Rod McKuen
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Rod McKuen is an American poet
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

, songwriter
Songwriter
A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...

, composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

, and singer. He was one of the best-selling poets in the United States
United States
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 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
Jacques Brel
Jacques Brel was a Belgian singer-songwriter who composed and performed literate, thoughtful, and theatrical songs that generated a large, devoted following in France initially, and later throughout the world. He was widely considered a master of the modern chanson...

 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.

Early years

Rodney Marvin McKuen was born on 29 April 1933 in Oakland, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

. 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.

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
Korean War
The Korean War was a conventional war between South Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China , with military material aid from the Soviet Union...

. He settled in San Francisco, where he read his poetry in clubs alongside Beat poets like Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac
Jean-Louis "Jack" Lebris de Kerouac was an American novelist and poet. He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Kerouac is recognized for his spontaneous method of writing, covering topics such as Catholic...

 and Alan Ginsberg. 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
Decca Records
Decca Records began as a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; however, owing to World War II, the link with the British company was broken for several decades....

 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
New York City
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 to compose and conduct music for the TV show The CBS Workshop.

Discovering Jacques Brel

In the early 1960s, McKuen moved to France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

, where he first met the Belgian singer-songwriter and chanson
Chanson
A chanson is in general any lyric-driven French song, usually polyphonic and secular. A singer specialising in chansons is known as a "chanteur" or "chanteuse" ; a collection of chansons, especially from the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, is also known as a chansonnier.-Chanson de geste:The...

 singer Jacques Brel
Jacques Brel
Jacques Brel was a Belgian singer-songwriter who composed and performed literate, thoughtful, and theatrical songs that generated a large, devoted following in France initially, and later throughout the world. He was widely considered a master of the modern chanson...

. McKuen began to translate the work of this legendary 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 late 1960s, singer Terry Jacks
Terry Jacks
Terrence Ross "Terry" Jacks is a Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and environmentalist.-Early life:...

 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 Bécaud
Gilbert Bécaud
Gilbert Bécaud was a French singer, composer and actor, known as "Monsieur 100,000 Volts" for his energetic performances. His best-known hits are "Nathalie" and "Et Maintenant", a 1961 release that became an English language hit as "What Now My Love"...

, Pierre Delanoé
Pierre Delanoë
Pierre Delanoë , born Pierre Leroyer, was a French songwriter/lyricist who wrote for dozens of singers such as Edith Piaf, Charles Aznavour, Petula Clark, and Johnny Hallyday....

, Michel Sardou
Michel Sardou
Michel Sardou is a French singer.He was born in Paris, the son of Fernand Sardou and Jackie Rollin . Contrary to claims common towards the beginning of his career, he is not the grandson of the dramatist Victorien Sardou...

, and others.

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."

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. McKuen's poems were translated into eleven languages and his books sold over 1 million copies in 1968 alone. McKuen has said that his most romantic poetry was influenced by American poet Walter Benton
Walter Benton (poet)
Walter Benton was an American poet and writer. Benton was born to Russian immigrant parents living in Austria. The family left Europe in 1913 to relocate to the the United States during World War I. During the Great Depression, Benton worked various odd jobs enabling him to attend Ohio...

's two books of poems. His poetry has been described as "tailor-made for the 1960s" and having "the rusticated innocence of Carl Sandburg."

Despite his popular appeal, McKuen's work has never been taken seriously by the literary academy. Michael Baers observes 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..." Philosopher and social critic Robert C. Solomon described McKuen's poetry as "sweet kitsch." Writer and literary critic Nora Ephron commented that "...for the most part, McKuen's poems are superficial and platitudinous and frequently silly," and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Karl Shapiro asserted that "It is irrelevant to speak of McKuen as a poet."

Songwriting

Rod McKuen has written over 1500 songs, which have accounted for the sale of over 100 million records for such diverse artists as Madonna
Madonna (entertainer)
Madonna is an American singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance. After performing in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she released her debut album in 1983...

, Perry Como
Perry Como
Pierino Ronald "Perry" Como was an American singer and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century he recorded exclusively for the RCA Victor label after signing with them in 1943. "Mr...

, Petula Clark
Petula Clark
Petula Clark, CBE is an English singer, actress, and composer whose career has spanned seven decades.Clark's professional career began as an entertainer on BBC Radio during World War II...

, Waylon Jennings
Waylon Jennings
Waylon Arnold Jennings was an American country music singer, songwriter, and musician. Jennings began playing at eight. He began performing at twelve, on KVOW radio. Jennings formed a band The Texas Longhorns. Jennings worked as a D.J on KVOW, KDAV and KLLL...

, The Boston Pops, Chet Baker
Chet Baker
Chesney Henry "Chet" Baker, Jr. was an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist and singer.Though his music earned him a large following , Baker's popularity was due in part to his "matinee idol-beauty" and "well-publicized drug habit."He died in 1988 in Amsterdam, the...

, Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
John R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...

, Pete Fountain
Pete Fountain
Pete Fountain , is an American clarinetist based in New Orleans. He has played jazz, Dixieland and Creole music.-Early life and education:...

, Andy Williams
Andy Williams
Howard Andrew "Andy" Williams is an American singer who has recorded 18 Gold- and three Platinum-certified albums. He hosted The Andy Williams Show, a TV variety show, from 1962 to 1971, as well as numerous television specials, and owns his own theater, the Moon River Theatre in Branson, Missouri,...

, the Kingston Trio, Percy Faith
Percy Faith
Percy Faith was a Canadian-born American bandleader, orchestrator, composer and conductor, known for his lush arrangements of pop and Christmas standards. He is often credited with creating the "easy listening" or "mood music" format which became staples of American popular music in the 1950s and...

, the London Philharmonic, Dusty Springfield
Dusty Springfield
Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'BrienSources use both Isabel and Isobel as the spelling of her second name. OBE , known professionally as Dusty Springfield and dubbed The White Queen of Soul, was a British pop singer whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s...

, Johnny Mathis
Johnny Mathis
John Royce "Johnny" Mathis is an American singer of popular music. Starting his career with singles of standards, he became highly popular as an album artist, with several dozen of his albums achieving gold or platinum status, and 73 making the Billboard charts...

, Al Hirt
Al Hirt
Al Hirt was an American trumpeter and bandleader. He is best remembered for his million selling recordings of "Java", and the accompanying album, Honey in the Horn . His nicknames included 'Jumbo' and 'The Round Mound of Sound'...

, Greta Keller
Greta Keller
Greta Keller-Bacon was a cabaret singer and Hollywood actress.-Biography:Born Margaretha Keller in Vienna, Austria, she studied dance from the age of eight, followed by acting. Her début was in Pavillon, in Vienna. She also appeared on stage with Marlene Dietrich in Broadway, in which she sang and...

, and Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...

.

In 1959, McKuen released a novelty single with Bob McFadden
Bob McFadden
Robert "Bob" McFadden was a singer and voiceover actor best known for his many contributions to animated cartoons. His best known characters were Milton the Monster, Cool McCool, and the ThunderCats' Snarf...

 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
Henry Mancini
Henry Mancini was an American composer, conductor and arranger, best remembered for his film and television scores. He won a record number of Grammy Awards , plus a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously in 1995...

, John Williams, and Anita Kerr
Anita Kerr
Anita Jean Grilli , known profesioanlly as Anita Kerr, is an American singer, arranger, composer, conductor, pianist, and music producer. She recorded and performed successfully with her vocal harmony groups in Nashville, Los Angeles, and Europe.-Nashville:Kerr was born in Memphis, Tennessee...

. 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.

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
Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...

 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.

In 1971, his song "I Think of You" was a major hit for Perry Como
Perry Como
Pierino Ronald "Perry" Como was an American singer and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century he recorded exclusively for the RCA Victor label after signing with them in 1943. "Mr...

. 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"..

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
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...

 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. He also continued to record, releasing albums such as New Ballads (1970), Pastorale (1971), the country-rock outing McKuen Country (1976).

McKuen continued to enjoy sell-out concerts around the world and appeared regularly at New York's Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....

.

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.

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
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....

 or Lincoln Center. His latest album is a double CD The Platinum Collection. He is currently remastering all of his RCA
RCA
RCA Corporation, founded as the Radio Corporation of America, was an American electronics company in existence from 1919 to 1986. The RCA trademark is currently owned by the French conglomerate Technicolor SA through RCA Trademark Management S.A., a company owned by Technicolor...

 and Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...

 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
American Guild of Variety Artists
American Guild of Variety Artists is an American entertainment union representing performers in variety entertainment, including circuses, Las Vegas showrooms and cabarets, comedy showcases, dance revues, magic shows, theme park shows, and arena and auditorium extravaganzas. It awards the "Georgie...

, 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.

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)
  • In Someone's Shadow (Cheval Books/Random House, 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)

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)

Prose

  • Finding My Father (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1976)
  • An Outstretched Hand (Cheval Books/Harper & Row, 1980)

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)

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
    Tak Shindo
    Takeshi "Tak" Shindo was a Japanese-American musician, composer and arranger. He was one of the prominent artists in the exotica music genre during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Shindo also founded a dance band in 1947 and was a frequent lecturer and writer on Japanese music...

    & 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

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