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Tim Rose
12+ albums
folksinger-songwriter60'sacoustic70's
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Timothy Alan Patrick Rose (September 23, 1940 – September 24, 2002) was an American singer-songwriter. His recordings include some of the best versions of songs such as 'Hey Joe' and 'Morning Dew'. Tim Rose was born in Washington, D.C. Rose learned to play the banjo and guitar, and won the top music award in high school. His first band was The Singing Strings, which included Scott McKenzie, who later joined with John Phillips in a local group called The Abstracts, who became The Smoothies as well as The Journeymen. In 1962, following a stint as a navigator in the US Air Force, Rose teamed up with ex-Smoothie Michael Boran as "Michael and Timothy". Jake Holmes, Rich Husson and Tim formed a group called Tim Rose and the Thorns that was previously called The Feldmans. Later, Rose met singer Cass Elliot at a party in Georgetown, DC, and formed a folk trio with James Hendricks called The Big Three, changing their name from The Triumvirate. They soon landed a job at the Bitter End, a well-known folk club in New York’s Greenwich Village, along with Cafe Wha?, The Night Owl, the Gaslight, along with many musicians who lived at the Albert Hotel. Their success grew, with appearances on national TV shows, and they recorded two albums: The Big 3 (1963) and The Big 3 Live at the Recording Studio (1964). Songs included the standard "Grandfather’s Clock" and an anti-war dirge "Come Away Melinda". Rose and Elliot had musical differences - both were inclined to want things done their way
