Rod McKuen (1933–2015)
Autor(a) de Listen to the Warm
About the Author
Rodney Marvin McKuen was born in Oakland, California on April 29, 1933. He never knew his biological father, and he was raised by his mother and an abusive alcoholic stepfather. He left home for good at the age of 11. He worked as a ranch hand, disc jockey, railroad worker, rodeo cowboy, and mostrar mais newspaperman. After settling in San Francisco in the 1950s, he began writing poetry and delivered his work at readings alongside the likes of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. He also sang at Bay Area nightclubs and was briefly a contract player at Universal Pictures. He was a poet, lyricist, and songwriter. During his lifetime, he wrote dozens of books of poetry and a memoir entitled Finding My Father: One Man's Search for Identity. His best-known songs, some written with the Belgian composer Jacques Brel, include Birthday Boy, A Man Alone, If You Go Away and Seasons in the Sun. He was nominated for Oscars for Jean from The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and for A Boy Named Charlie Brown, the title track from the Peanuts movie. His Lonesome Cities album won a Grammy for best spoken word recording. His songs were recorded by several popular artists including Frank Sinatra, Johnny Cash, Perry Como, Petula Clark, Barbra Streisand, Madonna, Dolly Parton and Chet Baker. He died as a result of pneumonia on January 29, 2015 at the age of 81. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: McKuen with Grete Keller: Image © ÖNB/Wien
Obras por Rod McKuen
The world of Rod McKuen 8 exemplares
Rod McKuen Omnibus: Listen to the Warm; Lonesome Cities; Stanyan Street and Other Sorrows; + Fourteen New Poems (1975) 5 exemplares
Jean: From the 20th Century Fox Film "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" (1969) — Words and Music — 4 exemplares
The Rod McKuen Collection, 1956-1994 2 exemplares
Rod McKuen: The Single Man 2 exemplares
Kaleidoscope 2 exemplares
About Me 1 exemplar
Christmas blues & shout 1 exemplar
Jean ; From the 20th Century-Fox Film "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" ; Main Theme ; S.S.A. 1 exemplar
Rod McKuen FOLIO #14 1 exemplar
Other Kinds Of Songs 1 exemplar
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Rod McKuen FOLIO #1 1 exemplar
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Rod McKuen FOLIO #6 1 exemplar
Back to Carnegie Hall 1 exemplar
Sea Cycle 1 exemplar
1940’s Christmas [soundrecording] 1 exemplar
Christmas Blues & Shout [sound recording] 1 exemplar
New Sounds In Folk Music 1 exemplar
love songs LP 1 exemplar
If You Go Away: The RCA Years 1965 - 1968 1 exemplar
Stanyon Street 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contribuidor, algumas edições — 917 exemplares
I Didn't Know They Still Made Records Like This [sound recording] — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- McCuen, Rodney Marvin John Michael James
- Outros nomes
- Dor
- Data de nascimento
- 1933-04-29
- Data de falecimento
- 2015-01-29
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Oakland, California, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Beverly Hills, California, USA
- Locais de residência
- California, USA
- Ocupações
- poet
songwriter
lyricist - Relações
- Yarbrough, Glenn (collaborator)
Brel, Jacques, (collaboraotor)
Willims, John (collaborator)
Mancini, Henry (collaborator)
Kerr, Anita (collaborator) - Organizações
- Mattachine Society
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 92
- Also by
- 3
- Membros
- 2,063
- Popularidade
- #12,460
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 24
- ISBN
- 94
- Línguas
- 1
- Marcado como favorito
- 1