How to add old recordings used on new recordings

MusicBrainz
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I added info on this album:

All tracks contain spoken words from old recordings. How should I add those?

For example, the first three tracks have these credit:

“Justice & Dignity”: vocals by S. Allender (1972)
“We, the People”: vocals by G.T.E. Thunberg (2019)
“War Need Not Be Inevitable”: vocals by J.F. Kennedy (1963)

What would be the best way to enter these?

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“Sample of Recording”? But that means finding an old recording the same came from.

“Spoken Vocals”

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The easy thing is to add the people as vocalists with “spoken vocals”, I doubt any of the recordings are in the database or even should be.

So no relation of any kind then.

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Sometimes you do get CDs of famous speeches, but Spoken Vocals is often the simplest. Maybe quote the speech in the annotation of the Recording.

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A random thought - if you want to link to the speech there is a way. Find the speech on YouTube. Add that recording as a Stand Alone Recording. Then link to it as a Sample of.

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actually, for the JFK credit, you could probably use the artist “samples” relationship (if you don’t want to add a recording for the speech, that is)

the others of course would should be related to the original recordings