 50 year later.
The first few that come to mind in the rock catalog would include Pink Floyd "The Wall", "Wish You Were Here" (Syd); Beatles "St Peppers", "Magical Mystery Tour"; at least 3 of Rick Wakeman's early works; Frank Zappa's "Joe's Garage" ; cast album of movie "Jesus Christ, Superstar"
While I'm generally less of a fan of the genre, pretty much any opera - as the local society pronounces on their bus adverts - "stories so big they have to be sung" - and that's a pretty long list
While I'm generally less of a fan of the genre, pretty much any opera - as the local society pronounces on their bus adverts - "stories so big they have to be sung" - and that's a pretty long list
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Pretty Things "S.F. Sorrow"
Kinks "Face to Face" & "Village Green Preservation Society" (both more of a mosaic)
Luke the Drifter (aka Hank Williams Sr.) "Beyond the Sunset"
Lee Hazlewood "Trouble is a Lonesome Town"
Frank Sinatra "Watertown"
Woody Guthrie "Dust Bowl Ballads"
I was a record store clerk/vinyl hoarder for five years, over a decade ago. I miss that job.
Kinks "Face to Face" & "Village Green Preservation Society" (both more of a mosaic)
Luke the Drifter (aka Hank Williams Sr.) "Beyond the Sunset"
Lee Hazlewood "Trouble is a Lonesome Town"
Frank Sinatra "Watertown"
Woody Guthrie "Dust Bowl Ballads"
I was a record store clerk/vinyl hoarder for five years, over a decade ago. I miss that job.
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Adding Empire and Promised Land. I suppose Mindcrime II as well.
To me the story lines sort of loosely fit what I imagine would have been set in New York in the early 1980's for Mindcrime, Los Angeles in the late 80's for Empire, and Chicago in the early 90's for Promised land.
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