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  Tim Hardin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tim Hardin (December 23, 1941 – December 29, 1980) was a United States folk musician and composer who was a part of the 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene and performer at the Woodstock Festival.
Tim Hardin 2 was released in 1967 and contained one of his most famous songs, "If I Were a Carpenter", which Bobby Darin recorded for a U.S. top 10 hit in 1966; Joan Baez and Johnny Cash and June Carter also recorded memorable versions of the song.
Tim Hardin is buried in the Twin Oaks Cemetery in Turner, Oregon.
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 Tim Hardin MP3 Downloads - Tim Hardin Music Downloads - Tim Hardin Music Videos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Tim Hardin was mostly known as a singer/songwriter, and a most prolific one at that, based on the number of originals he generated on his albums during the second half of the 1960s.
Tim Hardin 2 is probably his best single album, on which he eschewed blues nearly entirely and forged a distinctive folk-rock voice, occasionally embellished by tasteful full arrangements.
Tim Hardin's debut album was something of a happy accident, a killer record at least a third of which was comprised of tracks intended as demos, while another half utilized a string orchestra that the artist knew nothing about.
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 Tim Hardin - Triste article
Tim Hardin was born in Eugene, Oregon on December 23rd 1941.
Tim spent a great deal of time during his formative years under the strict supervision of his maternal grandmother who went by the wonderful name of Manner Small.
Tim had known from the outset that he wasn't like the rest of the boys in the small lumber town.
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 Biograph
Tim’s previous relationships would suggest that he was there to steal her money – to feed his addiction –; but, moving back to New York, he did fall in love with the lady.
Tim and Susan were living in Los Angeles when his first album was released and it was there that their son, Damion, was born on 28 February 1967.
Tim had moved beyond the regular concept of what a song should be, having moved towards a freer form that was a combination of classical explorations of a theme, with jazz intonations.
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 Said the Gramophone: August 24, 2005 Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Hardin's music transported me to the same tender, warm little world that I associate with artists like Nick Drake and Van Morrison, and I realized that both of these artists were probably in fact deeply influenced by Hardin and his then-famous, jewel-like little songs.
Tim Hardin 3 was a sloppy but fiery live album; after Tim 4 Hardin took a two year absence and then began work on a home-recorded concept record.
Now I was faced with evidence of Hardin in the person of a man who not only resembled him but who had loved him and struggled with his legacy as a human and as an artist in ways far more serious and meaningful than I had.
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 Tim Hardin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Tim Hardin was born on Dec 23, 1941 in Eugene, Oregon.
His debut record "Tim Hardin 1" was released in 1966.
After the recording of "Tim Hardin 2" it was no question that Hardin´s long time heroin habbit began to effect his music more and more.
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 Tim Hardin - Reason To Believe - The Real Tim Hardin (2005)
Hardin's friendship with Lenny Bruce influenced not only musically, writing his songs in Bruce's flat but also socially through their shared heroin habit, this is documented here.
Hardin's first album's "Tim Hardin 1 and 2" contain the bulk of the classic catalogue which allegedly earned him around $423 million, although as we discover in the programme, Hardin didn't see much of it.
Bob Harris charts the turbulent life of Tim Hardin, his up and down love affair with wife Susan, putting the records straight on some murky periods of his life, but most of all celebrates one of the finest, and often overlooked, songwriters of the last century.
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 Tim Hardin Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
With his sobbing voice and introspective, almost reticent compositions, Tim Hardin was one of the more memorable singer-songwriters of his day.
Hardin did record a few albums in the early 1970s that were not without bright
Tim Hardin 9 (also 1973) was his last LP; after years of bouncing
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 The History of Rock Music. Tim Hardin: biography, discography, reviews, links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Tim Hardin e` passato alla storia come l'autore di If I Were A Carpenter (1967), Reason To Believe (1965), Hang On To A Dream, tutti brani portati al successo da altri cantanti.
Hardin mori` nel dicembre 1980 all'eta' di quarant'anni.
Tim Hardin will be remembered as the author of If I Were A Carpenter (1967), Reason To Believe (1965), Hang On To A Dream, all songs brought to fame by others.
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 Amazon.ca: Hang on to a Dream: the V [Best of]: Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
hardin is yet another musician who is more appreciated today than at the time, it's too bad he never had any real prolonged success in terms of reaching a large audience.
Tim Hardin has touched everyone and his influence runs deeper than most, listening to disc one confirms this with Red Balloon, Black Sheep Boy,Reason To Believe, all popular covers these days by luminaries such as Paul Weller and Dr Robert.
Hardin's first two albums are classics, to my mind, of songrwriter's bearing their souls.
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 Tim Hardin Guitar Tabs
Tim Hardin Group or the Tim Hardin Discussion Board, the place where his fans share memories.
Saw tim hardin in Bath, England in '75 and saw him at the Coffee Gallery, an intimate folk club in North Beach, San Francisco in '78 or '79.
Tim Hardin is nog steeds een van mijn favoriete artiesten (singer-songwriters)
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 Tim Hardin
Like Tim Buckley, Tim Hardin was a 60's era folk rock musician who was sucker punched by drugs.
And many of us older music fans are truly re-discovering him, as in his own time he was regarded primarily as a songwriter, with others, especially Bobby Darin, scoring hits with Tim Hardin penned songs like "If I Were a Carpenter", "Lady Came from Baltimore" and "Reason To Believe".
Tim's best album is considered to be his second for the Verve label (Tim Hardin 2).
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Tim Hardin 1 - 1967 Verve Forecast LP - NM disk
"TIM HARDIN - TIM HARDIN 1 + 2 (oop)" *NEW*
Tim Hardin - 'This is Tim Hardin' LP
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 Amazon.co.uk: Essential Classic Hardin 1963-1980: Person to Person: Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In 1962 he recorded This Is Tim Hardin, which established his style: folk with a strong jazz and blues influence.
His third album, the classic Tim Hardin II included the powerful and evocative track Reason To Believe that, as double A Side with Maggie May, topped the British and American charts for Rod Stewart in 1971.
Hardin was 39 years old and had survived his one-time contemporaries Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix by a decade.
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Chronologically, much of the material on Tim Hardin 4 was demo material recorded in May 1964 around the same time as the material that ended up on This Is Tim Hardin.
The material for Tim Hardin 1 was recorded in July 1966 and for Tim Hardin 2 in April 1967.
These tracks were recorded before the release of Tim Hardin 1 (around the same time as This Is Tim Hardin) and were issued against his wishes at the point when Tim moved to CBS.
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 Tim Hardin: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com
The Tim Hardin number in Universal's 20th Century Masters -- The Millennium Collection series of midline-priced compilations is a barebones effort, but it does constitute Tim Hardin 101.
Hardin's best-known compositions -- "If I Were a Carpenter," "Reason to Believe," and "Lady Came From Baltimore" -- are all included.
Hardin recorded for Verve Records, now part of the Universal catalog, in the 1960s, and seven tracks are drawn from his debut album, Tim Hardin/1, plus four from Tim Hardin/2 and… Read More »
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 VH1.com : Tim Hardin : Biography
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.
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 at Woodstock.
His end was not a pretty one: due to accumulated drug and health problems, as well as a scarcity of new material, he didn't complete any albums after 1973, dying of a drug overdose in 1980.
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 JR.com: Tim Hardin - Hang On To A Dream: The Verve Recordings in Music: Singer/Songwriter:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Along with Bob Dylan, Eric Andersen, and a host of others, Tim Hardin changed the public's notion of songwriting in the '60s with innovative, idiosyncratic compositions and recordings that furthered the burgeoning folk-rock movement.
Hardin was more closely aligned with the Fred Neil/Tim Buckley school of jazz- and blues-inflected folk rock.
This definitive collection compiles all the studio recordings Hardin made for Verve in the '60s--the prime period in his recording career--plus a wealth of previously unreleased tracks that offer heretofore unavailable glimpses into the career of this mysterious, mercurial artist.
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 Amazon.com: Reason to Believe (The Best Of): Music: Tim Hardin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In the late sixties, early seventies, I had a Tim Hardin LP album that I played to death.
Tim Hardin was a very gifted musician, singer, and songwriter.
Tim Hardin was a gifted song craftsman who led a troubled life offstage.
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 Amazon.co.uk: Hang on to a Dream: the Verve Recordings: Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This definitive collection compiles all the studio recordings Hardin made for Verve in the '60s--the prime period in his recording career--plus a wealth of previously unreleased tracks that offer heretofore unavailable glimpses into the career ofthis mysterious, mercurial artist.
Hardin's smoky voice hada weariness and sadness that was mitigated by a breathy gentility, as on the quiet, samba-inflected "Misty Roses".
Though countless artists covered Hardin's tunes, he was his own best interpreter, navigating the knotty pathways of unconventionally structured compositions such as "You Upset the Grace of Living When You Lie" with deceptive ease, and delivering the now-standard "If I Were a Carpenter" with passion and urgency.
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 TIM HARDIN Discography
TIM HARDIN Hang On To A Dream (Original 1966 UK tan Verve label 7" b/w Reason To Believe.
TIM HARDIN This Is Tim Hardin (German 10-track CD including House Of The Rising Sun & Hoochie Coochie Man, digipak picture sleeve) -
TIM HARDIN Tim Hardin Live In Concert (Rare original 1968 Japanese Nippon Grammophon/Verve white label 12-track promotional vinyl LP, labels have blue and fl text, generic die-cut Sample Record sleeve MV2009.
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 Tim Hardin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Tim was working on his first album in nearly 10 years when it happened.
Some completed...others with lead vocal and basic rhythm tracks and 2 "work" tapes of Tim on vocal and piano recorded at home on his cassette deck.
No over-dubbing has be en done so as to preserve the integrity of Tim's work and his personal involvement in it.
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 Tim Hardin Discography at CD Universe
Tim Hardin was a truly unique stylist who gained attention as part of the Greenwich Village-based singer/songwriter explosion of the mid-1960s.
His songs were covered far and wide by countless artists, but Hardin himself was a troubled, drug-addicted soul who could never settle down personally or artistically, and mainstream success eluded him.
He died of an overdose in 1980, but that didn't stop people from continuing to sing his uncommonly beautiful songs.
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 Essential Classic Hardin 1963-1980: Person To Person by Tim Hardin CD
Tim Hardin is one of those guys whose music sticks with you.
He is long gone but he is growing in polularity as people discover how he can open and stir your soul with his tunes.
Tim Hardin is a straight forward guy that pulls no punches, but the songs hit you in a way that knocks you out without knowing it was coming.
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 Said the Gramophone: Said the Guests: Will Robinson Sheff   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
I saw Hardin in '77, in a small town hall in the north of England, and he was in great form - acerbic wit, all the songs you'd want and more, but a few people walked out because he wasn't the MOR songwriter they were expecting.
As it happens, I was introduced to Tim Hardin's work by a friend maybe 2 weeks before reading this.
It's funny, someone gave me a Tim Hardin album back around 1972/3 and I loved it but it was stolen in 1990.
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 BBC - Radio 2 - Reason to Believe: The Real Tim Hardin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The programmes will be available to hear again for seven days after transmission via the BBC Radio Player.
We learn that many of the contradictory versions of events surrounding Hardin stemmed from Hardin himself who was prone to exaggerating, but schoolfriends Phil Freeman and Richard Tucker describes an energetic Hardin at school appearing in school plays.
He learn how, in the early sixties,after moving from his home in Oregon to New York and joining up with the Greenwich Village music scene, his flirtation with drugs soon took a hold and that his addiction was to effect him for the rest of his short life.
www.bbc.co.uk /radio2/r2music/documentaries/iggypop.shtml   (687 words)

  
 Tim Hardin : Oldies.com
Timothy Hardin, 23 December 1941, Eugene, Oregon, USA, d.
After spending an itinerant childhood moving around the country with his musician parents, Hardin enlisted in the US Marines and served a tour of duty in Vietnam.
Following his discharge he arrived in New York in 1962 with a full-blown herion habit as a lasting legacy of his service.
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 Tim Hardin, black sheep boy | MetaFilter
Will Robinson Sheff, of the bands Okkervil River and Shearwater, guest-blogs at Said the Gramophone and writes movingly about his hero, Tim Hardin.
The music of Tim Hardin is, I think, ripe for a critical reconsideration.
On a personal note, "Don't Make Promises" (opening track of Tim Hardin I) is without a doubt one of my top fifty songs.
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