American poet, songwriter, composer, and singer (1933?2015)
Rod McKuen
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McKuen in 1970
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Birth name
| Rodney Marvin Woolever
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Born
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1933-04-29
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April 29, 1933
Oakland, California
, U.S.
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Died
| January 29, 2015
(2015-01-29)
(aged 81)
Beverly Hills, California
, U.S.
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Occupation(s)
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- Singer-songwriter
- musician
- poet
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Instrument(s)
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Years active
| 1955?2004
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Musical artist
Rodney Marvin McKuen
(
; April 29, 1933 ? January 29, 2015) was an American poet, singer-songwriter, and composer. 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 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.
[1]
Early years
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McKuen was born as Rodney Marvin Woolever
[2]
on April 29, 1933,
[3]
in a Salvation Army hostel in
Oakland
, California
[4]
to Clarice Woolever.
[5]
Per
The New York Times
,
he had "two birth certificates, each giving conflicting dates and spelling his father's name different ways."
[6]
He never knew his biological father, who had left his mother.
[7]
Sexually and physically abused by relatives,
[8]
raised by his mother and stepfather, who was a violent alcoholic, McKuen ran away from home. 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.
[9]
At some point, he began using the name "McKuen" as the best approximation of what he thought his father's name was. His mother told him that his father's name was “Mac” McKuen (although she was unsure how it was spelled). At one point later in life, McKuen hired a detective agency to try to locate his father. Per
The New York Times
, "Whether or not he found his father, at least he (and the detectives) found a man 10 years deceased who satisfies him -- Rodney Marion McKune, a lumberman in Utah, twice married (the last time to a woman 20 years his senior), who at the close of his life was an iceman in Santa Monica, Calif., 20 miles from where McKuen was living. No relative of this McKune remembers him taking a trip from Utah to Oakland that summer of 1932 when the author was conceived, but a Mormon churchman remembers taking a trip there with him in 1931 or 1932."
[6]
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,
[10]
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
.
[7]
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
.
[9]
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."
[11]
[12]
Discovering Jacques Brel
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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
". McKuen translated Brel's song "
Le Moribond
" loosely into "
Seasons in the Sun
", and British folkbeat group
The Fortunes
charted with the song in the Netherlands in 1969. In 1974, singer
Terry Jacks
turned McKuen's "Seasons in the Sun" 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
Georges Moustaki
,
Gilbert Becaud
,
Pierre Delanoe
, and
Michel Sardou
.
[9]
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."
[13]
Poetry
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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.
[9]
McKuen's poems were translated into eleven languages and his books sold over 1 million copies in 1968 alone.
[14]
McKuen said that his most romantic poetry was influenced by American poet
Walter Benton
's two books of poems.
[13]
McKuen sold over 60 million books worldwide, according to the Associated Press.
[1]
Songwriting
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McKuen wrote over 1,500 songs and released up to 200 albums 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
,
Daliah Lavi
,
Dusty Springfield
,
Johnny Mathis
,
Al Hirt
,
Greta Keller
,
Aaron Freeman
, and
Frank Sinatra
.
[7]
[15]
[16]
In 1959, McKuen released his first 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
.
[17]
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.
[18]
His hoarse and throaty singing voice on these and other recordings was a result of McKuen straining his vocal cords in 1961 due to too many promotional appearances.
[4]
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),
[16]
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 him 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 follow-ups
Home to the Sea
and
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.
[9]
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.
[19]
In 1971, he hosted a series,
The Rod McKuen Show
, on BBC television in the UK.
[20]
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.
[21]
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".
[9]
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
; in 1971 he was voted the Netherlands' most popular entertainer by
Radio Veronica
's audience.
[22]
During the 1970s, McKuen began composing larger-scale orchestral compositions, writing a series of concertos, suites, symphonies, and chamber pieces for orchestra.
[23]
He continued publishing a steady stream of poetry books throughout the decade.
[24]
In 1977, he published
Finding My Father
, a chronicle of his search for information on his biological father.
[25]
The book and its publicity helped make such information more readily available to adopted children.
[24]
He also continued to record, releasing albums such as
New Ballads
(1970),
Pastorale
(1971), and the country-rock outing
McKuen Country
(1976).
[9]
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
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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 on its
spin-off TV series
, as well as on the TV series
The Critic
.
[9]
[26]
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.
[27]
He died of respiratory arrest, a result of pneumonia, at a hospital in Beverly Hills, California, on January 29, 2015.
[7]
LGBT activism
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McKuen never publicly identified with a particular
sexual orientation
, though he did describe his sexuality by 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."
[28]
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.
[29]
The cover of McKuen's 1977 album
Slide... Easy In
featured a photo of popular gay
adult actor
Bruno
's arm gripping a handful of
vegetable shortening
;
[30]
[31]
[32]
the can was a pastiche of
Crisco
? then widely used by gay men as a
sexual lubricant
for
fisting
[33]
? with the label instead reading "Disco". An inscription on the cover stated "this was a project everyone had to get into; not just on the surface, but deeply?and together. If you don't feel "easy in" then perhaps your threshold of pain or pleasure needs looking into."
[32]
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"?which the album cover states was written and recorded on her birthday
[32]
?referencing Bryant's fame as commercial spokesperson for the
Florida Citrus Commission
. He often gave benefit performances to aid LGBT rights organizations and to fund
AIDS research
.
[31]
Criticism
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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 ..."
[34]
In a
Washington Post
obituary, Matt Schudel suggests that McKuen's commercial success engendered a backlash from the literary community. McKuen himself quipped that "The most unforgivable sin in the world is to be a bestselling poet".
[3]
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".
[14]
Philosopher and social critic
Robert C. Solomon
described McKuen's poetry as "sweet
kitsch
,"
[35]
and, at the height of his popularity in 1969,
Newsweek
magazine called him "the King of Kitsch."
[36]
Writer and literary critic
Nora Ephron
said, "[F]or the most part, McKuen's poems are superficial and platitudinous and frequently silly."
[37]
Pulitzer Prize
-winning
US Poet Laureate
Karl Shapiro
said, "It is irrelevant to speak of McKuen as a poet. His poetry is not even trash."
[3]
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.
[38]
In May 2019, Backbeat Books published
A Voice of the Warm: The Life of Rod McKuen
by Barry Alfonso. This was the first in-depth biography of McKuen. In his introduction to the book, singer and music historian
Michael Feinstein
wrote that McKuen's life and work held a significant place in pop culture: "[McKuen] knew how to create something that made a reader or listener say, 'That’s me.' Like Gershwin’s, his work is a document of the time in which it was created. But what he did also transcends that time and still speaks fundamentally to the things that matter to people: romance, relationships, the human condition. Those things don’t change. He used the vernacular of his time to reach the widest audience. But at its essence, his work is still valid and, I think, timeless."
[39]
Bibliography
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Poetry
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- 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)
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Lyrics
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- 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)
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Prose
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- Finding My Father
(Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1976)
- An Outstretched Hand
(Cheval Books/Harper & Row, 1980)
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Original paperbacks
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- 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)
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Discography
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"Where Had You Gone, Rod Mckuen?"
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Chicago Tribune
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the original
on February 3, 2015
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December 17,
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Alfonso, Barry (2019).
A Voice of the Warm: The Life of Rod McKuen
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ISBN
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.
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