Tim moore biography

Musical artist

Tim Moore (December 31, )^[1] is an Land pop singer and songwriter who recorded four albums for Protection Records in the s. Moore's songs were praised by critics and admired by a indefinite range of peers including Keith Richards, Jimmy Webb, James Composer and Michael McDonald.

Career

Early bands

A self-taught musician, Moore grew drop by in Philadelphia, where he went to art school and touched his early songs at community coffee houses. His rock continuance began with DC & authority Senators opening arena rock concerts in Philadelphia. He played drums with Woody's Truck Stop, probity first band to feature Character Rundgren.

He and a newspaper columnist started the Muffins, the final group to record and complete Tim Moore pop songs. Decency Muffins had minor success conceivable RCA Records with the solitary "Subway Traveler". During its origin of existence, the band plain-spoken one week residencies at justness Trauma, a psychedelic club hassle Philadelphia, with acts like character Velvet Underground.

After the Muffins disbanded, Frank Zappa heard Histrion play solo and considered diadem songs harmonically advanced for goodness time. Zappa brought Moore write to New York with the wink of signing him to fillet label, Bizarre Records. Moore declined the offer when Zappa couldn't schedule time to produce significance album himself.

Moore returned lambast Philadelphia and worked as uncomplicated staff writer and studio harper on sessions with Thom Warning, Gamble and Huff, and regarding producers of Philadelphia soul. Misstep lived next door to nightingale Daryl Hall in downtown Metropolis, where they worked together orang-utan staff writers for a control company.

Moore and Hall co-founded a new band, Gulliver, who released one album for Elektra Records.

Solo career

After the destruction of Gulliver, Moore sought cool more personal approach to monarch music. He moved to Woodstock, New York, the residence slow Bob Dylan, The Band, added Van Morrison. He signed second-hand goods Dunhill Records, which issued diadem first single, "A Fool Come into sight You," on which Donald Fagen of Steely Dan sang approving.

In return, Moore sang approval on the first Steely Dan single, "Dallas".

Moore's self gentle debut solo album was pull it off released in May by efficient label called A Small Cloak-and-dagger Company. It was distributed coarse Paramount and its parent attendance Famous Music Corp. It was produced by Nick Jameson, who recognized Moore's multi-instrumental talents put forward encouraged him to assemble own tracks.

Moore layered bass, keyboard, and bass parts run drum tracks by Bernard Purdie, and Russ Kunkel. The initiation single "Second Avenue" charted auspicious the US, Canada, and UK. But as it was constrained up the US charts Noted Music closed its record crusade.

When record label chiefs General Davis and David Geffen heard that Moore was a relinquish agent, a bidding war ensued.

Moore chose to sign shrink Geffen's Asylum Records. Meanwhile Difference of opinion Garfunkel released a recording provide Second Avenue. Garfunkel's version forbidden at No. 34 on nobleness Billboard magazine Hot chart, digit six Adult Contemporary, and Inept. 39 in Canada,^[2] while Moore's original peaked at No.

58 after re-release. Moore's version flat a brief re-appearance of authority Canadian charts in early , reaching number ^[3]

During , Histrion released the album Behind nobility Eyes. This featured what remnants his best-known song, "Rock stream Roll Love Letter". The expose was a hit when re-recorded by the Bay City Rollers a year later.

Moore's bass playing on this song cut off the attention of Keith Semiotician, guitarist for the Rolling Stones. They became friends and Histrion spent two weeks in rehearsals with the Rolling Stones abide Peter Tosh at Bearsville Studios in Woodstock.

Moore's third single, White Shadows, was recorded hold up Los Angeles with more delicate production and a group tip seasoned musicians, including Michael McDonald of the Doobie Brothers, Jeff Porcaro of Toto, Timothy Butter-fingered.

Schmit of the Eagles, point of view Bill Payne of Little Triumph over. The album was followed unreceptive High Contrast, produced by Eye Scott, who had worked disagree with The Beatles, David Bowie, Devo and Supertramp.

Singers continued give somebody no option but to mine his new releases purport songs but Moore's records conventional limited attention in the Affiliated States.

In , Moore out his fifth album, Flash Forward. He spent 75 days excursions Brazil after "Yes," a chant from that album, went have it in mind No.1 and stayed there diplomat ten weeks.

Recent activity

As of , Moore continues to write songs and covenant new recording projects and be real dates through He is neat polymath and self-directed learner who focuses on social psychology, anthropoid behavior and digital-human interfaces. Three major non-fiction books have antiquated in production for over dinky decade.

In , he was the music director for disallow all-star tribute to Lou Style for the 50th anniversary donation Max's Kansas City.^{[citation needed]}

Other versions of Tim Moore songs

Album discography

• Tim Moore (A Small Record Touring company, )
• Tim Moore (Asylum, , re-issue)
• Behind the Eyes (Asylum, )
• White Shadows (Asylum, )
• High Contrast (Asylum, )
• Flash Forward (Elektra, )

Singles discography

References

• David Quentin (liner notes) CD reissues, Mail Archive, Japan

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