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Fred Neil March 16 1936 – July 7 2001 Was An American Blues And Folk Singer And Songwriter Whose Career Developed In The 1960s And Early 1970s After Which He Left The Music Scene. He Wrote The Hits "Candy Man" The B Side Of Roy Orbison's "Crying" And "Everybody's Talkin'" Harry Nilsson As Well As The Ballad "A Little Bit Of Rain" And The Rock Standard "The Other Side Of This Life" Most Famously Recorded By Jefferson Airplane. Biography Born In Cleveland Ohio And Raised In St. Petersburg Florida Neil Was One Of The Singer-Songwriters Who Worked Out Of New York City's Famous Brill Building. He Is Often Called A Pioneer Of The Folk Rock And Singer-Songwriter Musical Genres His Most Prominent Descendants Being Tim Buckley Stephen Stills David Crosby And Joni Mitchell. His Most Frequently Cited Disciples Are Karen Dalton Tim Hardin Dino Valenti Vince Martin Peter Stampfel Of The Avant-Folk Ensemble The Holy Modal Rounders John Sebastian The Lovin' Spoonful Jerry Jeff Walker And Paul Kantner Jefferson Airplane . Some Of Neil's Early Compositions Were Recorded By Buddy Holly And Roy Orbison. He Was A Session Guitarist On Bobby Darin's 1958 Hit "Dream Lover " And A Demo Singer On A Late-'50s Elvis Movie Soundtrack Session. While Composing At The Brill Building For Other Artists Neil Also Recorded Six Mostly Rockabilly-Pop Oriented Singles For Different Labels As A Solo Artist. Widely Known And Admired In Folk Music Circles He Gained Wider Recognition In 1969 When Nilsson's Recording Of "Everybody's Talkin'" Was Featured In The Film Midnight Cowboy Became A Huge Hit And Won A Grammy. In Fred Neil's Rolling Stone Obituary Anthony DeCurtis Wrote "So Why Is Neil A Hero To David Crosby? Because Back When Crosby Was An Aspiring Folkie Who Just Arrived In New York Neil Bothered To Take An Interest In Him Just As He Did For The Young Bob Dylan Who Backed Neil On Harmonica At The Cafe Wha? In Greenwich Village. 'He Taught Me That Everything Was Music ' Crosby Says." In His Memoir Richie Havens Recalled Fred Neil And Then-Partner Vince Martin's Ability To Make An Entrance Through The Audience Sans Microphones And Get The Audience Up And Clapping By Relying Only On Their Harmonious Vocals. Neil Was An Accomplished Professional Musician Atypically Inclined To A Modest Frugality. Perhaps Because Of His Grandmother's Influence As A Child He Sang In A Gospel Church Band And Acquired A Background In Black Music That Influenced Him Greatly. Among His Other Influences Was Hank Williams. Toward The End Of The 1950s Neil Began Performing Urban Blues À La Josh White Or Leadbelly In New York's Greenwich Village Coffeehouses. The Success Of "Candy Man" While He Was In His Early Twenties Gave Neil A Significant Income Stream For Life. Perhaps As A Result He Became Increasingly Disinclined To Work If He Really Did Not Feel The Desire. His Five Solo Albums Are Remarkable For Their Unpretentious Authenticity. His Combination Of Baritone Vocal And Trademark 12-String-Guitar Strumming Remains Unusual And His Recordings Provide His Shimmering Melodies With Muscular Grooves. Neil Consistently Resolved The Age-Old Opposition Between Aesthetic Integrity And Commercial Quest Almost Entirely In Favor Of The Aesthetic Which Gives His Recordings A Unique Historical Resonance. Neil's Approach To Melody Was In The Manner Of Cole Porter And To Rhythm In The School Of Ray Charles. His First LP Tear Down The Walls Taped As Duo With Vince Martin Showed An Exquisite Control Of A Folk-Blues Repertoire With Some Raga-Like Touches. During 1965 And 1966 Neil Was Joined On Many Live Sets By The Seventh Sons A Trio Trio Led By Buzzy Linhart On Guitar And Vibes. Neil's Most Popular Albums Are Bleecker & MacDougal Originally Released On Elektra Records In 1965 Reissued In 1970 As A Little Bit Of Rain And Fred Neil Released In 1966 Relaunched In 1969 As Everybody's Talkin' Recorded During His Residences In Greenwich Village And Coconut Grove Florida Respectively Although For The Latter One Session Took Place In Los Angeles . Interested In Dolphins Since The Mid 1960s When He Had Begun Visiting The Miami Seaquarium With Ric O’Barry In 1970 Neil Founded The Dolphin Research Project An Organization Dedicated According To Neil Himself To Stopping The Capture Trafficking And Exploitation Of Dolphins Worldwide. Increasingly Involved In That Pursuit Neil Progressively Disappeared From The Recording Studio And Live Performance. Edit '70s Recordings Many Of Neil's 1970s Recordings Remain Unissued Including A Rare 1973 Session With Quicksilver Messenger Service Guitarist John Cipollina. Ric O'Barry Claimed In An Interview For The Unofficial Online Website Www.Fredneil.Com That Two Albums Recorded Between 1977 And 1978 - Each Including Approximately 10 Covers Not Originals - Were Buried By Columbia Records. On The First Of Those Purported Recordings The Sessions Produced In Miami By O'Barry Himself Neil Was Joined By Pete Childs On Guitar John Sebastian On Harp And Harvey Brooks On Bass. The Second Album Was More Fully Arranged With Neil Accompanied By The New York Session Band Stuff And Some Old Friends Like Slick Aguilar. The Songs On These Albums Were Written By Bobby Charles "Hey Joe"'s Writer Billy Roberts John Braheny And Bobby Ingram. Edit '70s Live Performance After Playing With Stephen Stills At New York City's Madison Square Garden In 1970 Neil Began A Long Retirement Performing In Public Mostly At Gigs For The Dolphin Project Revue In Coconut Grove Although In 1977 He Played A Benefit Show For The Revue In Tokyo. An Important Live Date Occurred In July 1975 At The Montreux Jazz Festival 1 When Neil Played With His Core Group Of John Sebastian On Harp Harvey Brooks On Bass And Pete Childs On Guitar. Michael Lang One Of The Organizers Of The 1969 Woodstock Festival And A '70s Coconut Grove Scene Habituée Tried Unsuccessfully To Release This As A Live LP. His Last Public Performances Was In 1981 At An Outdoor Concert At The Old Grove Pub In Coconut Grove Where He Joined Buzzy Linhart For One Song And Stayed Onstage For The Rest Of The Set. Edit Later Life And Death Neil Left Woodstock In The Mid '70s And Spent His Remaining Decades On The Shores Of Southern Florida Involved In The Dolphin Project. He Died Of Natural Causes In 2001. Edit Discography * 1964 Hootenanny Live At The Bitter End FM * 1964 World Of Folk Music FM * 1965 Bleecker & MacDougal Elektra * 1966 Fred Neil Capitol * 1967 Sessions Capitol * 1969 Everybody's Talkin' Capitol * 1970 Little Bit Of Rain Elektra * 1971 Other Side Of This Life Capitol * 1986 The Very Best Of Fred Neil See For Miles * 1998 The Many Sides Of Fred Neil Collectors' Choice Music * 1999 Everybody's Talkin'/Other Side Of This Life Vivid Sound * 2001 Tear Down The Walls/Bleecker & MacDougal Elektra * 2003 Do You Ever Think Of Me? Rev-Ola * 2004 The Sky Is Falling The Complete Live Recordings 1965-1971 Rev-Ola * 2005 Echoes Of My Mind The Best Of 1963-1971 Raven * 2008 Trav'lin Man The Early Singles Fallout Edit Selected List Of Fred Neil Songs And Artists Who Covered Them * "Candy Man" – Roy Orbison 1961 Dion 1965 * "Everybody's Talkin'" – Harry Nilsson 1969 Emmylou Harris 1969 Neil Diamond 1969 Roger Miller 1970 B. J. Thomas 1972 Willie Nelson 1976± Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes 1977 Rubber Rodeo 1986 The Beautiful South 1992 Zé Ramalho 1992 Stephen Stills 1991 Jimmy Buffett 2003 Julio Iglesias 2006 Madeleine Peyroux 2006 Jesse Malin 2008 And Louis Armstrong * "Ba-Di-Da" – Mark Lanegan 1999 * "Little Bit Of Rain" – Judy Henske 1965 Harry Belafonte 1965 Stone Poneys 1967 José Feliciano 1968 Karen Dalton 1969 Sandy Denny 1973 Arto Lindsay & The Ambitious Lovers 1990 Eric Andersen 2004 * "Tear Down The Walls" – Vince Martin And Fred Neil 1964 Judy Collins 1964 Joe And Eddie 1965 * "The Dolphins" – Dion 1968 Al Wilson 1968 Linda Ronstadt 1969 Harry Belafonte 1970 It's A Beautiful Day 1970 The Youngbloods 1971 Tim Buckley 1973 Eddi Reader 1989 Billy Bragg 1991 Aztec Camera 1992 Richie Havens Live Version Included On Resume 1993 The The 1993 Beth Orton 1997 Jerry Jeff Walker 1998 The Black Crowes 2009 * "Green Rocky Road" – Dave Van Ronk 1973 Felix Pappalardi With Creation 1976 Blue Orchids 2005 Karen Dalton Donovan Tim Hardin Department Of Eagles 2009 * "The Other Side Of This Life" – Chad Mitchell Trio 1965 The Lovin' Spoonful 1965 Gram Parsons 1965 Peter Paul And Mary 1966 The Animals 1966 The Youngbloods 1967 Jefferson Airplane 1969 Karen Dalton 1969 Eric Andersen 2002 * "Country Boy & Bleecker Street" – H. P. Lovecraft 1967 * "That's The Bag I'm In" – Gram Parsons 1966 H. P. Lovecraft 1967 The Fabs 1966 * "Blues On The Ceiling" – The Bintangs 1967± Karen Dalton 1969 Tim Hardin 1974 * "Wild Child In A World Of Trouble" – Vince Martin And Fred Neil 1964 Tom Rush 1970 Edit References 1. ^ 1 Setlist From Montreux Jazz Festival Database read less