Recordings

December, 1969

Sold Out! (Warner Bros.; also available on stereo tape) is the four-sided chronicle of versatile Rod McKuen's birthday concert last spring at Carnegie Hall. A well-drilled orchestra backs up the sandpaper-voiced poet as he delivers a tastefully sentimental program of readings and songs (including his themes for Joanna, Me, Natalie and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie); it all goes to show--for the umpteenth time--that McKuen has the energy and sincerity to turn his middlebrow romanticism into an ar...