… You are a child of the universe …
[Description by John Bisci]
Desiderata was written in 1927 by Max Ehrmann, a poet and lawyer from Terre Haute, Indiana. When recorded by TV talk-host Les Crane in 1971, it became a Top 40 Hit. Promotional materials suggested it was found in a old church prior to 1700! The story of how that happened is here.
Rosko Mercer worked at WKTU-FM in New York City in the early ’80’s.
We’d listen to him each year when we attended Dance Music magazine’s Nightclub
DJ Conventions (New Music Seminar). Sadly, I never saved the cassettes I made of his
shows.
I went searching for WKTU-era airchecks of Rosko and found a 12-inch record. This
surprised me, because I had never heard or seen it before  and we used to get
everything dance-related through our record pool and promo man.
Rosko Recites Desiderata (on Prelude Records, music composed and arranged by Peter Dino) might have been a NYC-only promo, for all I know. I would guess it’s from 1982-1984.
[More Rosko on REELRADIO]