This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Sure, most music these days comes accompanied by words. But just because you’re good at one part of the equation, that doesn’t mean you can handle the other.
Somebody should have told that to the 32 authors — including best-sellers like Stephen King, Carl Hiassen, Dave Barry, Amy Tan and even Norman Mailer — who put down their pens and tried to carry a tune on this bizarre two-CD fund-raiser. And * do mean bizarre; this is a freak show of misguided intentions, missed-by-a-mile notes and downright weirdness — like Mailer rumbling and grumbling his way through his own Alimony Blues or King turning Stand By Me into a bigger horrorshow than any of his novels. Like William Shatner’s musical output, this is so bad it’s incredible. A good gag gift for the reader in your family.
