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Dino Valenti
12+ albums
san francisco60srockpopfolk rock
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Dino Valenti (sometimes Dino Valente) (born Chester William Powers, Jr., aka Chet Powers, on 7 October 1937; died 16 November 1994) was an American singer-songwriter and one of the lead singers of the rock group Quicksilver Messenger Service. As a songwriter, he used the name Jesse Oris Farrow. He is best known for writing the quintessential 1960s love-and-peace anthem "Get Together", and for writing and singing on Quicksilver Messenger Service's two best-known songs, "Fresh Air" and "What About Me". He also popularized and controversially claimed the copyright of Billy Roberts's song "Hey Joe" (made famous by The Jimi Hendrix Experience). Chet Powers had already become "Dino Valenti" long before arriving in Greenwich Village in the early 1960s. Before serving in the Air Force and spending time developing his style in the coffeehouses of Boston and Provincetown, Mass., he performed as Dino Valenti with small rock bands in New England lounges, the logic being "Dino Valenti" had considerable more appeal than "Chester William Powers". During his years in Greenwich Village, Dino performed in coffeehouses such as Manny Roth's Cock 'n' Bull and Cafe Wha?, often with fellow singer-songwriter Fred Neil, and friends like blues singer Karen Dalton, a young Bob Dylan, Lou Gossett, Josh White, Len Chandler, Noel Paul Stookey, and others. He worked his way through the basket-houses and crash pads over the next couple of years and came closer than anyone to earning a rep as the "undergr
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San Francisco Nuggets
Get Together (The Lost Recordings: Pre 1970)
Get Together
Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970
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Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970 Disc 1
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Love Is The Song We Sing San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970 [Box Set] [Disc 1]
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Nuggets 4
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Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970 [BOX SET]
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San Fransisco Nuggets 1965-1970 (Disc 1: Seismic Rumbles)
Era ora
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Love Is The Song We Sing (Disc 1)
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Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970 - CD1: Seismic Rumbles