ROD MCKUEN - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED CIRCA 1981 - HFSID 270246
Price: $280.00
ROD McKUEN
He pens a letter on a picture postcard showing kangaroos to Phyllis
Diller quoting the lyrics of songwriter Cole Porter
Autograph Letter signed: "Rod McKuen", 1p, 5½x4 picture
postcard, postmarked Potts Point, New South Wales, Australia, October 9,
1981. Addressed in his own hand to comedian Phyllis Diller, Brentwood,
California. In full: "Birds do it ... bees do it ... even educated
fleas do it - I love you - am looking at your photo in Sibel [?] bar."
Poet, singer, songwriter and actor Rod McKuen (1933-2015) was nominated
for two Academy Awards for Best Song (1970, "Jean", The Prime of Miss Jean
Brodie) and Best Score (1971, A Boy Named Charlie Brown). He won
a Grammy for Best Spoken Word recording, Lonesome Cities (1968). Some
critics deride McKuen's poems as overly sentimental, but no less a poet than W.
H. Auden praised them as "love letters to the world." In this letter McKuen
quotes the lyrics of another skillful songwriter Cole Porter. Fine
condition.
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