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Turner is a city in Marion County, Oregon, United States. The population was 1,199 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Salem Metropolitan Statistical Area. The community was incorporated by the Oregon Legislative Assembly on February 10, 1905.
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The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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Woodstock Festival
Woodstock Music & Art Fair (informally, Woodstock or The Woodstock Festival) was a music festival, billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music". It was held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre (2.4 km²; 240 ha, 0.94 mi²) dairy farm near the hamlet of White Lake in the town of Bethel, New York, from August 15 to August 18, 1969. Bethel, in Sullivan County, is 43 miles (69 km) southwest of the town of Woodstock, New York, in adjoining Ulster County.
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Arik Einstein
Arik (Arieh) Einstein (, born 3 January 1939) is an Israeli singer-songwriter.
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Astrud Gilberto
Astrud Gilberto (born March 29, 1940) is a Brazilian singer known for her samba and bossa nova music, including the Grammy Award-winning song "The Girl from Ipanema".
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Billy Bragg
Stephen William Bragg (born 20 December 1957), known as Billy Bragg, is an English alternative rock musician and left wing activist who blends elements of folk music, punk rock and protest songs, and his lyrics mostly deal with political or romantic themes. His music career has lasted more than 30 years, and he has collaborated with Natalie Merchant, Johnny Marr, Hank Wangford, Florence and the Machine, Kate Nash, Leon Rosselson, members of R.E.M., Michelle Shocked, Less Than Jake, Kitty Daisy & Lewis, Kirsty MacColl, and Wilco. Bragg often plays and speaks at the Tolpuddle Martyrs festival. Bragg Close, a street in Dagenham, is named in his honour, and he currently lives in Dorset.
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Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman; May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and musician who has been a major figure in music for six decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was at first an informal chronicler, and later an apparently reluctant figurehead of social unrest. A number of his songs such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'" became anthems for the American civil rights and anti-war movements. His early lyrics incorporated a variety of political, social and philosophical, as well as literary influences. They defied existing pop music conventions and appealed hugely to the then burgeoning counterculture. Initially inspired by the songs of Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, Hank Williams, and the performance style of Little Richard, Dylan has both amplified and personalized musical genres, exploring numerous distinct traditions in American song—from folk, blues and country to gospel, rock and roll, and rockabilly, to English, Scottish, and Irish folk music, embracing even jazz and swing.
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Bob Seger
Robert Clark "Bob" Seger (born May 6, 1945) is an American rock musician and singer-songwriter.
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Bobby Darin
Bobby Darin (May 14, 1936 – December 20, 1973), born Walden Robert Perciville Cassotto, was a two-time Grammy award winning American singer, Oscar nominated actor and accomplished musician.
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Cher
Cher (; born Cherilyn Sarkisian on May 20, 1946) is an American recording artist, actress, director and record producer. Referred to as the Goddess of Pop, she has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globes, a Cannes Film Festival Award and a People's Choice Award for her work in film, music and television.
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Chicken Shack
Chicken Shack are a British blues band, founded in the late 1960s by Andy Silvester (bass guitar) and Stan Webb (guitar and vocals), with Alan Morley (drums) and later in 1968 joined by Christine Perfect (vocals and keyboards),
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Chris Smither
Chris Smither (born November 11, 1944, Miami, Florida) is an American folk/blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter. His music draws deeply from the blues, American folk music, modern poets and philosophers.
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Colin Blunstone
Colin Blunstone (born Colin Edward Michael Blunstone, 24 June 1945, Hatfield, Hertfordshire) is an English pop singer-songwriter, best known as a member of the pop group The Zombies, and for his participation on various albums with The Alan Parsons Project.
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David Sylvian
David Sylvian (born David Alan Batt, 23 February 1958, Beckenham, Kent) is an English singer-songwriter and musician. He came to prominence in the late 1970s as the lead vocalist and main songwriter in the group Japan. His subsequent solo work is described by critic Jason Ankeny as "a far-ranging and esoteric career that encompassed not only solo projects but also a series of fascinating collaborative efforts." Sylvian's solo work has been influenced by a variety of musical styles and genres, including jazz, avant-garde, ambient, electronic, and progressive rock.
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Doc Watson
Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson (born March 3, 1923) is an American guitar player, songwriter and singer of bluegrass, folk, country, blues and gospel music. He has won seven Grammy awards as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Watson's flatpicking skills and knowledge of traditional American music are highly regarded. He performed with his son Merle for over 15 years until Merle's death in 1985, in an accident on the family farm.
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Erik Jacobsen
Erik Jacobsen is an American record producer, best known for his work in the 1960s with Tim Hardin, The Lovin' Spoonful, The Charlatans and Norman Greenbaum, and later with Tazmanian Devils and Chris Isaak.
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Fred Neil
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 industry. 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.
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Gram Parsons
Gram Parsons (November 5, 1946 – September 19, 1973) was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist. Parsons is best known for his work within the country genre; he also mixed blues, folk, and rock to create what he called "Cosmic American Music". Besides recording as a solo artist, he also worked in several notable bands, including the International Submarine Band, The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers. His career, though short, is described by Allmusic as "enormously influential" for both country and rock, "blending the two genres to the point that they became indistinguishable from each other."
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Helen Reddy
Helen Reddy (born October 25, 1941) is an Australian-born singer and actress. In the 1970s, she enjoyed international success, especially in the United States, where she placed fifteen singles in the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. Three of those fifteen songs reached #1, including her signature hit "I Am Woman."
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Joan Baez
Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941) is an American folk singer, songwriter and activist. Baez has a distinctive vocal style, with a strong vibrato. Her recordings include many topical songs and material dealing with social issues.
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John Holt (singer)
John Holt (born John Kenneth Holt, 11 July 1947, Kingston, Jamaica) is a reggae singer and songwriter.
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Johnny Cash
John R. "Johnny" Cash (February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003), born J. R. Cash, was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Although he is primarily remembered as a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll—especially early in his career—as well as blues, folk, and gospel. Late in his career, Cash covered songs by several rock artists, among them the industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails and the synthpop band Depeche Mode.
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June Carter
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Leon Russell
Claude Russell Bridges (born April 2, 1942; Lawton, Oklahoma), known professionally as Leon Russell, is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, and guitarist.
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Leonard Nimoy
Leonard Simon Nimoy (, ; born March 26, 1931) is an American actor, film director, poet, musician, and photographer. Nimoy's fame rests on his playing the role of Spock in 1966-1969, as well as reprising the role in multiple film, television and video game sequels.
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Lloyd Cole
Lloyd Cole (born 31 January 1961) is an English singer and songwriter, known for his role as lead singer of Lloyd Cole and the Commotions from 1984 to 1989, and for his subsequent solo work.
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Mason Williams
Mason Williams (born August 24, 1938) is an American guitarist and composer, best known for his guitar instrumental "Classical Gas". He is also a comedy writer, known for his writing on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, and Saturday Night Live. He is also an eclectic poet and lyricist, who has published several books.
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Muruga Booker
Muruga Booker (born December 27, 1942) is an American drummer, recording artist, and Greek Orthodox priest.
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Nico
Nico (born Christa Päffgen, 16 October 1938 – 18 July 1988) was a German singer, composer, fashion model, actress, and Warhol Superstar. She is known for both her vocal collaboration on The Velvet Underground's debut album, The Velvet Underground and Nico, and her work as a solo artist from the late 1960s through the early 1980s. She also had roles in a handful of films, including Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita (1960) and Andy Warhol's Chelsea Girls (1966). She was related to Hermann Päffgen, who founded the Päffgen brewery in 1883 in Cologne.
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Paul Weller (singer)
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Ramblin' Jack Elliot
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Robert Plant
Robert Anthony Plant, CBE (born 20 August 1948), is an English rock singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the rock band Led Zeppelin. He has also had a successful solo career. In 2007, Plant released Raising Sand, an album produced by T-Bone Burnett with American bluegrass soprano Alison Krauss, which won the 2009 Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
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Rod Stewart
Roderick David "Rod" Stewart, CBE (born 10 January 1945) is a British singer-songwriter born and raised in London, England and currently residing in Epping. He is of Scottish and English lineage.
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Ron Sexsmith
Ronald Eldon Sexsmith (born 8 January 1964) is a Canadian singer-songwriter from St. Catharines, Ontario, currently based in Toronto. He started his own band when he was fourteen years old, and released the first recordings of his own material seven years later, in 1985. Some of the same artists who inspired Sexsmith—Paul McCartney, Elvis Costello, and John Hiatt—are now people whose praise he has won.
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Stan Webb
Stan Webb (born Stanley Webb, 3 February 1946, Fulham, South West London, England) is the frontman and lead guitarist with the blues band, Chicken Shack.
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Wes Carr
Wesley Dean Carr (born 14 September 1982), known simply as Wes Carr, is an Australian singer-songwriter who was the sixth winner of Australian Idol in 2008.
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Willie Dixon
William James "Willie" Dixon (July 1, 1915 – January 29, 1992) was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer. A Grammy Award winner who was proficient on both the Upright bass and the guitar, as well as his own singing voice, Dixon is arguably best known as an acclaimed, prolific songwriter, and one of the founders of the Chicago blues sound. His songs have been recorded not only by himself, or that of the trio and other ensembles in which he participated, but an uncounted number of musicians representing many genres between them. A short list of his most famous compositions include "Little Red Rooster", "Hoochie Coochie Man", "Evil", "Spoonful", "Back Door Man", "I Just Want to Make Love to You", "I Ain't Superstitious", "My Babe", "Wang Dang Doodle", and "Bring It On Home". They were written during the peak of Chess Records, 1950–1965, and performed by Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter, influencing a worldwide generation of musicians. Next to Muddy Waters, he was the most influential person in shaping the post World War II sound of the Chicago blues. He also was an important link between the blues and rock and roll, working with Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley in the late 1950s. His songs were covered by some of the biggest artists of more recent times, including Bob Dylan, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Foghat, The Yardbirds, The Rolling Stones, Queen, Megadeth, The Doors, The Allman Brothers Band, Grateful Dead, and a posthumous duet with Colin James.
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Wilson Phillips
Wilson Phillips is an American vocal group consisting of Carnie Wilson, Wendy Wilson and Chynna Phillips.
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Hardin, Tim Filmography
- Sparkler (1997)
- Spin City (1996)
- Spin City (1996)
- Woodstock Diary (1994)
- Woodstock: The Lost Performances (1990)
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- Don't Make Promises
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- Smugglin' Man
- How Long
- While You're on Your Way
- It'll Never Happen Again
- Reason to Believe
- Never Too Far
- Part of the Wind
- Ain't Gonna Do Without
- Misty Roses
- How Can We Hang on to a Dream
- If I Were a Carpenter
- Red Balloon
- Black Sheep Boy
- Lady Came From Baltimore
- Baby Close Its Eyes
- You Upset the Grace of Living When You Lie
- Speak Like a Child
- See Where You Are and Get Out
- It's Hard to Believe in Love for Long
- Tribute to Hank Williams
- Lenny's Tune (live)
- Turn the Page (live)
- Airmobile
- Danville Dame
- I Can't Slow Down
- You Got a Reputation
- Keep Your Hands Off Her
20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Tim Hardin
(Released 2002)
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- How Can We Hang on to a Dream
- It'll Never Happen Again
- If I Were a Carpenter
- Red Balloon
- Black Sheep Boy
- Lady Came From Baltimore
- You Upset the Grace of Living When You Lie (live)
- Black Sheep Boy
- It'll Never Happen Again
- Misty Roses
- Part of the Wind
- Red Balloon
- Baby Close Its Eyes
- Speak Like a Child
- Never Too Far
- While You're on Your Way
- How Can We Hang on to a Dream
- If I Knew
- You Got a Reputation
- The Lady Came From Baltimore
- You Upset the Grace of Living When You Lie
- Tribute to Hank Williams
- Danville Dame
- Reason to Believe
- Unforgiven
Suite for Susan Moore and Damion: We Are - One, One, All in One
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- First Love Song
- Everything Good Become More True
- Question of Birth
- Once-Touched by Flame
- Last Sweet Moments
- Magician
- Loneliness She Knows
- The Country I'm Living In
- One, One the Perfect Sum
- Susan
- I Can't Slow Down
- Blues on the Ceilin'
- Stagger Lee
- I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man
- I've Been Working on the Railroad
- House of the Rising Sun
- Fast Freight
- Cocaine Bill
- You Got to Have More Than One Woman
- Danville Dame
- Don't Make Promises
- Green Rocky Road
- Smugglin' Man
- How Long
- While You're on Your Way
- It'll Never Happen Again
- Reason to Believe
- Never Too Far
- Part of the Wind
- Ain't Gonna Do Without
- Misty Roses
- How Can We Hang on to a Dream
- If I Were a Carpenter
- Red Balloon
- Black Sheep Boy
- Lady Came From Baltimore
- Baby Close Its Eyes
- You Upset the Grace of Living When You Lie
- Speak Like a Child
- See Where You Are and Get Out
- It's Hard to Believe in Love for Long
- Tribute to Hank Williams
- Simple Song of Freedom
- Shiloh Town
- Turn the Page
- Palying Cards / The Magician
- First Love Song (live)
- Last Sweet Moments (live)
- If I Knew
- Hoboin'
- Andre Johray
- Southern Butterfly
- Bird on the Wire
- Midnight Caller
- Yankee Lady
- Till We Meet Again
- I'll Be Home
- If I Knew
- Thanks to Gideon
- Don't Make Promises
- Green Rocky Road
- Smugglin' Man
- How Long
- While You're on Your Way
- It'll Never Happen Again
- Reason to Believe
- Never Too Far
- Part of the Wind
- Ain't Gonna Do Without
- Misty Roses
- How Can We Hang on to a Dream
- If I Were a Carpenter
- Red Balloon
- Black Sheep Boy
- Lady Came From Baltimore
- Baby Close Its Eyes
- You Upset the Grace of Living When You Lie
- Speak Like a Child
- See Where You Are and Get Out
- It's Hard to Believe in Love for Long
- Tribute to Hank Williams
- While You're on Your Way (alternate version)
- It'll Never Happen Again (alternate version)
- Reason to Believe
- How Can We Hang on to a Dream
- It'll Never Happen Again
- Misty Roses
- Speak Like a Child
- Don't Make Promises
- If I Were a Carpenter
- Red Balloon
- Black Sheep Boy
- Green Rocky Road
- How Long
- You Upset the Grace of Living When You Lie
- Tribute to Hank Williams
- Smugglin' Man
- Lady Come from Baltimore
- Shiloh Town
- Never Too Far
- Rags and Old Iron
- Look Our Love Over
- Person to Person
- Darling Girl
- Blues on the Ceiling
- Is There No Rest for the Weary
- Fire and Rain
- While You're on Your Way
- Red Balloon
- If I Were a Carpenter
- Black Sheep Boy
- Lady Came From Baltimore
- Baby Close Its Eyes
- You Upset the Grace of Living When You Lie
- Speak Like a Child
- See Where You Are and Get Out
- It's Hard to Believe in Love for Long
- Tribute to Hank Williams
- Don't Make Promises
- Green Rocky Road
- Smugglin' Man
- How Long
- While You're on Your Way
- It'll Never Happen Again
- Reason to Believe
- Never Too Far
- Part of the Wind
- Ain't Gonna Do Without
- Misty Roses
- How Can We Hang on to a Dream
- Bird on the Wire
- Moonshiner
- Southern Butterfly
- A Satisfied Mind
- Soft Summer Breeze
- Hoboin'
- Georgia on My Mind
- Andre Johray
- If I Knew
- Love Hymn
- You Got to Have More Than One Woman
- Danville Dame
- I Can't Slow Down
- Airmobile
- How Can We Hang on to a Dream
- Reason to Believe
- Misty Roses
- Don't Make Promises
- It'll Never Happen Again
- If I Were a Carpenter
- Lady Came From Baltimore
- Red Balloon
- Black Sheep Boy
- Tribute to Hank Williams
- Smugglin' Man
- Simple Song of Freedom
- Everything Good Become More True
- Once Touched by Flame
- Love Hymn
- Southern Butterfly
- Moonshiner
- Hoboin'
- Sweet Lady
- Do the Do
- Never Too Far
- Person to Person
- Speak Like a Child (live)
Born: 1941-12-23
Died: 1980-12-29
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Tim Hardin - If I Were A Carpenter
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- Duration: 2:44
- Published: 17 Nov 2009
- Updated: 11 May 2012
The original version
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"Reason to Believe" Tim Hardin
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- Duration: 2:01
- Published: 10 Dec 2009
- Updated: 11 May 2012
One of my favorite folk songs of the 60s is "Reason to Believe" written by Tim Hardin in 1965 and covered by many other artists including Rod Stewart, The Carpenters, Johnny Cash, and Glen Campbell The original recording appeared on his debut album, Tim Hardin 1, released on the Verve Records in 1966. The album is available on CD combined with his second album.
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Tim Hardin: How Can We Hang On To A Dream
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- Duration: 2:28
- Published: 03 Feb 2008
- Updated: 11 May 2012
Slideshow with pictures of Tim Hardin and with his splendid song as the audio background. Everything is relative, except the beauty and the depth of this song.
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Tim Hardin "The Lady Came From Baltimore" 1974
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- Duration: 2:06
- Published: 23 Oct 2010
- Updated: 12 May 2012
Tim Hardin duets with Twiggy! Strange, but nice live performance from 1974
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Tim Hardin if I were a Carpenter (live @ woodstock)
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- Duration: 5:18
- Published: 30 Jan 2011
- Updated: 09 May 2012
Tim Hardin if I were a Carpenter (live @ woodstock)
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Tim Hardin - Simple Song Of Freedom
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- Duration: 3:52
- Published: 26 Dec 2007
- Updated: 12 May 2012
Tim Hardin - Simple Song Of Freedom
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Tim Hardin - Misty Roses
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- Duration: 2:23
- Published: 04 Nov 2010
- Updated: 07 May 2012
Tim Hardin - Misty Roses
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Tim Hardin - Don't Make Promises
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- Duration: 2:30
- Published: 01 Feb 2008
- Updated: 22 Apr 2012
For Paddy xxx
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Tim Hardin "Misty Roses"
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- Duration: 2:03
- Published: 20 Aug 2011
- Updated: 11 May 2012
"Misty Roses" written by singer-songwriter Tim Hardin in 1966 , originally appeared on his debut album Tim Hardin 1, released on Verve Records in 1966. The album is available on CD combined with his second album. Like "Reason to Believe" it is one of his songs most-covered by other artists.
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Tim Hardin - How Can We Hang On To A Dream
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- Duration: 2:02
- Published: 19 May 2009
- Updated: 12 May 2012
A compilation of pictures in the mood of this sentimental song by Tim Hardin. Lyrics: What can I say, she's walking away From what we've seen What can I do, still loving you It's all a dream How can we hang on to a dream How can it ever be the way it seems What can I do,...
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Tim Hardin - Lady Came From Baltimore
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- Duration: 1:53
- Published: 03 Jul 2011
- Updated: 30 Apr 2012
From People to People: The Essential, Classic Hardin 1963-1980
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Tim Hardin - If I Were A Carpenter (Live Woodstock 1969)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:09
- Published: 16 Aug 2010
- Updated: 01 May 2012
Couldn't find this anywhere, hence re-uploaded via Mp3 file.
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Tim Hardin - Hang on to a Dream
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- Duration: 2:55
- Published: 29 Apr 2011
- Updated: 11 May 2012
Tim Hardin - The Homecoming Concert Recorded live on January 17th, 1980
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Tim Hardin - Whiskey Whiskey
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- Duration: 5:47
- Published: 30 Dec 2010
- Updated: 11 May 2012
Album: Hang on to a Dream - The Verve Recordings Release Date: 22-02-1994 Double-CD set of 47 tracks that Hardin recorded for Verve between 1964 and 1966. His expressive, blues-inflected vocals and confessional songwriting are heard on covers and famous compositions like "If I Were a Carpenter," "Lady Came From Baltimore," and "Reason to Believe." The compilation includes every studio recording that Hardin released on the Verve label, as well as two alternate takes and 15 previously unreleased tracks. A gentle, soulful singer who owed as much to blues and jazz as folk, Tim Hardin produced an impressive body of work in the late '60s without ever approaching either mass success or the artistic heights of the best singer/songwriters. When future Lovin' Spoonful producer Erik Jacobsen arranged for Hardin's first recordings in the mid-'60s, Hardin was no more than an above-average white blues singer, in the mold of many fellow folkys working the East Coast circuit. By the time of his 1966 debut, however, he was writing confessional folk-rock songs of considerable grace and emotion. The first album's impact was slightly diluted by incompatible string overdubs (against Hardin's wishes), but by the time of his second and best LP, he'd achieved a satisfactory balance between acoustic guitar-based arrangements and subtle string accompaniment. It was the lot of Hardin's work to achieve greater recognition through covers from other singers, such as Rod Stewart (who did "Reason to <b>...</b>
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Tim Hardin - If I Were A Carpenter Acoustic Guitar lesson
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- Duration: 2:40
- Published: 05 Jun 2010
- Updated: 29 Mar 2012
www.TotallyGuitars.com Learn to play Tim Hardin - If I Were A CarpenterGuitar lesson - sample guitar lesson. If I Were A Carpenter -- Written by Tim Hardin and appears on Tim Hardin 2, released in 1967, although it was a hit for Bobby Darrin a year earlier. It has been covered by numerous artists since, including Robert Plant on his 1993 album Fate Of Nations. Vote to have this made into a lesson at http Visit the site for free guitar lessons, TARGET program, forum, community, and contests. www.TotallyGuitars.com - Complete Free Lessons - Community - Chat Room - Forum - Your Own Blog - Recommend A Lesson -Membership is free http join now!
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Tim Hardin / Question Of Birth
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- Duration: 3:44
- Published: 11 Jun 2009
- Updated: 30 Apr 2012
Tim Hardin's poem 'Question Of Birth' with video clips of my newborn son in November 2002.
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Tim Hardin - Mercy Wind
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:15
- Published: 01 Jul 2011
- Updated: 11 May 2012
Tim Hardin «A gentle, soulful singer who owed as much to blues and jazz as folk, Tim Hardin produced an impressive body of work in the late '60s without ever approaching either mass success or the artistic heights of the best singer/songwriters. When future Lovin' Spoonful producer Erik Jacobsen arranged for Hardin's first recordings in the mid-'60s, Hardin was no more than an above-average white blues singer, in the mold of many fellow folkys working the East Coast circuit. By the time of his 1966 debut, however, he was writing confessional folk-rock songs of considerable grace and emotion. The first album's impact was slightly diluted by incompatible string overdubs (against Hardin's wishes), but by the time of his second and best LP, he'd achieved a satisfactory balance between acoustic guitar-based arrangements and subtle string accompaniment. It was the lot of Hardin's work to achieve greater recognition through covers from other singers, such as Rod Stewart (who did "Reason to Believe"), Nico (who covered "Eulogy to Lenny Bruce" on her first album), Scott Walker (who sang "Lady Came From Baltimore"), Fred Neil ("Green Rocky Road" has been credited to both him and Hardin), and especially Bobby Darin, who took "If I Were a Carpenter" into the Top Ten in 1966. Beleaguered by a heroin habit since early in his career, Hardin's drug problems became grave in the late '60s; his commercial prospects grew dimmer, and his albums more erratic, although he did manage to appear <b>...</b>
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Red Balloon - Tim Hardin
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- Duration: 2:46
- Published: 29 Aug 2011
- Updated: 05 May 2012
A short, fanmade music video for the song Red Ballon by Tim Hardin using clips from Le Ballon Rouge, a 1956 French short about a boy who finds a sentient red balloon and befriends it. Not made for profit, no copyright infringment intended on any party. Hope you enjoy :)
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Tim Hardin - If I Were A Carpenter
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:25
- Published: 14 Sep 2011
- Updated: 11 May 2012
Tim Hardin (writer) If I Were A Carpenter
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Tim Hardin - Lenny's Tune (Lenny Bruce)
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- Duration: 2:24
- Published: 14 Oct 2008
- Updated: 27 Apr 2012
Tim Hardin - Lenny's tune (edit)
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Tim Hardin - Lady Came From Baltimore
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:41
- Published: 04 May 2011
- Updated: 19 Apr 2012
Tim Hardin 3 : Live in Concert [1968]
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Tim Hardin • Hello Baby
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:31
- Published: 07 Apr 2009
- Updated: 12 May 2012
It'll Never Happen Again - Tim Hardin
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:40
- Published: 28 Apr 2008
- Updated: 20 Mar 2012
Sad old tune by sad old Tim Hardin
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| name | James Timothy Hardin |
|---|---|
| background | solo_singer |
| birth name | James Timothy Hardin |
| alias | Tim Hardin |
| born | December 23, 1941 Eugene, Oregon, United States |
| died | December 29, 1980 Los Angeles, California, United States |
| instrument | Vocals, guitar, piano |
| genre | Folk |
| occupation | Singer, songwriter |
| years active | 1965–1980 |
| label | Verve, Columbia |
| notable instruments | }} |
James Timothy "Tim" Hardin (December 23, 1941 – December 29, 1980) was an American folk musician and composer. He wrote the Top 40 hits "If I Were a Carpenter", covered by, among others, Joan Baez, Bobby Darin, Johnny Cash, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, and Robert Plant, and "Reason to Believe", covered by many, including Rod Stewart, as well as his own recording career.
Early life and career
Hardin was born in Eugene, Oregon and attended South Eugene High School. He dropped out of high school at age 18 to join the Marine Corps. He spent part of 1959 in Vietnam as a military advisor. Hardin is said to have discovered heroin in Vietnam.After his discharge he moved to New York City in 1961, where he briefly attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was dismissed because of truancy and began to focus on his musical career by performing around Greenwich Village, mostly in a blues style.
After moving to Boston in 1963 he was discovered by the record producer Erik Jacobsen (later the producer for The Lovin' Spoonful), who arranged a meeting with Columbia Records. In 1964 he moved back to Greenwich Village to record for his contract with Columbia. The resulting recordings were not released and Columbia terminated Hardin's recording contract.
After moving to Los Angeles, California in 1965, he met actress Susan Morss (known professionally as Susan Yardley), and moved back to New York with her. He signed to the Verve Forecast label, and produced his first authorized album, ''Tim Hardin 1'' in 1966 which contained "Reason To Believe" and the ballad "Misty Roses" which did receive Top 40 radio play.
''Tim Hardin 2'' was released in 1967 and contained "If I Were a Carpenter".
An album entitled ''This is Tim Hardin'', featuring covers of "House of the Rising Sun", Fred Neil's "Blues on the Ceilin'" and Willie Dixon's "Hoochie Coochie Man", among others, appeared in 1967, on the Atco label. The liner notes indicate the songs were recorded in 1963–1964, well prior to the release of ''Tim Hardin 1'' by Verve Records. ''Tim Hardin 3 Live in Concert'', released in 1968, was a collection of live recordings along with re-makes of previous songs; it was followed by ''Tim Hardin 4'', another collection of blues-influenced tracks believed to date from the same period as ''This is Tim Hardin''.
In 1969, Hardin again signed with Columbia and had one of his few commercial successes, as a non-LP single of Bobby Darin's "Simple Song of Freedom" reached the US Top 50. Hardin did not tour in support of this single and a heroin addiction and stage fright made his live performances erratic.
Also in 1969 he appeared at the Woodstock Festival where he sang his "If I Were a Carpenter" song solo, as well as a full set of his music while backed by a band that included drummer Muruga Booker.
He recorded three albums for Columbia—''Suite for Susan Moore and Damion: We Are One, One, All in One''; ''Bird on a Wire''; and ''Painted Head''.
In 1973, Hardin appeared on stage with Harry Chapin as part of Chapin's concert in Potsdam, New York. They jammed on a blues riff that survives in a bootleg recording. Some of the topics covered in the seven-minute long jam include drug use, travel and death. In Chapin's introduction, he makes reference to Hardin's participation as a session musician on his first two albums.
Later work and death
During the following years Hardin moved between England and the U.S. His heroin addiction had taken control of his life by the time his last album, ''Nine'', was released on GM Records in the UK in 1973 (the album did not see a US release until it appeared on Antilles Records in 1976).He sold his writers' rights in the late 1970s.
Tim Hardin died of a heroin overdose in 1980, and his remains are buried in the Twin Oaks Cemetery in Turner, Oregon.
Discography
Covers of Hardin songs
References
External links
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Demetri Martin (born May 25, 1973) is an American comedian, actor, artist, musician, writer and humorist. Martin is best known for his work as a stand-up comedian, contributor on ''The Daily Show'' and for his Comedy Central show ''Important Things with Demetri Martin''.
Early life
Demetri Martin was born to a Greek American family in New York City, New York, and grew up in Toms River, New Jersey. He is the son of Lillian, a nutritionist, and Dean C. Martin, now deceased, a Greek Orthodox priest. Martin graduated from Yale University in 1995. Although he was accepted into Harvard Law School, he went to New York University School of Law after he received a full scholarship.
Career
In 2001, Martin caught his first big break in stand-up comedy when he appeared on Comedy Central's stand-up showcase ''Premium Blend''. At the 2003 Edinburgh Festival Fringe he won the Perrier award with his show ''If I...''. The show was turned into a British television special in 2004. From 2003 to 2004, Martin wrote for ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien''. In 2004, Martin had his own ''Comedy Central Presents'' stand-up special. His special was divided into three parts. In the first, he performed in traditional stand-up comedy fashion. In the second segment, he used humorous drawings as visual aids, which would serve either as the punchline or a background. During the third segment, he played a guitar and put on a pseudo-play where he would strum his guitar while alternating between playing harmonica and talking; some of his comedian friends dressed as fairies and dragons acted according to the story he was telling, detailing the magical land where his jokes came from. Martin's mother and grandmother also appeared.Since late 2005, he has been credited as a contributor on ''The Daily Show'', on which he has appeared as the named "Senior Youth Correspondent" and on which he hosts a segment called "Trendspotting". He has used this segment to talk about so-called hip trends among youth such as hookahs, wine, guerilla marketing and Xbox 360. A piece about social networking featured his profile on MySpace. On March 22, 2007, Demetri made another appearance on ''The Daily Show'', talking about the Viacom lawsuit against Google and YouTube.
He has recorded a comedy CD/DVD titled ''These Are Jokes'', which was released on September 26, 2006. This album also features ''Saturday Night Live'' member Will Forte and stand-up comedian Leo Allen.
Martin returned to ''The Daily Show'' on March 22, 2006, as the new Youth Correspondent, calling his segment "Professional Important News with Demetri Martin". In 2007, he starred in a Fountains of Wayne music video for "Someone to Love" as Seth Shapiro, a character in the song. He also starred in the video for the new Travis single "Selfish Jean", in which he wears multiple t-shirts with lyrics written on them.
On September 2, 2007, Martin appeared on the season finale of the HBO series ''Flight of the Conchords''. He appeared as a keytar player named Demetri.
He also had a part in the movie ''The Rocker'' (2008) starring Rainn Wilson. Martin played the part of the videographer when the band in the movie was making their first music video.
In 2009, he hosted and starred in his own television show called Important Things With Demetri Martin on Comedy Central. Later in June, it was announced his show had been renewed for a second season. The second season premiered, again on Comedy Central, on February 4, 2010. Martin has stated that ''Important Things'' will not return for a third season.
Prior to completing work on his second season, Martin starred in the comedy-drama film ''Taking Woodstock'' (2009), directed by Ang Lee, which premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. In the film Martin plays Elliot Tiber, a closeted gay artist who has given up his ambitions in the city to move upstate and help his old-world Jewish family run their Catskill Mountains motel. The film is based on the book written by Tiber.
On April 25, 2011, Martin released his first book, titled ''This Is a Book by Demetri Martin''.
Martin was slated to portray Paul DePodesta as Oakland Athletics assistant GM to Billy Beane in the 2011 movie ''Moneyball'', however was dropped and Jonah Hill took his place in the movie.
Plans
Martin sold his movie concept ''Will'' to DreamWorks; he is expected to play a key supporting role. He will play the lead in the film ''Moon People'', a pitch that he sold to Columbia Pictures.Martin also signed a blind script deal with CBS in October 2010 to produce, write, and star in his own television series.
After CBS was shown the pilot for the series, they decided not to air it.
On August 11, 2011, Fox ordered a presentation of a new animated show they might air.
''If I''
''If I'' is a Perrier Comedy Award-winning comedy one-man show written and performed by Demetri Martin at the 2003 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. It was also aired on British television as a special. The show is an autobiographical examination of Martin's life, as seen through various definitions of the word "if."The title of the special comes from a lengthy palindromic poem that Martin wrote; the words "if I" are at the center of the poem.
Comedic style
Martin is known for being an unconventional stand-up comic. He uses one-liners and drawings on a "large pad", as well as accompanying his jokes with music on either guitar, harmonica, piano, keyboard, glockenspiel, toy bells, ukulele, or tambourine, sometimes all at once. He has cited comedian Steven Wright as an important influence (both use deadpan one-liners in their acts) and he is also a fan of Bill Cosby.
Personal life
According to a July 2011 interview on the WTF with Marc Maron podcast, Demetri had a short-lived marriage to a girl he knew from high school. They began dating after high school and got married when he was in NYU Law School and she was attending NYU Medical School. He was aged 25 and in the end of his marriage when his stand-up career began.He is extremely allergic to nuts and peanuts.
Martin moved to Santa Monica, California in 2009.
Filmography
Filmography and television work
| Year | ! Title | ! Role | Notes |
| 2002 | ''Analyze That'' | Personal Assistant | |
| 2003 | ''If I''| | Himself | British television special, also writer |
| 2004 | ''12:21''| | Himself | short film, also writer |
| 2004 | ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien''| | Himself | 1 episode, series writer |
| 2007 | "''Someone to Love (Fountains of Wayne song)Someone to Love''" || | Seth Shapiro | ''Fountains of Wayne'' music video |
| 2007 | ''Flight of the Conchords (TV series)Flight of the Conchords'' || | Demetri | Season 1, Episode 12 |
| 2008 | ''The Rocker (film)The Rocker'' || | Kip (a music video producer) | |
| 2009 | ''Paper Heart''| | Himself | |
| 2009 | ''Post Grad''| | Ad Exec | |
| 2009 | ''Taking Woodstock''| | Elliot Tiber | |
| 2009–2010 | ''Important Things with Demetri Martin''| | Himself / Various | writer, series creator, executive producer, and composer |
| 2011 | ''Take Me Home Tonight (film)Take Me Home Tonight'' || | Carlos | |
| 2011 | ''Contagion (film)Contagion'' || | Dr. David Eisenberg | |
| 2011 | ''Conan (TV series)Conan'' || | Himself | guest |
Written works
''This Is a Book'', April 2011, .
Awards and nominations
References
External links
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| name | Lenny Bruce |
|---|---|
| birth name | Leonard Alfred Schneider |
| birth date | October 13, 1925 |
| birth place | Mineola, New York, U.S. |
| death date | August 03, 1966 |
| death place | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| medium | Stand-up, film, television, books |
| nationality | American |
| active | 1947–1966 |
| genre | Satire, political satire, black comedy, improvisational comedy |
| subject | American culture, American politics, race relations, religion, human sexuality, obscenity, pop culture |
| influences | Dick Gregory, Mort Sahl |
| influenced | Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Bill Cosby, David Cross, Jerry Seinfeld, Paul Krassner, Lewis Black, Jon Stewart, Peter Cook, Abbie Hoffman, Nick Di Paolo, Sam Kinison, Eddie Izzard, Howard Stern, Bill Hicks, Rich Vos, Jerry Sadowitz, Cardell Willis, Denis Leary, Louis C.K., Andrew Dice Clay, Rick Shapiro, Tommy Chong |
| spouse | Honey Harlow (m. 1951–1957) 1 child |
| notable work | ''The Lenny Bruce Originals'' ''The Carnegie Hall Concert'' ''Let The Buyer Beware'' ''How to Talk Dirty and Influence People'' |
| footnotes | }} |
Leonard Alfred Schneider (October 13, 1925 – August 3, 1966), better known by the stage name Lenny Bruce, was a Jewish-American comedian, social critic and satirist. His 1964 conviction in an obscenity trial was followed by a posthumous pardon, the first in New York state history.
Early life
Lenny Bruce was born Leonard Alfred Schneider in Mineola, New York, grew up in nearby Bellmore, and attended Wellington C. Mepham High School. His parents divorced when he was five years old, and Lenny moved in with various relatives over the next decade. His mother, Sally Marr (née Sadie Kitchenberg), was a stage performer who had an enormous influence on Bruce's career. After spending time working on a farm, Bruce joined the United States Navy at the age of 17 in 1942, and saw active duty in Europe. In May 1945 he reported to his ship's medical officer that he was experiencing homosexual urges. This led to his Dishonorable Discharge in July 1945. However, he had not admitted to or been found guilty of any breach of naval regulations and successfully applied to have his discharge changed to "Under Honorable Conditions ... by reason of unsuitability for the naval service".After a short stint in California spent living with his father, Bruce settled in New York City looking to make it as a comedian. However, he was in possession of little to differentiate himself from the thousands of other showbiz hopefuls that populated the city. One locale where these hopefuls congregated was Hanson's, the diner where he first met the comedian Joe Ancis, who had a profound influence upon Bruce's approach to comedy. What Bruce did in his acts later on was a direct reflection of his meticulous schooling by Ancis.
In 1947, soon after changing his last name to Bruce, he earned $12 and a free spaghetti dinner for his first stand-up performance in Brooklyn, New York. He later was a guest — introduced by his mother, who called herself "Sally Bruce" — on the Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts show, doing a "Bavarian mimic" of American movie stars (e.g., Humphrey Bogart).
Career
Bruce's early comedy career included writing the screenplays for ''Dance Hall Racket'' in 1953, which featured Bruce, his wife, Honey Harlow, and mother, Sally Marr, in roles; ''Dream Follies'' in 1954, a low-budget burlesque romp; and a children's film, ''The Rocket Man'', in 1954. He also released four albums of original material on Berkeley-based Fantasy Records, with rants, comic routines, and satirical interviews on the themes that made him famous: jazz, moral philosophy, politics, patriotism, religion, law, race, abortion, drugs, the Ku Klux Klan, and Jewishness. These albums were later compiled and re-released as ''The Lenny Bruce Originals.'' Two later records were produced and sold by Bruce himself, including a 10-inch album of the 1961 San Francisco performances that started his legal troubles. Starting in the late 1950s, other unissued Bruce material was released by Alan Douglas, Frank Zappa and Phil Spector, as well as Fantasy. Bruce developed the complexity and tone of his material in Enrico Banducci's North Beach nightclub, "The hungry i," where Mort Sahl had earlier made a name for himself.His growing fame led to appearances on the nationally televised ''Steve Allen Show,'' where he made his debut with an unscripted comment on the recent marriage of Elizabeth Taylor to Eddie Fisher, wondering, "will Elizabeth Taylor become bat mitzvah?" He also began receiving mainstream press, both favorable and derogatory. Syndicated Broadway columnist Hy Gardner called Bruce a "fad" and "a one-time-around freak attraction", while ''Variety'' declared him "undisciplined and unfunny". On February 3, 1961, in the midst of a severe blizzard, he gave a famous performance at Carnegie Hall in New York. It was recorded and later released as a three-disc set, titled ''The Carnegie Hall Concert.'' In the liner notes, Albert Goldman described it as follows:
{{blockquote|This was the moment that an obscure yet rapidly rising young comedian named Lenny Bruce chose to give one of the greatest performances of his career. ... The performance contained in this album is that of a child of the jazz age. Lenny worshipped the gods of Spontaneity, Candor and Free Association. He fancied himself an oral jazzman. His ideal was to walk out there like Charlie Parker, take that mike in his hand like a horn and blow, blow, blow everything that came into his head just as it came into his head with nothing censored, nothing translated, nothing mediated, until he was pure mind, pure head sending out brainwaves like radio waves into the heads of every man and woman seated in that vast hall. Sending, sending, sending, he would finally reach a point of clairvoyance where he was no longer a performer but rather a medium transmitting messages that just came to him from out there — from recall, fantasy, prophecy.
A point at which, like the practitioners of automatic writing, his tongue would outrun his mind and he would be saying things he didn't plan to say, things that surprised, delighted him, cracked him up — as if he were a spectator at his own performance!}}
Personal life
Bruce met his future wife, Honey Harlow, a stripper from Baltimore, Maryland, in 1951. They were married that same year, and Bruce was determined to have her end her work as a stripper.In 1953, Bruce and Harlow eventually left New York for the West Coast, where they got work as a double act at the Cup and Saucer in Los Angeles, California. Bruce then went on to join the bill at the club Strip City. Harlow found employment at the Colony Club, which was widely known to be the best burlesque club in Los Angeles at the time.
In late 1954, Bruce left Strip City and found work within the San Fernando Valley at a variety of strip clubs. As the master of ceremonies, his job was to introduce the strippers while performing his own ever-evolving material. The clubs of the Valley provided the perfect environment for Bruce to create new routines: according to Bruce's primary biographer, Albert Goldman, it was "precisely at the moment when he sank to the bottom of the barrel and started working the places that were the lowest of the low" that he suddenly broke free of "all the restraints and inhibitions and disabilities that formerly had kept him just mediocre and began to blow with a spontaneous freedom and resourcefulness that resembled the style and inspiration of his new friends and admirers, the jazz musicians of the modernist school."
Legal troubles
This desire to end his wife's stripper days resulted in Bruce pursuing schemes designed to make as much money as possible, the most notable of which was the Brother Mathias Foundation scam, which resulted in Bruce being arrested in Miami, Florida later that year for impersonating a priest. He had been soliciting donations for a leper colony in British Guiana (now Guyana) under the auspices of the "Brother Mathias Foundation", which he had legally chartered - the name was his own invention, but possibly referred to the actual Brother Matthias who had befriended Babe Ruth at the Baltimore orphanage to which Ruth had been confined as a child. Bruce had stolen several priests' clergy shirts and a clerical collar while posing as a laundry man. He was found not guilty because of the legality of the New York state-chartered foundation, the actual existence of the Guiana leper colony, and the inability of the local clergy to expose him as an impostor. Later, in his semifictional autobiography ''How to Talk Dirty and Influence People'', Bruce revealed that he had made about $8,000 in three weeks, sending $2,500 to the leper colony and keeping the rest.On October 4, 1961, Bruce was arrested for obscenity at the Jazz Workshop in San Francisco; he had used the word ''cocksucker'' and riffed that "''to'' is a preposition, ''come'' is a verb", that the sexual context of ''come'' is so common that it bears no weight, and that if someone hearing it becomes upset, he "probably can't come". Although the jury acquitted him, other law enforcement agencies began monitoring his appearances, resulting in frequent arrests under charges of obscenity.
Bruce was arrested again in 1961, in Philadelphia, for drug possession the same year, and again in Los Angeles, California, two years later. The Los Angeles arrest took place in then-unincorporated West Hollywood, and the arresting officer was a young deputy named Sherman Block, who would later become County Sheriff. The specification this time was that the comedian had used the word ''schmuck'', an insulting Yiddish term that is an obscene term for penis.
In April 1964, he appeared twice at the Cafe Au Go Go in Greenwich Village, with undercover police detectives in the audience. On both occasions, he was arrested after leaving the stage, the complaints again pertaining to his use of various obscenities.
A three-judge panel presided over his widely publicized six-month trial, prosecuted by Asst. Manhattan D.A. Richard Kuh, with Bruce and club owner Howard Solomon both found guilty of obscenity on November 4, 1964. The conviction was announced despite positive testimony and petitions of support from - among other artists, writers and educators - Woody Allen, Bob Dylan, Jules Feiffer, Allen Ginsberg, Norman Mailer, William Styron, and James Baldwin, and Manhattan journalist and television personality Dorothy Kilgallen and sociologist Herbert Gans. Bruce was sentenced, on December 21, 1964, to four months in a workhouse; he was set free on bail during the appeals process and died before the appeal was decided. Solomon later saw his conviction overturned; Bruce, who died before the decision, never had his conviction stricken. Bruce later received a full posthumous gubernatorial pardon.
Last years
Despite his prominence as a comedian, Bruce appeared on network television only six times in his life. In his later club performances Bruce was known for relating the details of his encounters with the police directly in his comedy routine. These performances often included rants about his court battles over obscenity charges, tirades against fascism and complaints that he was being denied his right to freedom of speech.
He was banned outright from several U.S. cities, and in 1962 was banned from performing in Sydney, Australia. At his first show there, Bruce took the stage, declared "What a fucking wonderful audience" and was promptly arrested.
Increasing drug use also affected his health. By 1966 he had been blacklisted by nearly every nightclub in the United States, as owners feared prosecution for obscenity. Bruce did have a famous performance at the Berkeley Community Theatre in December 1965. It was recorded and became his last live album, titled "The Berkeley Concert"; his performance here has been described as lucid, clear and calm, and one of his best. His last performance took place on June 25, 1966, at The Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, on a bill with Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention. The performance was not remembered fondly by Bill Graham, who described Bruce as "whacked out on amphetamines"; Graham thought that Bruce finished his set emotionally disturbed. Zappa asked Bruce to sign his draft card, but the suspicious Bruce refused.
At the request of Hugh Hefner and with the aid of Paul Krassner, Bruce wrote an autobiography. Serialized in ''Playboy'' in 1964 and 1965, this material was later published as the book ''How to Talk Dirty and Influence People''. Hefner had long assisted Bruce's career, featuring him in the television debut of ''Playboy's Penthouse'' in October 1959.
Death and posthumous pardon
On August 3, 1966, Bruce was found dead in the bathroom of his Hollywood Hills home at 8825 N. Hollywood Blvd. The official photo, taken at the scene, showed Bruce lying naked on the floor, a syringe and burned bottle cap nearby, along with various other narcotics paraphernalia. This photograph may have been staged by the authorities, to further discredit the controversial comedian. Record producer Phil Spector, a friend of Bruce's, bought the negatives of the photographs to keep them from the press. The official cause of death was "acute morphine poisoning caused by an accidental overdose."His remains were interred in Eden Memorial Park Cemetery in Mission Hills, California, but an unconventional memorial on August 21 was controversial enough to keep his name in the spotlight. The service saw over 500 people pay their respects, led by Spector. Cemetery officials had tried to block the ceremony after advertisements for the event encouraged attendees to bring box lunches and noisemakers. Dick Schaap eulogized Bruce in ''Playboy'', with the memorable last line: "One last four-letter word for Lenny: Dead. At forty. ''That's'' obscene."
Bruce is survived by his daughter, Kitty Bruce, who lives in Pennsylvania.
At the time of his death, his girlfriend was comedienne Lotus Weinstock.
On December 23, 2003, 37 years after his death, Bruce was granted a posthumous pardon for his obscenity conviction by New York Governor George Pataki.
Legacy
Bruce was the subject of the 1974 biographical film ''Lenny'' directed by Bob Fosse and starring Dustin Hoffman (in an Academy Award-nominated Best Actor role), and based on the Broadway stage play of the same name written by Julian Barry and starring Cliff Gorman in his 1972 Tony Award winning role.The documentary ''Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth'', directed by Robert B. Weide and narrated by Robert De Niro, was released in 1998.
In 2004, Comedy Central listed Bruce at number three on its list of the 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All-Time, placing above Woody Allen and below George Carlin.
Books by or about Bruce
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Filmography
Films
| Year !! Title !! Role !! Notes | |||||||
| 1966 | ''The Lenny Bruce Performance Film'' | Himself | |||||
| 1974 | ''Lenny (film)Lenny''|| | Biography starring Dustin Hoffman as Lenny Bruce | Hoffman was Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actor, | Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, | Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama |
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| 2011 | ''Looking for Lenny''| | Documentary featuring interviews with Mort Sahl, Phyllis Diller, Lewis Black, Richard Lewis, Sandra Bernhard, Jonathan Winters, Robert Klein, Shelley Berman and others | North American Premiere Toronto Jewish Film Festival May 2011, Screened at Paris Beat Generation Days April 2011 |
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Partial Discography
| Year !! Title !! Notes | ||
| 1959 | ''Interviews of our times'' | Works by Bruce; and Henry Jacobs and Woody Leifer. |
| 1959 | ''The sick humor of Lenny Bruce'' | |
| 1959 | ''Togetherness (Elect me, I am not a nut)'' | |
| 1960 | ''American'' | |
| 1961 | ''Carnegie Hall concert'' | |
| 1961 | ''Live at the Curran Theater'' | |
| 1964 | ''To is a preposition, come is a verb'' | |
| 1965 | ''Berkeley concert'' | |
| 1966 | ''Lenny Bruce is out again'' |
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