That's an excellent picture of Rod with Vic Flick, Geoff. Do you know where and when.
Thanks for sharing
It's Olympic Studios, London, for the recording of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie in 1968. Vic played ukelele, and the woman you can nearly make out in the background is Sylvette Allart, who played ondes Martenot.
Very sad. R.I.P. I still have the SCANDALOUS JOHN LP around. I haven't played it in years (a fate suffered by quite a few LPS I just haven't gotten around to burning to CD). I must dig it out.
It was quite a rare bird at the time. A Walt Disney soundtrack album for a non-musical or animated film. I believe it only has one song ("Pastures Green") which is repeated once, so it is really an instrumental score. Disney must have had high hopes of selling a lot of records due to McKuen's name. It even had a gatefold cover.
A number of years back I did some LP restorations for my younger brother's then girlfriend who was big on the Rod McKuen/Anita Kerr series of poetry-over-music albums on the Warner label--THE SEA, THE WIND, etc. I must say those were a bit of a slog and not McKuen's greatest moment.
I have a sealed copy of that SCANDALOUS JOHN album which I picked up when it had a brief cache on eBay, but I missed the crest and was stuck with it. I'll have to open it up and satisfy my current curiousity. Hopefully, Rod has joined up with Henry Mancini and is going over their days as contract artists at Universal.
