NEW YORK (AP) - Rod McKuen, the husky-voiced “King of Kitsch” whose avalanche of music, verse and spoken-word recordings in the 1960s and ‘70s overwhelmed critical mockery and made him an ...

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 30 (UPI) --Rod McKuen, perhaps America's most successful poet although not the most critically acclaimed, has died at age 81 in Los Angeles. In the 1960s and '70s, McKuen's books of ...

McKuen is credited with more than 200 albums -- dozens of which went gold or platinum -- and more than 30 collections of poetry. Worldwide sales for his music top 100 million units while his book ...

Rod McKuen, a wildly successful poet and songwriter in the late 1960s and 1970s — with massive book sales, a No. 1 hit song, concerts around the world, frequent TV appearances and an entire album of ...

Before Rod McKuen essentially stopped publishing his poems and recording albums in 1981, he was a pop culture juggernaut, a sort of middlebrow Renaissance man, selling more than 60 million of his ...

The tables were all full, and I sat on the floor, my back against the rear wall of Ali’s Coffee House at 63rd Street and Kostner Avenue in Chicago. It was amateur night on a Friday, and I was waiting ...

He turned out hundreds of songs and poems and records, including the Academy Award-nominated song "Jean" for the 1969 film 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.' By The Associated Press Rod McKuen - P 2015 ...

The obituary in The Los Angeles Times describes Rod McKuen as "prolific" and that may well be an understatement considering the many compositions he churned out. McKuen is credited with more than 200 ...

NEW YORK — Rod McKuen, the husky-voiced poet and performer whose music, verse and spoken-word recordings in the 1960s and ’70s won him Oscar nominations and made him one of the best-selling poets in ...

Rod McKuen, the husky-voiced "King of Kitsch" whose music, verse and spoken-word recordings in the 1960s and '70s won him an Oscar nomination and made him one of the best-selling poets in history, has ...

NEW YORK— Rod McKuen, the husky-voiced “King of Kitsch” whose music and verse recordings won him an Oscar nomination and made him one of the best-selling poets in history, has died. He was 81. His ...