Rod McKuen - Greatest Hits [Import, Soundtrack]

Rod McKuen | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 26, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Soundtrack
• Label: Br Music Holland
• ASIN: B000024CJV
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #204,126 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Soldiers Who Want to Be Heroes

2. Doesn't Anybody Know My Name

3. The World I Used To Know

4. The Importance Of The Rose

5. Jean [From the Prime of Miss Jean Brodie]

6. Rock Gently

7. I'll Catch the Sun

8. Cycles

9. About The Sun Time

10. Love's Been Good to Me

11. Listen to the Warm

12. Champion Charlie Brown [From a Boy Named Charlie Brown]

13. I Think of You

14. Amor

15. South America Take It Away [From Call Me Mister]

16. Seasons in the Sun

17. If You Go Away

18. (The Port Of) Amsterdam

19. Je Vien De Loin (I've Been To Town)

20. Without a Worry in the World

See all 22 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Subtitled - Without A Worry In The World. 2003 compilation featuring 22 tracks from the beat poetry pop traditionalist. BR Music.

Customer Reviews

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "The Poet Laureate", March 7, 2005

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Michael G. Batcho (McAdoo, PA (USA)) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rod McKuen - Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

This "Greatest Hites Of Rod McKuen" is a fantastic collection of his best recordings. Rod has a most "poetic" delivery as well as abilitiy to write lyric verses.
I first hear "Doesn't Anbod Know My Name" on a Kingston Trio album ears ago . . . i have alwas had a special place in my memory for that song . .and to hear Rod himself deliver his own words in music is a great treat. His voice wraps around his words and thoughts and sends them out to touch our hearts and souls. He succeeds so well on this song.

another McKuen classic is "Jean" from the motion picture "The Prime Of Miss Jean Brod" -- i first heard this song of Rod's composition by "Oliver" . . and i love both renderings, Oliver's and Rod's . . . the both evoke the lonsome feeling of being out alone in the heather, missing a lost love (lost by death? or lost by a departure perhaps) . . . and it is difficult to not tear-up a bit whenever you play this track.

Rod does an exccellent job with Gale Caldwell's "Cycles" . . a song i first heard by Frank Sinatra . . . andRod also wrote an entire album of songs for Mr. Sinatra . . two kindred souls. And Rod on collection also has his "Love's Been Good To Me" which Frank recorded on his album of Rod McKuen penned songs.

Ahhhh! and then there's the Jaques Brel song which Rod put english lyrics to: "If You Go Away" . . . i first heard this song sung by Australian songstress Lana Cantrell . . . and i fell in love with Lana and this song . . . and now i get to hear it by the man who wrote the english verses.

There are twenty-two tracks on this collection . . and every one a "keeper" . . . i'm forever glad that they are now preserved for all posterity: examples of a true artist at his best!

I thank you od McKuen for your contribution to the wonders of our musical and poetic heritage. You are "the best" . . .and this album presents some of "your ver best" so this it can touch our souls.

(ha . . and i seem to remember Rod McKuen in some "beach movies" from the early sixties . . . Rod, you certainly have experienced it all!) :)

40 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Quite Disappointing, April 23, 2004

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J. Michael Nace (NY State) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Rod McKuen - Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

I have been a Rod McKuen follower since the 1970s and miss some of my early LPs that were unfortunately stolen years ago. So I ordered this CD in good faith but when I played it was amazed to hear that the sound and tempo of the songs (in my mind based from hearing them years ago) was faster, possibly to fit all the selections on one CD (I don't know). End product is a sound that is NOT romantic OR mood setting, not peaceful, rather racing through the selections to the point of annoyance. Save your money up to buy older and in good condition copies of the originals, like I am doing.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Purchased as Anniversary Gift, March 8, 2006

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Barbie - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rod McKuen - Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

My husband and I had listened to Rod McKuen's Live at Carnegie Hall when we were dating. This CD is good, but not like the other (which is very expensive). We enjoyed the songs and they brought back lots of memories none-the-less.