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Rodney Marvin "Rod" McKuen (April 29, 1933 – January 29, 2015) was an American poet, ... McKuen'ssongs sold over 100 million recordings worldwide, and 60 million ... McKuen began to translate the work of this composer into English, which led to the song "If You Go Away" – an international pop-standard – based on ...
Years active: 1955–2004
Associated acts: Jacques Brel
Instruments: Vocals, piano
Rod McKuen
| Rod McKuen | |
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McKuen in 1970
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Rodney Marvin McKuen |
| Born | April 29, 1933 Oakland, California, U.S. |
| Died | January 29, 2015 (aged 81) Beverly Hills, California, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, musician, poet |
| Instruments | Vocals, piano |
| Years active | 1955–2004 |
| Associated acts | Jacques Brel |
| Website | rodmckuen |
Rodney Marvin "Rod" McKuen (April 29, 1933 – January 29, 2015) was an American poet, singer-songwriter, and actor. He was one of the best-selling poets in the United States during the late 1960s. Throughout his career, McKuen produced a wide range of recordings, which included popular music, spoken word poetry, film soundtracks and classical music. He earned two Academy Award nominations and one Pulitzer nomination for his music compositions. McKuen's translations and adaptations of the songs of Jacques Brel were instrumental in bringing the Belgian songwriter to prominence in the English-speaking world. His poetry deals with themes of love, the natural world and spirituality. McKuen's songs sold over 100 million recordings worldwide, and 60 million books of his poetry were sold as well, according to the Associated Press.[1]
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Early years[edit]
McKuen was born on April 29, 1933, in a Salvation Army hostel in Oakland, California.[2] He never knew his biological father who had left his mother.[3] Sexually and physically abused by relatives,[4] raised by his mother and stepfather, who was a violent alcoholic, McKuen ran away from home at the age of 11. He drifted along the West Coast, supporting himself as a ranch hand, surveyor, railroad worker, lumberjack, rodeo cowboy, stuntman, and radio disc jockey, always sending money home to his mother.[5]
To compensate for his lack of formal education, McKuen began keeping a journal, which resulted in his first poetry and song lyrics. After dropping out of Oakland Technical High School prior to graduating in 1951,[6] McKuen worked as a newspaper columnist and propaganda script writer during the Korean War. He settled in San Francisco, where he read his poetry in clubs alongside Beat poets like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg.[3] He began performing as a folk singer at the famed Purple Onion. Over time, he began incorporating his own songs into his act. He was signed to Decca Records and released several pop albums in the late 1950s. McKuen also appeared as an actor in Rock, Pretty Baby (1956), Summer Love (1958), and the western Wild Heritage(1958). He also sang with Lionel Hampton's band. In 1959, McKuen moved to New York City to compose and conduct music for the TV show The CBS Workshop.[5] McKuen appeared on To Tell The Truth on June 18, 1962 as a decoy contestant, and described himself as "a published poet and a twist singer."[7]
Discovering Jacques Brel[edit]
In the early 1960s, McKuen moved to France, where he first met the Belgian singer-songwriter and chanson singer Jacques Brel. McKuen began to translate the work of this composer into English, which led to the song "If You Go Away" – an international pop-standard – based on Brel's "Ne me quitte pas". In the early 1970s, singer Terry Jacks turned McKuen's "Seasons in the Sun", based on Brel's "Le Moribond", into a best-selling pop hit, and also charted with a cover of "If You Go Away." McKuen also translated songs by other French songwriters, including Gilbert Bécaud, Pierre Delanoé, Michel Sardou, and others.[5]
In 1978, after hearing of Brel's death, McKuen was quoted as saying, "As friends and as musical collaborators we had traveled, toured and written – together and apart – the events of our lives as if they were songs, and I guess they were. When news of Jacques' death came I stayed locked in my bedroom and drank for a week. That kind of self-pity was something he wouldn't have approved of, but all I could do was replay our songs (our children) and ruminate over our unfinished life together."[8]
Poetry[edit]
In the late 1960s, McKuen began to publish books of poetry, earning a substantial following among young people with collections like Stanyan Street & Other Sorrows (1966), Listen to the Warm(1967), and Lonesome Cities (1968). His Lonesome Cities album of readings won a Grammy for Best Spoken Word Recording in 1968.[5] McKuen's poems were translated into eleven languages and his books sold over 1 million copies in 1968 alone.[9] McKuen said that his most romantic poetry was influenced by American poet Walter Benton's two books of poems.[8] McKuen sold over 60 million books worldwide, according to the Associated Press.[1]
Songwriting[edit]
McKuen wrote over 1,500 songs, which have accounted for the sale of over 100 million records worldwide according to the Associated Press.[1] His songs have been performed by such diverse artists as Robert Goulet, Glenn Yarbrough, Barbra Streisand, Perry Como, Petula Clark, Waylon Jennings, The Boston Pops, Chet Baker, Jimmie Rodgers, Johnny Cash, Pete Fountain, Andy Williams, the Kingston Trio, Percy Faith, the London Philharmonic, Nana Mouskouri, Dusty Springfield, Johnny Mathis, Al Hirt, Greta Keller, Aaron Freeman, and Frank Sinatra.[3][10][11]
In 1959, McKuen released a novelty single with Bob McFadden, under the pseudonym Dor on the Brunswick label, called "The Mummy". The McKuen-written song reached No. 39 on the Billboard pop chart.[12] In 1961, he had a hit single titled "Oliver Twist". He co-wrote it along with Gladys Shelley and the Spiral label-issued single reached No. 76 on the Billboard pop chart.[13]His hoarse and throaty singing voice on these and other recordings was a result of McKuen straining his vocal chords in 1961, due to too many promotional appearances.[2]
He collaborated with numerous composers, including Henry Mancini, John Williams, and Anita Kerr. His symphonies, concertos, and other orchestral works have been performed by orchestras around the globe. His work as a composer in the film industry garnered him two Academy Award nominations for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) and A Boy Named Charlie Brown(1969),[11] and his other film scores have included Joanna (1968), Me, Natalie (1969), Scandalous John (1971), The Borrowers (1973) and Emily (1976). McKuen's contribution to A Boy Named Charlie Brown, the first feature-length animation based on Charles M. Schulz's comic strip, Peanuts, also included singing the title song. McKuen also earned a mention in the Peanuts strip dated October 3, 1969, in which Sally Brown expresses her frustration that she was sent to the principal's office for an outburst in art class, opining that Pablo Picasso and Rod McKuen surely must have had trouble drawing cows' legs when they were young.
In 1967, McKuen began collaborating with arranger Anita Kerr and the San Sebastian Strings for a series of albums featuring McKuen's poetry recited over Kerr's mood music, including The Sea(1967), The Earth (1967), The Sky (1968), Home to the Sea (1969), For Lovers (1969), and The Soft Sea (1970). Jesse Pearson was the narrator of The Sea and its followups Home to the Seaand The Soft Sea, while most other albums in the series had McKuen narrating. In 1969, Frank Sinatra commissioned an entire album of poems and songs by McKuen; arranged by Don Costa, it was released under the title A Man Alone: The Words and Music of Rod McKuen. The album featured the song "Love's Been Good to Me", which became one of McKuen's best-known songs.[5]
McKuen performed solo in a half-hour special broadcast by NBC on May 10, 1969. The program, billed as McKuen's "first television special", featured the songs "The Loner", "The World I Used to Know", "The Complete Madame Butterfly", "I've Been to Town", "Kaleidoscope", "Stanyan Street", "Lonesome Cities", "Listen to the Warm", "Trashy", and "Merci Beaucoup". It was produced by Lee Mendelson, producer of the Peanuts specials, and directed by Marty Pasetta. James Trittipo designed a set that was "evocative of waterfront pilings" and Arthur Greenslade conducted the orchestra.[14] In 1971, he hosted a series, The Rod McKuen Show, on BBC television in the UK.[15]
McKuen's Academy Award-nominated composition "Jean", sung by Oliver, reached No.1 in 1969 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart and stayed there for four weeks.[16] In 1971, his song "I Think of You" was a major hit for Perry Como. Other popular McKuen compositions included "The World I Used to Know", "Rock Gently", "Doesn't Anybody Know My Name", "The Importance of the Rose", "Without a Worry in the World", and "Soldiers Who Want to Be Heroes".[5]
In 1971, McKuen became popular in the Netherlands, where the singles "Soldiers Who Want to Be Heroes" and "Without a Worry in the World" reached number one in the charts, as did the album Greatest Hits, Vol. 3. All three discs earned him gold records; he was voted Holland's most popular entertainer.[17][when?][by whom?]
During the 1970s, McKuen began composing larger-scale orchestral compositions, writing a series of concertos, suites, symphonies, and chamber pieces for orchestra. His piece The City: A Suite for Narrator & Orchestra, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Music. He continued publishing a steady stream of poetry books throughout the decade. In 1977, he published Finding My Father, a chronicle of his search for information on his biological father. The book and its publicity helped make such information more readily available to adopted children.[citation needed] He also continued to record, releasing albums such as New Ballads (1970), Pastorale (1971), and the country-rock outing McKuen Country (1976).[5]
McKuen continued to perform concerts around the world and appeared regularly at New York's Carnegie Hall throughout the 1970s, making sporadic appearances as recently as the early 2000s.
Later years[edit]
In 1973, at forty, McKuen radically changed his outward appearance ; He no longer bleached his hair and he grew a beard.
McKuen retired from live performances in 1981. The following year, he was diagnosed with clinical depression, which he battled for much of the next decade. He continued to write poetry, however, and made appearances as a voice-over actor in The Little Mermaid and the TV series The Critic.[5]
2001 saw the publication of McKuen's A Safe Place to Land, which contains 160 pages of new poetry. For 10 years he gave an annual birthday concert at Carnegie Hall or the Lincoln Center. He released the double CD The Platinum Collection and was remastering all of his RCA and Warner Bros. recordings for release as CD boxed sets. In addition to his artistic pursuits he was the Executive President of the American Guild of Variety Artists (AGVA), a post he held longer than any other man or woman elected to the position.
McKuen lived in Beverly Hills, California with his partner Edward, whom he called his "brother", and four cats in a large rambling Spanish house built in 1928, which housed one of the world's largest private record collections.[18] He died of respiratory arrest, a result of pneumonia, at a hospital in Beverly Hills, California, on January 29, 2015.[3]
LGBT activism[edit]
McKuen refused to identify as gay, straight, or bisexual, but once explained his sexuality saying, "I can't imagine choosing one sex over the other, that's just too limiting. I can't even honestly say I have a preference."[19] He was active in the LGBT rights movement, and as early as the 1950s, was a key member of the San Francisco chapter of the Mattachine Society, one of the nation's earliest LGBT advocacy organizations.[20] The cover of McKuen's 1977 album Slide... Easy In featured a photo of a man's arm gripping a handful of vegetable shortening; the can was a pastiche of Crisco – then widely used by gay men as a sexual lubricant – with the label instead reading "Disco". That same year, McKuen spoke out against singer Anita Bryant and her "Save Our Children" campaign to repeal an anti-discrimination ordinance in Miami, tagging Bryant with the nickname "Ginny Orangeseed", and also including a song on Slide... Easy In titled "Don't Drink the Orange Juice", referencing Bryant's fame as commercial pitchwoman for the Florida Citrus Commission. He often gave benefit performances to aid LGBT rights organizations and to fund AIDSresearch.[21]
Criticism[edit]
Despite his popular appeal, McKuen's work was never taken seriously by critics or academics. Michael Baers observed in Gale Research's St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture that "through the years his books have drawn uniformly unkind reviews. In fact, criticism of his poetry is uniformly vituperative ..."[22]
Frank W. Hoffmann, in Arts and Entertainment Fads, described McKuen's poetry as "tailor-made for the 1960s ... poetry with a verse that drawled in country cadences from one shapeless line to the next, carrying the rusticated innocence of a Carl Sandburg thickened by the treacle of a man who preferred to prettify the world before he described it".[9]
Philosopher and social critic Robert C. Solomon described McKuen's poetry as "sweet kitsch,"[23] and, at the height of his popularity in 1969, Newsweek magazine called him "the King of Kitsch."[24]
Writer and literary critic Nora Ephron said, "[F]or the most part, McKuen's poems are superficial and platitudinous and frequently silly." Pulitzer Prize-winning US Poet Laureate Karl Shapiro said, "It is irrelevant to speak of McKuen as a poet."[25]
In a Chicago Tribune interview with McKuen in 2001 as he was "testing the waters" for a comeback tour, Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic Julia Keller claimed that "Millions more have loathed him [...] finding his work so schmaltzy and smarmy that it makes the pronouncements of Kathie Lee Gifford sound like Susan Sontag," and that his work "drives many people crazy. They find it silly and mawkish, the kind of gooey schmaltz that wouldn't pass muster in a freshman creative-writing class" while stating that "The masses ate him up with a spoon, while highbrow literary critics roasted him on a spit." She noted that the third concert on his tour had already been canceled because of sluggish ticket sales.[26]
Bibliography[edit]
Poetry[edit]
- And Autumn Came (Pageant Press, 1954)
- Stanyan Street & Other Sorrows (Stanyan Music, 1966)
- Listen to the Warm (Random House, 1967)
- Lonesome Cities (Random House, 1968)
- And Autumn Came (Revised Edition) (Cheval Books, 1969)
- In Someone's Shadow (Cheval Books/Random House, 1969)
- Twelve Years of Christmas (Cheval Books/Random House, 1969)
- Caught in the Quiet (Stanyan Books, 1970)
- Fields of Wonder (Cheval Books/Random House, 1971)
- The Carols of Christmas (Cheval Books/Random House, 1971)
- And to Each Season (Simon & Schuster, 1972)
- Moment to Moment (Cheval Books, 1972)
- Come to Me in Silence (Simon & Schuster, 1973)
- Moment to Moment (Revised Edition) (Simon & Schuster, 1974)
- Beyond the Boardwalk (Cheval Books, 1975)
- Celebrations of the Heart (Simon & Schuster, 1975)
- The Sea Around Me... (Simon & Schuster, 1975)
- Coming Close to the Earth (Simon & Schuster, 1978)
- We Touch the Sky (Simon & Schuster, 1979)
- The Power Bright and Shining (Simon & Schuster, 1980)
- A Book of Days (Harper & Row, 1980)
- The Beautiful Strangers (Simon & Schuster, 1981)
- Book of Days and a Month of Sundays (Harper & Row, 1981)
- The Sound of Solitude (Harper & Row, 1983)
- Suspension Bridge (Harper & Row, 1984)
- Intervals (Harper & Row/Cheval Books, 1986)
- Valentines (Harper & Row/Cheval Books, 1986)
- A Safe Place to Land (Cheval Books, 2001)
- Rusting in the Rain (Cheval Books, 2004)[18]
Lyrics[edit]
- The Songs of Rod McKuen (Cheval Books, 1969)
- With Love (Stanyan Books, 1970)
- New Ballads (Stanyan Books, 1970)
- Pastorale (Stanyan Books, 1971)
- The Carols Christmas (Cheval/Random House, 1971)
- Grand Tour (Stanyan Books, 1972)[18]
Prose[edit]
- Finding My Father (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1976)
- An Outstretched Hand (Cheval Books/Harper & Row, 1980)[18]
Original paperbacks[edit]
- Seasons in the Sun (Pocket Books, 1974)
- Alone (Pocket Books, 1975)
- Hand in Hand (Pocket Books, 1977)
- Finding My Father (Cheval Books/Berkeley Books, 1977)
- Love's Been Good to Me (Pocket Books, 1979)
- Looking for a Friend (Pocket Books, 1980)
- Too Many Midnights (Pocket Books, 1981)
- Watch for the Wind (Pocket Books, 1983)[18]
Discography[edit]
Vocal albums[edit]
- About Me (SPC 3189)
- After Midnight (SR 6029 • CD STZ 105)
- Alone (BS 2817)
- Alone After Dark (DL 8946)
- Anywhere I Wander (DL 3882)
- The Beautiful Strangers (WS 1722)
- The Black Eagle, A Gothic Musical (2SR 5087)
- Blessings in Shade of Green (SR 5005)
- Cycles (BDS 5138)
- For Friends & Lovers (DJF 20537)
- Global (SR 5102)
- Goodtime Music (BS 2861)
- Have a Nice Day (SR 5032)
- In a Lonely Place (KA 3226)
- In the Beginning (SUS 5273)
- It Had To Be You (DID M20)
- Jerome Kern Revisited Vol. IV, with Ballard, Short, and Cook (PS 1380 CD 113)
- Lonely Summer (BR 0034)
- The Loner (RCA 3508)
- The Love Movement (ST 2838)
- Through European Windows (LSP 3786)
- The Sounds of Day, the Sounds of Night (SPC 3225)
- Love's Been Good to Me (SR 5009)
- McKuen Country (BS 2931)
- Rod McKuen Sings (ST 2079)
- More Rod McKuen 77 (SR 5092)
- Mr. Oliver Twist (JU 5013)
- New Ballads (WS 1837)
- New Carols for Christmas – The Rod McKuen Christmas Album (SR 5045)
- New Sounds in Folk Music (VE 1612)
- Odyssey (BS 2638)
- Other Kinds of Songs (RCA 3635)
- Pastorale (2WS 1894)
- Pastures Green (SR 5047)
- Roads (SR 5098)
- Rod (SR 5025)
- The Rod McKuen Folk Album (SR 5006)
- Rod McKuen Sings the McKuen/Brel Songbook (SR 6028; WB 2785)
- The Rod McKuen Show (WS 3015)
- Rod McKuen Sings His Own (RCA 3424)
- Rod 77 (SR 5093)
- Seasons in the Sun (SR 5003)
- Seasons in the Sun, 2 (SR 5004)
- Seasons in the Sun, 1&2 (SR 5046)
- The Single Man (LSP 4010)
- Sleep Warm (BS 2889)
- Sleep Warm (2SR 5081)
- Slide ... Easy In (DS 7017)
- Slide ... On the Move (DIS 60 531)
- Soldiers Who Want to Be Heroes (HJS 180)
- Someone to Watch Over Me (SR 6050)
- Songs for the Lazy (LRP 3011)
- Songs Our Mummy Taught Us, with Bob McFadden (BL 754056)
- Stranger in Town (KS 3538)
- There's a Hoot Tonight (WP 1632)
- Through European Windows (LSP 3786)
- Turntable (SR 5100)
- Two Against the Morning, with Liesbeth List (PH 6641 057)
- Very Warm (DE 4603)
Spoken word[edit]
- Beatsville (R 419)
- The Essential Rod McKuen (3BS 2906)
- In Search of Eros (BN 613)
- Listen to The Warm (LSP 3863; SR 5052)
- Listen to the Warm (SR 5048)
- Lonesome Cities (WS 1758)
- Pushing the Clouds Away (SR 5110)
- Time of Desire (SR 5078)
- The Word (DS 7000)
- The Yellow Unicorn, with Tak Shindo & Julie Meredith (LP 12036)
Classical[edit]
- Symphony No. 1 in 4 Movements (SR 9005)
- Concerto For Guitar & Orchestra: 5 Orchestral Pieces (SR 9006)
- Concerto For 4 Harpsichords: 4 Orchestral Pieces (SR 9007)
- Piano Variations: 6 Piano Sonatas (SR 9008)
- Conducts McKuen (SR 9010)
- Concerto No. 3 for Piano & Orchestra (SR 9012)
- The Plains of My Country: Seascapes for Solo Piano (SR 9015)
- Concerto for Cello & Orchestra; Music for Strings (SR 9021)
- Concerto For Balloon & Orchestra: 3 Overtures (SR 9023)
- The Ballad of Distances: Symphonic Suite, Op. 40 (WB 2WS 2731)
- Piano Quartets: Piano Trios (SR 9060)
- The City: I Hear America Singing, 2 Cantatas (LS 732)
- Written in the Stars (The Zodiac Suite) (CRL 57339)
- Something Beyond: Suite for Orchestra (LST 7537)
Soundtracks[edit]
- The Borrowers, soundtrack (SRQ 4014)
- A Boy Named Charlie Brown & Other Rod McKuen Film Songs (SR 5010)
- A Boy Named Charlie Brown, soundtrack (OS 3500)
- Emily, soundtrack (SRQ 4025)
- Joanna, soundtrack (SR 4202)
- Lisa Bright & Dark, soundtrack (SR 10094)
- Me, Natalie, with Henry Mancini, soundtrack (OS 3350)
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, soundtrack (TC 4207)
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Rod McKuen singing and conducting his score (WB 1853)
- Rock, Pretty Baby, with Henry Mancini, soundtrack (DL 8429)
- Scandalous John, soundtrack (SR 5004)
- Summer Love, with Henry Mancini, soundtrack (DL 8714)
- The Unknown War, soundtrack (2SR 9201)
Live recordings[edit]
- The Amsterdam Concert (2SR 5051)
- Back to Carnegie Hall (2WB 2732)
- Evening in Vienna, with Greta Keller (SR 5040)
- Grand Tour (2BR 1947)
- Grand Tour, Vol. 3 (SR 5042)
- Rod McKuen in Concert (SR 5001)
- Rod McKuen Live Across Australia & Around the World (SR 6031)
- Rod McKuen Live at the Sydney Opera House (SR 5075)
- Rod McKuen Live at the Sydney Opera House (L 70041/2)
- Rod McKuen Live in Africa (SYD 11000)
- Rod McKuen Live in London (2SR 5016)
- Rod McKuen Live / Sold Out Carnegie Hall (WS 1794, WBC 1100B)
Greatest hits and compilations[edit]
- The Beat Generation (R2 70281)
- The Best of Rod McKuen (RCA 4127)
- Bits & Pieces (DL 75078)
- The Early Years: The Best of Rod McKuen (SYC 2901)
- Greatest Australian Hits (PW 6026)
- Rod McKuen: Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 (WS 1772)
- Rod McKuen: Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 (BS 2560)
- Rod McKuen: Greatest Hits, Vol. 3 (SR 5031)
- Rod McKuen: Greatest Hits, Vol. 4 (BS 2688)
- If You Go Away: The RCA Years 1965–1970 (BCD 16122 GL)
- In the Beginning (SLS 96083)
- Love Songs (2SR 5073)
- A Portrait of Rod McKuen (SR 5072)
- Rod on Record (SR 5104)
- Try Rod McKuen in the Privacy of Your Own Home (SR 5020)
- Without a Worry in the World (BR 408, TIXD 420)
With Anita Kerr and the San Sebastian Strings[edit]
Lyrics, book, and musical storylines by Rod McKuen; music composed, arranged, and conducted by Anita Kerr.
- The Sea (WBL 1047, WB 1670)
- The Earth (WBL 1046, WB 1705)
- The Sky (WB 1720)
- Home to the Sea (WBC 1080, WS 1764)
- For Lovers (WB 1795)
- The Soft Sea (WS 1839)
- La Mer (SR 10043)
- Winter (BS 2622)
- Summer (BS4 2707)
- Spring (only released as part of The Seasons)
- Autumn (only released as part of The Seasons)
- Bouquet (BS 2768) (a greatest hits compilation)
- With Love (BS 2837)
- The Sea / The Earth / The Sky (3WS 1730) (box set of the first three albums)
- The Complete Sea (3WS 1827) (box set of The Sea, Home to the Sea and The Soft Sea)
- The Seasons (4WS 2754) (box set of Winter, Spring, Summer and Autumn)
Promotional albums[edit]
- 17 New Songs by Rod McKuen (IM 1000)
- Short Cuts from Pastorale (PRO 451)
- Some of the Best of Rod McKuen (SPS 33–554)
- 20 New Rod McKuen Songs (SML 102)
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Italie, Hillel (30 January 2015). "Rod McKuen, Top-Selling Poet and Performer, Dies at 81". Richmond Times-Dispatch. Associated Press.
- ^ a b "Rod McKuen: Poet, songwriter and distinctively voiced singer who was nominated for an Oscar and worked with Jacques Brel and Frank Sinatra". Los Angeles Times. January 30, 2015.
- ^ a b c d Fox, Margalit (January 29, 2015). "Rod McKuen, Poet and Lyricist With Vast Following, Dies at 81". The New York Times. Retrieved January 31, 2015.
- ^ Michael Carlson (February 1, 2015). "Rod McKuen obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved February 5, 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Huey, Steve. "Rod McKuen Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved January 31, 2015.
- ^ "Rod McKuen, Class of 1951". School Historical Archive. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
- ^ "Rod McKuen". imdb.com. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
- ^ a b McKuen, Rod (August 2002). "Flight Plan". Rod McKuen. Archived from the original on 2003-11-22. Retrieved January 31, 2015.
- ^ a b Hoffmann, Frank; Ramirez, Beaulah B. (1990). Arts and Entertainment Fads. Routledge. p. 168. ISBN 978-0866568814.
- ^ Greenman, Ben (May 1, 2012). "Listening Booth: Gene Ween's Solo Debut". The New Yorker. Retrieved January 31,2015.
- ^ a b Caulfield, Keith (January 29, 2015). "Rod McKuen's Surprising Chart History". Billboard. Retrieved January 31,2015.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2013). Top Pop Singles 1955-2012 (14th ed.). Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. p. 556. ISBN 0-89820-205-1.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2013). Top Pop Singles 1955-2012 (14th ed.). Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. p. 560. ISBN 0-89820-205-1.
- ^ "Rod McKuen". TV Guide. Carolina-Tennessee Edition: A–10. May 10–16, 1969.
- ^ Herald Scotland obituary, 3 February 2015. Accessed 11 August 2015
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2007). Top Adult Songs 1961-2006. Record Research, Inc. ISBN 0-89820-169-1.
- ^ Rod McKuen in Concert Brochure, 1972, Cheval/Stanyan Company, Hollywood
- ^ a b c d e McKuen, Rod. "Biography". Rod McKuen. Retrieved January 31, 2015.
- ^ "Rod McKuen - Flight Plan". www.rodmckuen.org. Retrieved 2016-10-13.
- ^ "Timeline: Milestones in the American Gay Rights Movement". PBP:American Experience. Retrieved 21 November 2016.
- ^ Straight After Death: Misremembering the Queer Life and Times of Rod McKuen, Notches. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
- ^ Baers, Michael, "Rod McKuen", Find articles.
- ^ Solomon, Robert C. (2004). In Defense of Sentimentality. Oxford University Press, USA. p. 236. ISBN 0-19-514550-X.
- ^ "King of Kitsch", Newsweek, pp. 111, 114, November 4, 1968.
- ^ Ephron, Nora (2007). Wallflower at the Orgy. Bantam. p. 181. ISBN 0-553-38505-4.
- ^ Keller, Julia (March 6, 2001). "Where Had You Gone, Rod Mckuen?". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on December 17, 2011. Retrieved 2011-12-17.
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