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Infobox musical artist| name = Rod McKuen| image =| caption = Rod McKuen at The Hague (2009)| background = solo_singer| birth_name = Rodney Marvin McKuen| alias =| birth_date = birth date and age|1933|4|29| origin = Oakland , California | instrument = singing|vocals , piano | genre =| occupation = Singer-songwriter , Musician , Poet | years_active = 19591983| label =| associated_acts = Jacques Brel | website = http://www.mckuen.com Rod McKuen is an American poet , songwriter , composer , and singer . He was one of the best-selling poets in the United States during the late 1960s. Throughout his career, McKuen produced a wide range of recordings, which included popular music, spoken word poetry, film soundtracks, and classical music. He earned two Oscar nominations and one Pulitzer nomination for his serious music compositions. McKuen's translations of the songs of Jacques Brel were instrumental in bringing the Belgian songwriter to prominence in the English-speaking world. His poetry dealt with themes of love, the natural world, and spirituality, and his thirty books of poetry sold millions of copies.cite web|last=Huey|first=Steve|title=Rod McKuen|url= http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/mckuen_rod/bio.jhtml CMT|accessdate=7 September 2011
Early years
Rodney Marvin McKuen was born on 29 April 1933 in Oakland , California . Raised by his mother and stepfather, who was a violent alcoholic, McKuen ran away from home at the age of 11. He drifted along the West Coast, supporting himself as a ranch hand, surveyor, railroad worker, lumberjack, rodeo cowboy, stuntman, and radio disk jockey, always sending money home to his mother.cite web|last=Huey|first=Steve|title=Rod McKuen|url= http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/mckuen_rod/bio.jhtml CMT|accessdate=7 September 2011
To compensate for his lack of formal education, McKuen began keeping a journal, which resulted in his first poetry and song lyrics. In the 1950s, McKuen worked as a newspaper columnist and propaganda script writer during the Korean War . He settled in San Francisco , where he read his poetry in clubs alongside Beat poets like Jack Kerouac and Alan Ginsberg .fact|date=September 2011 He began performing as a folk singer at the famed Purple Onion. Over time, he began incorporating his own songs into his act. He was signed to Decca Records and released several pop albums in the late 1950s. McKuen also appeared as an actor in Rock, Pretty Baby (1956), Summer Love (1958), and Western Wild Heritage (1958). He also sang with Lionel Hampton's band. In 1959, McKuen moved to New York City to compose and conduct music for the TV show The CBS Workshop.cite web|last=Huey|first=Steve|title=Rod McKuen|url= http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/mckuen_rod/bio.jhtml CMT|accessdate=7 September 2011
Discovering Jacques Brel
In the early 1960s, McKuen moved to France , where he first met the Belgian singer-songwriter and chanson singer Jacques Brel . McKuen began to translate the work of this composer into English, which led to the song "If You Go Away" an international pop-standard based on Brel's "Ne me quitte pas". In the early 1970s, singer Terry Jacks turned McKuen's "Seasons in the Sun", based on Brel's "Le moribond", into a best-selling pop hit. McKuen also translated songs by other French songwriters, including Gilbert Bιcaud , Pierre Delanoι , Michel Sardou , and others.cite web|last=Huey|first=Steve|title=Rod McKuen|url= http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/mckuen_rod/bio.jhtml CMT|accessdate=7 September 2011
In 1978, after hearing of Brel's death, McKuen was quoted as saying, "As friends and as musical collaborators we had traveled, toured and written together and apart the events of our lives as if they were songs, and I guess they were. When news of Jacques' death came I stayed locked in my bedroom and drank for a week. That kind of self-pity was something he wouldn't have approved of, but all I could do was replay our songs (our children) and ruminate over our unfinished life together."cite web|url= http://rodmckuen.com/flights/161002.htm |title=Flight Plan |publisher=Rod McKuen |date= |accessdate=2009-12-17
Poetry
In the late 1960s, McKuen began to publish books of poetry, earning a substantial following among young people with collections like Stanyan Street & Other Sorrows (1966), Listen to the Warm (1967), and Lonesome Cities (1968). His Lonesome Cities album of readings won a Grammy for Best Spoken Word Recording in 1968.cite web|last=Huey|first=Steve|title=Rod McKuen|url= http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/mckuen_rod/bio.jhtml CMT|accessdate=7 September 2011 McKuen's poems were translated into eleven languages and his books sold over 1 million copies in 1968 alone.cite book |title=Arts and Entertainment Fads |last=Hoffman |first=Frank W. |authorlink= |coauthors=Ramirez, Beaulah |year=1990 |publisher=Routledge |location= |isbn=0866568816 |page= 168|pages= |url= |accessdate= McKuen has said that his most romantic poetry was influenced by American poet Walter Benton (poet)|Walter Benton 's two books of poems.Cite web|url= http://www.rodmckuen.com/flights/050202.htm|title=Rod McKuen - Flight Plan|publisher=rodmckuen.com|accessdate=2011-11-09
Songwriting
Rod McKuen has written over 1500 songs, which have accounted for the sale of over 100 million records fact|date=September 2011for such diverse artists as Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna , Perry Como , Petula Clark , Waylon Jennings , The Boston Pops , Chet Baker , Johnny Cash , Pete Fountain , Andy Williams , the Kingston Trio , Percy Faith , the London Philharmonic , Dusty Springfield , Johnny Mathis , Al Hirt , Greta Keller , and Frank Sinatra .cite web|url= http://www.mckuen.com/biography.htm |title=Rod McKuen Biography |publisher= |date= |accessdate=7 September 2011Verify credibility|date=September 2011 In 1959, McKuen released a novelty single with Bob McFadden under the pseudonym Dor on the Brunswick label called "The Mummy". In 1961, he had a hit single titled "Oliver Twist". McKuen has collaborated with numerous composers, including Henry Mancini , John Williams (composer)|John Williams , and Anita Kerr . His symphonies, concertos, and other orchestral works have been performed by orchestras around the globe. His work as a composer in the film industry has garnered him two Academy Award nominations for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and A Boy Named Charlie Brown .cite web|url= http://www.mckuen.com/biography.htm |title=Rod McKuen Biography |publisher= |date= |accessdate=7 September 2011
In 1967, McKuen began collaborating with arranger Anita Kerr and the San Sebastian Strings for a series of vocal pop albums, including The Sea (1967), The Earth (1967), The Sky (1968), Home to the Sea (1969), For Lovers (1969), and The Soft Sea (1970). In 1969, Frank Sinatra commissioned an entire album of poems and songs by McKuen; it was released under the title A Man Alone: The Words and Music of Rod McKuen . The album featured the song "Love's Been Good to Me," which become one of McKuen's best-known songs.cite web|last=Huey|first=Steve|title=Rod McKuen|url= http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/mckuen_rod/bio.jhtml CMT|accessdate=7 September 2011
In 1971, his song "I Think of You" was a major hit for Perry Como . McKuen had additional major hits with "The World I Used to Know", "Rock Gently", "Doesn't Anybody Know My Name", "The Importance of the Rose", "Without a Worry in the World", and "Soldiers Who Want to Be Heroes"..cite web|last=Huey|first=Steve|title=Rod McKuen|url= http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/mckuen_rod/bio.jhtml CMT|accessdate=7 September 2011
During the 1970s, McKuen began composing larger-scale orchestral compositions, writing a series of concertos, suites, symphonies, and chamber pieces for orchestra. His piece The City: A Suite for Narrator & Orchestra , was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Music. He continued publishing a steady stream of poetry books throughout the decade. In 1977, he published Finding My Father , a chronicle of his search for information on his biological father. The book and its publicity helped make such information more readily available to adopted children.fact|date=September 2011 He also continued to record, releasing albums such as New Ballads (1970), Pastorale (1971), the country-rock outing McKuen Country (1976).cite web|last=Huey|first=Steve|title=Rod McKuen|url= http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/mckuen_rod/bio.jhtml CMT|accessdate=7 September 2011
McKuen continued to enjoy sell-out concerts around the world and appeared regularly at New York's Carnegie Hall .
Later years
In 1981, Rod McKuen retired from live performances. The following year, he was diagnosed with clinical depression, which he battled for much of the next decade. He continued to write poetry, however, and made appearances as a voice-over actor in The Little Mermaid and the TV series The Critic .cite web|last=Huey|first=Steve|title=Rod McKuen|url= http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/mckuen_rod/bio.jhtml CMT|accessdate=7 September 2011cite web|last=|first=|title=Rod McKuen|url= http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0572106/bio IMDB|accessdate=7 September 2011
Rod McKuen's latest book is A Safe Place to Land , which contains 160 pages of new poetry. For ten years, McKuen gave an annual birthday concert at Carnegie Hall or Lincoln Center . His latest album is a double CD The Platinum Collection . He is currently remastering all of his RCA and Warner Bros. recordings for release as CD boxed sets. In addition to his artistic pursuits, for the past 19 years he has been the president of the American Guild of Variety Artists , a post he has held longer than any other man or woman elected to the position.
McKuen lives in Southern California with his brother and four cats in a large rambling Spanish house built in 1928, which houses one of the world's largest private record collections.cite web|url= http://www.mckuen.com/biography.htm |title=Rod McKuen Biography |publisher= |date= |accessdate=7 September 2011
Criticism
Despite his popular appeal, McKuen's work has never been taken seriously by critics and academics or by much of the public. Michael Baers observed in Gale Research's St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture that "through the years his books have drawn uniformly unkind reviews. In fact, criticism of his poetry is uniformly vituperative..."Michael Baers, "Rod McKuen" from http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200821/? tag=content;col1
Frank W. Hoffmann, in Arts and Entertainment Fads , described McKuen's poetry as "tailor-made for the 1960s ... poetry with a verse that drawled in country cadences from one shapeless line to the next, carrying the rusticated innocence of a Carl Sandburg thickened by the treacle of a man who preferred to prettify the world before he described it."cite book | last = Hoffmann | first = Frank W. | title = Arts and Entertainment Fads | publisher = Haworth Press | location = New York | year = 1990 | isbn = 9780866568814 | page = 168 | url = http://books.google.com/books? id=_tR1owszUR0C& lpg=PA167& ots=EmCSxYKmNT& pg=PA168#v=onepage& q& f=false
Philosopher and social critic Robert C. Solomon described McKuen's poetry as "sweet kitsch ",cite book |title=In Defense of Sentimentality |last=Solomon |first=Robert C. |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=2004 |publisher=Oxford University Press, USA |location= |isbn=019514550X |page= 236|pages= |url= |accessdate= and at the height of his popularity in 1969, Newsweek magazine called him "the King of Kitsch"."King of Kitsch," Newsweek . (November 4, 1968) 111, 114.
Writer and literary critic Nora Ephron said, "...for the most part, McKuen's poems are superficial and platitudinous and frequently silly".cite book |title=Wallflower at the Orgy |last=Ephron |first=Nora |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=2007 |publisher=Bantam |location= |isbn=0553385054 |page= 181|pages= |url= |accessdate= Pulitzer Prize for Poetry|Pulitzer Prize -winning United States Poet Laureate|US Poet Laureate Karl Shapiro said, "It is irrelevant to speak of McKuen as a poet."cite book |title=Wallflower at the Orgy |last=Ephron |first=Nora |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=2007 |publisher=Bantam |location= |isbn=0553385054 |page= 181|pages= |url= |accessdate=
In a Chicago Tribune interview with McKuen in 2001 as he was "testing the waters" cite news| title = Where Had You Gone, Rod Mckuen? | author = Keller, Julia | url = http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2001-03-06/features/0103060005_1_modern-times-concerts-susan-sontag | newspaper = Chicago Tribune | date = March 6, 2001 | accessdate = 2011-12-17 | page = 1 | archiveurl = http://www.webcitation.org/640cMBeaw | archivedate = 2011-12-17 for a comeback tour, Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic Julia Keller called his work "so schmaltzy and smarmy that it makes the pronouncements of Kathie Lee Gifford sound like Susan Sontag ", "silly and mawkish, the kind of gooey schmaltz that wouldn't pass muster in a freshman creative-writing class ... The masses ate him up with a spoon, while highbrow literary critics roasted him on a spit." cite news| title = Where Had You Gone, Rod Mckuen? | author = Keller, Julia | url = http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2001-03-06/features/0103060005_1_modern-times-concerts-susan-sontag/2 | newspaper = Chicago Tribune | date = March 6, 2001 | accessdate = 2011-12-17 | page = 2 | archiveurl = http://www.webcitation.org/640cR4N6y | archivedate = 2011-12-17 She noted that the third concert on his tour had already been canceled because of sluggish ticket sales.
Bibliography
Poetry
And Autumn Came (Pageant Press, 1954)
Stanyan Street & Other Sorrows (Stanyan Music, 1966)
Listen to the Warm (Random House, 1967)
Lonesome Cities (Random House, 1968)
And Autumn Came (Revised Edition) (Cheval Books, 1969)
Twelve Years of Christmas (Cheval Books/Random House, 1969)
Caught in the Quiet (Stanyan Books, 1970)
Fields of Wonder (Cheval Books/Random House, 1971)
And to Each Season (Simon & Schuster, 1972)
Moment to Moment (Cheval Books, 1972)
Come to Me in Silence (Simon & Schuster, 1973)
Moment to Moment (Revised Edition) (Simon & Schuster, 1974)
Beyond the Boardwalk (Cheval Books, 1975)
Celebrations of the Heart (Simon & Schuster, 1975)
The Sea Around Me ... (Simon & Schuster, 1975)
Coming Close to the Earth (Simon & Schuster, 1978)
We Touch the Sky (Simon & Schuster, 1979)
The Power Bright and Shining (Simon & Schuster, 1980)
A Book of Days (Harper & Row, 1980)
The Beautiful Strangers (Simon & Schuster, 1981)
Book of Days and a Month of Sundays (Harper & Row, 1981)
The Sound of Solitude (Harper & Row, 1983)
Suspension Bridge (Harper & Row, 1984)
Intervals (Harper & Row/Cheval Books, 1986)
Valentines (Harper & Row/Cheval Books, 1986)
A Safe Place to Land (Cheval Books, 2001)
Rusting in the Rain (Cheval Books, 2004)cite web|url= http://www.mckuen.com/bibliography.htm |title=Rod McKuen Bibliography |publisher= |date= |accessdate=7 September 2011
Lyrics
The Songs of Rod McKuen (Cheval Books, 1969)
With Love (Stanyan Books, 1970)
New Ballads (Stanyan Books, 1970)
Pastorale (Stanyan Books, 1971)
The Carols Christmas (Cheval/Random House, 1971)
Grand Tour (Stanyan Books, 1972)cite web|url= http://www.mckuen.com/bibliography.htm |title=Rod McKuen Bibliography |publisher= |date= |accessdate=7 September 2011
Prose
Finding My Father (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1976)
An Outstretched Hand (Cheval Books/Harper & Row, 1980)cite web|url= http://www.mckuen.com/bibliography.htm |title=Rod McKuen Bibliography |publisher= |date= |accessdate=7 September 2011
Original Paperbacks
Seasons in the Sun (Pocket Books, 1974)
Alone (Pocket Books, 1975)
Hand in Hand (Pocket Books, 1977)
Finding My Father (Cheval Books/Berkeley Books, 1977)
''Love's Been Good to Me (Pocket Books, 1979)
Looking for a Friend (Pocket Books, 1980)
''Too Many Midnight's (Pocket Books, 1881)
Watch for the Wind (Pocket Books, 1983)cite web|url= http://www.mckuen.com/bibliography.htm |title=Rod McKuen Bibliography |publisher= |date= |accessdate=7 September 2011
Discography
Vocal albums
After Midnight (SR 6029 CD STZ 105)
Alone (BS 2817)
Alone After Dark (DL 8946)
Anywhere I Wander (DL 3882)
The Beautiful Strangers (WS 1722)
The Black Eagle, A Gothic Musical (2SR 5087)
Blessings in Shade of Green (SR 5005)
Cycles (BDS 5138)
For Friends & Lovers (DJF 20537)
Global (SR 5102)
Goodtime Music (BS 2861)
Have a Nice Day (SR 5032)
In a Lonely Place (KA 3226)
It Had To Be You (DID M20)
Jerome Kern Revisited Vol. IV with Ballard, Short, and Cook (PS 1380 CD 113)
Lonely Summer (BR 0034)
RCA 3508 The Loner / Rod McKuen
ST 2838 The Love Movement /Rod McKuen
LSP 3786 . Through European Windows / Rod McKuen
SPC 3225 . The sounds of day, the sounds of night / Rod McKuen
SR 5009 Love's Been Good To Me / Rod McKuen
BS 2931 McKuen Country
ST 2079 Rod McKuen Sings Rod McKuen
SR 5092 More Rod McKuen 77
JU 5013 Mr. Oliver Twist / Rod McKuen
WS 1837 New Ballads / Rod McKuen
SR 5045 New Rod McKuen Carols for Christmas
VE 1612 New sounds in folk Music / Rod McKuen
BS 2638 Odyssey / Rod McKuen
RCA 3635 Other Kinds of Songs / Rod McKuen
2WS 1894 Pastorale / Rod McKuen
SR 5047 Pastures Green / Rod McKuen
SR 5098 Roads / Rod McKuen
SR 5025 Rod / Rod McKuen
SR 5006 The Rod McKuen Folk Album
SR 6028 WB 2785 Rod McKuen Sings The McKuen/Brel Songbook
WS 3015 The Rod McKuen Show
RCA 3424 Rod McKuen Sings His Own
SR 5093 Rod 77 / Rod McKuen
SR 5003 Seasons In The Sun / Rod McKuen
SR 5004 Seasons In The Sun, 2 / Rod McKuen
SR 5046 Seasons In The Sun, 1& 2 / Rod McKuen
LSP 4010 The Single Man / Rod McKuen
BS 2889 Sleep Warm / Rod McKuen
2SR 5081 Sleep Warm / Rod McKuen
DS 7017 Slide . . .Easy In / Rod McKuen
DIS 60 531 Slide . . .On the Move / Rod McKuen
HJS 180 Soldiers Who Want To Be Heroes / Rod McKuen
SR 6050 Someone To Watch Over Me / Rod McKuen
LRP 3011 Songs For The Lazy / Rod McKuen
BL 754056 Songs Our Mummy Taught Us / Rod McKuen (as Dor) & Bob Mac Fadden
KS 3538 Stranger In Town / Rod McKuen
WP 1632 There's A Hoot Tonight / Rod McKuen
LSP 3786 Through European Windows / Rod McKuen
SR 5100 Turntable / Rod McKuen
PH 6641 057 Two Against The Morning / Rod McKuen & Liesbeth List
DE 4603 Very Warm / Rod McKuen
SPC 3189 . About Me / Rod McKuen
SUS 5273 . In The Beginning / Rod McKuen
Spoken word
R 419 Beatsville / Rod McKuen
3BS 2906 The Essential Rod McKuen
BN 613 In Search Of Eros / Rod McKuen
LSP 3863 SR 5052 Listen to The Warm / Rod McKuen
SR 5048 Listen To The Warm / Rod McKuen
WS 1758 Lonesome Cities / Rod McKuen
SR 5110 Pushing The Clouds Away / Rod McKuen
SR 5078 Time Of Desire / Rod McKuen
DS 7000 The Word / Rod McKuen
LP 12036 The Yellow Unicorn / Rod McKuen with Tak Shindo & Julie Meredith
Classical
SR 9005 Rod McKuen: Symphony No. 1 in 4 Movements
SR 9006 Rod McKuen: Concerto For Guitar & Orchestra: 5 Orchestral Pieces
SR 9007 Rod McKuen: Concerto For 4 Harpsichords: 4 Orchestral Pieces
SR 9008 Rod McKuen: Piano Variations: 6 Piano Sonatas
SR 9010 Rod McKuen: Conducts McKuen
SR 9012 Rod McKuen: Concerto No. 3 For Piano & Orchestra
SR 9015 Rod McKuen: The Plains Of My Country: Seascapes for Solo Piano
SR 9021 Rod McKuen: Concerto For Cello & Orchestra; Music For Strings
SR 9023 Rod McKuen: Concerto For Balloon & Orchestra: 3 Overtures
WB 2WS 2731 Rod McKuen: The Ballad Of Distances: Symphonic Suite, OP. 40
SR 9060 Rod McKuen: Piano Quartets: Piano Trios
LS 732 Rod McKuen: The City: I Hear America Singing, 2 Cantatas
CRL 57339 Rod McKuen: Written In the Stars (The Zodiac Suite)
LST 7537 Rod McKuen: Something Beyond: Suite For Orchestra
Soundtracks
SRQ 4014 The Borrowers / Rod McKuen Soundtrack
SR 5010 A Boy Named charlie Brown & Other Rod McKuen Film songs
OS 3500 A Boy Named Charlie Brown / Soundtrack
SRQ 4025 Emily / Rod McKuen Soundtrack
SR 4202 Joanna / Rod McKuen Soundtrack
SR 10094 Lisa Bright & Dark / Rod McKuen Soundtrack
OS 3350 Me Natalie / Henry Mancini/Rod McKuen Soundtrack
TC 4207 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie / Rod McKuen Soundtrack
WB 1853 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie / Rod McKuen Sings & Conducts His Score
DL 8429 Rock Pretty Baby / Rod McKuen/Henry Mancini Soundtrack
SR 5004 Scandalous John / Rod McKuen Soundtrack
DL 8714 Summer Love / Rod McKuen/Henry Mancini Soundtrack
2SR 9201 McKuen/Gueviksman/Guidravitchus: The Unknown War Soundtrack
Live recordings
2SR 5051 The Amsterdam Concert / Rod McKuen
2WB 2732 Back To Carnegie Hall / Rod McKuen
SR 5040 Evening In Vienna / Rod McKuen & Greta Keller
2BR 1947 Grand Tour / Rod McKuen
SR 5042 Grand Tour, Vol. 3 / Rod McKuen
SR 5001 Rod McKuen In Concert
SR 6031 Rod McKuen Live Across Australia & Around The World
SR 5075 Rod McKuen Live At The Sydney Opera House
L 70041/2 Rod McKuen Live At The Sydney Opera House
SYD 11000 Rod McKuen Live In Africa
2SR 5016 Rod McKuen Live In London
WS 1794 WBC 1100B Rod McKuen Live / Sold Out Carnegie Hall
Greatest hits and compilations
R2 70281 The Beat Generation / McKuen/Kerouac/Ginsburg/ Bruce
RCA 4127 Best Of Rod McKuen, The
DL 75078 Bits & Pieces / Rod McKuen
SYC 2901 The Early Years / The Best Of Rod McKuen
PW 6026 Greatest Australian Hits / Rod McKuen
WS 1772 Rod McKuen / Greatest Hits, Vol. 1
BS 2560 Rod McKuen's / Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
SR 5031 Rod McKuen / Greatest Hits, Vol. 3
BS 2688 Rod McKuen / Greatest Hits, Vol. 4
SLS 96083 In The Beginning / Rod McKuen
2SR 5073 Love Songs / Rod McKuen
SR 5072 A Portrait Of Rod McKuen
SR 5104 Rod On Record
SR 5020 Try Rod McKuen In The Privacy Of Your Own Home
BR 408 TIXD 420 Without A Worry In The World / Rod McKuen
With Anita Kerr and San Sebastian Strings
Lyrics & Book & Musical Storyline by Rod McKuen. Music Composed, Arranged & Conducted by Anita Kerr
WBL 1047 WB 1670 The Sea / The San Sebastian Strings
WBL 1046 WB 1705 The Earth / The San Sebastian Strings
WB 1720 The Sky / The San Sebastian Strings
WBC 1080 WS 1764 Home To The Sea / The San Sebastian Strings
WS 1839 The Soft Sea / The San Sebastian Strings
SR 10043 La Mer / The San Sebastian Strings
WB 1795 For Lovers / The San Sebastian Strings
BS 2768 Bouquet / The San Sebastian Strings
Spring / The San Sebastian Strings
BS4 2707 Summer / The San Sebastian Strings
Autumn / The San Sebastian Strings
BS 2622 Winter / The San Sebastian Strings
BS 2837 With Love/ The San Sebastian Strings
3WS 1730 The Sea / The Earth / The Sky: The San Sebastian Strings 3
3WS 1827 The Complete Sea: The San Sebastian Strings (3)
4WS 2754 The Seasons: The San Sebastian Strings 4
Promotional albums
17 New Songs By Rod McKuen (IM 1000)
Short Cuts from Pastorale (PRO 451)
Some of the Best of Rod McKuen (SPS 33-554)
20 New Rod McKuens Songs (SML 102)
External links
http://www.rodmckuen.com The Official Rod McKuen Website
worldcat id|id=lccn-n80-126020
http://wiredforbooks.org/rodmckuen/ 1986 audio interview with Rod McKuen by Don Swaim of CBS Radio, RealAudio at Wired for Books.org
References
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