Goodbye to Jesse Colin Young, leader of Youngbloods

He died at the age of 83 Jesse Colin Youngleader of Youngbloods. According to a press release from his agent, Young “died in his home from Aiken, in the South Carolina”. Young was born with the name Perry Miller On November 22, 1941, in the Queens district in New York. The singer-songwriter and bassist Folk-Rock was one of the founding members of the Boston folk-rock band The Youngbloods in 1965.

In 1966 the band reached position number 52 with “Grizzly Bear”written by Jerry Corbitt. In the summer of 1967, the band published “Get Together”written by

Dino Valentifuture member of Quicksilver Messenger Servicewith its real name Chet Powerswith Young on the solo item. The song, also known as “Let’s Get Together” And “Everybody Get Together”became one of the favorites of the Hippie era, taken from Kingston Trio, from We Five, from Jefferson Airplane and come on Dave Clark Five.

THE
Nirvana
they used the verse of the song,
“As on, People, Now / Smile on Your Brother / Everybody Get Together, Try to
Love One Another Right Now “
at the beginning of the song
“Territorial Pissings”
from their album
“Nevermind”
(
Read the review here
).

The version of the song of the
Youngbloods
At his release in 1967 he stopped at position number 62, the single was then republished in 1969 and reached the fifth position of the sales ranking. In 1971 the
Youngbloods
They melted and Young started a solo career formed by a dozen records the last of which,
“Dreamers”,
Published in 2019.