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c1968 [pic source][Up: Favorite authors] [Robot Wisdom home page]
c1968 [pic source]
NEW: long profile; mailinglist; very detailed fansite with news, biog, discog, MP3s, scores, sessions, many interviews etc, and links
1943: born 3 January in Hattiesburg, Miss (Army dad a Pennsylvanian, also psychiatrist and neurologist?)
older brother Carson (wrote "Somethin' Stupid" for Sinatra)
1947: starts playing clarinet
c1952-58? American Boychoir School in Princeton, NJ
1952: accompanied by Einstein on violin, singing Silent Night [cite]
1953: actor in tv series "Bonino" [IMDb]
c1954? jr high school in Lake Charles, LA, (singer, clarinet)
1955: had lunch with Walt at Disneyland's opening [cite]
mid-50s to 60s? vacations w/family in western North Carolina
1956: acts in movie, The Swan [IMDb] with Grace Kelly and Alec Guinness
1958-61? studied piano at Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh, PA.
1962? clarinet for Art Linkletter's House Party on CBS-TV.
1962: playing California coffee-houses with brother Carson
1960s: friendship with music writer Terry Gilkyson opens doors
1963: studio job on The Jungle Book soundtrack for Disney
1960s: keyboard session work with Byrds, Paul Revere & the Raiders
1964: in a group with Stephen Stills
"I had a lot of ambivalence about going out and getting screamed at by young women. I didn't think that it would be a good thing for me to do. It didn't square with my value system, but for me, it seemed like a vulgar thing to do."
1966: Terry Melcher intros VDP to Beach Boy Brian Wilson
lyricist on Smile until driven off by other Beach Boys
1966: gave Buffalo Springfield their name [background]
1968: Song Cycle
1968-72: sessions with the Byrds and Judy Collins
1970: co-produced Randy Newman's first album
1972: Discover America
c1972: producer for a small group of musicians from Trinidad
loss of a close friend?
1975: Clang of the Yankee Reaper
1975-78: bureaucrat at Warner Brothers Music
1978: musical score for Jack Nicholson's Goin' South
1980? daughter born in Malta while filming Popeye
c1981: Appalachian mountains of North Carolina
1982: Jump
1990: Tokyo Rose
1990: acting role in "Twin Peaks" [episode guide]
1995: Orange Crate Art with Brian Wilson
lectured on film scoring briefly at Harvard.
three children's books - "Jump", "Jump Again", and "Jump on Over" illustrated by Barry Moser
1997: music for Art Spiegelman's play about comics [info]
1999: performed in Dublin as trio w/guitar and bass [feature]
Current:
"He's working in New York, as time allows, on a musical for the Broadway theatre. He devoted four months last year in New York City in a newly developing project. His previous music for theatre include Mother Courage by Brecht (Boston Shakespeare Theatre Co. with Linda Hunt and Brian Doyle Murray) and Henry Fourth Part Two (Kennedy Center Production with Patti laPone and Wm. Hurt)."
official site missing
bio/discography; bio; short bio, ditto; IMDb; Amazon
definitive fanpage; also great
interactive CD version [blurb]
Amazon w/samples
book version of 'Palm Desert'
Amazon w/samples
Amazon w/samples
Amazon w/samples
Book versions: Jump, Jump Again (prize winner), Jump on Over illustrated by Barry Moser [interview]
Amazon w/samples
Amazon video
Amazon w/samples
NPR interview and performances (RealAudio)
George Carlin connection [cite]
negative review w/samples in many formats
Amazon w/samples
Long feature w/samples from many albums in many formats
Producer: Randy Newman, Arlo Guthrie, Ry Cooder, Phil Ochs, Mighty Sparrow, Little Feat, Storytellers, Jodie Foster, Rufus Wainwright
Keyboards (etc): Tim Buckley, Byrds, Beau Brummels, Gentle Soul, Judy Collins, Biff Rose, Gordon Lightfoot, Ry Cooder, Kathy Dalton, Vince Martin, Bonnie Raitt, Harpers Bizarre, Peter Ivers, Howdy Moon, Harry Nilsson, Carly Simon, Ringo Starr, Ricci Martin, Nicolette Larson, Peter Case, dB's, Jennifer Warnes, Flaco Jimenez, Ian Matthews, Syd Straw, Leo Kottke, Trespass, T-Bone Burnett, Beach Boys, Pahinui Brothers, Tony Trischka, Steve Young, Everly Brothers, Victoria Williams, Melrose Place, Out on the Rolling Sea, Vonda Shepard, Eliza Gilkyson, Primary Colors
Arranger: Sam Phillips, U2, Brothers Figaro, Joe Henry, Stan Ridgway, Hal Willner, Divinyls, Aaron Neville, Five Easy Pieces, Manhattan Transfer, Geronimo, Fiona Apple, Harpers Bizarre, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Carly Simon, Danny Wilde, Steve Poltz
Film composer:
Goin' South; Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird; Club Paradise; The Brave Little Toaster; Casual Sex?; The Two Jakes; Out on a Limb; Next Door (TV); One Christmas (TV); Wild Bill; Bastard Out of Carolina; The Summer of Ben Tyler (TV); Howard Stern's Private Parts; Oliver Twist (TV); Shadrach; A Chance of Snow (TV)
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