Scott Fagan

about

Best known as the maestro behind the obscure 1967 psych-folk LP South Atlantic Blues and the 1971 Broadway rock musical Soon, singer/songwriter Scott Fagan is also the father of Magnetic Fields mastermind Stephin Merritt. Born in New York in 1945 to a saxophone-playing father and a dancer mother, the innately musical Fagan spent his formative years with his mother in an arts colony in the Virgin Islands. In the mid-'60s, after gigging around the country and honing his chops (he even landed a few gigs with Jimi Hendrix), he auditioned for songwriting legend Doc Pomus, with whom he would go on to write "I'm Gonna Cry 'Til My Tears Run Dry," which was recorded by Linda Ronstadt. Fagan's pop acumen soon led him to Columbia Records, where he worked with another songwriting heavyweight, Burt Berns. After a brief and eventually unfruitful courtship by Apple Records (he lost out to James Taylor), Fagan inked a deal with Atco, which would release his first studio album, South Atlantic Blues, in 1967. Like other "obscuro" classics from the era, South Atlantic Blues never even dipped a toe into the mainstream. The LP soon found itself in cutout bins, but famed painter and printmaker Jasper Johns was enough of a fan that he created three pieces called Scott Fagan Record, which eventually found their way into the collections of the Met, MOMA, and the Walker Art Center. Fagan's first post-SAB project was a rock musical about the evils of the music industry called Soon, which found its way

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albums

South Atlantic Blues

Many Sunny Places

Dreams Should Never Die (The V.I. Songs Vol. ll)

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AD Presents :: Ponytone: A Cross-Cultural Mixtape (1)

South Atlantic Blues (Bonus Tracks Version)

It Won't Be Long

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Please Be Well

The Love Songs of Scott Fagan

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No More Guns

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Introducing The Virgin Islands own "Buckra De Paehae"

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The Story Of Sandy The Bluenosed Reindeer

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Аэростат vol. 565 - 60-е: Археология

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