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johnfowles · 02-01-2005, 03:45 PM

One of my favo(u)rite folk singers was the late Tim Hardin. Now largely forgotten
he wrote a number of great songs before dying from a heroin overdose in 1980 at 39 (vintage age-the same as a number of female readers here like Bruna/Silverheels!!!)
There is to be a special broadcast on BBC Radio 2 by "whispering" Bob Harris featuring Tim at 2130 - 2230 next Saturday 5 February 2005 which will thene archived so that you can"Hear it for seven days after broadcast on the BBC Radio Player".see:- http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/r2music/...imhardin.shtml
I still have two of Tim's vinyl albums

The "live" album TH three and TH Nine and
once I tame my computer to digitize vinyl TH3 is way up there on the list to be C-Deed
His best known songs are obviously "Reason To Believe" (wonderful early Rod Stewart hit)and "If I Were A Carpenter" hit for Bobby Darin indeed Darin's album of that name

features no less than five Hardin songs.
As far as interest for this group goes Tim was probably one of the group together with another late great (Phil Ochs) that our hero hung about with in New york in the 60's.
I once talked to Gord about the "first time ever I saw his face" which was at the New Penelope coffee bar in Montreal in 1967
and Gord recalled it well and told me that lots of folk singers played there "including Tim Hardin"
John Fowles
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02-01-2005, 03:45 PM	#1
johnfowles Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: New Jersey U.S.A. ex UK and Canada Posts: 4,846	One of my favo(u)rite folk singers was the late Tim Hardin. Now largely forgotten he wrote a number of great songs before dying from a heroin overdose in 1980 at 39 (vintage age-the same as a number of female readers here like Bruna/Silverheels!!!) There is to be a special broadcast on BBC Radio 2 by "whispering" Bob Harris featuring Tim at 2130 - 2230 next Saturday 5 February 2005 which will thene archived so that you can"Hear it for seven days after broadcast on the BBC Radio Player".see:- http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/r2music/...imhardin.shtml I still have two of Tim's vinyl albums The "live" album TH three and TH Nine and once I tame my computer to digitize vinyl TH3 is way up there on the list to be C-Deed His best known songs are obviously "Reason To Believe" (wonderful early Rod Stewart hit)and "If I Were A Carpenter" hit for Bobby Darin indeed Darin's album of that name features no less than five Hardin songs. As far as interest for this group goes Tim was probably one of the group together with another late great (Phil Ochs) that our hero hung about with in New york in the 60's. I once talked to Gord about the "first time ever I saw his face" which was at the New Penelope coffee bar in Montreal in 1967 and Gord recalled it well and told me that lots of folk singers played there "including Tim Hardin" John Fowles prosecutors are often court posers in whose conversation often voives rant on [This message has been edited by johnfowles (edited February 01, 2005).]