THREADS OF GLORY - 200 Years of America in Words & Music reel-to-reel series
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| R-1015 | 48 | 1 | (5 Hours) London records makes its contribution to the American Bicentennial by issuing · a six volume record set entitled "THREADS OF GLORY". This manipulation of · narration · music and sound effects · recreates and presents for the first time · on records a concise and entertaining outline of American History from the · inception of the Republic 200 years ago up to the present day. This is not · merely a spoken-word project · rather it is a dramatization of our great history · combining narration with London's library of phase 4 musical recordings and · sound effects to create a "You Are There" impression · a package created to · inform · involve and entertain an audience looking to be reminded of all that is · great about the United States · Lee Bowman is narrator and star · Burt Lancaster as PATRICK HENRY · Lee Bowman as TOM PAINE · ROBERT E. LEE & BOY on "Streets of Laredo" skit · Rosalind Russell as NARRATOR of the Battles of Lexington & Concord & Shots · Richard Carlson as THOMAS JEFFERSON and Pres. JAMES BUCHANAN · Susan Oliver as NARRATOR COMMENTATOR throughout the album · Lloyd Nolan as Gen. GEORGE WASHINGTON "Farewell to the Continental Army" · John Forsythe as Pres. JAMES MONROE and Pres. WOODROW WILSON · Ronald Reagan with his wife NANCY DAVIS REAGAN reciting CONSTITUTION & BILL OF RIGHT · Jonathan Winters as Pres. ANDREW JACKSON · Forrest Tucker as Col. WILLIAM B. TRAVIS at the Alamo · Ceasar Romero as Pres. JAMES POLK and as INDIAN CHIEF · Virginia Gregg NARRATING & COMMENTING throughout the Album · Anne Baxter as DOROTHEA LYNDE DIX · William Bakewell as WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON and Pres. CHESTER A. ARTHUR · George Hamilton as JEFFERSON DAVIS · President of the Confederacy · Walter Pidgeon as ABRAHAM LINCOLN · Joan Foster as Voice of Liberty: "Give me your tired · your Poor...." · Daws Butler Characterizations throughout the album · Lorne Greene as Pres. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT · Efrem Zimbalist · Jr. as Gen. DOUGLAS MACARTHUR · Fred McMurray as Pres. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER · Henry Fonda as Pres. JOHN F. KENNEDY. "Ask not what your Country can..." · Roscoe Lee Brown as Martin Luther KING. "I Have a Dream...." · Hugh O'Brien as Pres. LYNDON B. JOHNSON · Also on the flip side of records 5 & 6 there is music which is composed primarily · of the music background for this production and is herewith presented in un- · interrupted form as another valuable facet of American Heritage. In this order: · Fanfare- National Emblem- American Revolutionary War medley- March of the British · Grenadiers- Yankee Doodle- America- Washington Post March- America The Beautiful- · The Shenandoah- Columbia · The Gem of the Ocean- World War I Medley- Deutschland · Uber Alles- Meadowland- Star Spangled Banner- Hoe Down Medley- Dixie- Battle Hymn · of the Republic- Hail to the Chief- Marcia Reale- It's a Long · Long Way to Tip- · perary- Aupres De Ma Blonde- National Emblem- The Entertainer- When the Saints · Go Marching In- Rhapsody in Blue- Let's Dance- As Time goes By- Africa- La · Marseillaise- Deutschland Uber Alles- Street Scene- Orders- Plane- We Shall · Overcome- Sprach Zarathustra- & Stars and Stripes forever · NORMAN CORWIN'S "On a Note of Triumph" Broadcast on VE Day on CBS |