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Thursday, January 29, 2015
Rod McKuen
Poet, songwriter, composer, and singer -- via the L.A. Times. AKA The King of Kitsch. An awful poet, he did write the Oscar-nominated song from the film "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie," and popularized French poet and songwriter Jacques Brel.