The Youngbloods
The Youngbloods were an American folk rock band.
History
Jesse Colin Young was a moderately successful folk singer, who had already released two solo albums before he hit the mid-1960s Jerry Corbitt. In the spring of 1965, the two began to perform as a duo under the name The Youngbloods, Young played bass guitar and guitar Corbitt. Banana Harmon, a friend Corbitts came as second guitarist for the band and put the other Joe Bauer, an ambitious jazz drummer, before which completed the quartet.
First appearances of the group were successful and soon they became the house band at the Cafe Au Go Go, one of the most famous nightclubs in Greenwich Village, and signed a recording contract with RCA Records. The single Grizzly Bear managed to place 52 on the U.S. charts. The album, The Youngbloods, later renamed Get Together, was released in 1967 and was highly praised by critics. The resulting single from the Get Together initially sold slowly. However, when the National Council of Christians and Jews in 1969 took the title to the background music of his commercials, the single was re-released and went to number 5 on the charts. It sold over one million copies. Even in 1967 their second album Earth Music, Elephant Mountain 1969.
Up to 1972 have been published three more albums, Ride the Wind (1971 ), Good and Dusty (1971 ), and high in a Ridgetop (1972). Then the band broke up and each of the four launched a solo career. Especially Young was successful until the mid -1980s. Corbitt published two separate plates and appeared as a producer, including Charlie Daniels and Don McLean, in appearance. Bauer published Moonset with a plate and launched the Banana Banana and The Bunch project.