NEW YORK — Rod McKuen, the husky-voiced “King of Kitsch” 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 history, has died. He was 81.
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NEW YORK — Rod McKuen, the husky-voiced “King of Kitsch” 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 history, has died. He was 81.