One of my favorite websites of all time was the American Song-Poem Music Archive. Back in 2004, all the song-poem mp3s from the ASPMA site mysteriously disappeared. However, I've managed to collect all the tunes from the site and squirreled them away into my collection on randomly-sequenced audio CDs. I always wanted to make them available again and thanks to Otis Fodder and the WFMU team, I now have a means of doing so.

I humbly present the Song-Poem Archived Music series - I have at least nine volumes planned for re-release and I will be posting one each month. All tracks have been fixed up (I hesitate to say remastered) and re-encoded at a higher bitrate for maximum enjoyment. Any audio quality problems are with the original files, and this is the best they can be.

And of course, a huge thank you to Phil Milstein, who hosted these files in the first place. And from his original mp3 page he also thanks "MP3 contributors: John Fitzpatrick, Brian Linds, Tom Ardolino, Jeff Miller, Jeremy Pisani, Michael Greenberg, Will Louviere, Barbara Economon, Pea Hicks, John Trubee, Robert Dayton, Chuck Foster, Jim Blanchard, Bob Purse, Narkspud, Marc Smith and Gregg Turkington."

Volume 1: It's Not The World, It's What's In The World (download full artwork zip)



1. Joe Stanton - A Has-Been

2. The Tune-Timers - Mental Letter

3. Sonny Marshall - South Bend, Indiana

4. Jim Wheeler & The Swinging Strings - Go-Go Girl

5. unknown - It's Not The World, It's What's In The World

6. unknown - Temptations and Desires

7. unknown - Pinch Me

8. unknown - Daddy Don't You Love Us Anymore

9. unknown - The Birth Of Spring

10. unknown - Jesus The King Of the Jews

11. unknown - My Glory Ladder

12. unknown - The King

13. Karen Kimberly and Big Action Sound - Heart Break Of Love

14. Dick Kent - Pucker Up

15. Dick Kent - On Blackness

16. Bobbi Blake - Shadrach, Meshcak and Abednego

17. Dick Kent - Mind Of Mine

18. Bobbi Blake - Too Many Babies

19. Bobbi Blake - The Yo-Yo

20. Bill Joy - Livin' In Sin

21. Rodd Keith - Run Spook Run

22. Rodd Keith - The Watchin' Man

23. Milford Perkins - The Vacant House

24. Rodd Keith - Don't Look Back, Babe

25. Gene Marshall - This World Was Planned

26. Gene Marshall - Doing The Wagon-Na-Gal

27. Gene Marshall - Crazy House Twist

28. Gene Marshall - Love Can Strike You

29. Norman Burns - Blue Atoms

30. Gary Roberts & The Satellites - You Need Time

31. Gary Roberts - What I Am, You Know

32. Mary Kaye - I Don't Want A Bracelet or Diamonds



