Editing Fred Neil (section)

==Legacy==
Neil gained public recognition in 1969, when Nilsson's recording of "Everybody's Talkin<span style="padding-right:.2em;">'</span>" was featured in the film ''[[Midnight Cowboy]]''; the song became a hit and won a [[Grammy Award]].

He was one of the pioneers of the [[folk rock]] and singer-songwriter [[musical genre]]s,<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.allmusic.com/artist/fred-neil-p2088/biography | title = Fred Neil: Biography | access-date = March 10, 2011 | last = Unterberger | first = Richie | website = [[AllMusic]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last1 = Brackett | first1 = Nathan | last2 = Hoard | first2 = Christian David | title= The New Rolling Stone Album Guide | publisher = Simon and Schuster | year = 2004 | page = 572 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=t9eocwUfoSoC&q=fred+neil&pg=PA572 | access-date = March 10, 2011 | isbn = 0-7432-0169-8}}</ref> his most prominent musical descendants being [[Tim Buckley]],<ref>{{cite book | last1 = Browne | first1 = David | title = Dream Brother: The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckley | publisher = [[HarperCollins]] | year = 2001 | page = [https://archive.org/details/dreambrother00davi/page/83 83] | url = https://archive.org/details/dreambrother00davi | url-access = registration | quote = fred neil. | access-date = March 11, 2011 | isbn = 0-380-80624-X}}</ref> Stephen Stills,<ref name="UnterbergerTurnTurn" /> [[David Crosby]] and [[Joni Mitchell]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Miller|first=Brian|date=November 26, 2020|title=Essentials: Fred Neil, The Greatest Singer-Songwriter You've Probably Never Heard Of|url=https://www.vivascene.com/essentials-fred-neil-the-greatest-singer-songwriter-youve-probably-never-heard-of/|access-date=May 2, 2021|website=Vivascene}}</ref> In Neil's obituary in ''[[Rolling Stone]]'', [[Anthony DeCurtis]] wrote, "So why is Neil a hero to David Crosby? Because back when Crosby was an aspiring folkie who just arrived in New York, Neil bothered to take an interest in him, just as he did for the young Bob Dylan, who backed Neil on harmonica at the [[Cafe Wha?]] in Greenwich Village. 'He taught me that everything was music,' Crosby says."<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/rocking-my-life-away-fred-neil-20010720 | title = Rocking My Life Away: Fred Neil | access-date = March 10, 2011 | last = DeCurtis | first = Anthony | date = July 20, 2001 | work = [[Rolling Stone (magazine)|Rolling Stone]]}}</ref>  His most frequently cited disciples are [[Karen Dalton]], [[Tim Hardin]], Dino Valenti, [[Vince Martin (singer)|Vince Martin]], [[Peter Stampfel]] of the avant-folk ensemble the [[The Holy Modal Rounders|Holy Modal Rounders]], [[John Sebastian]],<ref name="UnterbergerTurnTurn">{{cite book | last1 = Unterberger | first1 = Richie | title = Turn! Turn! Turn!: The '60s Folk-Rock Revolution | publisher = Hal Leonard Corporation | year = 2002 | page = 120 | isbn = 9780879307035 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=aO4yVYsXu5MC&q=fred+neil | access-date = March 11, 2011}}</ref> [[Gram Parsons]],<ref>{{cite book|title=Grievous Angel: An Intimate Biography of Gram Parsons|last1=Hundley|first1=Jessica|last2=Parsons|first2=Polly|publisher=[[Da Capo Press]]|year=2005|isbn=1-56025-673-7|page=40}}<!--| access-date = March 10, 2011 --></ref> [[Jerry Jeff Walker]], [[Barry McGuire]],<ref name="UnterbergerTurnTurn" /> and [[Paul Kantner]] ([[Jefferson Airplane]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hit-channel.com/interviewpaul-kantner-jefferson-starshipjeffferson-airplane/62385|title=Interview:Paul Kantner (Jefferson Starship, Jeffferson Airplane) |website=Hit-channel.com|date=April 16, 2014}}</ref><ref name="UnterbergerTurnTurn" /> Some of Neil's early compositions were recorded by Buddy Holly and Roy Orbison. He played guitar on the demo version of [[Bobby Darin]]'s 1958 hit "[[Dream Lover]]",<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.bobbydarin.net/sn_030559.html | title = Dream Lover/Bullmoose Session -- Session Notes by Dik de Heer|website=BobbyDarin.net| access-date = November 12, 2020}}</ref> and was a demo singer on a late-1950s [[Elvis Presley]] movie soundtrack session.  He recorded "One Heart," a song by [[Doc Pomus]] and [[Scott Turner (songwriter)|Scott Turner]] (misidentified by Neil biographer Peter Lee Neff as "Steve").  According to Turner, the song arrived in Los Angeles too late to be used in the film.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Neff|title=That's the Bag I'm In|pages=41}}</ref>

In his memoir, [[Richie Havens]] recalls first seeing Neil in a duo with Martin at Cafe Wha?, and that "Tear Down the Walls" was the first protest song he had heard in Greenwich Village, "the first to point me in a clear direction".  He also remembers Neil and Valenti's version of [[Ray Charles]]'s [[What'd I Say|"What'd I Say?"]] They would continue performing while making their way out the cafe's back door, then returning through the front, while keeping the song going.  "I can still see and hear Neil and Valenti coming down that center aisle, raising the roof of the Wha?, 'tearing down the walls' that were keeping me from expressing what I needed to do."<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.fredneil.com/richie-havens-they-cant-hide-us-anymore/ | title = Fred Neil » Richie Havens: They Can't Hide Us Anymore |website=Fredneil.com| access-date = November 12, 2020}}</ref>