Rod McKuen If You Go Away (RCA) (7-CD Deluxe Box Set)
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Rod McKuen: If You Go Away (RCA) (7-CD Deluxe Box Set)
Who was the most commercially successful American poet/singer-songwriter of the 20th century? The answer is: Rod McKuen, Now, for the first time anywhere, his complete 1960s RCA Victor recordings are compiled in a lavish boxed set of 7 compact discs.
These 192 recordings represent Rod McKuen at the peak of his mid-to-late 1960s popularity and include his Gold album Listen To The Warm. Features dozens of previously unissued performances. Most tracks never-before-released on compact disc anywhere. Contains Rod's acclaimed English adaptations and collaborations withJacques Brel, such as Seasons In The Sun and If You Go Away, the latter recently named as 'Song of The Century.'
In addition to his enormous success in America, Rod Mckuen has established himself as an international star in England (where he has hosted his own BBC-TV series), Australia, the Netherlands, France, South Africa and numerous other countries.
Rod McKuen's three dozen books of poetry have been published in eleven languages, sold 65 million copies, and placed him securely among the most popular poets of all time. He's also worked as a rodeo cowboy, lumberjack, and B-movie actor.
'If You Go Away' concentrates on four fruitful years of McKuen's recording and songwriting career. Since the 1950s, he estimates, more than 200 albums have been released under his name, and selections from his catalog of more than 1,500 compositions have been recorded by singers including Ray Charles, Petula Clark, Johnny Cash, andFrank Sinatra. This collection gathers Rod's six original albums for RCA Victor, released between 1965-'68, plus an incredible lode of unreleased master and alternate takes, demos, and even a few 'live' recordings.
Included are Rod Mckuen's own versions of such now-standard original compositions, translations and poems as If You Go Away, The World I Used To Know, A Cat Named Sloopy, Love's Been Good To Me,
I'm Strong But I Like Roses, and Seasons In The Sun. You'll hear duets with Glenn Yarbrough andDon Ho; and songs written especially for (though never recorded by) The Beach Boys and
SSgt. Barry Sadler.
The enclosed album-sized hardcover book includes an essay by Todd Everett and track-by track comments by Rod himself, discussing the material on the album; plus quotes from past and present associates as varied as Yarbrough and comic Phyllis Diller, both important figures in establishing Rod's career; and numerous photographs and other treasures from Rod's personal archives.
Article properties:Rod McKuen: If You Go Away (RCA) (7-CD Deluxe Box Set)
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Album titlle: If You Go Away (RCA) (7-CD Deluxe Box Set)
Label Bear Family Records
Genre Pop
- Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
Artikelart Box set
EAN: 4000127161222
- weight in Kg 2.2
McKuen, Rod - If You Go Away (RCA) (7-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 1 | ||||
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01 | The Summer's Long | Rod McKuen | ||
02 | Channing Way | Rod McKuen | ||
03 | Each Of Us Alone | Rod McKuen | ||
04 | I've Been To Town | Rod McKuen | ||
05 | Yes | Rod McKuen | ||
06 | The Hunters | Rod McKuen | ||
07 | One Day Soon | Rod McKuen | ||
08 | Summer In My Eye | Rod McKuen | ||
09 | Times Gone By | Rod McKuen | ||
10 | Looking Back At 30 | Rod McKuen | ||
11 | So Many Others (remake) | Rod McKuen | ||
12 | The Lovers | Rod McKuen | ||
13 | Rusting In The Rain | Rod McKuen | ||
14 | The Plains Of My Country Ballet Suite In 3... | Rod McKuen | ||
15 | Alamo Junction | Rod McKuen | ||
16 | The Summer's Long (alt. take) | Rod McKuen | ||
17 | The House Upon The Hill | Rod McKuen | ||
18 | Stanyan Street Revisited | Rod McKuen | ||
19 | We Have Only Love (demo) | Rod McKuen | ||
20 | On My Own (demo) | Rod McKuen | ||
21 | The Tamarack Tree | Rod McKuen | ||
22 | Take Me Home Again | Rod McKuen | ||
23 | Sleep Now Love | Rod McKuen | ||
24 | Trashy | Rod McKuen | ||
25 | So Many Others (alt. take) | Rod McKuen |
McKuen, Rod - If You Go Away (RCA) (7-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 2 | ||||
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01 | Some Trust In Chariots | Rod McKuen | ||
02 | People Change | Rod McKuen | ||
03 | How Deep Is Down? | Rod McKuen | ||
04 | When Flora Was Mine | Rod McKuen | ||
05 | If You Go Away (Ne me quites pas) | Rod McKuen | ||
06 | So Long San Francisco | Rod McKuen | ||
07 | The Loner | Rod McKuen | ||
08 | Solo | Rod McKuen | ||
09 | The Lonely Things | Rod McKuen | ||
10 | She | Rod McKuen | ||
11 | The Good Times Is All Done Now | Rod McKuen | ||
12 | Truck Stop | Rod McKuen | ||
13 | Thank You | Rod McKuen | ||
14 | I Turn To You | Rod McKuen | ||
15 | Church Windows (instr.) | Rod McKuen | ||
16 | Flowers | Rod McKuen | ||
17 | Me And The Cat | Rod McKuen | ||
18 | For Silence Is Golden (demo) | Rod McKuen | ||
19 | Watching You Sleep/Thank You | Rod McKuen | ||
20 | My Old Man | Rod McKuen | ||
21 | Darlin' Don't You Know (& GLENN YARBROUGH) | Rod McKuen | ||
22 | The Girls Of The Summer (GLENN YARBROUGH) | Rod McKuen | ||
23 | Happy Birthday Ernie (Bon Anniversary Ernie) | Rod McKuen | ||
24 | Flowers | Rod McKuen | ||
25 | My Mother's Eyes | Rod McKuen | ||
26 | The World I Used To Know (rejected vers.) | Rod McKuen | ||
27 | Gee It's Nice To Be Alone (demo) | Rod McKuen | ||
28 | If You Go Away (alt. vers.) | Rod McKuen | ||
29 | So Long San Francisco (alt. lyrics) | Rod McKuen |
McKuen, Rod - If You Go Away (RCA) (7-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 3 | ||||
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01 | The Hurtin' | Rod McKuen | ||
02 | You | Rod McKuen | ||
03 | Before The Monkeys Came | Rod McKuen | ||
04 | The Summertime Of Days | Rod McKuen | ||
05 | The Women | Rod McKuen | ||
06 | Zangra | Rod McKuen | ||
07 | Down At Mary's Old Time Bar | Rod McKuen | ||
08 | Meantime | Rod McKuen | ||
09 | Open The Windows And See All The Clowns | Rod McKuen | ||
10 | I'm Strong, But I Like Roses | Rod McKuen | ||
11 | The Statue | Rod McKuen | ||
12 | Ain't You Glad You're Livin', Joe | Rod McKuen | ||
13 | Loneliness In Crowds | Rod McKuen | ||
14 | Nouveau Fleur (instr.) | Rod McKuen | ||
15 | Me And The Cat | Rod McKuen | ||
16 | Something More | Rod McKuen | ||
17 | Meantime (alt. take) | Rod McKuen | ||
18 | Open The Window & See All The Clowns (alt) | Rod McKuen | ||
19 | Don't Forget To Bring Her A Rose | Rod McKuen | ||
20 | Ain't You Glad You're Livin' Joe | Rod McKuen | ||
21 | The Habit | Rod McKuen | ||
22 | The Habit | Rod McKuen | ||
23 | My Old Man | Rod McKuen | ||
24 | You (take 2) | Rod McKuen | ||
25 | I'm Strong But I Like Roses (alt. take) | Rod McKuen | ||
26 | Meantime (1st version) | Rod McKuen | ||
27 | Kill The Wind | Rod McKuen | ||
28 | Don't Forget To Bring Her A Rose | Rod McKuen | ||
29 | Open The Window & See All The Clowns | Rod McKuen | ||
30 | Loneliness In Crowds (alt. take) | Rod McKuen | ||
31 | Something More (demo) | Rod McKuen |
McKuen, Rod - If You Go Away (RCA) (7-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 4 | ||||
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01 | I'll Say Goodbye (Je Partirai) | Rod McKuen | ||
02 | La Mer Sans Soleil (Sea Without Sun) | Rod McKuen | ||
03 | Le Bourgeois | Rod McKuen | ||
04 | Through European Windows | Rod McKuen | ||
05 | Song Without Words (Chanson Sans Paroles) | Rod McKuen | ||
06 | Paris (Mon Arbre) | Rod McKuen | ||
07 | Baby Be My Love (L'amour Avec Toi) | Rod McKuen | ||
08 | The Ever Constant Sea | Rod McKuen | ||
09 | Like A Child | Rod McKuen | ||
10 | On The Road Again (Qu'est-ce Que Tu Attends.) | Rod McKuen | ||
11 | Nathalie | Rod McKuen | ||
12 | The Far West (Le Plat Pays) | Rod McKuen | ||
13 | Pushing The Clouds Away | Rod McKuen | ||
14 | Do You Like The Rain? | Rod McKuen | ||
15 | Gifts From The Sea | Rod McKuen | ||
16 | Some Day We'll See Spain (Concerto for Guitar | Rod McKuen | ||
17 | & Orch.) Extract from 2nd Movement | Rod McKuen | ||
18 | Seasons In The Sun | Rod McKuen | ||
19 | Capri In July | Rod McKuen | ||
20 | Je Vien de Loin, (french vocal/1st | Rod McKuen | ||
21 | international issue) | Rod McKuen | ||
22 | A Kind Of Loving | Rod McKuen | ||
23 | I'n Only Me | Rod McKuen | ||
24 | Chasin' The Sun | Rod McKuen | ||
25 | The Money Boys Of Cannes (demo & GLENN | Rod McKuen | ||
26 | YARBROUGH) | Rod McKuen | ||
27 | Bon Soir Mademoiselle | Rod McKuen | ||
28 | Through European Windows (alt. take) | Rod McKuen |
McKuen, Rod - If You Go Away (RCA) (7-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 5 | ||||
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01 | Prologue: A Cat Named Sloopy | Rod McKuen | ||
02 | To Share The Summer Sun | Rod McKuen | ||
03 | Round, Round, Round | Rod McKuen | ||
04 | I'll Never Be Alone | Rod McKuen | ||
05 | The Ducks On The Millpond | Rod McKuen | ||
06 | Midnight Walk | Rod McKuen | ||
07 | Listen To The Warm | Rod McKuen | ||
08 | It's Raining | Rod McKuen | ||
09 | Weekend | Rod McKuen | ||
10 | Brown October | Rod McKuen | ||
11 | Where Are We Now? | Rod McKuen | ||
12 | The Singing Of The Wind | Rod McKuen | ||
13 | Dandelion Days | Rod McKuen | ||
14 | I Live Alone | Rod McKuen | ||
15 | Epilogue: One Day I'll Follow The Birds | Rod McKuen | ||
16 | Entre Act: Listen To The Warm (instr.) | Rod McKuen | ||
17 | Listen To The Warm | Rod McKuen | ||
18 | I Have Loved You In So Many Ways | Rod McKuen | ||
19 | We Touch Shoulder To Shoulder | Rod McKuen | ||
20 | Sunday In November | Rod McKuen | ||
21 | Beyond This Wall (The Phoenix) | Rod McKuen | ||
22 | The Warm And Gentle Girls | Rod McKuen | ||
23 | Be Gentle, Please | Rod McKuen | ||
24 | Hurry | Rod McKuen | ||
25 | Round, Round, Round (reprise) | Rod McKuen | ||
26 | Conversation After 1:AM | Rod McKuen | ||
27 | I Have Loved You In So Many Ways (theme) | Rod McKuen | ||
28 | Me And The Cat | Rod McKuen | ||
29 | After The Toll Beach | Rod McKuen | ||
30 | Listen To The Warm (alt. vocal) | Rod McKuen | ||
31 | Twenty-Nine | Rod McKuen | ||
32 | Midsummer | Rod McKuen |
McKuen, Rod - If You Go Away (RCA) (7-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 6 | ||||
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01 | The Single Man | Rod McKuen | ||
02 | Leave Me Something | Rod McKuen | ||
03 | I Never Go There Anymore | Rod McKuen | ||
04 | The Phoenix | Rod McKuen | ||
05 | The Last Of The Wine | Rod McKuen | ||
06 | Elegy #1 | Rod McKuen | ||
07 | The Girls Of The Summer | Rod McKuen | ||
08 | Where Would I Be? | Rod McKuen | ||
09 | Elegy #2 | Rod McKuen | ||
10 | I've Saved The Summer | Rod McKuen | ||
11 | In Passing | Rod McKuen | ||
12 | Some Of Them Fall | Rod McKuen | ||
13 | Elegy #3 | Rod McKuen | ||
14 | The Importance Of The Rose (C'est La Rose) | Rod McKuen | ||
15 | The Ivy That Clings To The Wall (instr.) | Rod McKuen | ||
16 | Inside Of Me | Rod McKuen | ||
17 | The Voyeur | Rod McKuen | ||
18 | Home To See Maria | Rod McKuen | ||
19 | The Lovers Of December | Rod McKuen | ||
20 | Things To Come (Gymnopedes #1) | Rod McKuen | ||
21 | Home By Water (Gymnopedes #3) | Rod McKuen | ||
22 | Sometimes | Rod McKuen | ||
23 | And To Each Season | Rod McKuen | ||
24 | The Wind Of Change | Rod McKuen | ||
25 | The Girls Of The Summer (alt. vocal) | Rod McKuen | ||
26 | The Ivy That Clings To The Wall (vocal) | Rod McKuen |
McKuen, Rod - If You Go Away (RCA) (7-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 7 | ||||
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01 | Up | Rod McKuen | ||
02 | I'll Catch The Sun | Rod McKuen | ||
03 | Glad Rag Doll | Rod McKuen | ||
04 | The Women (alt. take) | Rod McKuen | ||
05 | We Have Only Love | Rod McKuen | ||
06 | Soldiers Who Want To Be Heroes (parody) | Rod McKuen | ||
07 | The Waltz Goes On (demo) | Rod McKuen | ||
08 | To Die In Summertime (demo) | Rod McKuen | ||
09 | Seasons In The Sun (alt. vocal) | Rod McKuen | ||
10 | So Many Others | Rod McKuen | ||
11 | Ain't You Glad You're Livin', Joe (alt.) | Rod McKuen | ||
12 | Simple Gifts (demo) | Rod McKuen | ||
13 | If You Go Away | Rod McKuen | ||
14 | Love And Let Love (demo) | Rod McKuen | ||
15 | Don't Forget To Bring Her A Rose | Rod McKuen | ||
16 | Some Of Them Fall (alt. vocal) | Rod McKuen | ||
17 | When The Green Berets Come Home | Rod McKuen | ||
18 | The New Words | Rod McKuen | ||
19 | Portuguese Bend | Rod McKuen | ||
20 | El Monte | Rod McKuen | ||
21 | Children One And All | Rod McKuen | ||
22 | We | Rod McKuen | ||
23 | I Never Will Marry (demo & CHET ATKINS) | Rod McKuen | ||
24 | River, River (demo & CHET ATKINS) | Rod McKuen | ||
25 | Things Bright And Beautiful | Rod McKuen | ||
26 | One By One (& DON HO) | Rod McKuen | ||
27 | All Of Me Is Mine (demo) | Rod McKuen |
Rod McKuen
Rod is our pioneer spirit. He writes and sings like no one else and his influence shows in the work of all of today’s best young songwriters.
Johnny Cash
His birth certificate says that his father was a 27-year-old refrigerator salesman, named 'Mack' McKuen – or, the clerk's writing being less than legible, McKune. His mother, Clarice, who seems not to have known much about 'Mack,' adopted the first spelling and named her son Rodney Marvin McKuen.
"I was born in Oakland, California, at the Salvation Army Home for Unwed Mothers on April 29, 1933." Rod writes in 'Finding My Father.' "The doctor…delivered me for $5. My father had left my mother before I was born." The opening passage of the book also included this memorable McKuen line; "Having been born a bastard gave me an advantage over all those people who spend their entire lives becoming one."
Clarice had been working as a taxi dancer in Oakland when she met Mack, Rod supposes. "Until my mother married," he writes, "she supported herself by working at a variety of odd jobs – waitress, barmaid, telephone operator, and clerk." He didn't think he really wanted for anything, though times were occasionally tough. She did marry, when Rod was quite young, and stepfather Bill Hooper worked mainly as a 'cat skinner,' levelling roads for the Works Projects Administration. Rod's earliest memories include moving around Nevada with Bill's work -- Winnemucca, Caliente, Pioche, Sparks, and Alamo, where the family would stay on Bill's parents' small farm.
Rod doesn't remember his stepfather as a kind man, but does look back at a particularly significant holiday. "We must have had a little money, because my father told me that I could have my choice – a sled or a blackboard for Christmas. I chose the blackboard because even then I wanted to write and draw pictures, and anyway most of the other kids had sleds I could borrow. My father called me a sissy, but when Christmas came, sure enough, I got my blackboard."
The family continued moving, to Washington state and back to Las Vegas, with the pre-teen Rod several times attempting to run away from home, always returning. At eleven, he made his longest trip yet, moving on his own to the Nevada towns of Ely and Elko, where he first worked as a milk boy – carrying pails of milk between the barn and kitchen of a farm, where he was paid seventy-five cents a week, plus room and board. "It was while tending cows that I began to write. First on scraps of paper, little more than words or thoughts that I couldn't make sense of or understand until I got them out of my head and on paper This led to me keeping a journal."
After a couple of years on the ranch, Rod was tracked down by the authorities and institutionalized at the Nevada School of Industry, which he now characterizes as "a reform school without walls." After three years, he was released – and used skills he'd learned on the ranch in Elko to become a rodeo cowboy.
Two broken legs after a horse fell on him ended McKuen's rodeo career, though he went on to something seemingly as dangerous – moving back to the Pacific Northwest to work as a lumberjack. "Of all the jobs in a lumber camp that I liked," he writes, "I think belting up, shimmying up the trunk to top trees, then bumping, edging, thunking downward to the ground again was best. It was fun, too, to get out on the river and dance a logjam free – two, three men yelling warnings back and forth at each other, trying to be heard over the river's roar."
Not yet sixteen, Rod moved back to California, joining his Aunt Ruth in Oakland; Before long, Clarice – who had left Bill back in North Las Vegas – arrived, with Rod's younger half-brother, Billy, in tow.
Rod landed a job with radio station KROW-AM in Oakland in the early 1950s. On the air since 1920, independently-owned KROW was the training ground for future television hosts Art Linkletter, Jack Clark, and 'This Is Your Life' creator Ralph Edwards. McKuen struck up friendships with fellow disc jockey 'Big Don' Barksdale – earlier he had been a highly-regarded pro basketball player – and a young woman who was writing advertising copy in the station's office, Phyllis Diller. "They played middle-of-the-road pop,"Diller explains."Rod had an hour and a half prime time show on Saturday nights, where he chose the music and wrote a new script every week. An hour and a half is a lot of music, and he had to write an hour and a half's worth of new material every week. NBC made an attempt to copy his show, using a person who had come out of KROW…it didn't work, because Rod was writing out of his soul and his heart."McKuen says he'd play pick-up basketball with Barksdale, who coached him for another job at the station: recreating basketball games on Saturday afternoons from descriptions that would come in on the wire services teletype.
In 1953, Rod volunteered for the Army "to get my military service over with." After spending 16 weeks in basic training at Fort Ord, near Monterey, the young recruit was transferred to Public Information School at Ft. Slocum, New York. He worked as a public information specialist in Tokyo (singing on The Ginza at night), then was transferred to Korea, where he "brought aid and information to the villagers." Discharged in 1957, he returned to California, where his old friend, Phyllis Diller, got him a job working at the Purple Onion. She was on her way to becoming one of the country's pre-eminent comics, but it was Rod's first paid engagement as an entertainer.
"I used to do gigs in San Francisco before I went in the Army,"McKuen says,"reading poetry, where they passed the hat at coffee houses and late-night bars. We'd kept up a friendship; she was funny, and nice, and – I believe – having some problems with her marriage at the time."
"I had started my performing career in 1955,"Diller adds."The Purple Onion was a very well-run discovery club. It was such a kick – while I was working at the Purple Onion, others who were playing there were the Smothers Brothers, the Kingston Trio, [future 'Laugh-In' star] Alan Sues, and Maya Angelou. And they had so much faith in me, that I was able to tell them, 'You've got to hire Rod McKuen.' They said, 'He does poetry?' I said 'Trust me'.He did very well there."
"This was the bill,"continues Rod."The budget for entertainment was $200 for the week. Phyllis got $100. Maya Angelou was a calypso singer and I replaced Randy Sparks as low man on the bill. Also on the bill were Ketty Frierson – who became Ketty Lester – and the comedian Milt Kamen"
Los Angeles-based newspaper society columnist and socialite Cobina Wright Sr. came into the club one night, and invited McKuen to Hollywood. "She had friends who were opening the Windemere Hotel in Santa Monica, and I got a job painting the hotel." A week later, he was on the southbound bus. "Life as a protégé of Cobina's consisted mainly of singing at parties,"he remembers."But I was singing and living comfortably off unemployment."
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