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Fred Neil had a lot of untapped potential. One of the Greenwich Village folkie scene, he rubbed shoulders with Bob Dylan, Dave Van Ronk, Eric Von Schmidt, Tim Hardin, John Sebastian, and all those folks. He is known to rock music fans via three of his songs being covered: "The Other Side of This Life" (Jefferson Airplane, Lovin' Spoonful), Everybody's Talkin' (Harry Nilsson), and "The Dolphins" (Linda Ronstadt, Tim Buckley, Billy Bragg, others). He reminds me of a young Gordon Lightfoot in some ways.
He never seemed comfortable as a performer, but he had a fine expressive baritone and a good storyteller's approach to singing. He only recorded three albums in a recording career that spanned 1964-1967. He pretty much faded away to follow his real interest, which was working hands-on with dolphins and their preservation, which he did for the rest of his life.
This is one of my favorite songs from arguably the best of his three albums, Bleecker & MacDougal, and closes the album.
This Boyce & Hart song ought to be familiar to certain listeners of a certain age as a Monkees song, but the Leaves recorded it first. The Leaves were a garage band formed at Cal State Northridge, where they opened for Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band for their very firt gig, and they hit #1 in the Los Angeles market with their version of "Hey Joe", which predated those of the Byrds and Jimi Hendrix. The band was discovered by Pat Boone, of all possible people, who got them their first record deal. They broke up in 1967, but singer/guitarist Jim Pons later played with Frank Zappa, and became video and film director for the New York Jets, a position he held for decades.
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