A Birth of Folk Music 2

Born in Duluth, Minnesota, in 1931, folk singer, Bob Dylan [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9/ Synopsis], was the major transitional figure between old folk music and new folk, the latter to merge with rock. He was a high school student in a band called the Golden Chords in 1958 when he thought to change his name from Robert Allen Zimmerman to Bob Dillon. He later changed it to Dylan in 1961 upon having read a book by Dylan Thomas, though due to no affinity with such [Wikipedia]. Dylan's group played tunes by such as Little Richard and Elvis Presley. Dylan was in college in 1961 when it occurred to go visit Woody Guthrie in New York City. So he dropped out of school (freshman year) and did. Then he started playing clubs in Greenwich Village and released his first record album in 1962: 'Bob Dylan'. That now famous record sold only 5,000 copies at the time, barely breaking even. The majority of Dylan's albums, forty some studio and live, went gold in America. Twelve alone went Platinum in the US from 'Freewheelin' Bob Dylan' in '63 to 'Modern Times' in 2006. Several of his compilations have also gone Platinum. Dylan first toured the United Kingdom in '62, where he made his first television appearance in 1963 for the BBC. Dylan was involved in the civil rights movement of the sixties. In 1963 he refused an appearance on the 'Ed Sullivan Show' because they censored his wish to play 'Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues'. He first performed with protestor, Joan Baez, in '63 at the Monterey Folk Festival ('With God on Our Side'). Dylan jumped aboard the #9 spot on the UK singles chart in 1963 for 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' (issued on the album, 'Bringing It All Back Home'). His first to breach the Top Ten in the US was 'Like a Rolling Stone' in 1965 at #2 on Billboard's Hot 100. 'Positively Fourth Street' placed at #7 the same year. 'Rainy Day Women ♯12 & 35' reached #2 in 1966. 'Lay Lady Lay' saw #2 in 1969. It had been 1965 when Dylan went electric with half of the LP, 'Bringing It All Back Home'. He encountered a little protest from folk purists displeased by Dylan's step away from traditional acoustic folk at the Newport Folk Festival that year, going electric there with the backing of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Two days of recording with Johnny Cash in February 1969 resulted in the album, 'Nashville Skyline'. 1971 saw him performing at the Madison Square Garden Concert for Bangladesh with George Harrison and Indian sitar player, Ravi Shankar. Dylan toured with The Band in early '74, resulting in the Platinum album, 'Before the Flood', issued on Asylum. He was a guest on their '78 release of the film, 'The Last Waltz'. Psychologist and theatre director, Jacques Levy, composed all but a couple of the songs on 'Desire' issued in 1976. Dylan's announced conversion to Christianity in 1979 created something of a stir. Yet, unlike Cat Stevens' announced devotion to Islam two years earlier, what little negative consequence Dylan suffered was short-lived, even upon releasing three albums concerning such: 'Slow Train Coming' in 1979, 'Saved' in 1980 and 'Shot of Love' in 1981. Come 1988 Dylan formed The Travelling Wilburys with Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty. In 1998 Dylan garnered the Album of the Year Grammy Award for 'Time Out of Mind' ('97). Dylan's first record release in the new millennium was in 2001: 'Love and Theft'. His latest issues per this writing were 'Shadows in the Night' ('15), 'Fallen Angels' ('16) and 'Triplicate' ('17). Dylan remains an Eveready rabbit, performing an average of 100 tour dates a year for the last two decades. This condensed history of music must be especially abbreviated relative to Dylan's packed career, on top of which he's published six books of drawings and paintings [see also 1, 2, 3, 4.]. He was the recipient of a Pulitzer Special Award in 2008, then forced to eat among the plumpest of maraschino cherries when he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in October of 2016 [1, 2, 3]. Unfortunately that prize was worth only about $900,000, pressing Dylan to launch Heaven's Gate Whiskey in April of 2018, the bottle designed by himself after one of his steel sculptures. Being largely known for his songwriting, it's no surprise that Dylan composed the greater portion of his recordings, to list but a few: 'Song to Woody' ('62), 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall' ('63), 'Masters of War' ('63), 'My Back Pages' ('64) 'Maggie's Farm' ('65), 'Watching the River Flow' ('71), 'George Jackson' ('71), 'Forever Young' ('74), 'Seven Days' ('91)', et al. He co-wrote such as 'I'd Have You Anytime' and 'If Not for You' with Harrison in 1970. A partial but nice list of the above 500 compositions credited to Dylan. Composers he's covered. Also see production and songwriting credits at 45cat, discogs and wikipedia. Bob Dylan in visual media. At Twitter. Further reading: 1, 2, 3. All titles below were written by Dylan except as noted.

   Baby Please Don't Go

      Composition: Big Joe Williams

   Corrina, Corrina

      Composition: Bo Carter   1928

   Only a Hobo

   Roll On, John

      Composition: Obscure   See *

   You're Beautiful

      Composition: Bo Carter   1928

      James Blunt/Sacha Skarbek/Amanda Ghost

Bob Dylan   1963

   Don't Think Twice

   Man Of Constant Sorrow

   Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues

Bob Dylan   1965

   Like a Rolling Stone

      Live at Newport

Bob Dylan   1967

   All Along the Watchtower

       From 'John Wesley Harding'

Bob Dylan

Source: Cifra Club

Jerry Garcia

Source: Awaken

Born in San Francisco in 1942, banjo and guitar player Jerry Garcia [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7] had been inspired by bluegrass music since a youth. Associated with acid rock, Garcia switched from art to pursue music professionally upon meeting future Grateful Dead [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] lyricist, Robert Hunter [*], in 1961. Garcia first recorded with Hunter as Bob & Jerry on 26 May 1961, documenting traditional folk titles like 'Santy Anno' and 'I Got a Home In That Rock'. His future bass player, Phil Lesh, helped launch Garcia's radio career by recording a performances of 'Matty Groves' and 'Long Black Veil' in 1962 [1, 2]. It was 1965 when Garcia formed the Warlocks out of which the Grateful Dead emerged with Phil Lesh (replacing Dana Morgan Jr. at bass), Bill Kreutzmann (drums), Bob Weir (rhythm guitar) and Ron Pigpen McKernan (keyboards and harmonica). Other band members would include Mickey Hart on board in '67, Tom Constanten in '68 and Vince Welnick in '90. McKernan would die on March 8 of 1973 of gastrointestinal hemorrhage, his place at keyboards filled by Keith Godchaux who had joined the group in '71 when McKernan began to fall ill. The name, 'Grateful Dead', was perhaps a random occurrence. It is said that Garcia opened a dictionary to a page on which "grateful dead" was defined as "a dead person, or his angel, showing gratitude to someone who, as an act of charity, arranged their burial" [Wikipedia]. On 29 May of 1966 the Dead recorded their first issued titles: 'Stealin'' with 'Don't Ease Me In' flip side on a limited edition of Scorpio 201. In January of 1967 the Dead recorded their debut album, 'The Grateful Dead'. Their next album, 'Anthem of the Sun' was released in 1968. Not until 'Workingman's Dead', their fifth album issued in 1970, did the Dead arrive to solid national recognition, reinforced that same year by 'Vintage Dead' and 'American Beauty' the same year. The Grateful Dead toured for thirty years until Garcia's death in 1995, notable in that many Dead Heads (fans) made a lifestyle of traveling about the country like gypsies, following the Dead from one engagement to the next, Grateful Dead concerts their itinerary. Among the Dead's stronger titles were in their latter years as well with such as 'Touch of Grey' ('87), 'Hell in a Bucket' ('87) and 'Foolish Heart' ('89). Among Garcia's most important associates beyond the Dead was upright bassist, John Kahn, with whom he formed the bluegrass outfit, Old And In The Way, in 1973 with Peter Rowan (guitar), Vassar Clements (fiddle) and David Grisman (mandolin). The first of several albums, 'Old And In The Way', was recorded in October of 1973 toward release in 1975. Kahn made himself useful as a composer as well, writing titles for Garcia like 'Let It Rock' and 'Midnight Town' in 1974. Kahn was also an original member of the Jerry Garcia Band in 1975 to the group's abandonment upon Garcia's death in '95. He also performed in the Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band of '87/'88. Deaddisc has Garcia performing above 60 concerts as a duo with Kahn between 1982and 1989 [see also *]. Kahn had worked a bit with the Grateful Dead as a concert sound engineer as well. Garcia is thought to have made his last recordings with guitarist Sanjay Mishra in 1995, prior to his death of heart attack on August 9 that year [*]. He was the major arranger/composer of his operations including the Grateful Dead. He'd early written such as 'The Golden Road' ('67). Per above, Robert Hunter was Garcia's lyricist with whom he raised numerous titles like 'Uncle John's Band' ('69), 'To Lay Me Down' ('70), 'Deal' ('72), 'Loser' ('72) and 'Sugaree' ('72). Other of the Dead's original members contributed to compositions as well. Lesh collaborated with Garcia and Hunter on 'Cumberland Blues' ('70). McKernan wrote 'Operator' ('70). Weir collaborated with Hunter on 'Sugar Magnolia' ('70) and 'Playing in the Band' ('71). He wrote 'Throwing Stones' ('87) with John Barlow. Kreutzmann assisted Garcia and Hunter on 'Bird Song' ('72) and 'The Wheel' ('72). Songwriting credits for Grateful Dead singles. For albums. See also 1, 2. Grateful Dead and Garcia at Discogs: 1, 2. In visual media: 1, 2. Reviews

   Man of Constant Sorrow

      Composition: Traditional   See Wikipedia

Jerry Garcia   1966

  Stealin'

  Don't Ease Me In

  Betty and Dupree

      Composition: Chuck Willis

      From Ma Rainey's 'See See Rider' 1924

    Hey Little One

  You See a Broken Heart

      Composition: Pigpen McKernan

   Morning Dew

      Composition: Bonnie Dobson/Tim Rose

  Smokestack Lightning

  New Potato Caboose

  Silver Threads and Golden Needles

  Workingman's Dead

  Box of Rain

  Friend of the Devil

      With the Grateful Dead

   Ripple

      With the Grateful Dead

  Truckin'

  Southside Strut

  Angel Band

  Sugaree

  Just Like Tom Thumb Blues

  Dear Prudence

  Tangled Up In Blue

  Dark Hollow

  Fire on the Mountain

  I Need a Miracle

  All Along the Watchtower

  Not Fade Away

  We Bid You Goodnight

  Long Black Veil

  Amazing Grace

  A Shenandoah Lullaby

  Peggy O

  Clouds

The Grateful Dead

Source: 21 Hours a Day

Gordon Lightfoot

Photo: Carl Chalupa

Source: Way to Famous

Canadian guitarist, Gordon Lightfoot, left Ontario at age twenty to study jazz composition and orchestration at the Westlake College of Music in Hollywood in 1958. [Wikipedia.] During his brief two-year visit to California he worked as a composer and performer of commercial jingles. Lightfoot would make numerous visits to America during his career but he made Toronto his home upon returning from his first stay in Hollywood. He there fall in with the Swinging Eight, acquiring television and radio spots. Discogs comments that Lightfoot's first recordings were on January 20, 1962, resulting in 'Two Tones at the Village Corner' (Canatal 4026, Chateau 1012). Those were Terry Whelan (guitar) and Howie Morris (bass). Wikipedia states Lightfoot's first releases to be his compositions, 'Remember Me I'm The One'/'Daisy Doo' (Chateau ‎142 May '62). Those were followed by 'Negotiations'/'It's Too Late, He Wins' (Chateau ‎148 Oct '62) [45cat]. Lightfoot wrote the former, Les Pouliot the latter. Those were among numerous titles recorded on an unknown date. Praguefrank has Lightfoot with the Two Tones on another unidentified date in '62 for 'Lessons in Love'/'Sweet Polly' (Quality 1395X) also released in '62. (Someone at citizenfreak wants $200 for that plate.) The album, 'Lightfoot!', was released in 1963, the same year he hosted 'The Country and Western Show' for the BBC. Four of Lightfoot's songs alighted to the top tier of Billboard's AC at #1: 'If You Could Read My Mind' ('70), 'Sundown' ('74), 'Carefree Highway' ('74) and 'Rainy Day People' ('75). 'The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald' reached #9 in '76 and 'The Circle Is Small' saw #3 in '78. Composing extensively, Lightfoot wrote such as 'The Pony Man' ('70), '10 Degrees and Getting Colder' ('71) and 'If It Should Please You' ('88). Other titles composed by him. Songwriting credits for singles. For albums. See also 1, 2, 3, 4. With a career spanning five decades, and more than 200 recordings behind him, Lightfoot yet performs on tour per this writing. He has issued about 23 studio and live albums to as late as 'All Live' in 2012. References encyclopedic: 1, 2, 3, 4; musical: 1, 2, 3, 4. Lightfoot in visual media. At Facebook and Twitter. He composed all titles below except as noted.

   Daisy Doo/Remember Me (I'm the One)

Gordon Lightfoot   1966

   Crossroads

   Long River

Gordon Lightfoot   1968

   Did She Mention My Name

Gordon Lightfoot   1970

   Me and Bobby McGee

   Affair on 8th Avenue

   Sundown

   The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Gordon Lightfoot   1979

   Early Morning Rain

  Michael Row the Boat Ashore

  This Land Is Your Land

      Composition: Woody Guthrie

   Tip Toe Thru the Tulips with Me

      Music: Joe Burke

      Lyrics: Al Dubin

   Whistle

New Christy Minstrels   1963

  The Banjo

      Composition: Nick Woods/Randy Sparks

  Hi Jolly

      Composition: Randy Sparks

New Christy Minstrels   1964

  Blacksmith of Brandywine

      Composition: Victoria & Pat Garvey

  Today

      Composition: Randy Sparks

New Christy Minstrels

Source: Ed Cyphers

Born in Chicago in 1937, Tom Paxton [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7] was a graduate of the University of Oklahoma in '59, after which he joined the Army. Upon honorable discharge drama was Paxton's pursuit until he began performing folk songs at the Gaslight Cafe in Greenwich Village. It was there that he held his initial recordings in autumn of 1962, resulting in his first album, 'I'm the Man Who Built the Bridges', issued that year. That was followed by 'Ramblin' Boy' in 1964. Paxton first toured the United Kingdom in 1965. Though Paxton charted a few times his wish to stick to acoustic folk was no rival to rock & roll. He was thus not so successful as, say, Bob Dylan, who early recognized, with full consent, that rock was the new folk. He's nevertheless recorded extensively, Wikipedia listing above sixty albums to 'Boat in the Water' in 2017. Paxton did a lot of composing, such as 'Goin' to the Zoo' ('62), 'General Custer' and 'Passing Through Tulsa' ('94). The Fireballs took 'Bottle of Wine' to #9 on the Hot 100 in 1967. Porter Wagoner found #7 on the Country chart with 'The Last Thing on My Mind' in '68. Paxton toured to New Zealand and China in the early seventies. Other of his compositions at secondhandsongs. Compositions covered by others. See also 1, 2, 3. Paxton also published a good number of music books, such as sheet music, as well as numerous books for children. As of this writing Paxton yet tours both the United States and United Kingdom while maintaining a Facebook page. He composed all titles below.

   I'm the Man Who Built the Bridges

Tom Paxton   1965

   Buy a Gun for Your Son

   Ramblin' Boy

   The Last Thing on My Mind

   Ramblin' Boy

Tom Paxton

Source: Frank Beaham's Journal

Peter, Paul & Mary

Source: Favorite Things

Peter, Paul and Mary [1, 2, 3] weren't starting a new religion, that simply short for Peter Yarrow, (Noel) Paul Stookey and Mary Travers, being an alteration of a line in the traditional, '', referring to Peter, Paul and Moses. Peter (b 1938), Paul (b 1937) and Mary (b 1936) were all born and raised in the Northeast. The most experienced of the three in folk music before they first performed together in the fall of 1961 at the Folk City in NYC were Travers and Stookey. Travers had appeared in Pete Seeger's Chorus on 'Talking Union' (Folkways 5285) as early as 1955 on seven titles like 'We Shall Not Be Moved' and 'Roll the Union On'. That led to the formation of the Song Swappers to issue three albums: 'Folksongs of Four Continents' (Folkways 6911), 'Bantu Choral Folk Songs' (Folkways 6912) and 'Camp Songs With 6 to 11 Year Olds' (Folkways SC 7628). The Song Swappers appeared at Carnegie Hal before Travers joined the Broadway musical at the Bijou, 'The Next President'. Stookey was in high school when the Birds of Paradise were formed to record the album, 'The Birds Fly Home' released in 1955. While at Michigan State he recorded his compositions, 'Goodbye Baby'/'Ivy Covered Castle' (Shadow 1230 '57) with his Corsairs. Situating himself in Greenwich Village, he performed both as a standup comic and musician. Yarrow had graduated from Cornell in 1959. While there he served for a time as president of the Cornell Folk Song Club. He first professionally performed on guitar at Cornell as a teacher's assistant for a class on folklore. A private tape was made of one those classes, never issued. In June of 1960 he appeared on the television special for CBS, 'Folk Sound U.S.A.' He then appeared at the Newport Folk Festival that summer. [See 1, 2, 3.] All three figuring Greenwich Village the place to be, they there came together under manager, Albert Grossman and began booking clubs, first at Folk City, two weeks later at the Bitter End. Praguefrank's wants their first session in February of 1962 for several titles toward their first LP, 'Peter, Paul and Mary' (Warner Bros. 1449). That album claimed the #1 spot on Billboard's Top 200 that year. 'Moving' arrived on record shop shelves in January of 1963, 'In the Wind' in October, the latter to find Billboard's top tier also. Two more albums entered the Top Ten per 'In Concert' in '64 and 'A Song Will Rise' in '65. Their ensuing 'See What Tomorrow Brings' in '65 became Billboard's 11th best-selling LP. Peter, Paul and Mary maintained a similarly strong presence throughout the sixties, becoming a folk super trio with the assistance of arranger and musical director, Milt Okun. 'Lemon Tree' had reached Billboard's #12 tier in AC in 1962. 'If I Had a Hammer' climbed to #10. 'Puff the Magic Dragon' saw Billboard's #1 spot in 1963. Of the seven Top Ten issues to follow two topped the charts: 'Blowin' in the Wind' ('63) and 'Leaving on a Jet Plane' ('69). Other Top Ten songs were 'Don't Twice It's All Right' ('63), 'Tell It on the Mountain' ('64), 'For Lovin' Me ('65), 'Cruel War' ('66), 'I Dig Rock and Roll' ('67) and 'Day Is Done' ('69). The trio abruptly broke up in 1970 due to Yarrow's conviction that year of improprieties with a fourteen year-old girl. He served three months and was later pardoned by President Carter. All three then pursued individual careers [1, 2, 3.]. Reunions over the years (such as 'No Easy Walk to Freedom' in '86) came to an end when Travers died on September 16, 2009, of leukemia. Though Travers contributed to numerous compositions, most of the songwriting not gleaned from elsewhere was done by Stookey and Yarrow. Stookey had composed such as 'Early in the Morning' in '62. Yarrow had written such as 'Day Is Done' in 1970. They collaborated often on such as 'Very Last Day' in 1963. Composing credits to single releases. Credits per albums. See also Discogs. Peter, Paul & Mary in visual media.

   Peter, Paul and Mary

      Album

Peter, Paul and Mary   1963

   Puff the Magic Dragon

      Composition: Peter Yarrow/Leonard Lipton

Peter, Paul and Mary   1966

   Early Morning Rain

      Composition: Gordon Lightfoot

      Composition: Pete Seeger   1955

      Alan Arkin/Bob Carey/Erik Darling

      Composition: Howard Dietz

  Walk Right In

      Composition: Erik Darling/Willard Svanoe

      Album: 'Walk Right In'

Rooftop Singers   1964

  Good Time!

      Composition: Erik Darling

      Album: 'Good Time!'

Rooftop Singers

Source: Rate Your Music

Tom Rush

Photo: Robert Corwin

Source: Robert Corwin

Born in 1941 in New Hampshire, Tom Rush [ 1, 2, 3, 4] had been a student of English literature at Harvard when he began performing. We've seen folk assume transitions on this page from country-based old school such as the Carter Family at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, having long since demurely gone country western, to such as the ballads of Pete Seeger in New York City. ("Demurely": the first couple decades of the Grand Ole Opry were folk purist, not eager to admit western swing of jazz influence into its fold.) Rush came along during the folk revival of the sixties, later to hub in such as Greenwich Village and grow more rock-oriented as expressed by such as Bob Dylan, Crosby, Stills & Nash and Joni Mitchell. Rush released his first album, 'Tom Rush at the Unicorn', in 1962. He issued his second album, 'Got a Mind to Ramble', the next year. Come 'Blues, Songs & Ballads' in '64. Rush had written songs like 'On the Road Again' ('66), 'Rockport Sunday' ('68) and 'Mother Earth' ('72). Compositional credits at 45cat and australiancharts. As of this writing, Rush yet performs on tour and has issued at least 17 albums [per discogs] including 'Voices' in 2018. Rush in visual media. At Facebook and YouTube.

  Every Night When the Sun Goes Down

      Composition: Traditional

  Blues, Songs & Ballads

      Album

Tom Rush   1968

   The Circle Game

  No Regrets

      Composition: Tom Rush

Lovin Spoonful

Source: The 60s Official Site

   Do You Believe In Magic

      Composition: John Sebastian

   You Didn't Have to Be So Nice

   Younger Girl

      Composition: John Sebastian

John Sebastian   1966

   Daydream

      Composition: John Sebastian

   Jug Band Music

      Composition: John Sebastian

   Nashville Cats

      Composition: John Sebastian

   Rain On the Roof

   Summer In the City

   Darling Be Home Soon

   Younger Generation

   Darlin' Companion

   Daydream

   How Have You Been

      Composition: John Sebastian

John Sebastian   1974

   She's Funny

      Composition: John Sebastian

John Sebastian   1976

   Welcome Back

      Composition: John Sebastian

John Sebastian   2013

   Shady Grove

John Sebastian

Source: Go Retro

Jake Holmes

Source: In Deep

   Dazed and Confused

   Did You Know

   Genuine Imitation Life

   I Wish I Was Anywhere Else

   Lonely

   Penny's

   She Belongs to Me

Jake Holmes   1968

   Late Sleeping Day*

   Leaves Never Break

   Moving Day*

   Saturday Night

   Sleeping Woman*

  Devil Got My Woman

      Composition: Skip James

  Chevrolet

     With Jim Kweskin   Composition: Billy Gibbons

  Lazybones

     With Maria Muldaur

     Composition: Hoagy Carmichael/Johnny Mercer

  Higher and Higher

    Composition:

     Carl Smith/Gary Jackson/Raynard Miner

     First recorded 1967 by Jackie Wilson

  Brazil

    Composition: Ary Barroso/S.K. Russell

  I Can't See Your Face Anymore

      Composition: Walter Davis

  Boll Weevil

      Composition: Vera Hall

Geoff Muldaur

Source: Passim

Born in 1942 in Lancashire, England, Graham Nash [1, 2, 3, 4] first recorded as a member of the pop-rock band, the Hollies, in 1963. It was on a Hollies tour of the United States that he met David Crosby and Stephen Stills, with whom he would record as one of the trio, Crosby, Stills and Nash [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,] in 1969. Nash produced his first solo album, 'Songs For Beginners', in 1971 after the dissolution of the  group, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. Nash's first of several albums as a duo with Crosby was issued in 1972: 'Graham Nash David Crosby' [*], that to go Gold as would the two following. His better known titles as a solo artist in the seventies were 'Southbound Train' ('72), 'Carry Me' ('75), 'Out of the Darkness' ('76) and 'Spotlight' ('76). To further the cause of alternative rather than nuclear energy Nash helped found Musicians United for Safe Energy in 1979. In 1997 Nash was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his participation in Crosby, Stills and Nash. He was inducted again in 2010 for his earlier work with the Hollies. Nash was also a photographer. His memoir, 'Wild Tales: A Rock & Roll Life', was published in September of 2013. Among the numerous titles composed by Nash were 'Our House' ('70), 'Military Madness' ('71), 'And So It Goes' ('74) and 'Grave Concern' ('74). Production and songwriting credits for Nash: 1, 2. For Crosby & Nash. For Crosby, Stills & Nash: 1, 2, 3. Lyrics for CSN and Nash. Nash concerning various of his compositions. CSN and Nash in visual media. 2014 interview with Mr. Fish. CSN and Nash at Facebook. Nash at Twitter. Per 1964 below, L. Ransford was an early pseudonym the Hollies used to credit band members in general regardless who did the composing, being largely Nash, Allan Clarke and Tony Hicks.

   (Ain't That) Just Like Me

     Composition: Earl Carroll/Billy Guy

   Just One Look

     Composition: Doris Payne/Gregory Carroll

   To You My Love

     Composition: L. Ransford

   Helplessly Hoping

     Composition: Stephen Stills

   Marrakesh Express

     Composition: Graham Nash

   Southern Cross

     Composition: Stephen Stills/Rick & Michael Curtis

   Teach Your Children

   Better Days

     Composition: Graham Nash

   Chicago

     Composition: Graham Nash

Graham Nash   1973

   Wild Tales

     Composition: Graham Nash

   These Days

     Composition: Jackson Browne

Graham Nash

Source: Times Square Gossip

Phil Ochs [1, 2, 3/Phil Ochs Papers] was born in El Paso, Texas, in 1940. Going by the Sonny Ochs website (his older sister), Phil dropped out of Ohio State University after his junior year where he'd been a journalism major to go to New York City, there the folk hub that was Greenwich Village. He released his first album with Cameo Records in 1963, 'Camp Favorites', as part of a group called the Campers. Also in 1963 Ochs produced a score or so of demos which can now be heard on the CD releases 'The Broadside Tapes' and 'On My Way'. His next three albums, for Elektra Records, were 'All the News That's Fit to Sing' in 1964, 'I Ain't Marching Anymore' in 1965 and 'Phil Ochs in Concert' in 1966. In 1975 Ochs assumed another identity by the name John Butler, began to carry weapons (such as a hammer or a pipe), became involved in fights with patrons at bars where he performed, and eventually became homeless. In 1976 he finally took his sister's counsel to see a doctor, upon which he was diagnosed bipolar. But that was too little too late, as he hung himself later that year on April 9 in Queens. Ochs had written such as 'I'm Going to Say It Now' ('64), 'Another Age' ('69) and 'What Are You Fighting For' ('76). Other credits at 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Lyrics. Quotes. In visual media. Tribute site. Further reading: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.

   Cannibal King

     Composition: Traditional

   Hambone

     Composition: Traditional

   On My Way

     Composition: Traditional

      Recorded 1963   Issued 2010

   Polly Wolly Doodle

     Composition: Traditional   See Wikipedia

   The Welcome Song

     Composition: Traditional

   Ballad of William Worthy

     Composition: Phil Ochs

Phil Ochs   1965

   Crucifixion

     Composition: Phil Ochs

   I Ain't Marching Any More

     Composition: Phil Ochs

Phil Ochs   1967

   Cross My Heart

     Composition: Phil Ochs

   Flower Lady

     Composition: Phil Ochs

Phil Ochs   1969

   The Scorpion Departs

     Composition: Phil Ochs

Phil Ochs   1974

   Changes

   No More Songs

   That's the Way It's Going to Be

   When I'm Gone

Phil Ochs

Source: New York Geschichte

Tim Rose

Source: Songkick

  Wild Women

  Come Away Melinda

     Composition: Fred Hellerman/Fran Minkoff

  Hey Joe

  Long Time Man

     Composition: Tim Rose

  Morning Dew

     Composition: Bonnie Dobson

Tim Rose   1968

  Long Haired Boy

  Darling You Were All That I Had

     Composition: John Bettis/Kerry Chater

   If I Were a Carpenter

     Composition: Tim Hardin

  It Takes a Little Longer

     Composition: Christina Uppstrom/Gary Wright

  You've Got To Hide Your Love Away

     Composition: Lennon/McCartney

Tim Rose   1995

  Hey Joe

The Seekers

Source: The Judith Story

   Introducing the Seekers

      Album

   Cotton Fields

     Composition: Lead Belly   1940

   Gotta Travel On

     Composition: Paul Clayton

   I'll Never Find Another You

     Composition: Tom Springfield

  The Carnival Is Over

     Composition: Russian traditional   See Wikipedia

   Don't Think Twice It's Alright

     Composition: Bob Dylan

   A World of Our Own

     Composition: Tom Springfield

The Seekers   1966

   Morningtown Ride

     Composition: Malvina Reynolds   1957

The Seekers   1967

   Angeline Is Always Friday

     Composition: Tom Paxton/Bruce Woodley

The Seekers   1968

   Colours Of My Life

     Composition: David Reilly/Judith Durham

   Georgy Girl

     Music: Tom Springfield

   Calling Me Home

     Composition: Judith Durham/Jeff Vincent

   I Am Australian

     Composition: Bruce Woodley/Dobe Newton

   Children Go Where I Send Thee

     Composition: Traditional spiritual   See 1, 2, 3

Neil Young

Source: Temple Ordered Opulant

All members of the band, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (CSNY) [1, 2, 3] were strongly rock oriented, Neil Young [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7] the more so. Alike his friend, Joni Mitchell, Young was Canadian, first recording with a band called the Squires in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1963 [1, 2]. After leaving the Squires, Young toured Canada, upon which he met Rick James in Toronto, Ontario and joined his group, the Mynah Birds [1 , 2 , 3]. As referenced, bassist, Bruce Palmer, was also a member of the Mynah Birds, upon which disbandment he and Young traveled to Los Angeles. There they met Dewey Martin, Richie Furay and  Stephen Stills, with whom they formed the Buffalo Springfield group. While with that band he wrote such as 'Expecting to Fly' ('67). It was 1968 when Palmer helped Young make his first solo recording, titled simply 'Neil Young'. That same year they got together with Ralph Molina, Billy Talbot and Danny Whitten to form the group, Crazy Horse, the various formations of which have been Young's band ever since. It was 1969 when Young joined Crosby, Stills & Nash to release their album, 'Deja Vu', as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in 1970. While with that band Young wrote such as 'Ohio' ('70). Pursuing a solo career with his band, Crazy Horse, Young issued his composition, 'Heart of Gold', in '72. Young didn't record 'Horse With No Name' as many mistakenly believe. 'Horse With No Name' was released by the folk rock band, America, bumping Young's 'Heart of Gold' from its #1 slot on the charts in 1972. (As America didn't release its first recording until 1970 it is not yet included in this history.) Recording prolifically, Young has issued well above 40 studio name albums with eight more live. As many went Gold if not Platinum as not. He has issued continuously to as late as 'Hitchhiker' and 'The Visitor' in 2017. Young had written such as 'Aurora' ('63) and 'Mustang' ('64) with the Squires. He composed all of his strong performing songs from 'Touch the Night' ('86) to 'No More' ('89), 'Rockin' in the Free World' ('89), 'War of Man' ('92) and 'Downtown' with Pearl Jam ('94). Other of his compositions at 1 , 2, 3, 4, 5. Compositions by others that Young covered. CSNY disco w various credits. Young and CSNY in visual media. Reviews. All titles below were written by Young except as noted.

  The Sultan

  Go On and Cry

     Ricky Matthews/John Taylor/Mike Valvano/Dean Taylor

  It's My Time

  Here We Are In the Years

  If I Could Have Her Tonight

  I've Loved Her So Long

  The Last Trip to Tulsa

  The Old Laughing Lady

  String Quartet Whiskey Boot Hill

     Composition: Jack Nitzsche

  Down By the River

  Deja Vu

  Down By the River

  Southern Man

  Ohio

  Our House

  Woodstock

  Heart of Gold

  Needle and the Damage Done

   Old Ma

  Like a Hurricane

  Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)

  This Note's For You

  Don't Cry No Tears

  God Save the Queen

  Oh Susannah

     Composition: Stephen Foster   1848

The Band

Photo: Elliott Landy

Though more famous in association with Bob Dylan, each member of The Band had earlier belonged to Ronnie Hawkins' the Hawks (Fifties Rock), Levon Helm since their inception in Arkansas in 1958. It was 1964 when that bunch left Hawkins in Toronto, Canada, to tour in the States as their own operation. In spring of 1965 they recorded 'Uh-Uh-Uh'/'Leave Me Alone' (Ware 6002/Apex 76964) as the Canadian Squires [1, 2], issued per 45cat and discogs in 1965. Those had been composed by Robbie Robertson. Two more of Robertson's compositions, 'He Don’t Love You'/'The Stones I Throw' (Atco 6383) were issued the same year in October as Levon and the Hawks. 'Go Go Liza Jane' didn't get issued until 1968 on Atco 6625 [1, 2]. By that time the Hawks had been invited to back Bob Dylan, which came to billing as Bob Dylan and the Band to conduct a world tour early in '66 [*]. The group ventured out on its own as The Band in 1967, issuing 'The Weight' and 'I Shall Be Released' in 1968, those also appearing on the group's debut album that year, 'Music from Big Pink' which went Gold. Members of The Band (earlier formed by Hawkins as the Hawks) were: Levon Helm (drums, guitar, mandolin/1, 2, 3), Rick Danko (bass, fiddle, trombone/1, 2, 3), Robbie Robertson (guitar/1, 2, 3), Garth Hudson (keyboards, saxophone, trumpet/1, 2, 3) and Richard Manuel (piano, baritone sax/1, 2, 3). All were born in Canada with the exception of Helms, popped from the oven in Arkansas in 1940. Among the more unique phenomena in folk/rock, The Band's next LP in 1969, 'The Band', would go Platinum. 'Stage Fright' in 1970 went Gold as did 'Rock of Ages' in 1972. In latter 1973 the group joined Dylan on 'Planet Waves', that to go Gold. The Band toured with Dylan again in early '74, that resulting in 'Before the Flood' issued in June to go Platinum. Another of Dylan's numerous collaborations with The Band was his appearance on the 'The Last Waltz' in 1978, a live concert given on Thanksgiving of 1976 at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco [*]. 'The Last Waltz', going Gold, was supposed to be a farewell performance but the band regrouped in 1983 without Robertson. Robertson (b 1943) had moved on to an acting, movie producing and solo career, publishing his voluminous autobiography (500 pages), 'Testimony', in 2016. Manuel (b 1943) committed suicide on March 4, 1986, in Winter Park, Florida [*]. He was briefly replaced by Stan Szelest followed by Richard Bell. The Band's last studio LP had been 'Islands' in 1977. They didn't issue another until 'Jericho' in 1992. They were with Dylan again on October 16, 1992, at Madison Square Garden for Dylan's 'The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration'. Come 'High on the Hog' in '96 and 'Jubilation' in '98. The Band's last recording was in 1999 with Dylan: 'One Too Many Mornings', found on Dylan's album, 'Tangled Up In Blues'. Rick Danko (b 1943) died in his sleep on December 10 of 1999 in Marbletown, New York, putting The Band to rest as well (interview three days before death). Helm went on to release such as 'Dirt Farmer' ('07) and 'Electric Dirt' ('09), passing onward from throat cancer on April 19, 2012, in New York City [*]. Hudson (b 1937) went on to a musical career including the issues of 'The Sea to the North' in 2001 and 'Live at the Wolf' n 2005. The main force in composition in The Band was Robertson, who wrote the majority of their titles including such as 'Tears of Rage' ('68), 'Across the Great Divide' ('69), 'King Harvest' ('69), 'The Shape I'm In' ('70) and 'Livin' in a Dream' ('77). References for The Band encyclopedic: 1, 2, 3. Musical: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Members. Discography. Discographies w various credits: 1, 2, 3. See also discos of individual members at 45Worlds and Discogs. The Band in visual media.

Born in 1941 in Los Angeles, David Crosby [1, 2, 3, 4] was a drama student when he dropped out of college to pursue a musical career. He first recorded with the Balladeers in 1963 on such tunes as 'Midnight Special' and Ride Up' [1, 2, 3]. Crosby held his first name recording session for producer, Jim Dickson, in 1963, unissued titles getting released later on a couple of compilation albums: 'Byrd Parts' and 'Early L.A.'. In 1964 he helped form the group, the Jet Set, with whom he recorded such as 'You Movin' and 'The Only Girl'. The Jet Set became the Beefeaters in 1964 [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. In 1965 the Beefeaters became the Byrds [1, 2, 3, 4], their first release, 'Mr. Tambourine Man' the same year. Crosby was dismissed from the Byrds in 1967 due largely to disagreements as to the kind of material the band ought play. He would rejoin the group in 1973 as a producer. It was in 1968 when he met Stephen Stills at a party at the home of the Mamas and Papas' Cass Elliot in California, leading to the formation of Crosby, Stills & Nash (CSN) and the issue of 'Crosby, Stills & Nash' in 1969. That trio added Neil Young the same year toward the issue of 'Deja Vu' by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (CSNY) in 1970. Crosby released his first solo album, 'If Only I Could Remember My Name', in 1971, that to go Gold. He and Graham Nash released the first of several albums as a duo, 'Graham Nash David Crosby', in 1972 [*], that going Gold as well as the two ensuing: 'Wind on the Water' ('75) and 'Whistling Down the Wire' ('76). They issued 'Crosby-Nash Live' in 1977. Later reunions resulted in 'Another Stoney Evening' ('98), 'Crosby & Nash' ('04) and 'Crosby-Nash: In Concert' ('11). Crosby has released the albums 'Oh Yes I Can' ('89), 'Thousand Roads' ('93), 'Croz' ('14), 'Lighthouse' ('16) and 'Sky Trails' ('17). Beyond music, Crosby's major interest throughout the decades has been sailing his 74-foot schooner called the Mayan, purchased in 1967. Among Crosby's compositions were such as those with CSN like 'Long Time Gone' and 'Guinnevere'. He wrote such as 'Almost Cut My Hair' and 'Carry On' for CSNY. Credits for other of Crosby's recordings at 1, 2, 3, 4. Discos for the Byrds w various credits, largely after Crosby: 1, 2. See also Crosby & Nash. Crosby in visual media. At Facebook and Twitter.

   Please Let Me Love You

      With the Beefeaters   Side A

      Composition:

      Gene Clark/Harvey Gerst/Roger McGuinn

   Don't Be Long

   Get Together

      Composition: Chet Powers (Dino Valenti)

   Willie Jean

      Composition: Hoyt Axton

David Crosby   1965

   Mr. Tambourine Man

   Eight Miles High

   Turn Turn Turn

   You Ain't Goin' Nowhere

   If Only I Could Remember My Name

      Composition: Crosby/Becca Stevens

David Crosby

Source: Jazz Wax

Marianne Faithfull

Source: Steven Rosen Writer

   As Tears Go By

   Come and Stay With Me

       Composition: Jackie DeShannon

   In My Time Of Sorrow

       Composition: Jackie DeShannon/Jimmy Page

   Morning Sun

       Composition: Michael Farr

   Oh Look Around You

       Composition: Marianne Faithfull

   Portland Town

       Composition: Derroll Adams

   The Sha La La Song

       Composition: Michael Farr

   Summer Nights

       Composition: Brian Henderson/Liza Strike

   This Little Bird

       Composition: John Loudermilk

   Time Takes Time

       Composition: Barry Fantoni/Marianne Faithfull

   What Have I Done

       Composition: Michael Farr

   What Have They Done to the Rain

       Composition: Malvina Reynolds

Marianne Faithfull   1966

   Si Demain

       Composition: E. Woolfson/M. Stellman

Marianne Faithfull   1969

   Sister Morphine

       Composition: Mick Jagger/Keith Richards

Marianne Faithfull   1971

   It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

       Composition: Bob Dylan

Marianne Faithfull   1979

   Ballad of Lucy Jordan

       Composition: Shel Silverstein

   Broken English

       Composition: Marianne Faithfull/Barry Reynolds

       Joe Mavety/Steve York/Terry Stannard

   Guilt

       Composition: Barry Reynolds

   Working Class Hero

       Composition: John Lennon

Marianne Faithfull   1996

   Don't Forget Me

       Composition: Harry Nilsson

   Mack the Knife

      Aka 'The Threepenny Opera'

       Music: Kurt Weill

       Lyrics: Bertolt Brecht

       English translation: Frank McGuinness

   Crazy Love

       Composition: Harry Nilsson

Maria Muldaur

Source: Time Goes By

  The Even Dozen Jug Band

  Pottery Pie

  Maria Muldaur

  Midnight at the Oasis

  Sweetheart

      Composition: Ken Burgan

  The Work Song

  My Tennessee Mountain Home

      Composition: Dolly Parton

Maria Muldaur   1999

  It Ain't the Meat, It's the Motion

      Composition: Lois Mann/Henry Glover   1951

  Richland Woman Blues

      Composition: John Hurt

   Cod'ine

   The Incest Song

   It's My Way

   You're Gonna Need Somebody on Your Bond

      Composition: Blind Willie Johnson   1930

Buffy Sainte-Marie   1968

   I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again

Buffy Sainte-Marie   1969

   Illuminations

      Album

Buffy Sainte-Marie   1975

   The Moon*

      'Sesame Street'

Buffy Sainte-Marie   1996

   Universal Soldier

Buffy Sainte-Marie   2011

   Starwalker

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Photo John Reeves

Source: SCAA

Tom and Jerry (see Doo Wop) became Simon & Garfunkel [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] in 1963. Trading in doo wop for folk, the pair first performed as such not as Simon and Garfunkel, but as Kane and Garr in September of 1963 at Gerde's Folk City in NYC [*]. They apparently recorded an unissued set of 'Sparrow' and 'He Was My Brother' [*]. They would return to Gerde's in February of '64 for numerous performances as Simon and Garfunkel. Their first album in 1964, 'Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.', was but a modest success at first, later going Platinum. The next year Simon & Garfunkel released the song, 'The Sound of Silence', followed by a continuous stream of fine compositions up to the termination of their partnership in 1970. After 'The Sound of Silence' reached #1 on Billboard's Hot 100, six more Top Ten titles followed: 'Homeward Bound' (#5 '65), 'I Am a Rock' (#3 '66), 'Mrs. Robinson' (#1 '68), 'The Boxer' (#7 '69), 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' (#1 '70) and 'Cecilia' (#4 '70). A later reunion release of 'My Little Town' reached #9 in 1975, that also issued on Simon's 'Still Crazy After All These Years' and Garfunkel's 'Breakaway'. All of their studio albums sold Platinum. In addition to 'Wednesday Morning' arrived 'Sounds of Silence' ('66), 'Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme' ('66), 'The Graduate' (soundtrack '68), 'Bookends' ('68) and 'Bridge Over Troubled Walter' (January '70). The last won the Album of the Year Grammy Award in 1971. Several compilations sold to astronomical sums as well. Art and Paul reunited in 1972 at Madison Square Garden to raise funds for Presidential candidate, George McGovern. They joined one another again on October 18, 1975, for a performance on 'Saturday Night Live'. 1981 saw them at Central Park together. The album released of that in 1982, 'The Concert in Central Park', went Platinum as well. They reunited for their 'Old Friends' tour in 2003, later in 2005 at Madison Square Garden for a concert raising nine million dollars for Hurricane Katrina relief. 2010 saw them performing together at the New Orleans Jazz Festival. Of the duo that were Simon & Garfunkel, Simon was the composer, he especially gifted in that department both in melody and lyric. He was responsible for such as 'Homeward Bound ('66), 'The Boxer' ('69), 'Baby Driver' ('69), 'Cecilia' ('70), et al. Other credits for Simon & Garfunkel at 1, 2, 3, 4. Simon wrote all titles below except 'Scarborough Fair', that an English ballad the first version of which was released by Gordon Heath & Lee Payant in 1954 per Discogs on 'An Evening at L'Abbaye' (Elektra 119). Discogs has that arranged by Heath. Audrey Coppard released a version in 1956 on 'English Folk Songs' (Folkways 6917). That is thought to have been arranged by Ewan MacColl with whom Coppard was working at the time. In 1960 MacColl and Peggy Seeger (sister of Mike and Pete) published 'The Singing Island' including 'Scarborough Fair', where Martin Carthy learned the song for issue in 1965, also passing it on to Simon [1, 2]. Simon & Garfunkel in visual media.

   The Sound of Silence

   Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.

Simon and Garfunkel   1966

   I Am a Rock

   I Am a Rock

Simon and Garfunkel   1968

   Bookends

   Mrs. Robinson

   Scarborough Affair

      Composition: Traditional English ballad

      First version 1954 by Gordon Heath & Lee Payant

      This version descendent from Ewan MacColl   1960

Simon and Garfunkel   1970

   Bridge Over Troubled Water

Paul Simon   Art Garfunkel

Born in 1945 in Dallas, Stephen Stills [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] dropped out of Louisiana State University to pursue a career in music. He'd been playing professionally since age fifteen [allmusic] and had worked with a number of bands before heading to New York City where was the major folk hub in the Northeast that was Greenwich Village. Stills there worked at the Cafe Au Go Go with the Au Go Go Singers. 45cat has that group issuing 'San Francisco Bay Blues'/'Pink Polemoniums' in October 1964 on Roulette 4547. Those appeared on that group's only LP, that in 1964 per Goldmine: 'They Call Us the Au Go Go Singers' (Roulette 25280) Richie Furay (of Poco fame) was also a member of that outfit, with whom Stills formed Buffalo Springfield in Los Angeles in 1966 together with Jim Messina, Dewey Martin, Bruce Palmer and Neil Young. Stills composed such as 'Bluebird' and 'Everydays' for that operation in 1967. Upon the dissolution of Buffalo Springfield Stills joined Al Kooper on the album, 'Super Session', issued in '68. He also recorded w Judy Collins for the first time that year, backing her album, 'Who Knows Where the Time Goes'. He then met David Crosby, recently expelled from the Byrds, and Graham Nash with whom he formed the trio, Crosby, Stills and Nash (CSN). He composed such as 'Helplessly Hoping' and 'Suite: Judy Blue Eyes' in '69 as that trio's central figure and main instrumentalist. That trio would soon become Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (CSNY) for which Stills composed such as 'Carry On' and 'Find the Cost of Freedom' in 1970. Stills recorded his first solo album in 1970, 'Stephen Stills', containing his composition, 'Love the One You're With', before forming the band, Manassas, with ex-Byrds member, Chris Hillman, in 1971. That group issued the albums, 'Manassus' in '72 and 'Down the Road' in '73. There was a CSNY reunion tour in 1974, getting issued in 2014 as 'CSNY 1974'. Highlighting the latter seventies was the Havana Jam Festival at the Karl Marx Theatre in Havana, Cuba, in 1979, that released on 'Havana Jam' (Columbia 36053) that year. The eighties saw the issue of Stills' composition w Rick and Michael Curtis, 'Southern Cross', on the CSN reunion album, 'Daylight Again' ('82). His composition, 'Love Again', saw issue on 'Right by You' in '84. Stills was elected into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997 for work with Buffalo Springfield and CSN. Highlighting the new millennium was 'Can't Get Enough' in 2013 with Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Barry Goldberg as the Rides. Yet as active as ever, he reunited w Young as late as early 2018 in Los Angeles for a Light Up the Blues concert. Prior to that Stills had issued 'Everybody Knows' in 2017 in collaboration with Judy Collins. He and Collins yet tour together as of this writing [1, 2, 3, 4]. Songwriting credits for recordings by Stills at 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Stills in visual media. Titles below were composed by Stills except as noted (* = undetermined).

   Gotta Travel On

   High Flyin' Bird

   Black Queen

   4+20

   4+20

   Every Day We Live*

   Stephen Stills

   It Doesn't Matter

   Love the One You're With

   Judy Blue Eyes

   Make Love to You

Stephen Stills

Photo: Henry Diltz

Source: Hi-Fi Phono Room

Dino Valenti (Chet Powers)

Photo: Herb Greene

Source: Dirt City Chronicles

Born in 1945 in Danbury, Connecticut, Chet Powers assumed the stage name, Dino Valenti [1, 2, 3], upon release from the Air Force to play venues in Boston and Provincetown, Massachusetts [Wikipedia]. From there he gravitated to the major folk hub that was Greenwich Village where he fell in with Fred Neil. Due to an earlier arrest (presumed for drugs) Valenti wasn't able to acquire a cabaret license, urging him to California where that wasn't a problem. It's thought he was in Los Angeles, if not New York, when he copyrighted 'Don't Let It Down', 'Theirs Is', 'Get Together' and 'Pennies' in 1963 [LOC]. Heading to San Francisco, he there recorded his compositions, 'Birdses'/'Don't Let It Down' (Elektra 45012), for issue in Sep of 1964 per 45cat. In 1964 he recorded his composition, 'Let's Get Together' (aka 'Get Together'). That didn't see issue, but the Kingston Trio released it in May, the latter's manager purchasing publishing rights from Valenti. Valenti needed the funds for a defense attorney due to a drug charge for cannabis and amphetamines. That would become an incredibly expensive legal defense, as 'Get Together' has since been covered by every musician in the land, We Five issued a version in 1965. The Youngbloods released the most famous interpretaion in 1967. As for 'Hey Joe', Billy Roberts had copyrighted that in 1962, purportedly signing it over to Valenti in order that royalties go toward further legal defense. [See also 1, 2, 3.] Valenti nevertheless spent four years in prison, some at Folsom Upon release he recorded his first and only solo album in 1968, 'Dino Valenti'. He formed the Outlaws in '69, then joined the Quicksilver Messenger Service in 1970. His compositions on their first issue, 'Just for Love', were credited to aka Jesse Oris Farrow, such as 'The Hat' and 'Freeway Flyer'. Also issued in 1970 was 'What About Me?', for which he had written such as 'What About Me' and 'Call on Me'. Powers was with the QMS for 'Quicksilver' ('71), 'Comin Thru' ('72) and their reunion album, 'Solid Silver' ('75), the last his final recordings [*]. Powers died on November 16, 1994, in Danbury, Connecticut. Various credits at 1, 2, 3. Compositions and arrangements as Jesse Oris Farrow. He wrote all titles below but as noted.

   Let's Get Together

      Recorded '64   Not issued until 2011

Chet Powers (Dino Valenti)   1968

   Children of the Sun

   Everything Is Going to Be OK

   Listen to Me

   Me and My Uncle

      Composition: John Phillips

   New Wind Blowing

   Shame On You Babe

   Time

The Youngbloods

Source: All Music

Born in 1941 in Queens, Jesse Colin Young [1, 2, 3, 4] had an accountant for a father and violinist for a mother. Per Wikipedia he happened to attend fourth grade with Art Garfunkel. He released two albums before forming the Youngbloods [1, 2] in 1965. The first was 'The Soul of a City Boy' in 1964. The second was 'Young Blood' released in 1965. (That would get issued in 1997 on Mercury as a Youngbloods album.) 'Grizzly Bear' was the first single issued by the Youngbloods in 1967, though a couple of 1965 demo tracks can heard on a compilation album called 'Two Trips'. The Youngbloods were composed of Jerry Corbitt (b '43 guitar), Lowell Levinger (guitar/keyboards) and drummer, Joe Bauer. Their first LPs was titled eponymously, 'The Youngbloods' in 1967, containing Chet Powers' composition, 'Get Together'. Young composed such as 'Darkness, Darkness' in 1969 on 'Elephant Mountain'. A reissue of 'Get Together' w 'Beautiful' in 1969 reached Billboard's #5 spot. 'Beautiful' was a Young composition, as was 'Sunlight' in '71. The success brought by 'Get Together' was brief-lived, neither the Youngbloods nor Young to again attract so great attention. As the Youngbloods and its members became more spectral 'Get Together' became one of the most covered songs in the history of folk music. (Nor would Powers enjoy royalties from such, forced to sell rights in '64 to pay for legal defense against drug charges.) The group was left a trio for 'Elephant Mountain' with Corbett leaving for a solo career, he to die of lung cancer on March 8, 2014. The Youngbloods went kaput in '72. Levinger parting to peel other bananas. Joe Bauer had released 'Moonset' in 1971, but vanished into obscurity since the Youngbloods. Young's first solo album after leaving the Youngbloods in 1972 was 'Together'. He spent the eighties touring, then formed Ridgetop Music in 1993 in Inverness, California. Only a couple years later Young took a major blow when his studio burned down with his home during the Mount Vision Fire of 1995. Moving with his family to Hawaii, he currently produces Morning Sun Kona Coffee grown at his plantation near Kealakekua. Discogs has Young issuing 17 name albums to as late as 'Celtic Mambo' in 2006. Young continues to tour the States per this writing with his current band documenting adventures at Facebook. Among Young's compositions during his early solo career were 'Light Shine' ('74), 'Songbird' ('75) and ''Til You Come Back Home' ('75). Production and songwriting credits for Young at 1, 2. For the Youngbloods: 1, 2. See also 1, 2. Songs by Young covered by others. Youngbloods lyrics. Youngbloods in soundtracks. All titles below were composed or arranged by Young except as noted. He was sometimes credited as Perry Miller.

   Four In the Morning

      Composition: Robin Remaily

   Rye Whisky

      Composition: Traditional

   You Gotta Fix It

Jesse Colin Young   1965

   Green Hill Mountain Home

   Little Suzie

The Youngbloods   1967

   C.C. Rider

   Foolin' Around

   Get Together

   Reason to Believe

   Darkness Darkness

   Ride the Wind

   Let Your Light Shine

Jesse Colin Young   2009

   Darkness Darkness

Jesse Colin Young

Source: My Space/Jesse Colin Young

Zager & Evans [1, 2] was a brief-lived duo consisting of Denny Zager and Rick Evans. 'In the Year 2525' was originally released by Truth Records in 1968, then acquired by RCA for national distribution the next year. Zager & Evans had been founding members of a Nebraska band called the Eccentrics since 1960, which released two 45s in 1964 and 1965, respectively: 'Share Me/Stars' and 'Nighttime Noontime/I Still Love You'. Discogs also documents a 1964 issue on Applause 5-1012 as Denny Lammar and the Echoes: 'Listen to the Raindrops'/'Lonesome For Your Love'. All six titles were issued in '69 on the first side of 'The Early Writings of Zager & Evans' (White Whale 7123) with tracks performed by J.K. (Jay Kaye) & Company flip side. The Eccentrics disbanded in 1967 when Zager and Evans decided to headline as a duo using backup musicians. They released their LP '2525 (Exordium & Terminus)' in 1969. 1970 saw 'Zager & Evans'. Their last album, 'Food for the Mind', saw record shops 1971. Evans yet works in the music industry while Zager has been owner of Zager Guitars for twenty years, building custom guitars [1, 2]. Various credits for Zager & Evans at Discogs. Zager & Evans in visual media. Further reading *.

   Share Me

   Stars

   In the Year 2525

     Composition: Richard Evans

Zager & Evans   1969

   The Candy Machine

   In The Year 2525

   I Am

     Composition: Irwin Levine/Toni Wine

Zager & Evans

Source: 2 or 3 Lines

Guitarist, Ry Cooder, was born in 1947 in Los Angeles. Sometime in high school he had managed to audition unsuccessfully on banjo for Bill Monroe [Wikipedia]. Graduating from high school in 1964, his recording career commenced briefly afterward, though his first titles in 1965 with Jazz Folk are moot: 'Swamp Surfin''/'Around the Horn'. Finding nothing confirming the existence of Gulf Pacific Records either, we give him a first issue date of '65 as only not impossible. [See also 1, 2.] A little later Cooder recorded titles with the Risings Suns consisting of Taj Mahal (lead vocals/harmonica/guitar/piano), Lee Kincaid (guitar), Gary Marker (bass) and Ed Cassidy (drums), the last soon replaced by Kevin Kelly. He himself played 6 and 12 string, mandolin, slide and Dobro. The Rising Suns recorded 'Candy Man'/'The Devil's Got My Woman' in latter '65 for issue in February of 1966 per Columbia 4-43534. Working as a session musician, Cooder contributed bottleneck to Paul Revere & the Raiders' 'Get It On' per the album, 'Midnight Ride' (Columbia 9308 '66). Cooder signed on with Captain Beefheart in 1967, performing on 'Safe as Milk' and 'Drop Out Boogie'. But between Monroe and Beefheart there were realms of difference, Cooder soon leaving that outfit as one more interested in "the experience" than the music. Nigh bursting with talent and liking to get directly to work, Cooder had better luck with the Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger's mindset closer to his own as a serious musician, he and Keith Richards managing even through "the experience" to lead a yet professional operation. Cooder contributed to four Stones albums: 'Beggars Banquet' ('68), 'Let It Bleed' ('69), 'Sticky Fingers' ('71) and 'Jamming with Edward' ('72). In the meantime he'd contributed compositions to the films, 'Candy' ('68) and 'Performance' ('70), also performing on 'Watermelon Man' ('70). He'd been recording with various such as Arlo Guthrie (their first session in '69) and had released his debut album, 'Ry Cooder', in 1970. Also working on soundtracks, Cooder's website has him contributing to 'Watermelon Man' ('70) in 1969. Exploring all variety of music, Cooder something defies category, though certainly bears mention as a top-tier musician in folk, rock and blues. Albeit not "exactly" a country musician, he can certainly take his place alongside country's finest instrumentalists such as Merle Travis, Chet Atkins, Merle Haggard and the bluegrass hero of his youth, Bill Monroe. 'Rolling Stone' placed Cooder at #8 on its list of 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time in 2003. He's won six Grammy Awards, two honorary doctorates and a BBC Lifetime Achievement Award in Folk Music [Wikipedia]. Among his most notable contributions to blues were his collaborations with guitarist, John Lee Hooker, they issuing 'Mr. Lucky' in '91 and 'The Best of Friends' in '98. Exemplary of Cooder's like to venture in various realms, he produced 'Buena Vista Social Club' in 1997 by the Cuban band of the same name, that winning a Grammy in '98 for Best Tropical Latin. Yet active into the new millennium, other work as a producer saw such as Mavis Staples' 'We'll Never Turn Back' in 2007, also contributing to arrangements. Cooder published a collection of short stories in 2011 titled 'Los Angeles Stories'. 2015-16 saw him touring with major country talent, Ricky Skaggs (b '54) and the Whites. Cooder's website has him issuing twenty name albums to as late as 'Live' ('Live in San Francisco') with Corridos Famosos in 2013. Cooder did relatively little official composing in comparison to the high regard he's acquired as an interpreter and performer. He arranged traditionals like 'Billy the Kid' and 'Taxes on the Farmer Feeds Us All' on 'Into the Purple Valley' in 1972. He's written for film, such as 'The Long Riders' ('80), 'Paris, Texas' ('84), 'Blue City' ('86), 'Steel Magnolias' ('89), 'The End of Violence' ('97) and 'Primary Colors' ('98). His composition, 'Perforated Sleep', appeared on Leo Kottke's 1981 'Guitar Music'. 'Going Back to Okinawa' slipped into 'Get Rhythm' in 1987. Later compositions include such as 'It Just Works for Me' and 'In My Town' on 'Chávez Ravine' in 2005. Discographies w various credits at 1, 2. References encyclopedic: 1, 2. Musical: 1, 2, 3, 4. Cooder in visual media. Internet presence. Further reading: 1, 2. The majority of samples below are live performances.

  Candy Man

       Composition: Reverend Gary Davis

  The Devil's Got My Woman

       Composition: Skip James

  Take a Giant Step

       Music: Carole King

       Lyrics: Gerry Goffin

Ry Cooder   1970

  Available Space

       Composition: Ry Cooder

  Get Away

  Goin' to Brownsville

       Composition: Sleepy John Estes

   igilante Man

       Composition: Woody Guthrie

Ry Cooder   1977

  Do Re Mi

  Jesus on the Mainline

  Gypsy Woman

       Composition: Curtis Mayfield

Ry Cooder   1987

  Down In Mississippi

  Jesus On the Mainline

  The Very Thing That Makes You Rich

  Crazy 'Bout an Automobile

       Composition: William Emerson

   Hobo Blues

  All Our Colors Benefit

  The Healer

       All Our Colors Benefit

  John Lee Hooker for President

       Composition: Ry Cooder

   No Banker Left Behind

       Composition: Ry Cooder

  Vigilante Man

       Composition: Woody Guthrie

Ry Cooder

Photo: Fin Costello

John Denver

Source: Find a Grave

Born Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr. in 1943 in Roswell, New Mexico, John Denver [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] was born to a pilot in the Air Force, thus was moved from one location to another in the southern portion of the States to end up graduating from high school in Ft. Worth, TX, about 1961. Wikipedia has him receiving an acoustic guitar from his grandmother at age eleven. His first trip to California had been as a junior in high school. My guess is if he'd asked his father if he could borrow his car to drive to the coast his dad would have said no, so he just went. When it's time to head out it's time to head out, though his father retrieved him back to school. Moving to Lubbock, TX, he led the double life of an architecture student at Texas Tech University while performing with a folk enterprise called the Alpine Trio. He had changed his name from Deutschendorf to Denver because Colorado was his favorite state. So he went to California again in 1963/64 instead, favoring music more and leaving architecture to raise itself. Praguefrank's has him putting down four tracks at Capitol in Hollywood that same year on October 8 to make a 10" demo of 'The Road', 'Far Side of the Hill', 'Four Strong Winds' and 'Anything Love Can Buy' as American Gramophone 41120. It was in Los Angeles that Denver filled Chad Mitchell's spot in the Chad Mitchell Trio, the group to retain the name though Mitchell moved on to a solo career. Mitchell's final session had been in December of '64 in NYC to result in 'Typical American Boys'. Denver appeared on their next album recorded back in NYC in August of 1965, 'That's The Way It's Gonna Be'. Praguefrank's wants the configuration of Denver, Mike Kobluk and Joe Frazier to the Mitchell Trio's last session in 1967 with Bob Hefferan (guitar), Paul Prestopino (guitar/banjo since 1962) and Bill Lee (bass since 1965), issued that year on 'Alive' (Reprise 6258). Other sources prefer that Trio to consist of Kobluk, Denver and David Boise (featured on 'Coal Tattoo') [1, 2, 3,]. With Boise replacing Frazier, William Johnson then replaced Kobluk. But Denver wanted to explore other territory and the Trio evaporated. Mitchell, Kobluk, Frazier and Denver held a reunion on November 14, 1987, for PBS resulting in 'Mighty Day - The Chad Mitchell Trio Reunion' per Folk Era FE-1422-CD in 1994. A reunion in 1995 in Alexandria, VA, resulted in the relatively obscure 'An Evening with The Chad Mitchell Trio and Friends - Live at The Birchmere' (Medium Rare Records MR002). Also performing on that were Carolyn Hester, the Limeliters and Christine Lavin. Denver issued debut LP in 1969, 'Rhymes and Reasons', that containing his composition, 'Leaving on a Jet Plane'. While such as Bob Dylan had been taking folk electric Denver continued to play acoustic guitar and would spend the next decade making a superstar of himself. 'Take Me Home Country Roads' charted on Billboard's Hot 100 at #2 in 1971. Five of his plates topped the Hot 100 or Country charts from 1973 to '75: 'Sunshine on My Shoulders', 'Annie's Song', 'Back Home Again', 'Thank God I'm a Country Boy', 'I'm Sorry'/'Calypso'. Nine of Denver's studio or live albums went Platinum beginning with 'Poems, Prayers & Promises' in 1971 containing his composition by the same title. Add Gold albums and whatnot and Denver has sold above 33 million records [Wikipedia]. In 1976 Denver campaigned for Jimmy Carter and founded the Windstar Foundation, an environmental organization. In 1977 he cofounded the Hunger Project. He toured the Soviet Union in 1985 and the People's Republic of China in 1992. His autobiography, 'Take Me Home', was published in 1994. Denver's last known composition, 'Yellowstone, Coming Home', was featured on the 1997 television broadcast of 'Nature'. Denver was a collector of vintage airplanes and an experienced pilot. But he died on October 12, 1997, in a plane crash due to fuel problems, he the pilot and only occupant. In 2000 Colorado citizens voted to legalize medical marijuana. In 2007 Colorado made Denver's 'Rocky Mountain High' one of its two state songs ('Where the Columbines Grow' the other). In 2014 West Virginia adopted 'Take Me Home, Country Roads' as its state song. Denver had also written such as 'All My Memories' ('71), 'Starwood in Aspen' ('71) and 'Falling Leaves (The Refugees)' ('88). Other titles composed by Denver. Issues discographies w various credits at 1, 2, 3, 4. Denver in visual media.

   That's the Way It's Gonna Be

       Chad Mitchell Trio

       Composition: Bob Gibson/Phil Ochs

   Violets of Dawn

       Chad Mitchell Trio

       Composition: Bob Gibson/Phil Ochs

John Denver   1971

   Take Me Home Country Roads

       Composition: Bob Gibson/Phil Ochs

       Bill Danoff/Taffy Nivert/John Denver

John Denver   1972

   Rocky Mountain High

       Composition: John Denver/Mike Taylor

   Bert Jansch

   It Don't Bother Me

   Nicola

   Poison

   Lady Nothing

Bert Jansch   1978

   Pretty Saro

Bert Jansch   1985

   In the Bleak Midwinter

   Lady Nothing/Moonshine

   It Don't Bother Me

   It Don't Bother Me

Bert Jansch

Source: MP3 XL

   Ballad of a Crystal Man

   The Ballad Of Geraldine

   Belated Forgiveness Plea

   Catch the Wind

   Catch the Wind

   Colours

   Josie

   Little Tin Soldier

       Composition: Shawn Phillips

   Talking Pop Star Blues

   Turquoise

   Universal Soldier

       Composition: Buffy Sainte-Marie

Donovan   1966

   Season of the Witch

       Composition: Donovan/Shawn Phillips

   Sunshine Superman

Donovan   1967

   A Gift from a Flower to a Garden

   Atlantis

   Hurdy Gurdy Man

Donovan   1972

   Cosmic Wheels/Maria Magenta

   The Pee Song/Mellow Yellow

Donovan Leitch

Source: Paper Blog

Mamas & Papas

Source: Not in Hall of Fame

The Mamas and Papas [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] exploded onto the airwaves in 1965 with the release of their first plate, 'Go Where You Wanna Go' A side and 'California Dreamin'' B side, the latter to find #4 on Billboard's Hot 100. The eldest of the quartet was John Phillips [1, 2, 3, 4, 5], born in 1935 in Paris Island, North Carolina. Phillips became father to actress, MacKenzie Phillips, in 1959 by his first wife, Susan Adams. He was also the most experienced of the Mamas & Papas before their formation, having issued three albums with the Journeymen from 1961 to '63 ('The Journeymen', 'Coming Attraction - Live!' and 'New Directions In Folk Music'). That group had also appeared on 'Hootenanny' on multiple occasions before Phillips met Denny Doherty [1, 2] and Cass Elliot [1, 2, 3, 4] in Greenwich Village, major hub of folk music in the Northeast. Born in 1940 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Doherty had been in a couple of groups called the Hipsters and the Colonials, the latter changing its name to the Halifax III to issue a couple of albums in 1963: 'The Halifax Three' and 'San Francisco Bay Blues'. He was with that outfit when he met Elliot, Phillip and the latter's young bride, Michelle. Elliot had been born in 1941 in Baltimore, Maryland, to Jewish immigrants from Russia. After high school she moved to NYC to become an actress and landed a part in a tour of 'The Music Man'. In 1963 she formed the Triumvirate with John Brown and Tim Rose. When James Hendricks replaced Brown they became the Big 3. That was quite the combination, appearing numerously on television programs like Johnny Carson's 'The Tonight Show', 'Hootenanny' and 'The Danny Kaye Show'. The Big 3 issued 'The Big 3' in '63 and 'Live at the Recording Studio' in '64 [sessions]. Elliot was with the Big 3 when she met Doherty. Michelle [1, 2, 3] had been born Holly Michelle Gilliam in 1944 in Long Beach, CA. Raised between the ages of 6 and 12 in Mexico City, she was back in Long Beach to graduate from high school, then head for San Francisco to become a model. She there met John who was on tour with the Journeymen. They got married in December of 1962, then headed back to New York to become the Mamas & Papas. (Michelle would give birth to vocalist, Chynna Phillips, in 1968.) The group recorded initial unissued demos in Hollywood sometime in 1965: 'Nowhere Man' and 'Here in My Arms'. Tracks in October included tracks like 'Monday Monday' and 'Straight Shooter', all of which saw issue on 'If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears' in 1966, that the first of three gold albums to '68, followed by 'The Mamas & The Papas' and 'The Mamas & The Papas Deliver'. 'The Papas & the Mamas' performed quite well in 1968 but didn't go Gold. Their top titles had been 'Monday Monday' ('66), 'I See Her Again' ('66), 'Words of Love' ('66), 'Dedicated to the One I Love' ('67) 'Creeque Alley' ('67) and 'Dream a Little Dream of Me' ('68). Their gig was up, however, by the time they recorded 'People Like Us' for release in 1971. Elliot had issued her first name album, 'Dream a Little Dream', in '68 to huge success. Phillips had issued 'John Phillips' in '70 and Doherty had recorded 'Watcha Gonna Do?' for release in '71. They were all so busy apart from the Mamas & Papas that a lot of 'People Like Us' was dubbed voice by voice rather than performed together. John and Michelle had divorced in 1970, he moving to London in 1973. What little recording he did in that decade got issued in April of 2001 on 'Pay Pack & Follow'. John became father to actress, Bijou Phillips, in 1980 by Geneviève Waïte. He published his autobiography, 'Papa John', in 1986. John died in Los Angeles on March 18 of 2001 [*]. His ex, Michelle, went on to a highly successful career as a film and television actress, also issuing an album in 1977: 'Victim of Romance'. She is the only member of the Mamas & Papas yet living. Elliot (Mama Cass) died only shortly after the dissolution of the Mamas & Papas, that by heart attack in her sleep in London on July 29, 1974, only 32 years of age [1, 2]. Her last recordings had been with Michelle backing Doherty's 'Waiting for a Song' ('74). Doherty went on to a career in acting, to die in Mississauga, Ontario, of kidney failure on January 19, 2007 [*]. The main composer in the Mamas & Papas had been John, he writing most titles not acquired elsewise. He couldn't recall composing 'Me and My Uncle' in 1963 for Judy Collins. He collaborated with Michelle on 'California Dreamin'' and 'Hey Girl' in 1966, 'Creeque Alley' and 'Free Advice' in '67. He and Doherty had written 'Got a Feelin'' and 'I Saw Her Again' in '66. Among his own compositions for the M & Ps were 'Dancing Bear' in '66, 'Someone's Sleeping' ('70) and 'Topanga Canyon' ('70). He'd composed 'San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)' in 1967 for Scott McKenzie, that remarking the welling up of youth and counterculture in California getting tagged as "flower children" or, more broadly, hippies. Later in 1974 John wrote 'Trashy Rumors' for Genevieve Waite. Production and songwriting credits for Mamas & Papas at 1, 2, 3. Lyrics. In soundtracks.

Born Joseph McDonald in 1942 in Washington D.C., Country Joe McDonald [1, 2, 3, 4] was raised in El Monte, CA. At age 17 or 18 he joined the Navy, stationed in Japan the next three years. Upon discharge from service he attended college for a year, then headed for Berkeley to busk. His first recording was a private session with Blair Hardman in 1964, 'The Goodbye Blues' [*]. Discogs wants titles recorded in the summer of 1965 with Hardman issued commercially in 1978 on 'The Early Years'. Only ten original copies of that had been pressed for private distribution. Two hundred more copies were pressed in 1967. McDonald was publishing a magazine called 'Rag Baby' when in later 1965 he thought to do a recorded edition resulting in the EP as Country Joe and the Fish, 'Rag Baby Talking Issue' (Rag Baby L 1001 '65 with titles by Pete Krug flip side.) Tracks on that were 'The I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag' and 'Superbird'. Come the '66 issue of the EP 'Country Joe and the Fish' bearing 'Bass Strings', 'Thing Called Love' and 'Section 43' (Rag Baby RB 3). McDonald's first album, 'Electric Music for the Mind and Body', was released in 1967. He and his Fish appeared at the Woodstock Festival in 1969. The seventies found him touring internationally in Chile and Europe as well as the States. Highlighting the eighties was his '85 double album issue of 'Vietnam Experience' by Rag Time. Having released well above thirty albums, McDonald yet tours the States as of this writing. His most recent release was the compilation, '50', in 2017 by Rag Baby. McDonald composed titles like 'Superbird' ('67), 'Quiet Days in Clichy' ('70), 'Hold on It's Coming' ('71), 'Save the Whales' ('76), 'Blood on the Ice' ('77), 'Coyote' ('79) and 'Sunshine' ('84). Songwriting credits at 1, 2, 3. McDonald in visual media. Country Joe and the Fish at Chrome Oxide. All titles below were composed by McDonald.

   The Acid Commercial

   Feel Like I'm Fixing to Die

Country Joe McDonald   1969

   Flying High

   She's a Bird

Country Joe McDonald   1971

   Mr. Big Pig

   Tricky Dicky

Country Joe McDonald

Source: Born Late

John Renbourn

Source: Issoudun Guitare Festival

   John Renbourn

   Lucky Thirteen

   There You Go

   Sir John Alot and Merrie England

   The Lady and the Unicorn

   A Maid in Bedlam

   The Mist Covered Mountains of Home

      Composition: John Cameron   Scotland   1856

   The Orphan/Tarboulton

John Renbourn   1981

   Brenton Dances

      Composition: Soïg Sibéril

      Album: ''The John Renbourn Group Live in America'

   English Dance

      Arrangement: John Renbourn

   Little Niles

   Sweet Potato

We Five [1, 2, 3] was a vocal harmony quintet of bass and guitar players formed in San Francisco consisting of Jerry Burgan, Beverly Bivens (b '46/*), Peter Fullerton, Bob Jones (b '47) and Michael Stewart (b '45/*). The last, Michael, was brother to John Stewart of the Kingston Trio. They released their first album, 'You Were On My Mind' in 1965. That got everybody's attention as the song rose to #1 on Billboard's AC. But We Five quickly faded into anonymity afterward, 'Make Someone Happy' in 1966 not making much a splash. Bivens then left the group to be replaced by Debbie Graf Burgan, she appearing on 'The Return of the We Five' ('69) and 'Catch the Wind' ('70). Neither of those much filled their sails and the group abandoned ship, Jerry and Graff Burgan to unofficially carry on the flame. They put together another configuration of the We Five in 1977 for 'Take Each Day as It Comes', but spent the rest of their careers performing mainly as a duo. Stewart eventually left the music industry to become a computer programmer. Bivens had moved on to join the multimedia group, Light Sound Dimension, but would eventually ceased performing. The group is now called the We Five Folk Rock Revival, with Bob Jones its single original member (1 above). Songwriting credits for the We Five at 1, 2, 3, 4.

   Let's Get Together

   My Favorite Things

      Composition: Richard Rodgers

   Make Someone Happy

      Music: Jule Styne

      Lyrics: Adolph Green/Betty Comden

   Poet

      Composition:

      Jule Styne/John Stewart/Michael Stewart

   What's Goin' On

      Composition: Michael Stewart

We Five

Buffalo Springfield

Source: Jeff Meshel

The original members of Buffalo Springfield were Dewey Martin (b '40), Richie Furay (b '44), Stephen Stills (b '45), Neil Young ('45) and Bruce Palmer (b '46). Martin was from Chesterville, Ontario, and had begun drumming at age 13. He'd played in a band called the Jive Rockets in high school, moved to the United States, joined the Army, then began performing country music in Nashville where he was stationed. He played with names like Carl Perkins and Roy Orbison before bouncing to Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Seattle, the latter where he made his first recordings in 1964 as Sir (Walter) Raleigh & The Cupons [1, 2, 3]. Returning back to Los Angeles in 1965, he played with the Sons of Adam, the Standells, the Modern Folk Quartet and the Dillards, the latter with which he recorded a demo before being dismissed with a phone number to Buffalo Springfield [Wikipedia]. He was the last member to fill out band that year. Furay (guitar) hailed from Yellow Springs, Ohio. He'd performed w Stephen Stills at the Cafe Au Go Go in NYC before they formed Buffalo Springfield. 45cat has the Au Go Go Singers issuing 'San Francisco Bay Blues'/'Pink Polemoniums' in October 1964 on Roulette 4547. Those appeared on that group's only LP, that in 1964 per Goldmine: 'They Call Us the Au Go Go Singers' (Roulette 25280). As for Stills, the Au Go Go Singers had been his breaking in as a professional musician. Neil Young had been born in Toronto, Ontario. He had first recorded with a band called the Squires in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1963. After leaving the Squires, Young toured Canada, upon which he met Rick James in Toronto, Ontario, and joined his group, the Mynah Birds. Bassist, Bruce Palmer, was also a member of the Mynah Birds, upon which disbanding he and Young traveled to Los Angeles to form Buffalo Springfield. Palmer had been born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia. He was already a successful musician before the Buffalo Springfield, being one of the founding members of Jack London and The Sparrows in 1964 [1, 2, 3, 4]. He left that group in January of '65 to join the Mynah Birds, switching places with Mynah Birds member, Nick St. Nicholas. He and Young then headed for Los Angeles where Wikipedia has them meeting Stills while stuck in traffic. Buffalo Springfield debuted at the Troubadour in Hollywood on April 11, 1966. Their first single, 'Nowadays Clancy Can’t Even Sing' A side with 'Burned' B side was released the same year [sessions]. The group was good through three albums: 'Buffalo Springfield' ('66), 'Buffalo Springfield Again' ('67) and 'Last Time Around' ('68). The last had been with Palmer out, replaced by Jim Messina. Martin took the group forward as the New Buffalo Springfield with completely different personnel: Dave Price (guitar), Gary Rowles (guitar), Bob Apperson (bass), Don Poncher (drums) and Jim Price (horn). He later died on January 31, 2009, in Van Nuys, California. As for Palmer, he had absented the band in '68 due to a second drug charge getting him deported back to Canada a second time in a year. He issued his only name album, 'The Cycle Is Complete', in 1977. Performing a bit now and again, notably with Young in the early eighties, he died of heart attack on October 1, 2004, in Belleville, Ontario. Furay and Messina moved on to form Poco. Furay would also lead a successful solo career into the new millennium, issuing 'Hand in Hand' as recently as 2015. Messina would form Loggins & Messina with Kenny Loggins in 1970 while yet with Poco. As for Stephen Stills, he went on in '68 to perform with Al Kooper on 'Super Sessions'. He then formed Crosby, Stills & Nash in 1969. That became Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young later in the year. Young went solo upon the dissolution of Buffalo Springfield with his band, Crazy Horse, to become one of the major figures in folk rock, he and Stills yet leading active careers to this date. They reunited with Furay in 2010 and 2011. Most of the composing for Buffalo Springfield was by done by either Stills or Young without collaboration, although Furay also wrote titles like 'A Child's Claim to Fame', 'Kind Woman' and 'MerryGo-Round'. Buffalo Springfield albums with songwriting credits at 1, 2, 3. See also various credits at 1, 2. References: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Chrome Oxide. Buffalo Springfield in visual media.

   Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing

      Composition: Neil Young

   Burned

      Composition: Neil Young

Buffalo Springfield   1967

   Buffalo Springfield Again

   For What It's Worth

      Composition: Stephen Stills

   Sit Down I Think I Love You

      Composition: Stephen Stills

Buffalo Springfield   1968

   On the Way Home

      Composition: Neil Young

Bobbie Gentry [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8], born in Mississippi in 1944, was a philosophy major before she shifted to a more practical study of music at the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music. She first recorded with singer, Jody Reynolds, perhaps as early as 1963. [See also Praguefrank.] 45cat doesn't have 'Stranger in the Mirror'/'Requiem for Love' issued until 1966 per Titan 1736. Gentry then worked nightclubs for a while before recording her compositions, 'Mississippi Delta' and 'Ode to Billie Joe', in February and March of 1967. 'Ode to Billie Joe' rose to Billboard's top seat that year, as would the album by the same title, that going Gold. The next year she partnered with country western musician, Glen Campbell, to release 'Bobbie Gentry & Glen Campbell', that going Gold as well. Also released in '68 were 'The Delta Sweete', 'Local Gentry' and 'Way Down South'. Praguefrank follows her to as late as December of 1977 for 'Steal Away'/'He Did Me Wrong But He Did It Right'. Other tracks would see issue in Austria in 1990 on 'Ode to Billie Joe' (Curb 471206). Gentry's last public performance was on May 10, 1981, on the television show, 'All-Star Salute to Mother's Day' [1, 2]. She afterward went into intentional hiding from the public view, remaining so to this day. Gentry had written songs like 'I Saw an Angel Die' ('67) and 'Another Place Another Time ('75). Production and songwriting credits variously at 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Gentry in visual media. Further reading: 1, 2, 3.

   Stranger in the Mirror

   Ode to Billie Joe

   Gentle on My Mind

   Little Green Apples

   Son of a Preacher Man

      Composition: John Hurley/Ronnie Wilkins

Bobbie Gentry

Source: Armchair Actorvist

      Composition: Leonard Cohen

Roy Harper

Source: The Wire

      From the album 'Sophisticated Beggar':

   Legend

   Sophisticated Beggar

Roy Harper   1968

      From the album 'Come Out Fighting Ghengis Smith':

   Circle

   In a Beautiful Rambling Mess

   Freak Street

   Highgate Cemetery

Roy Harper   1970

   Another Day

      Album 'Flat Baroque and Berserk'

   The Garden Of Gethsemane

      Live performance

   One For All

      From the album 'Stormcock':

   Hors d'Oeuvres

   Me and My Woman

   One Man Rock and Roll Band

   When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease

      Album: 'HQ'

Roy Harper   1980

   You

      Composition: David Gilmore/Harper

   Live in London

   I Still Care

   The Monster

   Another Day

      Live performance

   Highway Blues

   The Same Old Rock

Richie Havens

Source: Spin

      Composition: Gordon Lightfoot

   Eleanor Rigby

      Composition: McCartney of Lennon/McCartney

   Follow

      Composition: Jerry Merrick

   No Opportunity Necessary

   Sandy

      Composition: Jean Pierre Cousineau

   I'm a Stranger Here

      Composition: Richie Havens

   From the Prison

      Composition: Jerry Merrick

   Open Our Eyes

   Something Else Again

   Freedom

   Handsome Johnny

      Composition: Richie Havens/Louis Cameron Gossett

   High Flying Bird

      Composition: William Edward Wheeler

   I Can't Make It Any More

      Composition: Gordon Lightfoot

   Here Comes the Sun

      Composition: George Harrison

   Wonder Child

   Leave Well Enough Alone

      Music: Pino Daniele

      Lyrics: Richie Havens

Richie Havens   1994

   Darkness, Darkness

      Composition: Jesse Colin Young

     Album: 'Cuts to the Chase'

Richie Havens   1999

   Paradise

      Composition: Don Mescall

   All Along the Watch Tower

      Composition: Bob Dylan

   The Incredible String Band

   Wee Tam and the Big Huge

   This Moment

   Lady Wonder

Mike Heron   1971

   Call Me Diamond/Flowers of the Forest

   Liquid Acrobat as Regards the Air

   The Desert Song

   Angels In Disguise

   Born to Be Gone

      Composition: Malcolm Le Maistre

   Painting Box

Mike Heron   2011

   Feast of Stephen

Mike Heron   2013

   Black Jack Davy

   Log Cabin Home in the Sky

   A Very Cellular Song

Mike Heron

Source: ENTS 24

Pozo Seco Singers

Source: Discogs

   Changes

      Composition: Phil Ochs

   Come a Little Bit Closer

   Guantanamera

   House of the Rising Sun

     Composition: Traditional

   I Can Make It With You

      Composition: Chip Taylor

   If I Fell

      Composition: Lennon/McCartney

   I'll Be Gone

      Composition: Michael Marchant

   Johnny

   Ribbon Of Darkness

      Composition: Gordon Lightfoot

   She Understands Me

      Composition: Merle Kilgore/Margie Singleton

   Silver Threads and Golden Needles

      Composition: Jack Rhodes/Dick Reynolds

   Time

      Composition: Michael Marchant

   Tomorrow Is a Long Time

      Composition: Bob Dylan

   You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling

      Composition:

      Phil Spector/Barry Mann/Cynthia Weil

Pozo Seco Singers   1967

   I Believed It All

      Composition:

      Alan Bergman/Marilyn Bergman/Al Ham

  Look What You've Done

      Composition: Bob Johnston/Wes Farrell

Pozo Seco Singers   1968

   You Ain't Going Nowhere

      Composition: Bob Dylan

Pozo Seco Singers   1969

   Spend Some Time With Me

      Composition: Jerry Hayes

Cat Stevens [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] was born to a couple of restaurateurs in Marlebone, London, in 1948. I most remember Stevens from a girl attending the University of Washington who found my lost puppy and invited me in for tea. Lost was I as well at age eighteen, guiding me toward a lifelong career as a fool. As for Stevens, he was a student at the Hammersmith School of Art and heading toward a career as a cartoonist while also performing as Steve Adams in 1965 [Wikipedia]. His art and music would later combine on album covers like that for 'Tea for the Tillerman' in 1970. He also began composing in '65 and recorded a demo of titles including 'The First Cut Is the Deepest'. Stevens was initially drawn along the popular strain, his first release, 'I Love My Dog', in 1966. He issued his first album, 'Matthew and Son', the following year. Stevens first penetrated the Top Forty in 1871 with 'Wild World' and 'Moon Shadow'. His strongest titles were 'Peace Train' in '71, 'Morning Has Broken' in '72, and 'Oh Very Young' and 'Another Saturday Night'' in '74. His' last Top 40 tune was in 1977: '(Remember the Days of the) Old Schoolyard'. That same year Stevens changed his name to Yusuf Islam, creating rather a controversy in the musical world as his popularity plummeted (unlike Bob Dylan's announcement of Christian faith two years later, what negative consequence to his career being negligible upon all said and done). In 1989 Stevens (now Islam) announced his support of the Muslim call for Salman Rushdie's execution for writing 'The Satanic Verses', which largely wiped him off the map as a musician. (There have been a number of Muslim jazz musicians throughout the years whose beliefs did their careers small damage if any. But Stevens' venue wasn't jazz, and no jazz musicians of which I know have ever agreed that Rushdie ought to have been executed for defamation of Muhammad.) After his album, 'Back to Earth', released in 1979 Stevens left the music business. In the early nineties, however, he built a recording studio (Mountain of Light Studios) and began grooving recordings again as simply Yusuf, his first release, 'The Life of the Last Prophet', in 1995. In 2009 he was awarded Songwriter of the Year by ASCAP [*]. In 2013 he was nominated by Art Garfunkel and enlisted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Stevens issued 14 studio and live albums as Stevens. He's issued thirteen as Yusef Islam and six more as Yusef per this writing, his latest, 'The Laughing Apple' in 2017. Stevens was the composer of his material, all such as "I Love My Dog' ('66) and 'Two Fine People' '(75) his own compositions. Other songwriting credits at 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Interviews in 2007 and 2017. Stevens in visual media. In social media: 1, 2. Further reading on his latter career in the new millennium: 1, 2, 3. Stevens composed all titles below but as noted.

   I Love My Dog

      Music video

Cat Stevens   1976

   Morning Has Broken

   Tuesday's Dead

   (Remember the Days of the) Old Schoolyard

Cat Stevens   2007

   Father and Son

Cat Stevens

Source: Tonight at the Pit

   The Elf

   Turn Into Earth

      Composition: Paul Samwell-Smith/Rosemary Simon

Al Stewart   1967

   Bedsitter Images

Al Stewart   1970

   A Small Fruit Song

Al Stewart   1972

   I'm Falling

Al Stewart   1974

   Past, Present and Future

   Year of the Cat

      Composition: Al Stewart/Peter Wood

   On the Border

   Roads to Moscow

   Time Passages

      Composition: Al Stewart/Peter White

Al Stewart   1980

   Running Man

      Composition: Al Stewart/Peter White

   Year of the Cat

      Live With Dave Nachmanoff

      Composition: Al Stewart/Peter Wood

   Bedsitter Images

   Carol

   The Coldest Winter in Memory

   Katherine of Oregon

   Night Train to Munich

Al Stewart   2012

   Time Passages

      Composition: Al Stewart/Peter White

Al Stewart

Photo: Jorgen Angel

Source: Famous Fix

Robin Williamson

Photo: Alan Mawdsley

Source: ENTS 24

   The Incredible String Band

      Album

Robin Williamson   1968

   The Half-Remarkable Question

   Empty Pocket Blues

      From the album 'Myrrh':

   Cold Harbor

   Dark Eyed Lady

   Strings in the Earth and Air

      Composition: Ivan Pawle

   Pacheco

      Album: 'American Stonehenge'

Robin Williamson   1981

      From the album 'Songs of Love and Parting':

   Flower of the Briar

   For Three Of Us

   Lammas

   Gwydion's Dream

   The Parting Glass

Robin Williamson   1992

   Green Groweth the Holly

      Composition: Traditional

Robin Williamson   1997

      From the album 'Celtic Harp Airs & Dance Tunes':

   The Blackbird/The Downfall Of Paris

   Lude's Supper/The Lark In The Morning

   Mwynen Mon

   Port Atholl/The Braes Of Tulliemet

   The Rocks Of Pleasure

   The Scholar

Robin Williamson   2008

   Will Ye No Come Back Again?

      Guitar & vocal: David Nigel Lloyd

      Composition: Scottish traditional

   It's All Over Now (Baby Blue)

      Composition: Bob Dylan

   October Song

Robin Williamson   2012

   Ace of Spades

      Composition: Motorhead:

      Lemmy Kilmister/Eddie Clarke/Phil Taylor

  Bold Riley O

      Composition: Australian traditional

   Passing by the Signs for Which Our Fathers Died

   Since Words Can Fly Invisible

   Where Are You Living Now Man?

      Composition: Browne/Glenn Frey

Born in Montreal, Quebec, in 1934, Leonard Cohen was a writer of fiction and poetry before turning to music, frustrated by inability to make an acceptable living scratching paper. He published his first book of poetry, 'Let Us Compare Mythologies', in 1956, having published his initial poems in 1954 as a student at McGill University in Montreal. He continued with graduate studies and published several more books before releasing his first album, 'Songs of Leonard Cohen', in 1967 (to go Platinum in Australia). That was followed by 'Songs From a Room' in 1969. Cohen made his first appearances in Europe in 1970, then issued 'Songs of Love and Hate' in 1971. Better known in Canada, Europe and Australia than in the States, eight of Cohen's albums have gone Platinum, including four issued in the new millennium: 'Ten New Songs' ('01), 'Old Ideas' ('12), 'Popular Problems' ('14) and 'You Want It Darker' ('16). He published his first novel, 'The Favorite Game', in 1984, his second, 'Beautiful Losers', in 1991. In 2004 Cohen discovered that his longtime manager, Kelly Lynch, had been helping herself to his fortune since 1996, to the tune of most of it, some five million dollars. He was awarded nine million in court but remains unlikely to see it. Cohen was both Jewish and a Zen Buddhist and dabbled in art as well [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. He died on November 7 of 2016 [1, 2]. Facebook tribute page. References encyclopedic: 1, 2, 3. Musical: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Timeline. Cohen in visual media. Cohen at YouTube. Further reading: 1, 2. Composing most his own material, Cohen wrote such as 'So Long, Marianne' in '68 and 'Dance Me to the End of Love' in '85. Songwriting credits at 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. He wrote all titles below. With the exception of a few albums most entries below are live performances.

   Songs of Leonard Cohen

      Album

   The Stranger Song

   Suzanne

   I Tried to Leave You

   The Guests

   Sisters of Mercy

   There Is a War

Leonard Cohen   1988

   First We Take Manhattan

Leonard Cohen   1992

      From the album 'The Future':

   Closing Time

   The Future

Leonard Cohen   2001

   Ten New Songs

   The Future

    Tower of Song

Leonard Cohen   2009

   Ain't No Cure For Love

   Hallelujah

Leonard Cohen   2012

   First We Take Manhattan

   Gypsy Wife

   Old Ideas

   Hallelujah

Leonard Cohen

Photo: Michael Ochs Archives

Source: The Leopard

Arlo Guthrie

Source: Penn Live

Woody Guthrie's son, Arlo Guthrie, was born in 1947 in Coney Island, New York [1, 2, 3, 4]. He gave his first public performance at age 13. Graduating from the Stockbridge School in Massachusetts in '65, he ventured off to Montana to study forestry, but did an about face back to Massachusetts six weeks later. He might have had bugs in his pants when he paid $25 to make his debut as a litter bug that year. That event brought him a criminal record exempting him from military service, as well as the tale of 'Alice's Restaurant' [1, 2, 3], his first release in 1967 on LP because the song was eighteen minutes long [sessions]. Guthrie had already performed at Carnegie Hall and the Newport Folk Festival before that recording 'Alice's' in New York City. Not long afterward his father, Woody, died on October 3 of 1967. Most of the titles on his next album in 1968, 'Arlo', were composed by himself, but he would record Woody's 'Oklahoma Hills' for 'Running Down the Road' in '69. Compositions by Arlo's father would find their way into many subsequent albums. Guthrie was also among performers at the Woodstock Fest of '69, he on a rainy midnight. Guthrie's, however, wasn't to be the career of a superstar like some of the other entertainers at that festival. Though 'Alice's Restaurant' would go Platinum and 'The City of New Orleans' rose to #4 on Billboard's AC in '72 Arlo has otherwise led a relatively quiet niche career supported by diehard fans, issuing above thirty studio and live albums to as late as 'Live at 2011 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival', but none coming to near the fuss that had been 'Alice's Restaurant'. In 1975 Guthrie formed the band, Shenandoah (not to be confused with the country band formed in 1984 by Marty Raybon). In 1976 he released the LP, 'Amigo'. Shenandoah's 'One Night' followed in '78. Others with whom Guthrie has performed include Pete Seeger, Holly Near, Ronnie Gilbert, Judy Collins, Eric Andersen and Tom Rush. Much alike Country Joe McDonald, Guthrie was politically outspoken: anti-Nixon, anti-nuke and anti-war. Since then he's become a registered Republican with a strong Libertarian lean. Guthrie composed titles from 'The Motorcycle Song' and 'Now and Then' in '67 to 'Ballad of Tricky Fred' and 'Slow Boat' in '71 to 'Massachusetts' and 'My Love' in '77. Songwriting credits at 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Guthrie in visual media. He composed all titles below except as noted.

   Alice's Restaurant

Arlo Guthrie   1969

   Coming Into Los Angeles

Arlo Guthrie   1972

   City of New Orleans

Arlo Guthrie   2008

   City of New Orleans

   Evangelina

      Composition: Browne/Glenn Frey

Linda Ronstadt

Source: Seattle PI

Born in 1946 in Tucson, popular singer Linda Ronstadt [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8] was both country western and rock inclined. Round it all up in one corral and she comes out a folk salad. She released her first album, 'The Stoney Poneys', in 1967 [sessions/issues]. Ronstadt had begun performing in public at age fourteen, in a trio with her brother and sister that they called the Union City Ramblers. They even recorded at a Tuscon studio, though nothing came of it. She left college for Los Angeles in 1964 to join the Stoney Poneys. Her first solo LP, 'Hand Sown... Home Grown' was issued in 1969, followed by 'Silk Purse' in 1970. Ronstadt appeared on jazz pianist, Carla Bley's, slightly less than folk-oriented 'Escalator Over the Hill' in 1971. Ronstadt's eponymously titled, 'Linda Ronstadt', was let loose in 1972, 'Don't Cry Now' in 1973 and 'Heart Like a Wheel' in 1974. In 1987 she released 'Trio' with Emmylou Harris and Dolly Parton. The early nineties witnessed her Latin albums, 'Mas Canciones' and 'Frenesí'. She joined Harris and Parton again to record 'Trio II' in '94, issued in '99. It was Harris and Ronstadt for 'Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions' in '99. 2006 saw Ronstadt collaborating with Ann Savoy on 'Adieu False Heart'. Silk purse indeed: Ronstadt's first eight albums became platinum sellers. 'Living In the USA', released in 1978, was a double platinum (two million copies). Anyone with a radio in the seventies and eighties knew who was Ronstadt, she placing 44 singles in the Top Forty of the Hot 100, AC and Country categories from 'Long Long Time' in 1970 to 'Blue Train' in 1995. Her first plunk in the bucket had been 'Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow' which got heard quite a bit at #111 on the Hot 100 in 1970, that on her album, 'Silk Purse'. Among her 23 Top Ten titles were five that found No. 1: 'You're No Good' ('75), 'When Will I Be Loved' ('75), 'To Know Him Is to Love Him' w Harris and Parton ('87), 'Don't Know Much' ('89) and 'All My Life' ('89). Ronstadt's last of nigh thirty solo albums had been released in 2004, the jazz album, 'Hummin' to Myself'. Ronstadt had also performed in theatre during her early career in the eighties. She starred in the operetta, 'The Pirates of Penzance', both off and on Broadway from 1980 to 1982 [IBDB/Lortel]. It was 'La Boheme' in 1984 and the musical review, 'Canciones de mi Padre', in 1988. Ronstadt in other visual media. Ronstadt was largely an interpreter, doing little composing herself. She collaborated with Andrew Gold on 'Try Me Again' in '76. She wrote 'Winter Light' with Eric Kaz and Zbigniew Preisner in '93. Composers and other credits for her recordings at 1, 2, 3, 4. Lyrics w credits. Ronstadt's career was packed with concerts, she performing at the Newport Folk Festival as recently as 2007. She retired in 2011, Parkinson's Disease leaving her unable to perform. In 2014 Ronstadt was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Having performed as widely as with Jackson Browne, the Eagles, Toots and the Maytals, Nelson Riddle and Willie Nelson, she accepted her 13th Grammy Award in 2016 for Lifetime Achievement. Interviews: 1978, 2017, 2018. Ronstadt at Facebook.

   Different Drum

      Composition: Mike Nesmith

Linda Ronstadt   1970

   Are My Thoughts With You?

      Composition: Mickey Newbury

    I'm Leaving It All Up to You

      Composition: Don Sugarcane Harris/Dewey Terry

   Long Long Time

   Will You Love Me Tomorrow

   Long, Long Time

   Rock Me On the Water

   You're No Good