Timothy Alan Patrick Rose (September 23, 1940 – September 24, 2002)
[ (unofficial website by long-term correspondent of Rose's)] was an American singer and songwriter who spent much of his life in London, England, and had more success in Europe than in his native country.
Biography
Early years
Rose was born in Washington, D.C., and raised by his mother Mary, who worked for the Army Corps of Engineers, his aunt, and his grandmother in an area known as South Fairlington Historic District, in
Arlington, Virginia
Arlington County is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The county is situated in Northern Virginia on the southwestern bank of the Potomac River directly across from the District of Columbia, of which it was once a part. The county ...
, where he was to meet
Scott McKenzie
Scott McKenzie (born Philip Wallach Blondheim III; January 10, 1939 – August 18, 2012) was an American singer and songwriter who recorded the 1967 hit single and generational anthem "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)". ...
, who lived nearby. Rose learned to play the
banjo
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and guitar, and won the top music award in high school. Rose graduated from Gonzaga College Prep School, a noted
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institution in DC, class of 1958. From there he joined the
United States Air Force
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(in the
Strategic Air Command
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), in the pre-
Vietnam
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era, and was stationed in
Kansas
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. He later worked as a
merchant seaman on the S.S. Atlantic and in a bank, before becoming involved in the
music industry
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.
His first band was The Singing Strings, which included his friend McKenzie, who later joined with
John Phillips (eventually of
The Mamas & the Papas
The Mamas & the Papas were a folk rock vocal group formed in Los Angeles, California, which recorded and performed from 1965 to 1968. The group was a defining force in the music scene of the counterculture of the 1960s. The group consisted of Am ...
) in a local group called The Abstracts, later The Smoothies and eventually The Journeymen. Other members of the Strings were Buck Hunnicutt, Speery Romig and Alan Stubbs. In 1962, Rose teamed up with ex-Smoothie Michael Boran as Michael and Timothy.
Jake Holmes
Jake Holmes (born December 28, 1939) is an American singer-songwriter and jingle writer who began a recording career in the 1960s.
Holmes is the author of the song " Dazed and Confused", later reworked by Led Zeppelin. Holmes also composed the ...
, Rich Husson and Rose formed a group called The Feldmans, later known as Tim Rose and the Thorns.
The Big 3
In 1962 Rose met singer
Cass Elliot
Ellen Naomi Cohen (September 19, 1941 – July 29, 1974), known professionally as Mama Cass and later on as Cass Elliot, was an American singer and voice actress. She was a member of the singing group the Mamas & the Papas. After the group brok ...
(also eventually of The Mamas & the Papas) at a party in
Georgetown and formed a folk trio with her and singer John Brown called The Triumvirate. Later, after Brown was replaced by
James (Jim) Hendricks, they changed the name to The Big 3.
They soon landed a job at
The Bitter End
The Bitter End is a 230-person capacity nightclub, coffeehouse and folk music venue in New York City's Greenwich Village. It opened in 1961 at 147 Bleecker Street under the auspices of owner Fred Weintraub. The club changed its name to ''The Ot ...
, a folk club in New York City's
Greenwich Village
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.
Their success grew, with appearances on national television programs, and they recorded two albums: ''The Big 3'' (1963) and ''The Big 3 Live at the Recording Studio'' (1964). Songs included "Grandfather's Clock", and an anti-war dirge written by
Fred Hellerman
Fred Hellerman (May 13, 1927 – September 1, 2016) was an American folk singer, guitarist, producer, and songwriter. Hellerman was an original member of the seminal American folk group The Weavers, together with Pete Seeger, Lee Hays, and Ronn ...
and
Fran Minkoff
Frances Minkoff (February 5, 1915 – April 22, 2002) was an American lyricist best known for her songs co-written with Fred Hellerman of The Weavers.
Career
Her collaborations include the anti-war song " Come Away Melinda"—recorded in 1963 by ...
, "Come Away Melinda", a re-recorded version of which was one of Rose's most successful solo singles several years later, and Rose's composition "The Banjo Song," which sets the lyrics of "
Oh! Susanna
"Oh! Susanna" is a minstrel song by Stephen Foster (1826–1864), first published in 1848. It is among the most popular American songs ever written. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all tim ...
" to a completely new melody. Rose's melody was then used for
Shocking Blue
Shocking Blue was a Dutch rock band formed in 1967 in The Hague. It was part of the music movement in the Netherlands that was generally known by the name Nederbeat. The band had a number of hits throughout the counterculture movement during ...
's 1969 hit "
Venus
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".
Neil Young
Neil Percival Young (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian-American singer and songwriter. After embarking on a music career in Winnipeg in the 1960s, Young moved to Los Angeles, joining Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Richie Fur ...
and
Crazy Horse covered Rose's version on their 2012 album ''
Americana
Americana may refer to:
*Americana (music), a genre or style of American music
*Americana (culture), artifacts of the culture of the United States
Film, radio and television
* ''Americana'' (1992 TV series), a documentary series presented by J ...
''.
Rose and Elliot had musical differences – both were inclined to want things done their way – and the band fell apart after Elliot and Hendricks secretly married. They had appeared on a number of national television programs, including ''
Hootenanny
A hootenanny is a party involving music in the United States. It is particularly associated with folk music.
Etymology Placeholder
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'' (1963), ''
The Danny Kaye Show
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'' (1963), and ''
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
''The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson'' was an American late-night talk show hosted by Johnny Carson on NBC, the third iteration of the ''Tonight Show'' franchise. The show debuted on October 1, 1962, and aired its final episode on May 22, ...
'' (1962).
Solo career
After The Big 3, Rose went solo, and by 1966, his prospects had improved. In November of that year, he played two gigs at the
Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco; headlining were the
Grateful Dead and
Jefferson Airplane.
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signed Rose to a multi-album record deal; the first album, ''Tim Rose'', came out in 1967. It featured a new version of "Come Away Melinda" and "Long Time Man" (a version of the traditional "It Makes a Long Time Man Feel Bad", which was also previously recorded with The Big 3) as well as his versions of two songs that would become standards:
Billy Roberts' "
Hey Joe
"Hey Joe" is an American song from the 1960s that has become a rock standard and has been performed in many musical styles by hundreds of different artists. The lyrics tell of a man who is on the run and planning to head to Mexico after shooti ...
" and
Bonnie Dobson
Bonnie Dobson (born November 13, 1940, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)["Bonnie Dobson"< ...](_blank)
's "
Morning Dew
"Morning Dew," also known as "(Walk Me Out in the) Morning Dew," is a contemporary folk song by Canadian singer-songwriter Bonnie Dobson. The lyrics relate a fictional conversation in a post- nuclear holocaust world. Originally recorded live as ...
". Both were released as singles, and would be further
covered
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* Another name for a lid
* Cover (philately), generic term for envelope or package
* Album cover, the front of the packaging
* Book cover or magazine cover
** Book design
** Back cover copy, part of co ...
by many artists, from the Grateful Dead to
Clannad
Clannad () is an Irish band formed in 1970 in Gweedore, County Donegal by siblings Ciarán, Pól, and Moya Brennan and their twin uncles Noel and Pádraig Duggan. They have adopted various musical styles throughout their history, including ...
. Backed up by a trio that included William Lewis Wexler on keyboards and flute, he played at such clubs as Basin Street West in San Francisco and
Le Hibou
Le Hibou Coffee House was an internationally known coffee house established in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, operating from 1960 to 1975.
History
Denis Faulkner, an Ottawa francophone, was the founding owner manager from 1960 to 1968. It was durin ...
in
Ottawa, Ontario. He also played on numerous recording sessions, including backing up
Eric Weissberg
Eric Weissberg (August 16, 1939 – March 22, 2020) was an American singer, banjo player, and multi-instrumentalist, whose most commercially successful recording was his banjo solo in " Dueling Banjos," featured as the theme of the film ''Deliv ...
.
"Hey Joe"
In 1966, he was getting a lot of airplay with his version of "Hey Joe". It was written and had been
copyright
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ed in 1962 by singer
Billy Roberts, but Rose claimed he heard it sung as a child in Florida, and as of 2009, Rose's official website still claims the song is "traditional". As of 2009 no documentary evidence from US archives or elsewhere has been provided to support the claim that the song is "traditional" (though Country singer
Carl Smith did have a hit in 1953 with a song of the same title written by
Boudleaux Bryant
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). Prior to Rose's recording,
The Leaves
The Leaves were an United States, American garage rock band formed in San Fernando Valley, California, United States, in 1964. They are best known for their version of the song "Hey Joe", which was a hit in 1966. Theirs is the earliest release o ...
,
The Surfaris
The Surfaris are an American surf rock band formed in Glendora, California, United States, in 1962. They are best known for two songs that hit the charts in the Los Angeles area, and nationally by May 1963: "Surfer Joe" and " Wipe Out", which ...
,
Love
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and
The Byrds
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had all recorded fast-paced versions of the song. Rose's version (crediting himself as author), unlike the others, was a slow, angry ballad, which received US radio airplay and became a regional hit in the San Francisco area in 1966, as well as upstate New York cities like Buffalo and Albany.
Jimi Hendrix had seen Rose performing at
Cafe Wha?
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in New York City, and released a similarly slow version in 1966 which became a huge hit, first in the UK, then worldwide. It was
Linda Keith
Linda Keith (born 1946) is a former British fashion model, best known for her work for ''Vogue'' magazine during the 1960s as well as her involvement in the rock music scene.
Biography
Linda Keith was born to Pearl Rebuck and Alan Keith, a Britis ...
, Keith Richards' girlfriend at the time that played Rose's recording of "Hey Joe" to
Chas Chandler
Bryan James "Chas" Chandler (18 December 1938 – 17 July 1996) was an English musician, record producer and manager, best known as the original bassist in The Animals, for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. He ...
(Hendrix's manager and former bass player for
The Animals
The Animals (also billed as Eric Burdon and the Animals) are an English rock band, formed in Newcastle upon Tyne in the early 1960s. The band moved to London upon finding fame in 1964. The Animals were known for their gritty, bluesy sound and ...
).
Rose re-recorded "Hey Joe" in the 1990s, re-titling it "Blue Steel .44", again claiming songwriting credit.
"Morning Dew"
"Morning Dew" was to go on to become a rock standard. Rose heard
Fred Neil
Fred Neil (March 16, 1936 – July 7, 2001) was an American folk singer-songwriter active in the 1960s and early 1970s. He did not achieve commercial success as a performer and is mainly known through other people's recordings of his material& ...
's recording of the song penned by Canadian folk singer
Bonnie Dobson
Bonnie Dobson (born November 13, 1940, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)["Bonnie Dobson"< ...](_blank)
, arranged it with a harder, rock feel and added his name to the songwriting credit, although Dobson consistently questioned his right to a credit. Fred Neil, signed to
Elektra, was the first person to record the song after her.
Jac Holzman
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of Elektra contacted her for permission, knowing she had written it, and that was how it came to be published by the Nina Music Co., the music publishing company set up by Holzman's wife Nina. Subsequently, the Nina Music Co. was bought by
Warner/Chappell Music
Warner Chappell Music, Inc. is an American music publishing company and a subsidiary of the Warner Music Group. Warner Chappell Music's catalogue consists of over 1.4 million compositions and 65,000 composers, with offices in over 40 countries.
...
.
Follow-up works
Another CBS album, ''Through Rose Colored Glasses'', followed in 1969. It met with critical disappointment and did not sell well. ''Love: A Kind of Hate Story'' was recorded at
Island Studios
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in London and released in 1970. In addition to his musical career, by now Rose had moved to London and would spend much of his life there. Other albums followed in the decade: Another, different album titled ''Tim Rose'' (1972), ''The Musician'' (1975), and the
bootleg
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''Unfinished Song'' (1976).
In 1968, while his song "Roanoke" was getting some airplay in the UK, Rose was considered while replacements were being selected for
Brian Jones
Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones (28 February 1942 – 3 July 1969) was an English multi-instrumentalist and singer best known as the founder, rhythm/lead guitarist, and original leader of the Rolling Stones. Initially a guitarist, he went on to prov ...
's place in
The Rolling Stones
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.
Rose worked in the late 1960s and 1970s with sidemen Bob Bowers,
Felix Pappalardi
Felix A. Pappalardi Jr. (December 30, 1939 – April 17, 1983) was an American music producer, songwriter, vocalist, and bassist. He is best known as the bassist and co-lead vocalist of the band Mountain, whose song "Mississippi Queen" peaked at ...
, Alan Seidler,
Tina Charles,
Pierre Tubbs
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,
B. J. Cole, Colin Winston-Fletcher, Micky Wynne,
John Bonham
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, Les Podraza,
Aynsley Dunbar, Alex Damovsky,
John McVie
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,
Andy Summers
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,
Eric Weissberg
Eric Weissberg (August 16, 1939 – March 22, 2020) was an American singer, banjo player, and multi-instrumentalist, whose most commercially successful recording was his banjo solo in " Dueling Banjos," featured as the theme of the film ''Deliv ...
,
Russ Kunkel
Russell Kunkel (born September 27, 1948) is an American drummer who has worked as a session musician with many popular artists, including Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell, Jimmy Buffett, Harry Chapin, Rita Coolidge, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, Dan F ...
, Randall Elliot,
Pete Sears
Peter Roy Sears (born 27 May 1948) is an English rock musician. In a career spanning more than six decades, he has been a member of many bands and has moved through a variety of musical genres, from early R&B, psychedelic improvisational rock o ...
.
In the late 1960s,
Shel Talmy
Sheldon Talmy (born August 11, 1937) is an American record producer, songwriter and arranger, best known for his work in the UK in the 1960s with the Who, the Kinks and many others.
Talmy arranged and produced hits such as "You Really Got Me" ...
worked with Rose, producing his album ''Love – A Kind of Hate Story.''
In 1972, he put together his short-lived LA band featuring: Michael 'Papabax' Baxter on keyboards, Shelly Scott on drums, Bob Zinner on guitar and Larry "Fuzzy" Knight on bass, to play the 'California concert halls and 'nite' spots'.
He appeared on bills with
Traffic
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Traffic laws govern and regulate traffic, while rules of the road include traffi ...
, The Staple Singers,
Stevie Wonder,
Simon and Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel were an American folk rock duo consisting of the singer-songwriter Paul Simon and the singer Art Garfunkel. They were one of the best-selling music groups of the 1960s, and their biggest hits—including the electric remix of " ...
,
The Doors
The Doors were an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1965, with vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger, and drummer John Densmore. They were among the most controversial and influential rock acts ...
,
Uriah Heep,
Johnny Mathis,
Frank Zappa,
Jimi Hendrix,
Jeff Beck,
Rod Stewart,
Procol Harum
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, the
Grateful Dead,
Jimmy Page,
Robert Plant,
The Band of Joy, and
Tim Hardin
James Timothy Hardin (December 23, 1941 – December 29, 1980) was an American folk and blues musician and composer. As well as releasing his own material, several of his songs, including " If I Were a Carpenter" and "Reason to Believe", beca ...
.
The lost years
By the mid 1970s, his career had stalled. In an attempted comeback Los Angeles music publisher/songwriter Richard D. Kaye, acting as Tim's manager in 1976, arranged studio time for Tim to record the album ''Unfinished Song'' featuring seven new Rose compositions and the title track "Unfinished Song" written by Kaye. He recorded ''The Gambler'' in 1977, with a group that included guitarist
Andy Summers
Andrew James Summers (born 31 December 1942), is an English guitarist who was a member of the rock band The Police. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a band member in 2003. Summers has recorded solo albums, collaborated wi ...
, only to find that the record company refused to release it. He returned to New York for a number of years, living in
Hell's Kitchen
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on
Restaurant Row, and then much later
Lincoln Square near
Central Park
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. Having lost his contacts in the music industry, he was forced to work as a construction laborer until an opportunity arose to sing
jingle
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s for TV commercials in early 1980.
Rose sang on many jingles, including
Big Red gum and
Wrangler Jeans
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, and voiced ads for the
Big Apple Circus
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. This work funded his much-delayed college education, which he began at the age of 40. Rose graduated in 1984 from
Fordham University at
Lincoln Center
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in
Manhattan
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, with a degree in history. He became a
Wall Street stockbroker and a teacher, got married, and eventually divorced. While working on Wall Street, he met Dennis Lepri, former lead guitarist for the folk rock group, Gunhill Road. They became friends and together collaborated on new material, performing in clubs throughout New York. After
the 1987 stock market crash, the two parted ways and Tim got out of the business. He continued writing and performing at select venues, such as
The Bitter End
The Bitter End is a 230-person capacity nightclub, coffeehouse and folk music venue in New York City's Greenwich Village. It opened in 1961 at 147 Bleecker Street under the auspices of owner Fred Weintraub. The club changed its name to ''The Ot ...
. He also battled with alcoholism.
Return
By the late 1980s, Rose had reached the lowest point in his career. After his marriage broke up, he gave up drinking. In 1986,
Nick Cave included "Long Time Man", a version very close to Rose's, on the album ''
Your Funeral, My Trial''. Cave went on to assist Rose in recovering his career, and encouraged him to play live shows again.
In 1991, ''The Gambler'' was finally released.
In 1996, encouraged by Cave and by Dutch film makers Suzan IJzermans and Jacques Laureys, he returned to Europe. Rose performed at the
Guildford, and
Glastonbury Festivals. He went on to perform at the
Royal Albert Hall opening for Cave,
and at the Shepherds Bush Empire and
Queen Elizabeth Hall in London with co-writer and guitarist Mickey Wynne. A new album, ''Haunted'', was released with recordings from these performances as well new studio material produced by Cave.
He also appeared on the
BBC Television show ''
Later with Jools Holland'', and performed with
Robert Plant's folk-rock band, Priory of Brion. By the late 1990s to early 2000s, most of his back catalog had been re-released (some as double albums), and were available both in record stores and from Rose's own web site, Tim-Rose.co.uk.
In April 2001, the Tim Rose Band was the opening act at the Bergen Blues and Jazz Festival in Norway. Jacques Laurey's biographical film about Rose, ''
Where Was I?'', was premiered at the
Rotterdam Film Festival
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in the same year. His final solo album, ''American Son'', was released in February 2002.
''Not Goin' Anywhere'' by Norwegian band
Headwaiter, featuring four songs with lyrics by Rose and a duet with the lead singer Per Jorgenson, was released in Norway in September 2002.
Death
![Brompton Cemetery, London 59](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/Brompton_Cemetery%2C_London_59.JPG)
In 2002, Rose had completed a successful tour of Ireland with co-writer and guitarist Mickey Wynne and had a number of gigs planned around the UK. He died at Middlesex Hospital, London of a heart attack during a second operation for a lower bowel problem on September 24, 2002, at the age of 62.
He is buried in
Brompton Cemetery
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, London.
He had no children. A number of posthumous recordings featuring Rose have since been released.
He was the subject of BBC programme ''
Heir Hunters
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'' in November 2011, where investigators look for descendants of deceased people who did not leave a will.
Discography
Albums
* ''The Big 3'', 1963 – with The Big 3
* ''The Big 3 Live at the Recording Studio'', 1964 – with The Big 3
* ''Tim Rose'', 1967
* ''Through Rose Colored Glasses'', 1969
* ''Love – A Kind of Hate Story'', 1970 (Produced by
Shel Talmy
Sheldon Talmy (born August 11, 1937) is an American record producer, songwriter and arranger, best known for his work in the UK in the 1960s with the Who, the Kinks and many others.
Talmy arranged and produced hits such as "You Really Got Me" ...
)
* ''Tim Rose'', 1972
* ''The Musician'', 1975
* ''Unfinished Song'', 1976
* ''The Gambler'', 1991
* ''I've Got to Get a Message to You'', 1987
* ''Haunted'', 1997
* ''American Son'', 2002
* ''Not Goin' Anywhere'', 2002 – with Headwaiter
* ''Snowed In (The Last Recordings)'', 2003
* ''The London Sessions 1978 – 1998'', 2004
* ''Mirage'', 2004
Singles
* 1966 – "I'm Bringing It Home" / "Mother, Father, Where are You?"
* 1966 – "
Hey Joe
"Hey Joe" is an American song from the 1960s that has become a rock standard and has been performed in many musical styles by hundreds of different artists. The lyrics tell of a man who is on the run and planning to head to Mexico after shooti ...
" / "King Lonely the Blue"
* 1966 – "I Gotta Do Things My Way" / "Where Was I?"
* 1966 – "I'm Gonna Be Strong" / "I Got a Loneliness"
* 1967 – "
Morning Dew
"Morning Dew," also known as "(Walk Me Out in the) Morning Dew," is a contemporary folk song by Canadian singer-songwriter Bonnie Dobson. The lyrics relate a fictional conversation in a post- nuclear holocaust world. Originally recorded live as ...
" / "You're Slipping Away from Me"
* 1967 – "Long Time Man" / "I Got a Loneliness"
* 1967 – "Come Away Melinda" / "Long Time Man"
* 1968 – "Long Haired Boy" / "Looking at My Baby"
* 1968 – "I Guess it's Over" / "Hello Sunshine"
* 1969 – "Roanoke" / "Baby You Turn Me On"
* 1970 – "I Gotta Get a Message to You" / "Ode to an Old Ball"
* 1972 – "
You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
"You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles. It was written and sung by John Lennon (though credited to Lennon–McCartney) and released on the album ''Help!'' in August 1965.
Composition and recording
Len ...
" / "
If I Were a Carpenter"
* 1973 – "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" / "It Takes a Little Longer"
* 1975 – "The Musician" / "7:30 Song"
* 1975 – "The Musician" / "It's Not My Life That's Been Changin'"
* 1975 – "
Morning Dew
"Morning Dew," also known as "(Walk Me Out in the) Morning Dew," is a contemporary folk song by Canadian singer-songwriter Bonnie Dobson. The lyrics relate a fictional conversation in a post- nuclear holocaust world. Originally recorded live as ...
" / "7:30 Song"
* 1979 - Rose guested on the single "Boys on the Dole" by Neville Wanker and the Punters
References
External links
Official Tim Rose website(archived)
Detailed fan site*
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1940 births
2002 deaths
Singers from New York City
American male singer-songwriters
American rock songwriters
American rock guitarists
American blues guitarists
American folk guitarists
American male guitarists
American rock singers
American blues singers
American folk singers
Burials at Brompton Cemetery
Dawn Records artists
Columbia Records artists
Capitol Records artists
Atlantic Records artists
20th-century American singers
20th-century American guitarists
Guitarists from Washington, D.C.
Guitarists from New York City
Fordham University alumni
American expatriates in the United Kingdom
20th-century American male singers
Singer-songwriters from New York (state)
Singer-songwriters from Washington, D.C.