Janis Ian

American singer-songwriter

This article is about the singer. For the fictional character, see Mean Girls § Cast.

Janis Ian

Ian performing in concert, 1981

Background information
Birth name| Janis Eddy Fink
Born|  (1951-04-07) April 7, 1951 (age 75)
Farmingdale, New Jersey, U.S.
Genres| Folk, soft rock
Occupation(s)| Singer-songwriter
Years active| 1965–present
Labels|

* Rude Girl
* Columbia
* Verve
* Windham Hill

Website| janisian.com

Musical artist

Janis Ian (born Janis Eddy Fink; April 7, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter who was most commercially successful in the 1960s and 1970s. Her signature songs are the 1966/67 hit "Society's Child (Baby I've Been Thinking)"[1] and the 1975 Top Ten single "At Seventeen", from her LP Between the Lines, which in September 1975 reached no. 1 on the Billboard album chart.

Born in Farmingdale, New Jersey, Ian entered the American folk music scene while still a teenager in the mid-1960s. Most active musically in that decade and the 1970s, she has continued recording into the 21st century. She has won two Grammy Awards, the first in 1975 for "At Seventeen" and the second in 2013 for Best Spoken Word Album, for her autobiography, Society's Child, with a total of ten nominations in eight different categories.

Ian is also a columnist and science fiction author.[2]

## Contents

* 1 Early life
* 2 Music career
* 3 Criticism of the RIAA
* 4 Writing and acting
* 5 Personal life
* 6 Discography
* 6.1 Studio albums
* 6.2 Live albums
* 6.3 Compilation albums
* 6.4 Singles
* 6.5 DVDs
* 7 Bibliography
* 8 Notes
* 9 References
* 10 External links

## Early life[edit | edit source]

Born in Farmingdale, New Jersey,[3] Janis was raised on a farm, and attended East Orange High School in East Orange, New Jersey,[4] and the New York City High School of Music & Art. Both sets of grandparents (from Kyiv, Ukraine; Tashkent, Uzbekistan; and Poland) lived in the New York-New Jersey area, having emigrated via England in about 1918.[5] Her parents, Victor, a music teacher, and Pearl, a college fundraiser, were Jewish-born liberal atheists who ran several summer camps in upstate New York.[6]

As a child, Ian admired the work of folk musicians such as Joan Baez and Odetta. Starting with piano lessons at the age of two (at her own insistence), Ian, by the time she entered her teens, was playing the organ, harmonica, French horn and guitar.[7] At the age of 12, she wrote her first song, "Hair of Spun Gold", which was subsequently published in the folk publication Broadside and was later recorded for her eponymous debut album. In 1964, she legally changed her name to Janis Ian, taking her brother Eric's middle name as her new surname.[8]

## Music career[edit | edit source]

At the age of 14, Ian wrote and recorded her first hit single, "Society's Child (Baby I've Been Thinking)", about an interracial romance forbidden by a girl's mother and frowned upon by her peers and teachers. Produced by George "Shadow" Morton and released three times from 1965 to 1967, "Society's Child" became a national hit upon its third release after Leonard Bernstein featured it in a late-April 1967 CBS TV special titled Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution.[8]

The song's theme of interracial relationships was considered taboo by some radio stations, who withdrew or banned it from their playlists accordingly. In her 2008 autobiography Society's Child, Ian recalls receiving hate mail and death threats as a response to the song and mentions that a radio station in Atlanta that played it was burned down.[citation needed] In July 1967, "Society's Child" reached no. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100. The single sold 600,000 copies and the album sold 350,000 copies.[7]

At the age of 16, Ian met comedian Bill Cosby backstage at a Smothers Brothers show where she was promoting "Society's Child". Since she was underage, she was accompanied by a chaperone while touring. After her set, Ian had been sleeping with her head on the lap of her chaperone (an older female family friend). According to Ian in a 2015 interview, she was told by her then manager that Cosby had interpreted their interaction as "lesbian" and as a result "had made it his business" to warn other television shows that Ian wasn't "suitable family entertainment" and "shouldn't be on television" because of her sexuality, thus attempting to blacklist her.[9][10][11] Although Ian would later come out, she states that at the time of the encounter with Cosby she had only been kissed once, by a boy she had a crush on, in broad daylight at summer camp.[12]

Ian relates on her website that, although "Society's Child" was originally intended for Atlantic Records and the label paid for her recording session, Atlantic subsequently returned the master to her and quietly refused to release it.[13] Ian relates that years later, Atlantic's president at the time, Jerry Wexler, publicly apologized to her for this. The single and Ian's 1967 debut album (which reached no. 29 on the charts) were finally released on Verve Forecast. In 2001, "Society's Child" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, which honors recordings considered timeless and important to music history. Her first four albums were released on a double CD entitled Society's Child: The Verve Recordings in 1995.

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Ian performing at the National Stadium Dublin, Ireland, on May 14, 1981

"Society's Child" stigmatized Ian as a one-hit wonder until her most successful US single, "At Seventeen", was released in 1975. "At Seventeen" is a bittersweet commentary on adolescent cruelty, the illusion of popularity and teenage angst, from the perspective of a narrator looking back on her earlier experience. The song was a major hit as it charted at no. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, hit number one on the Adult Contemporary chart and won the 1976 Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance - Female, beating out Linda Ronstadt, Olivia Newton-John and Helen Reddy. Ian appeared as the first musical guest on the series premiere of Saturday Night Live on October 11, 1975, performing "At Seventeen" and "In the Winter".[14][15] The album Between the Lines was also a smash and reached number one on Billboard′s album chart. The album would be certified platinum for sales of over one million copies sold in the US. Another measure of her success is anecdotal: on Valentine's Day 1977, Ian received 461 valentine cards, having indicated in the lyrics to "At Seventeen" that she never received one as a teenager.[16]

"Fly Too High" (1979), produced by disco producer Giorgio Moroder, was Ian's contribution to the soundtrack of the Jodie Foster film Foxes and was also featured on Ian's 1979 album Night Rains. It also became another international hit, reaching number one in many countries, including South Africa, Belgium, Australia, Israel and the Netherlands, and going gold or platinum in those countries and others. Another country where Ian has achieved a high level of popularity is Japan: Ian had two Top 10 singles on the Japanese Oricon charts, "Love Is Blind" in 1976 and "You Are Love" in 1980. Ian's 1976 album Aftertones also topped Oricon's album chart in October 1976.[17] "You Are Love (Toujours Gai Mon Cher)" is the theme song of Kinji Fukasaku's 1980 movie Virus. Ian cut several other singles specifically for the Japanese market, including 1998's "The Last Great Place".

In the US, Ian did not chart in the Top 40 on the pop charts after "At Seventeen", though she had several songs reach the Adult Contemporary singles chart through 1980 (all failing to make the Top 20).

Ian started Rude Girl Records, Inc., and its publishing arm, Rude Girl Publishing, on January 2, 1992. Since then, RGR has steadily grown, with its current ownership of more than twenty-five Janis Ian albums and DVDs overseas, as well as hundreds of unreleased recordings and videos, including unreleased songs, concerts, demos, and rehearsal tapes. The Rude Girl label oversees the production of Janis' newer work, and in the case of older work, its re-mastering and the re-creation of the original artwork.[18]

From 1982–92, Ian continued to write songs, often in collaboration with then songwriting partner Kye Fleming, some of which have been covered by Amy Grant, Bette Midler, Marti Jones and other artists. She released Breaking Silence in 1993 and also came out as a lesbian.[19]

Other artists have recorded Ian's compositions, including Roberta Flack, who had a hit in 1973 with Ian's song "Jesse", which peaked at #19 on the Billboard pop charts on November 3, 1973.[19] Ian's own version is included on her 1974 album Stars (the title song of which has also been oft-covered, including versions by Joan Baez, Shirley Bassey, Cher, Nina Simone and Barbara Cook). "At Seventeen" is Ian's most covered composition with 50 versions by artists including Celine Dion, Miki Howard and Julia Fordham. Ian's song "In The Winter" has also been covered many times by singers including Dusty Springfield and Sheena Easton. Richard Barone recorded Ian's song "Sweet Misery" on his album Sorrows & Promises: Greenwich Village in the 1960s in 2016. She continues to tour worldwide, though she stated that her 2022 North-American tour which was cancelled when a laryngitis diagnosis became severe would be her "last full tour".[20]

In August 2018 Ian performed at the UK's Cambridge Folk Festival.[21][22]

## Criticism of the RIAA[edit | edit source]

Ian is an outspoken critic of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA),[23] which she sees as acting against the interests of musicians and consumers. Consequently, she has released several of her songs for free download from her website.[24] "I've been surprised at how few people are willing to get annoyed with me over it," she laughs. "There was a little backlash here and there. I was scheduled to appear on a panel somewhere and somebody from a record company said if I was there they would boycott it. But that's been pretty much it. In general, the entire reaction has been favorable. I hear from a lot of people in my industry who don't want to be quoted, but say 'yeah, we're aware of this and we'd like to see a change too.'"[25] Along with science fiction authors Eric Flint and Cory Doctorow, she has argued that their experience provides conclusive evidence that free downloads dramatically increased hard-copy sales, contrary to the claims of RIAA and NARAS.[26]

## Writing and acting[edit | edit source]

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Ian at a Borders book signing in 2005

Ian writes science fiction. A long-time reader of the genre, she became involved in science fiction fandom in 2001 by attending the Millennium Philcon. Her short stories have been published in anthologies and she co-edited, with Mike Resnick, the anthology Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian, published in 2003 (ISBN 978-0-7564-0177-1). She continues to occasionally attend science fiction conventions.[27] Ian performed at the 2009 Nebula Award Conference in Los Angeles, where she sang "Welcome Home," a version of her song "At Seventeen" with the lyrics changed to talk about the acceptance she found by reading science fiction.[28]

Ian was a regular columnist for the LGBT news magazine The Advocate[29] and contributed to Performing Songwriter magazine from 1993[30] to 2006.[31] On July 24, 2008, Ian released her positively-received autobiography Society's Child (published by Penguin Tarcher). An accompanying double CD, The Autobiography Collection, has been released with many of Ian's best loved songs.[32]

Ian took acting lessons and script interpretation classes from Stella Adler in the early 1980s to help her feel more comfortable on stage, and she and Adler remained close friends until Adler's death in 1992. In December 2015, Ian appeared in the series finale of HBO comedy series Getting On playing a patient who refused to stop singing.[33][34]

## Personal life[edit | edit source]

Ian's mother Pearl Yadoff Fink was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1975. Because of this, Ian and her brother persuaded their mother to pursue her lifelong dream of going to college. Fink eventually enrolled in Goddard College's adult education program and ultimately graduated with a master's degree. After Fink's death in 1997, Ian decided to auction off memorabilia to raise money to endow a scholarship at Goddard specifically for older continuing education students, which became the Pearl Foundation, a 501(c)(3) public charity. At the end of each year, 90% or more of funds raised from sale of merchandise, donations from fans and contributions from Ian herself are disbursed to various educational institutions to fund scholarships.[35] By 2020, it had endowed more than $1,250,000 in scholarship funds at four schools.[36]

Ian married Portuguese filmmaker Tino Sargo in 1978 and the two divorced in 1983. Accusations of Sargo's physical and emotional abuse were discussed in Ian's autobiography.[35][37] After moving to Nashville, she met Patricia Snyder in 1989. Ian came out as a lesbian in 1993 with the worldwide release of her album Breaking Silence.[19] Snyder and Ian married in Toronto on August 27, 2003.[38] Ian has a stepdaughter and two grandchildren with Snyder.[39]

## Discography[edit | edit source]

### Studio albums[edit | edit source]

Year  | Title  | Chart positions  | Label

|
|
|

US | AUS
[40] | CAN | JPN | NLD
[41] | UK
[42]
1967  | Janis Ian | 29  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | Verve Forecast
1967  | For All the Seasons of Your Mind | 179  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —
1968  | The Secret Life of J. Eddy Fink | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —
1969  | Who Really Cares | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —
1971  | Present Company | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | Capitol
1974  | Stars | 83  | 82  | —  | —  | —  | —  | Columbia
1975  | Between the Lines | 1  | 16  | 4[43] | 22  | —  | —
1976  | Aftertones | 12  | 45  | 81[44] | 1  | 23  | —
1977  | Miracle Row | 45  | 58  | —  | 26  | 20  | —
1978  | Janis Ian | 120  | 97  | —  | —  | —  | —
1979  | Night Rains | —  | 11  | —  | —  | 2  | —
1981  | Restless Eyes | 156  | 57  | —  | —  | 15  | —
1985  | Uncle Wonderful | —  | 93  | —  | —  | —  | —  | Interfusion
1992  | Breaking Silence | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | Morgan Creek
1995  | Simon Renshaw Presents: Janis Ian Shares Your Pain
[a] | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | Rude Girl
1995  | Revenge | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | 81
1997  | Hunger | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | Windham Hill/Rude Girl
2000  | God and the FBI | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —
2001  | Lost Cuts 1 | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | Rude Girl
2004  | Billie's Bones | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —
2006  | Folk Is the New Black | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —
2014  | Strictly Solo[b] | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —
2021  | Hope | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —
2022  | The Light at the End of the Line[45] | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —

### Live albums[edit | edit source]

* Remember... (1978) (orig. JVC Japan, now Rude Girl)
* Live on the Test 1976 (1995) (BBC World Wide)
* The Bottom Line Encore Collection (1999) (Bottom Line Records)
* Live: Working Without a Net (2003) (Rude Girl)

### Compilation albums[edit | edit source]

Year  | Title  | Chart positions  | Label

|
|
|

AUS
[40] | NLD
[41]
1977  | The Best of Janis Ian | 69  | —  | Interfusion
1980  | The Best of Janis Ian | —  | —  | CBS Benelux
1980  | My Favourites | —  | 5
1990  | At Seventeen | —  | —  | CBS
1992  | Up 'Til Now - The Best of Janis Ian[c] | —  | 18  | Sony
1995  | Society's Child: The Verve Recordings | —  | —  | Polydor/UMG
1998  | Unreleased 1: Mary's Eyes | —  | —  | Rude Girl
2002  | The Best of Janis Ian | —  | —  | Festival Australia
2004  | Souvenirs: Best of 1972–1981 | —  | —  | Rude Girl
2006  | Unreleased 2: Take No Prisoners | —  | —
2006  | Unreleased 3: Society's Child | —  | —
2007  | Ultimate Best | —  | —  | JVC Victory
2008  | Best of Janis Ian: Autobiography Collection | —  | —  | Rude Girl
2017  | The Essential Janis Ian | —  | —  | Sony worldwide

### Singles[edit | edit source]

Year  | Titles (A-side, B-side)
Both sides from same album except where indicated | Chart positions  | Album

|
|
|

US Billboard | US Cash Box | US A/C | CAN | AUS
[40] | SA | UK | NLD
[46] | JPN
1967  | "Society's Child (Baby I've Been Thinking)"
b/w "Letter to Jon" (Non-album track) | 14  | 13  | —  | 13 [47] | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | Janis Ian (Verve Forecast)
"Younger Generation Blues"
b/w "I'll Give You a Stone If You'll Throw It"  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —
"Insanity Comes Quietly to the Structured Mind"
b/w "Sunflakes Fall, Snowrays Call" | 109  | 82  | —  | 76[48] | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | ...For All The Seasons Of Your Mind
1968  | "A Song for All the Seasons of Your Mind"
b/w "Lonely One"  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —
"Friends Again"
b/w "Lady of the Night" (Non-album track) | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | The Secret Life of J. Eddy Fink
"Janey's Blues"
b/w "Everybody Knows" (from The Secret Life of J. Eddy Fink) | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | Janis Ian (Verve Forecast)
1969  | "Calling Your Name"
b/w "Month of May"  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | Who Really Cares
1971  | "He's a Rainbow"
b/w "Here in Spain" (US) or "See My Grammy Ride" (UK) | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | Present Company
1974  | "The Man You Are in Me"
b/w "Jesse" | 104  | 105  | 33  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | Stars
1975  | "When the Party's Over"
b/w "Bright Lights and Promises" | —  | 112  | 20  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | Between the Lines
"At Seventeen"
b/w "Stars" (from Stars) | 3  | 1  | 1  | 6 [49] | 23  | —  | 54 [d] | —  | —
"In the Winter"
b/w "Thankyous" (from Stars) | —  | 97  | 21  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —
1976  | "Boy I Really Tied One On"
b/w "Aftertones" | —  | —  | 43  | —  | 50  | —  | —  | —  | —  | Aftertones
"I Would Like to Dance"
b/w "Goodbye To Morning" | —  | —  | 28  | 86 [50] | —  | —  | —  | —  | —
"Roses"
b/w "Love Is Blind" | —  | —  | 37  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —
"Love Is Blind"
b/w "Miracle Row" (from Miracle Row) | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | 1
"Between the Lines"
b/w "Sweet Sympathy" (from Stars) | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | 90  | Between The Lines
1977  | "Miracle Row"
b/w "Take to the Sky"  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | Miracle Row
"I Want to Make You Love Me"
b/w "Candlelight"  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —
"Will You Dance?"
b/w "I Want to Make You Love Me" | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | 40
1978  | "That Grand Illusion"
b/w "Hopper Painting" | —  | —  | 43  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | Janis Ian (Columbia)
"The Bridge"
b/w "Do You Wanna Dance" | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —
1979  | "Here Comes the Night"
b/w "Tonight Will Last Forever" (from Janis Ian Columbia album) | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | Night Rains
"Fly Too High"
b/w "Night Rains" | —  | —  | —  | —  | 7  | 1  | 44  | 5  | —
1980  | "You Are Love"
b/w "All to You" | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | 10  | "Virus" soundtrack (Japan release only)
"The Other Side of the Sun"
b/w "Memories" | —  | —  | 47  | —  | 44  | —  | 44  | 30  | —  | Night Rains
1981  | "Under the Covers"
b/w "Sugar Mountain" | 71  | 79  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | Restless Eyes
"Restless Eyes"
b/w "I Remember Yesterday"  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —
2010  | "Every Woman's Song" (with Angela Aki)[51][52] | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | 53  | Non-album track

### DVDs[edit | edit source]

* Janis Ian: Live From Grand Center (2008)[53]
* Live at Club Cafe (2005) (Rude Girl)
* Janismania (2005) (Rude Girl)
* Through the Years: A Retrospective (2007) (Rude Girl)
* Janis Ian '79: Live in Japan & Australia (2008) (Rude Girl)

## Bibliography[edit | edit source]

* Who Really Cares: Poems From Childhood and Early Youth, 1969 (2002 re-release), ISBN 978-1-930709-37-9
* Songbook, 1999, ISBN 978-0-7692-0148-1
* Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian, 2003, ISBN 978-0-7564-0177-1 (ed., with Mike Resnick)
* "Prayerville", 2003, in Mike Resnick and Martin H. Greenberg (eds), Women Writing Science Fiction As Men, ISBN 978-0-7564-0148-1
* Society's Child: My Autobiography, 2008, Tarcher/Penguin; ISBN 1-58542-675-X; ISBN 978-1-58542-675-1

## Notes[edit | edit source]

1. ^ Not released until December 2009
2. ^ Available only at live shows.
3. ^ A limited-edition two-CD combining Up 'Til Now - The Best of Janis Ian with Breaking Silence was issued by Sony in 1993.
4. ^ Chart position is from the official UK "Breakers List".

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## External links[edit | edit source]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Janis Ian.

* Official website
* Works by Janis Ian at Project Gutenberg
* Works by or about Janis Ian at Internet Archive
* Janis Ian at Library of Congress Authorities, with 55 catalog records
* Janis Ian at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
* Interview with Janis Ian in International Songwriters Association's "Songwriter Magazine"

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Janis Ian

Studio albums|

* Janis Ian (1967)
* For All the Seasons of Your Mind (1967)
* The Secret Life of J. Eddy Fink (1968)
* Who Really Cares (1969)
* Present Company (1971)
* Stars (1974)
* Between the Lines (1975)
* Aftertones (1976)
* Miracle Row (1977)
* Janis Ian (1978)
* Night Rains (1979)
* Restless Eyes (1981)
* Uncle Wonderful (1985)
* Breaking Silence (1992)
* Revenge (1995)
* Hunger (1997)
* God and the FBI (2000)

Singles|

* "Society's Child"
* "At Seventeen"
* "Fly Too High"

Live albums|

* Remember... (1978)

Awards for Janis Ian

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Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album

1959−1980|

* The Best of the Stan Freberg Shows – Stan Freberg (1959)
* Lincoln Portrait – Carl Sandburg (1960)
* FDR Speaks – Robert Bialek (producer) (1961)
* Humor in Music – Leonard Bernstein (1962)
* The Story-Teller: A Session with Charles Laughton – Charles Laughton (1963)
* Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – Edward Albee (playwright) (1964)
* BBC Tribute to John F. Kennedy – That Was the Week That Was (1965)
* John F. Kennedy: As We Remember Him – Goddard Lieberson (producer) (1966)
* Edward R. Murrow - A Reporter Remembers, Vol. I: The War Years – Edward R. Murrow (1967)
* Gallant Men – Everett Dirksen (1968)
* Lonesome Cities – Rod McKuen (1969)
* We Love You Call Collect – Art Linkletter & Diane Linkletter (1970)
* Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam – Martin Luther King Jr. (1971)
* Desiderata – Les Crane (1972)
* Lenny – Bruce Botnick (producer) & the Original Broadway Cast (1973)
* Jonathan Livingston Seagull – Richard Harris (1974)
* Good Evening – Peter Cook and Dudley Moore (1975)
* Give 'em Hell, Harry! – James Whitmore (1976)
* Great American Documents – Henry Fonda, Helen Hayes, James Earl Jones and Orson Welles (1977)
* The Belle of Amherst – Julie Harris (1978)
* Citizen Kane (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) – Orson Welles (1979)
* Ages of Man: Readings from Shakespeare – John Gielgud (1980)

1981−2000|

* Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein – Pat Carroll (1981)
* Donovan's Brain – Orson Welles (1982)
* Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Movie on Record – Tom Voegeli (producer) and Various Artists (1983)
* Lincoln Portrait – William Warfield (1984)
* The Words of Gandhi – Ben Kingsley (1985)
* Ma Rainey's Black Bottom – Mike Berniker (producer) & the Original Broadway Cast (1986)
* Interviews from the Class of '55 Recording Sessions – Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chips Moman, Ricky Nelson, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins and Sam Phillips (1987)
* Lake Wobegon Days – Garrison Keillor (1988)
* Speech by Rev. Jesse Jackson – Jesse Jackson (1989)
* It's Always Something – Gilda Radner (1990)
* Gracie: A Love Story – George Burns (1991)
* The Civil War – Ken Burns (1992)
* What You Can Do to Avoid AIDS – Earvin "Magic" Johnson and Robert O'Keefe (1993)
* On the Pulse of Morning – Maya Angelou (1994)
* Get in the Van – Henry Rollins (1995)
* Phenomenal Woman – Maya Angelou (1996)
* It Takes a Village – Hillary Clinton (1997)
* Charles Kuralt's Spring – Charles Kuralt (1998)
* Still Me – Christopher Reeve (1999)
* The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr. – LeVar Burton (2000)

2001−2020|

* The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography – Sidney Poitier, Rick Harris & John Runnette (producers) (2001)
* Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones – Quincy Jones, Jeffrey S. Thomas, Steven Strassman (engineers) and Elisa Shokoff (producer) (2002)
* A Song Flung Up to Heaven – Maya Angelou and Charles B. Potter (producer) (2003)
* Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them – Al Franken and Paul Ruben (producer) (2004)
* My Life – Bill Clinton (2005)
* Dreams from My Father – Barack Obama (2006)
* Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis – Jimmy Carter / With Ossie and Ruby – Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee (2007)
* The Audacity of Hope – Barack Obama and Jacob Bronstein (producer) (2008)
* An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore – Beau Bridges, Cynthia Nixon and Blair Underwood (2009)
* Always Looking Up – Michael J. Fox (2010)
* The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents Earth (The Audiobook) – Jon Stewart (2011)
* If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won't) – Betty White (2012)
* Society's Child – Janis Ian (2013)
* America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't – Stephen Colbert (2014)
* Diary of a Mad Diva – Joan Rivers (2015)
* A Full Life: Reflections at 90 – Jimmy Carter (2016)
* In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox – Carol Burnett (2017)
* The Princess Diarist – Carrie Fisher (2018)
* Faith: A Journey for All – Jimmy Carter (2019)
* Becoming – Michelle Obama (2020)

2021−present|

* Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth – Rachel Maddow (2021)
* Carry On: Reflections for a New Generation from John Lewis − Don Cheadle (2022)

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