Editing Fred Neil (section)

==Life and career==
Fred Neil was born Frederick Ralph Morlock Jr., in [[Cleveland]], Ohio, just two weeks after his parents, Frederick Ralph Morlock and Lura Camp Riggs, married.  Neil later said that he took his stage name from his maternal grandmother, Addie Neill, the family member of whom he was fondest.  While they lived in Ohio, his father installed sound systems for the Automatic Musical Instrument Distribution Company ([[AMI Entertainment Network|AMI]]), which made player pianos and, later, jukeboxes, and then worked for the [[Triangle Music Company]], distributor of Aireon jukeboxes.  In 1942, the Morlock family moved to [[St. Petersburg, Florida]], where young Fred started singing when he was in first grade, coached by his mother, she claimed.  Around 1947, when in sixth grade, he started playing guitar.  His parents had separated in 1945, divorcing in 1949, and his father returned to Cleveland.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Neff|first=Peter Lee|title=That's the Bag I'm In: The Life, Music and Mystery of Fred Neil|publisher=Blue Ceiling Publishing|year=2019|isbn=978-1-7330164-0-7|location=Nashville, TN|pages=12–15}}</ref>

In 1955, at the end of two years of military service in the navy, Fred Morlock married Leilani Lee Michaels, a "[[Fran Malione Dancer]]" in San Francisco, a "photographers' model," and later a beauty-pageant queen and "[[Geary Girl]]."<ref>{{Cite news|date=August 11, 1962|title="Line Captain's Sister Meets Rigid Standards"|work=Reno (Nevada) Gazette-Journal|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/11021529/reno-gazette-journal/|access-date=May 1, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Ungaretti|first=Lorri|title=San Francisco's Richmond District|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|year=2005|isbn=978-1531616663|location=Charleston, SC|pages=125}}</ref>  They lived with Fred's mother in St. Petersburg, and separated a year later.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Neff|title=That's the Bag I'm In|pages=24}}</ref>  In August 1958, in New York, Neil married Elaine Berman after she became pregnant with their son, Kenny.  She had worked at [[Grey Advertising]] until her pregnancy compelled her to quit her job.  Faced with the costs of family life, she worked as a secretary at [[Peermusic|Southern Music Publishing]], while Neil wrote songs and performed.  They separated in 1960.  (In 1965, she married [[Tony Orlando]].)<ref>{{Cite book|last=Neff|title=That's the Bag I'm In|pages=34–36, 51}}</ref>  In 1963, Neil and Linda Watson started living together, in Miami, and in time they married, having a son, Christopher.  Their marriage ended in 1968.  When Neil moved to [[Woodstock, New York]], in 1969, he met and married Judy Cruickshank, and they lived in a cabin in [[Saugerties, New York|Saugerties, NY]] on the same road as [[Big Pink]], home of [[Rick Danko]] and other members of [[The Band]].  Judy and Fred Neil had two sons, Justin and Tyson Neil.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Neff|title=That's the Bag I'm In|pages=197, 210}}</ref>

In the late 1950s, Neil was one of the singer-songwriters who worked out of New York City's [[Brill Building]], a center for music industry offices and professional songwriters.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/realestate/03scapes.html?_r=1 |title=Streetscapes – The Brill Building – Built With a Broken Heart |newspaper=www.nytimes.com |access-date=December 4, 2010 |first=Christopher |last=Gray |date=December 3, 2009}}</ref> While composing at the Brill Building for other artists, Neil also recorded six mostly [[rockabilly]]-pop singles for different labels as a solo artist.<ref name="Brend">Brend, Mark (2001) "Fred Neil", ''[[Record Collector]]'', No. 265, September 2001, p. 11.</ref> He wrote songs that were recorded by early rock and roll artists, such as [[Buddy Holly]] ("Come Back Baby" 1958, co-credited to Holly's producer, [[Norman Petty]]) and [[Roy Orbison]] ("[[Candy Man (Roy Orbison song)|Candy Man]]" 1961, co-written with [[Beverly Ross]]).<ref name="rush">{{cite journal |url=http://rushevans.com/2008/11/searching-for-the-dolphins-the-mysterious-life-of-fred-neil/ |title=Searching for the Dolphins: The Mysterious Life of Fred Neil|author= Rush Evans |journal=Discoveries Magazine| date=September 2001|access-date=December 5, 2010}}</ref>

With his 12-string guitar and spectacularly deep baritone voice, Neil was considered the King of the [[MacDougal Street]]/[[Greenwich Village]] folksingers.  With [[Louis Gossett Jr.|Lou Gossett]], starting in February 1961 he co-hosted an afternoon hootenanny at [[Cafe Wha?]]. [[Bob Dylan]] recalled that when he arrived at the Village, he was advised to seek Neil there, and, when he did, Neil invited Dylan to join him on stage.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Dylan|first=Bob|title=Chronicles, Volume 1|publisher=Simon and Schuster|year=2004|isbn=978-0743230766|location=New York|pages=9–10}}</ref>  Photos from July 20, 1961, depict Neil, [[Karen Dalton]], [[Mark Spoelstra]], and an unidentified conga player, with Dylan on harmonica.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Neff|title=That's the Bag I'm In|pages=62–66}}</ref>  In addition to Dalton, early on Neil also performed alongside [[Chet Powers|Dino Valenti]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Neff|title=That's the Bag I'm In|pages=52–57}}</ref>  Neil met [[Vince Martin (singer)|Vince Martin]] in 1962, and they formed a singing partnership;<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2gyyxdFXCOgC&q=%22Fred+Neil%22+-inpublisher%3Aicon&pg=PA133 |title=The Oxford American Book of Great Music Writing|author=Mike Powell |publisher=[[University of Arkansas Press]]|year= 2008 |isbn=9781610752992|access-date=December 5, 2010 }}</ref> his first LP, ''Tear Down The Walls'' (1964) was recorded with Martin.<ref name="The Great Rock Discography" /> A New Yorker, Martin had relocated to Florida in 1960, and soon settled in [[Coconut Grove]], where Neil followed him after their initial musical meeting, and where he returned regularly for years after.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Neff|title=That's the Bag I'm In|pages=86–87}}</ref>  During 1965 and 1966 Neil was joined on many live sets by the Seventh Sons, a trio led by [[Buzzy Linhart]] on guitar and vibes. Neil released ''[[Bleecker & MacDougal]]'' on [[Elektra Records]] in 1965,<ref name="Magazine2007">{{cite book|author=Various Mojo Magazine|title=The Mojo Collection: 4th Edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AVQbF9lTBwgC&pg=PA77|date=November 1, 2007|publisher=Canongate Books|isbn=978-1-84767-643-6|pages=77–}}</ref> reissued in 1970 as ''A Little Bit of Rain''. His album [[Fred Neil (album)|''Fred Neil'']], released in 1967, relaunched in 1969 as ''Everybody's Talkin''', was recorded during his residencies in Greenwich Village and Coconut Grove, with one session taking place in Los Angeles.<ref name="The Great Rock Discography" />

After "Everybody's Talkin{{' "}}, Neil's best-known songs are "Other Side of This Life", covered by The Lovin' Spoonful on their debut album, ''[[Do You Believe in Magic (album)|Do You Believe in Magic]]'' and Jefferson Airplane on their live album ''[[Bless Its Pointed Little Head]]''; and "[[The Dolphins (song)|The Dolphins]]", which was later recorded by several artists, including [[Linda Ronstadt]], [[It's a Beautiful Day]], [[The The]], [[Richie Havens]], [[Billy Bragg]], [[Beth Orton]], and [[Tim Buckley]]. In particular, Jefferson Airplane considered Neil a major influence, and he was a frequent visitor to their [[Haight-Ashbury]] house at 2400 Fulton Street in [[San Francisco]]. Neil reminded [[Grace Slick]] of [[Winnie the Pooh]], and her nickname for him was "Poohneil". The minor Airplane hit "[[The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil]]" was written for Neil.<ref name="Brend" /> Sebastian's song "Coconut Grove" from the album ''[[Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful]]'' was a tribute to Neil.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://archive.org/details/teenset-feb-1968-pg/page/n55/mode/2up |page=60 |last=Sims |first=Judith |author-link=Judith Sims |date=February 1968 |title=These Two Men Are Important |magazine=[[TeenSet]] }}</ref>

Blues and folk singer [[Lisa Kindred]] credits Neil with being her mentor in the early 1960s.<ref>[https://s3.amazonaws.com/content.sitezoogle.com/u/10424/fc53868b54331dfc73665aa557463a13138add43/original/Golden-Gate-Grooves-Issue-011.pdf Golden Gate Grooves – Issue 11], ''The Golden Gate Blues Society Quarterly'', Johnny Ace & Cathy Lemons, October 2011. Retrieved December 23, 2018.</ref>

Interested in dolphins since the mid-1960s, when he began visiting the [[Miami Seaquarium]], Neil, with [[Ric O'Barry]], founded the Dolphin Research Project in 1970, an organization dedicated to stopping the capture, trafficking and exploitation of dolphins worldwide.<ref name="Brend" /> Increasingly involved in that pursuit, Neil progressively disappeared from the recording studio and live performance, with only occasional performances in the rest of the 1970s.<ref name="Brend" />