Rod McKuen - [1968] Lonesome Cities

Rod McKuen - [1968] Lonesome Cities

Label:Warner Bros. - Seven Arts Records – WS 1758
Format:Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Country:US
Released: 1968
Style: Spoken Word, Vocal, Easy Listening


Tracklist

A1. The Art Of Catching Trains    6:00
A2. Cowboys - Cheyenne    3:35
A3. Boat Ride - Los Angeles    2:03
A4. Morning - San Francisco    2:41
A5. Church Windows - San Francisco    2:45
A6. Manhattan Beach    3:58
A7. To Watch The Trains (Vocal)    3:35

B1. Atlantic Crossing    3:35
B2. Celebrations - Gstaad    2:10
B3. Concerto For Four Hands - Gstaad    2:37
B4. Waiting For What? - London    3:00
B5. The Sun Is A Moveable Target - Venice    2:50
B6. Along The Coasts Of France - Cannes    1:58
B7. The Language Of Hello - Paris    3:04
B8. Lonesome Cities (Vocal)    2:52


Credits
Arranged By, Conductor – Arthur Greenslade
Artwork By [Typography] – Carl Weiss, David Paul
Composed By, Other [Liner Notes], Producer, Written-by – Rod McKuen
Engineer, Recorded By – Bob Hall, Vic Smith*
Other [Art Direction] – Ed Thrasher
Photography [Back Cover] – Frank Sinatra
Photography [Front Cover] – Ed Habib
Photography [Liner] – Helen Miljakovich


Grammy Awards - 11th 1968
Best Spoken Word Recording으로 수상 : Lonesome Cities, Rod McKuen (Warner Bros.-Seven Arts)


The Art of Catching Trains를 들으면서...
어릴적 철도주변의 부랑자(hobos)에게 배운 달리는 기차를 타는 아슬아슬한 놀이에
빠져있던 소년은 야구놀이같은 게임은 시시해지고 이런 기차여행에 익숙해지면서
기차여행이 가져다 주는 또다른 감흥을 느끼게 되지요.
성인이 되어서도 뭔가 자신의 인생이 한 곳에 머물지 못하고 늘 달리는 기차처럼
덧없이 흐르는 것같은 느낌을 표현합니다.
이러한 동질감의 여행객들처럼 여유있는 또는 어색한 모든 사람들을 Rod McKuen은
바라봅니다.

참으로 배경음악이나 그의 목소리나 나도 그 소년인양, 아님 나도 시인인양
물끄러미 바라보는 듯합니다.
(게시 하단에 꼬리물기2)

A1. The Art Of Catching Trains    6:00
B8. Lonesome Cities (Vocal)    2:52

1. A1. The Art Of Catching Trains.mp3
2. B8. Lonesome Cities.mp3

The Art Of Catching Trains   가사
.............Rod Mckuen의 홈페이지에서

 

1.
I came through the clothesline maze of childhood
in basketball shoes.
Up from the cracked cement of sidewalks.
Long hair blowing in the breeze
from barber-college haircuts.
I moved into the country
knowing love better than long division.

Tricking out with women twice my age
we acted out our own French postcards.
Dr. Jekyll in the schoolyard,
Mr. Hyde behind the barn.

After school the trains,
their whistles known by heart.
Pennies flattened on a rail
and dresser drawers with matchbooks from every northern town -
thrown by unknown travelers
who never waved back.

I knew the U.P. right of way so well
that gandy dancers called me tow-head
till they learned my name
and engineers would sometimes whistle  down the scale
           on seeing my arm raised.

Baseball's just a sissy game
to anyone who's waved at passing trains.

You learn from hobos
the art of catching trains.
Locomotives slow at trestles
and whistle stops to hook the mail.

Diving through an open box car
you lie there till your breath comes back.
Then standing in the doorway you're the king
as crowns of hills and towns go by
and nighttime eats the Summer up
and spits the stars across the sky.

How did I come to know
so many lonesome cities
with only pennies in my pockets ?
I smiled a lot and rode a lot of trains
and got to know conductors
and railroad bulls by name.
From Alamo to Naples is a ride
that took me nearly twenty years.
But here I am,
my cardboard suitcase traded in for leather.

2.

Now a traveller
under the gray-black Winter sky
moving down the mountain by torchlight,
I've come to find
a gathering of eagles.
Not for the sake of mingling with the great birds,
but only to justify
a thousand streets walked end to end.
Ten thousand evenings spent listening
to the small sounds of the night
in station after station.

Not every town in Switzerland
has a golden Gondelbahn,
but there are other ways
to climb the hills
and reach the lonesome cities of the world.

Riding friendly bodies
you can inch your way to Heaven
let alone the far side of the room
and who'd deny that brushing elbows in certain streets
has not produced for every man
at least one vision of Atlantis.

For me old habits don't break easily  I wait for trains.

Sometimes I feel I've always been
just passing through.
On my way away, or toward.
Shouting alleluias at an unseen choir
or whispering Fa-do's down beneath my breath waiting for an echo
not an answer.
Everybody has the answers
or they'll make them up  for you.

Just once I'd like to hear
a brand-new question.

What about the trains you ride
do they go fast or slow
would I recognize your face
clacking past the poplar trees
if I were stationed on some hill ?

If I did I'd know you
by the look of nothing in your eyes,
the kindred look that travellers have,
the one that says a tentative hello.

If while riding down the rails
you see a boy in overalls
along the railroad right of way, wave as you go by.
Signal with a frown
you too are going down the same road.

Small boys need encouragement
the freight trains in their minds
will only take them just so far.
Be kind
    for small boys need to grow.

 - from "Lonesome Cities" � 1967,  Stanyan Music Group & Rod McKuen

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Frank Sinatra - [1969] A Man Alone & Other Songs Of Rod Mckuen
Label:Reprise Records – FS 1030
Format:Vinyl, LP
Country:US
Released:1969
Genre:Jazz
 
Tracklist

A1. A Man Alone 3:45 
A2. Night 2:20 
A3. I've Been To Town 3:11 
A4. From Promise To Promise 1:25 
A5. The Single Man 3:00 
A6. The Beautiful Strangers 2:40 
A7. Lonesome Cities 3:15 

B1. Love's Been Good To Me 3:25 
B2. Empty Is 2:15 
B3. Out Beyond The Window 2:45 
B4. Some Traveling Music 2:35 
B5. A Man Alone (Reprise) 1:29 

Credits
Arranged By, Conductor – Don Costa
Artwork By [Art Direction] – Ed Thrasher
Engineer – Lee Herschberg
Photography [Cover Photo] – John Bryson
Photography [Liner Photo] – Hy Fujita
Producer – Sonny Burke
Written-by [Words], Music By – Rod McKuen

A7. Lonesome Cities    






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