Wednesday 27th October, 2004
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A Thought for Today
All you need to know about love is that
it’s happening.
This
One Does It For Me!
Hi,
It's a great website.
One of Rod's lesser known songs is "Some Trust In Chariots." I'm
hoping, among all the requests you get, that you'll put the lyrics up on
the website. I have an old LP that's pretty scratchy and it sometimes
skips.
Phonsie
Great choice, Phonsie, and a
long time favorite of mine. It's also one of those songs that tend to
get overlooked as time goes by so I'm delighted you reminded us of it.
It appears on the Greatest
Hits Vol. II CD and here's Rod to tell us more about that particular
album.
Liner
Notes - Greatest Hits of Rod McKuen Vol. II
I’ve never made any
cylinders or 78 RPM singles, but my first albums were recorded in
glorious mono. I saw the salad days of 2, 4, 6, 8, 16 and 32 track tape
and my work has been issued on reel to reel stereo, 4 track cartridges
for cars - and even several different kinds of quadraphonic disc. This
is a long way of saying that I’ve been recording for quite a while now,
forty years - give or take a decade - and in that time had my fair share
of hits, semi hits, also-rans and downright flops.
In the main, this second album of purported hits is from a happy and
busy period at Warner Brothers Records. In addition to the chart busters
it has a couple of sides that made the charts but didn’t make a buck and
one or two that drove the people in places like Tonga and Timaru bananas
while remaining estranged from the American hit parade.
For this digital edition I’ve included 2 tracks from my Decca days, Two
Brothers and The Beat Generation ( if you made a record with Bob
McFadden and Bill Haley & his Comets, wouldn’t you include it?) There’s
a one shot for A&M with Herb Alpert, Hi Lonesome and Bring Her a Rose,
my first RCA single.
The other two, new to this package, are The Time It Takes to Love You (
1969 ) and Guess I’d Rather Be in Colorado ( 1972 ) both released on
Warner Brothers.
I love making records, even more than I like writing books or having
sex. With not much of the latter two in evidence these days I’m in the
studio a lot; cleaning up the old tracks and laying down some new ones.
Ah, sublimation and making music - what lovely bed fellows.
R.M., April, 1996
A reminder - if you happen
to find yourself in Austin, Texas this Saturday don't forget to catch
Rod at the Texas Book Festival where he'll be having a reading as well
as a book signing session.
And special birthday wishes
today for a long time friend of this web site, Larry Baillie.
Want the words to a favorite
McKuen song or poem? Got a Rod McKuen story to relate or a question to
ask? Wednesday is the day we deal with things like this so please drop
me a line at kenb@mckuen.com and
I'll do my best to provide an answer just as soon as I can.
- Ken, Johannesburg,
South Africa, October 27
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