Rod McKuen If You Go Away (RCA) (7-CD)

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Rod McKuen: If You Go Away (RCA) (7-CD)
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 with Jacques 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, and Frank 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 and Don 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)
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Interpret: Rod McKuen
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Album titlle: If You Go Away (RCA) (7-CD)
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Label Bear Family Records
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Genre Pop
- Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
- Preiscode GL
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Artikelart Box set
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EAN: 4000127161222
- weight in Kg 2.2
McKuen, Rod - If You Go Away (RCA) (7-CD) Box set 1 | |||
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01 | The Summer's Long | ||
02 | Channing Way | ||
03 | Each Of Us Alone | ||
04 | I've Been To Town | ||
05 | Yes | ||
06 | The Hunters | ||
07 | One Day Soon | ||
08 | Summer In My Eye | ||
09 | Times Gone By | ||
10 | Looking Back At 30 | ||
11 | So Many Others (remake) | ||
12 | The Lovers | ||
13 | Rusting In The Rain | ||
14 | The Plains Of My Country Ballet Suite In 3... | ||
15 | Alamo Junction | ||
16 | The Summer's Long (alt. take) | ||
17 | The House Upon The Hill | ||
18 | Stanyan Street Revisited | ||
19 | We Have Only Love (demo) | ||
20 | On My Own (demo) | ||
21 | The Tamarack Tree | ||
22 | Take Me Home Again | ||
23 | Sleep Now Love | ||
24 | Trashy | ||
25 | So Many Others (alt. take) |
McKuen, Rod - If You Go Away (RCA) (7-CD) Box set 2 | |||
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01 | Some Trust In Chariots | ||
02 | People Change | ||
03 | How Deep Is Down? | ||
04 | When Flora Was Mine | ||
05 | If You Go Away (Ne me quites pas) | ||
06 | So Long San Francisco | ||
07 | The Loner | ||
08 | Solo | ||
09 | The Lonely Things | ||
10 | She | ||
11 | The Good Times Is All Done Now | ||
12 | Truck Stop | ||
13 | Thank You | ||
14 | I Turn To You | ||
15 | Church Windows (instr.) | ||
16 | Flowers | ||
17 | Me And The Cat | ||
18 | For Silence Is Golden (demo) | ||
19 | Watching You Sleep/Thank You | ||
20 | My Old Man | ||
21 | Darlin' Don't You Know (& GLENN YARBROUGH) | ||
22 | The Girls Of The Summer (GLENN YARBROUGH) | ||
23 | Happy Birthday Ernie (Bon Anniversary Ernie) | ||
24 | Flowers | ||
25 | My Mother's Eyes | ||
26 | The World I Used To Know (rejected vers.) | ||
27 | Gee It's Nice To Be Alone (demo) | ||
28 | If You Go Away (alt. vers.) | ||
29 | So Long San Francisco (alt. lyrics) |
McKuen, Rod - If You Go Away (RCA) (7-CD) Box set 3 | |||
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01 | The Hurtin' | ||
02 | You | ||
03 | Before The Monkeys Came | ||
04 | The Summertime Of Days | ||
05 | The Women | ||
06 | Zangra | ||
07 | Down At Mary's Old Time Bar | ||
08 | Meantime | ||
09 | Open The Windows And See All The Clowns | ||
10 | I'm Strong, But I Like Roses | ||
11 | The Statue | ||
12 | Ain't You Glad You're Livin', Joe | ||
13 | Loneliness In Crowds | ||
14 | Nouveau Fleur (instr.) | ||
15 | Me And The Cat | ||
16 | Something More | ||
17 | Meantime (alt. take) | ||
18 | Open The Window & See All The Clowns (alt) | ||
19 | Don't Forget To Bring Her A Rose | ||
20 | Ain't You Glad You're Livin' Joe | ||
21 | The Habit | ||
22 | The Habit | ||
23 | My Old Man | ||
24 | You (take 2) | ||
25 | I'm Strong But I Like Roses (alt. take) | ||
26 | Meantime (1st version) | ||
27 | Kill The Wind | ||
28 | Don't Forget To Bring Her A Rose | ||
29 | Open The Window & See All The Clowns | ||
30 | Loneliness In Crowds (alt. take) | ||
31 | Something More (demo) |
McKuen, Rod - If You Go Away (RCA) (7-CD) Box set 4 | |||
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01 | I'll Say Goodbye (Je Partirai) | ||
02 | La Mer Sans Soleil (Sea Without Sun) | ||
03 | Le Bourgeois | ||
04 | Through European Windows | ||
05 | Song Without Words (Chanson Sans Paroles) | ||
06 | Paris (Mon Arbre) | ||
07 | Baby Be My Love (L'amour Avec Toi) | ||
08 | The Ever Constant Sea | ||
09 | Like A Child | ||
10 | On The Road Again (Qu'est-ce Que Tu Attends.) | ||
11 | Nathalie | ||
12 | The Far West (Le Plat Pays) | ||
13 | Pushing The Clouds Away | ||
14 | Do You Like The Rain? | ||
15 | Gifts From The Sea | ||
16 | Some Day We'll See Spain (Concerto for Guitar | ||
17 | & Orch.) Extract from 2nd Movement | ||
18 | Seasons In The Sun | ||
19 | Capri In July | ||
20 | Je Vien de Loin, (french vocal/1st | ||
21 | international issue) | ||
22 | A Kind Of Loving | ||
23 | I'n Only Me | ||
24 | Chasin' The Sun | ||
25 | The Money Boys Of Cannes (demo & GLENN | ||
26 | YARBROUGH) | ||
27 | Bon Soir Mademoiselle | ||
28 | Through European Windows (alt. take) |
McKuen, Rod - If You Go Away (RCA) (7-CD) Box set 5 | |||
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01 | Prologue: A Cat Named Sloopy | ||
02 | To Share The Summer Sun | ||
03 | Round, Round, Round | ||
04 | I'll Never Be Alone | ||
05 | The Ducks On The Millpond | ||
06 | Midnight Walk | ||
07 | Listen To The Warm | ||
08 | It's Raining | ||
09 | Weekend | ||
10 | Brown October | ||
11 | Where Are We Now? | ||
12 | The Singing Of The Wind | ||
13 | Dandelion Days | ||
14 | I Live Alone | ||
15 | Epilogue: One Day I'll Follow The Birds | ||
16 | Entre Act: Listen To The Warm (instr.) | ||
17 | Listen To The Warm | ||
18 | I Have Loved You In So Many Ways | ||
19 | We Touch Shoulder To Shoulder | ||
20 | Sunday In November | ||
21 | Beyond This Wall (The Phoenix) | ||
22 | The Warm And Gentle Girls | ||
23 | Be Gentle, Please | ||
24 | Hurry | ||
25 | Round, Round, Round (reprise) | ||
26 | Conversation After 1:AM | ||
27 | I Have Loved You In So Many Ways (theme) | ||
28 | Me And The Cat | ||
29 | After The Toll Beach | ||
30 | Listen To The Warm (alt. vocal) | ||
31 | Twenty-Nine | ||
32 | Midsummer |
McKuen, Rod - If You Go Away (RCA) (7-CD) Box set 6 | |||
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01 | The Single Man | ||
02 | Leave Me Something | ||
03 | I Never Go There Anymore | ||
04 | The Phoenix | ||
05 | The Last Of The Wine | ||
06 | Elegy #1 | ||
07 | The Girls Of The Summer | ||
08 | Where Would I Be? | ||
09 | Elegy #2 | ||
10 | I've Saved The Summer | ||
11 | In Passing | ||
12 | Some Of Them Fall | ||
13 | Elegy #3 | ||
14 | The Importance Of The Rose (C'est La Rose) | ||
15 | The Ivy That Clings To The Wall (instr.) | ||
16 | Inside Of Me | ||
17 | The Voyeur | ||
18 | Home To See Maria | ||
19 | The Lovers Of December | ||
20 | Things To Come (Gymnopedes #1) | ||
21 | Home By Water (Gymnopedes #3) | ||
22 | Sometimes | ||
23 | And To Each Season | ||
24 | The Wind Of Change | ||
25 | The Girls Of The Summer (alt. vocal) | ||
26 | The Ivy That Clings To The Wall (vocal) |
McKuen, Rod - If You Go Away (RCA) (7-CD) Box set 7 | |||
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01 | Up | ||
02 | I'll Catch The Sun | ||
03 | Glad Rag Doll | ||
04 | The Women (alt. take) | ||
05 | We Have Only Love | ||
06 | Soldiers Who Want To Be Heroes (parody) | ||
07 | The Waltz Goes On (demo) | ||
08 | To Die In Summertime (demo) | ||
09 | Seasons In The Sun (alt. vocal) | ||
10 | So Many Others | ||
11 | Ain't You Glad You're Livin', Joe (alt.) | ||
12 | Simple Gifts (demo) | ||
13 | If You Go Away | ||
14 | Love And Let Love (demo) | ||
15 | Don't Forget To Bring Her A Rose | ||
16 | Some Of Them Fall (alt. vocal) | ||
17 | When The Green Berets Come Home | ||
18 | The New Words | ||
19 | Portuguese Bend | ||
20 | El Monte | ||
21 | Children One And All | ||
22 | We | ||
23 | I Never Will Marry (demo & CHET ATKINS) | ||
24 | River, River (demo & CHET ATKINS) | ||
25 | Things Bright And Beautiful | ||
26 | One By One (& DON HO) | ||
27 | All Of Me Is Mine (demo) |
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."
Rod McKuen If You Go Away (RCA) (7-CD)
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