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Love Words

Love Words
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Studio album by Ken Nordine
Released 1958
Recorded 1958
Genre Jazz
Length 29:43
Label Dot DLP 3115
Ken Nordine chronology
Son of Word Jazz
(1957)
Love Words
(1958)
Next!
(1959)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3/5 stars

Love Words (subtitled Ken Nordine Speaks Lyrically of Love) is an album by voice-over and recording artist Ken Nordine which was released on the Dot label in 1958. The album featured Nordine's spoken word interpretations of love songs, a departure from his previous work which featured his surreal or humorous monologues.

The Allmusic site rated the album 3 stars stating "The idea of taking Word Jazz weirdo Ken Nordine and having him perform a number of romantic jazz standards in a beatnik-esque spoken word style sounds like it would either be awfully fantastic or fantastically awful. Perhaps the worst thing that can be said about the end result is that it's neither... Even though he's not really able to pull this off in its entirety, this is the sort of thing that would make you smile if someone dropped one of the tracks onto a mixtape or into an eclectic radio set".


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