"The Beat Generation" CD Set (1992)

Santa Monica, California, US: Rhino Records Inc. (CDs, book), 1992.
12.25" x 6" x 1.375", three CDs, 48 tracks, "R2 70281".

The Beat Generation, a three-CD compilation with 56 page book released by Rhino Records (Santa Monica, California, US) in 1992. Produced by James Austin and associate-produced by Stephen Ronan and Gordon Skene. Design by Coco Shinomiya. Logo by Daniel Clowes. Art Direction by Geoff Gans.

William S. Burroughs contributes "Naked Lunch (excerpts)" as track 10 of disc 1. 

Disc 1 Track Listing: 

1. Jack Kerouac: "San Francisco Scene (The Beat Generation)"
2. Bob McFadden & Dor: "The Beat Generation"
3. unstated: "Footloose in Greenwich Village"
4. Langston Hughes with Leonard Feather: "Blues Montage"
5. Babs Gonzales: "Manhattan Fable"
6. Ken Nordine: "Reaching into In" 
7. King Pleasure: "Parker's Mood"
8. Nelson Riddle: "Route 66 Theme"
9. Tom Waits: "Diamonds on My Windshield" 
10. William S. Burroughs: "Naked Lunch (excerpts)"
11. Lee Konitz with The Gerry Mulligan Quartet: "Bernie's Tune"
12. Don Morrow: "Like Rumpelstiltskin"
13. Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra: "Oop-Paa-a-Da"
14. Del Close & John Brent: "Basic Hip"
15. John Drew Barrymore: "Christopher Colombus Digs the Jive"
16. Charles Mingus with Jean Shepherd: "The Clown"
17. Kenneth Patchen with The Chamber Jazz Sextet: "The Murder of Two Men by a Young Kid Wearing Lemon Colored Gloves"

Disc 2 Track Listing: 

1. Lord Buckley: "The Hip Gahn"
2. Lambert, Hendricks & Ross: "Twisted"
3. Slim Gaillard & His Middle Europeans: "Yip Roc Heresy"
4. Charlie Ventura & His Orchestra: "Ha"
5. David Amram Quintet with Lynn Sheffield: "Pull My Daisy"
6. Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen: "October in the Railroad Earth"
7. Howard K. Smith: "The Cool Rebellion"
8. Charlie Parker Quartet: "Cosmic Rays"
9. Edd Byrnes: "Kookie's Mad Pad"
10. The Gordons with Hank Jones Trio: "Bebopper"
11. Ken Nordine: "Hunger Is From"
12. Rod McKuen: "No Pictures, Please"
13. Perry Como with Mitchell Ayres & His Orchestra: "Like Young"
14. Kenneth Rexroth: "Married Blues"
15. Lenny Bruce: "Psychopathia Sexualis"

Disc 3 Track Listing: 

1. Tom Waits: "Jack & Neal/California, Here I Come"
2. Jack Kerouac with Steve Allen: "Readings from On the Road and Visions of Cody"
3. Ben Hecht: "Interview with Jack Kerouac"
4. Don Morrow: "Kerouazy"
5. Del Close & John Brent: "Cool"
6. Oscar Brown Jr. : "But I Was Cool"
7. Del Close & John Brent: "Uncool"
8. Phillipa Fallon: "High School Drag"
9. Kenny Clarke & His 52nd Street Boys: "Oop-Bop Sh-Bam"
10. Three Bips & A Bop featuring Babs Gonzales: "Professor Bop"
11. Patsy Raye & The Beatniks: "Beatnik's Wish"
12. Elmer Bernstein: "Like Having Fun"
13. Carl Sandburg: "On Beatniks"
14. Gerry Mulligan Quartet: "Swinghouse"
15. Charles Kuralt: "The Greenwich Village Poets"
16. Allen Ginsberg: "America"

Book Contents: 

• James Austin: "Introduction: Beat, Bop & Beyond"
• Barry Alfonso: "The Beat Generation"
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti: "Heaven"
• Michael McClure: "Mad Sonnet"
• Philip Lamantia: "High"
• Gregory Corso: "Birthplace Revisited"
• Bob Kaufman: "His Horn"
• Bob Dylan: "Minneapolis is the first big city I lived in..."
• Stephen Ronan: "City Lights Bookstore: A Literary Meeting Place Since 1953"
• unstated: "Beatnik Jive: A Primer"
• unstated: "The Beat Bookshelf":
• "Anthologies of Beat Writing"
• "Books About the Beats"
• "Biographies and Autobiographies of Beats"
• "Periodicals Featuring Beats"
• "Books by Beats"
• "The Beat Generation in Film"
• "Recent Films on the Beats"
• "The Beats on Television"
• "Beat Exploitation Novels"
• "Beat Humor Books"
• Michael J. Weldon: "Mondo Bongo: A Guide to Beat 'Sploitation Flicks"
• J. D. King: "The Beastniks Speak Out!" (comic)
• Track Listings
• Acknowledgments
• Jerry Stoll: photographs
• Jerome Yulsman: photograph
• Michael Dobo: photograph
• Ray Flerlage: photograph