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John Simon (record producer)

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John Simon (born August 11, 1941) is an American music producer, composer, writer and performer. [1]

83 relations: Al Kooper, Albert Grossman, Alone Together (Dave Mason album), Americana (music), Barbara Hershey, Beatlemania (musical), Big Brother and the Holding Company, Billboard Hot 100, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Bookends (album), Broadway theatre, Bruce Springsteen, Bruce Woodley, Cass Elliot, Charles Lloyd (jazz musician), Cheap Thrills (Big Brother and the Holding Company album), Child Is Father to the Man, Cinematographer, Columbia Records, Composer, Connecticut, Cyrus Faryar, Dave Mason, David Sanborn, Did She Mention My Name?, Disco, Down Home (Seals and Crofts album), Dream a Little Dream (Cass Elliot album), Frank Perry, Frankie Yankovic, Gil Evans, Goddard Lieberson, Gordon Lightfoot, Heavy metal music, Jackrabbit Slim, Janis Joplin, John Hartford, Joseph McCarthy, Last Summer, Leonard Cohen, Manfred Mann, Marshall McLuhan, Michael Franks (musician), Morning Bugle, Motoharu Sano, Music from Big Pink, Musician, My Name Is Jack, Norwalk, Connecticut, Paul Simon, ..., Performing arts, Peter Yarrow, Peter, Paul and Mary, Philippe Petit, Piano, Piece of My Heart, Priestess (album), Princeton University, Record producer, Red Rubber Ball, Richard Thomas (actor), Saxophone, Seals and Crofts, Simon & Garfunkel, Singing, Songs of Leonard Cohen, Steve Forbert, Taj Mahal, The Band, The Band (album), The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, The Cyrkle, The Electric Flag, The Last Waltz, The Last Waltz (1978 album), The Medium Is the Massage, The Seekers, Tiger in the Rain, Tuba, Twyla Tharp, Woodstock, Writer, You Are What You Eat (film). Expand index (33 more) »

Al Kooper

Al Kooper (born Alan Peter Kuperschmidt, February 5, 1944) is an American songwriter, record producer and musician, known for organizing Blood, Sweat & Tears (although he did not stay with the group long enough to share its popularity), providing studio support for Bob Dylan when he went electric in 1965, and bringing together guitarists Mike Bloomfield and Stephen Stills to record the Super Session album.

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Albert Grossman

Albert Bernard Grossman (May 21, 1926 – January 25, 1986) was an American entrepreneur and manager in the American folk music scene and rock and roll.

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Alone Together (Dave Mason album)

Alone Together is the debut solo album by former Traffic member Dave Mason, released in 1970.

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Americana (music)

Americana is an amalgam of American music formed by the confluence of the shared and varied traditions that make up the musical ethos of the United States, specifically those sounds that are merged from folk, country, blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, gospel, and other external influences.

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Barbara Hershey

Barbara Hershey (born Barbara Lynn Herzstein; February 5, 1948), once known as Barbara Seagull,Walker, Connecticut.

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Beatlemania (musical)

Beatlemania was a Broadway musical revue focused on the music of The Beatles as it related to the events and changing attitudes of the tumultuous 1960s.

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Big Brother and the Holding Company

Big Brother and the Holding Company is an American rock band that formed in San Francisco in 1965 as part of the same psychedelic music scene that produced the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Jefferson Airplane.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Blood, Sweat & Tears

Blood, Sweat & Tears (also known as "BS&T") was a jazz-rock American music group.

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Bookends (album)

Bookends is the fourth studio album by American music duo Simon & Garfunkel.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter and musician, known for his work with the E Street Band.

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Bruce Woodley

Bruce William Woodley, (born 25 July 1942), is an Australian singer-songwriter and musician.

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Cass Elliot

Cass Elliot (born Ellen Naomi Cohen; September 19, 1941 – July 29, 1974), also known as Mama Cass, was an American singer and actress, best known as a member of the Mamas & the Papas.

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Charles Lloyd (jazz musician)

Charles Lloyd (born March 15, 1938 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American jazz musician.

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Cheap Thrills (Big Brother and the Holding Company album)

Cheap Thrills is a studio album by American rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company.

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Child Is Father to the Man

Child Is Father to the Man is the debut album by Blood, Sweat & Tears, released in February 1968.

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Cinematographer

A cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the chief over the camera and light crews working on a film, television production or other live action piece and is responsible for making artistic and technical decisions related to the image.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Composer

A composer (Latin ''compōnō''; literally "one who puts together") is a musician who is an author of music in any form, including vocal music (for a singer or choir), instrumental music, electronic music, and music which combines multiple forms.

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Connecticut

Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Cyrus Faryar

Cyrus Faryar (born February 26, 1936) is an American folk musician, songwriter, and record producer.

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Dave Mason

David Thomas "Dave" Mason (born 10 May 1946) is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist from Worcester, who first found fame with the rock band Traffic.

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David Sanborn

David Sanborn (born July 30, 1945) is an American alto saxophonist.

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Did She Mention My Name?

Did She Mention My Name? is Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot's third studio album, released in 1968 on the United Artists label.

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Disco

Disco is a musical style that emerged in the mid 1960s and early 1970s from America's urban nightlife scene, where it originated in house parties and makeshift discothèques, reaching its peak popularity between the mid-1970s and early 1980s.

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Down Home (Seals and Crofts album)

Down Home is the second studio album by pop-folk duo Seals and Crofts, released in 1970.

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Dream a Little Dream (Cass Elliot album)

Dream a Little Dream is the debut solo album by American singer Cass Elliot immediately after the breakup of The Mamas & the Papas, though she was still billed as "Mama Cass" for this release.

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Frank Perry

Frank Joseph Perry Jr. (August 21, 1930 – August 29, 1995) was an American stage director and filmmaker.

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Frankie Yankovic

Frank John "Frankie" Yankovic (July 28, 1915October 14, 1998) was an American polka musician.

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Gil Evans

Ian Ernest Gilmore "Gil" Evans (born Green; May 13, 1912 – March 20, 1988) was a Canadian jazz pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader.

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Goddard Lieberson

Goddard Lieberson (April 5, 1911 – May 29, 1977) was the president of Columbia Records from 1956 to 1971, and again from 1973 to 1975.

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Gordon Lightfoot

Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. (born November 17, 1938) is a Canadian singer-songwriter who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music.

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Heavy metal music

Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom.

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Jackrabbit Slim

Jackrabbit Slim is the second album by singer/songwriter Steve Forbert.

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Janis Joplin

Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) nicknamed The Pearl, was an American rock, soul and blues singer and songwriter, and one of the most successful and widely-known female rock stars of her era.

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John Hartford

John Cowan Hartford (December 30, 1937 – June 4, 2001) was an American folk, country, and bluegrass composer and musician known for his mastery of the fiddle and banjo, as well as for his witty lyrics, unique vocal style, and extensive knowledge of Mississippi River lore.

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Joseph McCarthy

Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957.

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Last Summer

Last Summer is a 1969 coming-of-age movie about adolescent sexuality based on the novel Last Summer by Evan Hunter.

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Leonard Cohen

Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934 – November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist.

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Manfred Mann

Manfred Mann were an English rock band, formed in London in 1962.

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Marshall McLuhan

Herbert Marshall McLuhan (July 21, 1911December 31, 1980) was a Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual.

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Michael Franks (musician)

Michael Franks (born September 18, 1944) is an American jazz singer and songwriter, considered a leader of the quiet storm movement.

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Morning Bugle

Morning Bugle is an bluegrass album by US musician John Hartford.

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Motoharu Sano

, is a Japanese singer-songwriter and musician.

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Music from Big Pink

Music from Big Pink is the debut studio album by the Band.

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Musician

A musician is a person who plays a musical instrument or is musically talented.

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My Name Is Jack

"My Name Is Jack" is a song written by American record producer John Simon and released as a single by British group Manfred Mann in 1968.

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Norwalk, Connecticut

Norwalk is a U.S city located in southwestern Connecticut, in southern Fairfield County, on the northern shore of Long Island Sound.

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Paul Simon

Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and actor.

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Performing arts

Performing arts are a form of art in which artists use their voices or bodies, often in relation to other objects, to convey artistic expression.

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Peter Yarrow

Peter Yarrow (born May 31, 1938) is an American singer and songwriter who found fame with the 1960s folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary.

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Peter, Paul and Mary

Peter, Paul and Mary was an American folk group formed in New York City in 1961, during the American folk music revival phenomenon.

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Philippe Petit

Philippe Petit (born 13 August 1949) is a French high-wire artist who gained fame for his high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, on the morning of August 7, 1974 as well as his high wire walk between the towers of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, 1971.

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Piano

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by hammers.

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Piece of My Heart

"Piece of My Heart" is a romantic funk/soul love song written by Jerry Ragovoy and Bert Berns, originally recorded by Erma Franklin in 1967.

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Priestess (album)

Priestess is a live album by jazz composer, arranger, conductor and keyboardist Gil Evans recorded in 1977 and performed by Evans with an orchestra featuring David Sanborn, Arthur Blythe, Lew Soloff, and George Adams.

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Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Record producer

A record producer or track producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performer's music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album.

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Red Rubber Ball

"Red Rubber Ball" is a pop song written by Paul Simon and Bruce Woodley of The Seekers and recorded by The Cyrkle, whose version reached #2 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and in New Zealand.

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Richard Thomas (actor)

Richard Earl Thomas (born June 13, 1951) is an American actor.

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Saxophone

The saxophone (also referred to as the sax) is a family of woodwind instruments.

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Seals and Crofts

Seals and Crofts were an American soft rock duo made up of James "Jim" Seals (born October 17, 1941) and Darrell "Dash" Crofts (born August 14, 1940).

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Simon & Garfunkel

Simon & Garfunkel were an American folk rock duo consisting of singer-songwriter Paul Simon and singer Art Garfunkel.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Songs of Leonard Cohen

Songs of Leonard Cohen is the debut album by Canadian folk singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, released on December 27, 1967 on Columbia Records.

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Steve Forbert

Samuel Stephen "Steve" Forbert (born December 13, 1954) is an American pop music singer-songwriter.

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Taj Mahal

The Taj Mahal (meaning "Crown of the Palace") is an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the south bank of the Yamuna river in the Indian city of Agra.

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The Band

The Band was a Canadian-American roots rock group formed in Toronto, Ontario in 1968 by Rick Danko (bass guitar, vocals), Garth Hudson (keyboards, saxophone), Richard Manuel (keyboards, vocals), Robbie Robertson (guitar, vocals), and Levon Helm (drums, vocals).

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The Band (album)

The Band is the second studio album by the Band, released on September 22, 1969.

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The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas is a musical with a book by Texas author Larry L. King and Peter Masterson and music and lyrics by Carol Hall.

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The Cyrkle

The Cyrkle was a short-lived American rock and roll band active in the mid-1960s.

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The Electric Flag

The Electric Flag was an American blues rock soul group, led by guitarist Mike Bloomfield, keyboardist Barry Goldberg and drummer Buddy Miles, and featuring other musicians such as vocalist Nick Gravenites and bassist Harvey Brooks.

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The Last Waltz

The Last Waltz was a concert by the Canadian-American rock group The Band, held on American Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1976, at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco.

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The Last Waltz (1978 album)

The Last Waltz is a triple album by the Band, released on Warner Bros. Records in 1978, catalogue 3WS 3146.

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The Medium Is the Massage

The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects is a book co-created by media analyst Marshall McLuhan and graphic designer Quentin Fiore, and coordinated by Jerome Agel.

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The Seekers

The Seekers are an Australian folk-influenced pop quartet, originally formed in Melbourne in 1962.

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Tiger in the Rain

Tiger in the Rain is an album by singer-songwriter Michael Franks, released in 1979 on Warner Bros. Records.

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Tuba

The tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched musical instrument in the brass family.

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Twyla Tharp

Twyla Tharp (born July 1, 1941) is an American dancer, choreographer, and author who lives and works in New York City.

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Woodstock

The Woodstock Music & Art Fair—informally, the Woodstock Festival or simply Woodstock—was a music festival in the United States in 1969 which attracted an audience of more than 400,000.

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Writer

A writer is a person who uses written words in various styles and techniques to communicate their ideas.

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You Are What You Eat (film)

You Are What You Eat is a 1968 American counterculture semi-documentary movie that attempts to capture the essence of the 1960s flower power hippie era and the Haight-Ashbury scene.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Simon_(record_producer)

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