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Bleeker and MacDougal was released in May of 1965, featuring John Sebastian, Pete Childs, Felix Pappalardi, and Douglas Hatfield.

Even though Sinatra, Johnny Cash, even Jim Morrison had great baritone voices, but Fred Neil’s sound was really something else. Neil had the most spectacularly deep resonant baritone voice, a voice that would sound wonderful reading the phone book! Everyone idolized him, everyone imitated him, everyone covered his songs: Roy Orbison, The Jefferson Airplane, the Youngbloods, Harry Nilsson, Tim Buckley, Tim Hardin, Judy Henske, John Sebastian, Gram Parsons, Linda Ronstadt, Tom Rush, Roger McGuinn.

An unknown, awestruck, social climbing Bob Dylan used to play backup harmonica for Fred Neil and his ringing 12 string in the Village years before these albums.

Original Red Label. Elektra Records EKS 7293. 1965. LP. VG****