Rod McKuen - Sold Out at Carnegie Hall (1969) 2-LP Vinyl • Live Birthday Concert

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Vinyl plays with crackles and a few light-clicks (play-graded). Double LP. Gate-fold cover has a few creases near edges; light-scuffing on inner-gate; heavier scuffing and tiny surface abrasions (front/back); slight discoloration with darker discoloration spots (front/inner-gate); surface impressions (front/back/inner-gate). Inner-sleeves are generic white. Spine is easy-to-read (printed off-center) with mild-wear and discoloration. Some shelf-wear along top-edge, heavier wear along bottom-edge and corners. Openings are crisp with signs of light use and divots. (Not a cut-out.)

Tracks:

1. Rod McKuen Overture Part 1: If You Go Away / A Cat Named Sloopy / So Long, Stay Well / Doesn't Anybody Know My Name / The World I Used To Know / Kaleidoscope
2. So Long, Stay Well
3. The Importance Of The Rose
4. I've Been To Town
5. Everybody's Rich But Us
6. A Cat Named Sloopy
7. Bend Down And Touch Me
8. Joanna
9. The Things Men Do
10. Gee, It's Nice To Be Alone
11. Trashy
12. Stanyan Street
13. If You Go Away
14. Seasons In The Sun
15. Rod McKuen Overture Part 2: The World I Used To Know / Jean / Joanna / I'll Catch The Sun / Listen To The Warm / The World I Used To Know
16. Kaleidoscope
17. Ally, Alley, Oxen Free
18. I'll Catch The Sun
19. Do It Yourself Protest Songs & Don't Ban The Bomb
20. We
21. The Ivy That Clings To The Wall
22. People On Their Birthdays
23. Champion Charlie Brown
24. Love's Been Good To Me
25. The Art Of Catching Trains
26. To Watch The Trains
27. Amsterdam
28. Play Off: The World I Used To Know, Happy Birthday
29. Merci Beaucoup
30. Jean
31. Closing Remarks

About The Record:

Sold Out at Carnegie Hall, by Rod McKuen, include some stellar liner notes written by Ed Habib. "This album is a documentary of Rod McKen's birthday concert at Carnegie Hall, April 29, 1969...The list of what Rod McKuen has done with his life is staggering: poet, classical composer, writer of film scores and screenplays, lumberjack, best-selling recording artist, entertainer, composer, actor, cowboy, etc. But somehow, what Rod is doing with our lives is more important. He cares and sometimes he gets clobbered for it. Not on that Tuesday night in April. If you were there you know. Robert Sherman of the Times concluded his review of the concert by saying, 'Mr. McKuen would be pleased to know that Odetta, the folk singer, had to spend much of the concert in the rear of the hall because, as she explained, I can't dance in my seat.' As a human being, as a writer and in his performing Rod McKuen is totally honest. It is perhaps a tribute to this honesty that even though he forgot some of his own lyrics during the concert and was still attempting to master a song he had written with Henry Mancini only days earlier, these forgotten lyrics and that less than perfect performance of the new Mancini-McKuen song remain a part of this album. Far from flawing an otherwise perfect concert, they add to it."