His brother inspired his early love of jazz, particularly John Coltrane and Miles Davis the latter would later recommend that Columbia Records sign the Byrds, and then cover the Crosby composition " Guinnevere." Their parents divorced in 1960, and his father then married Betty Cormack Andrews. Ĭrosby’s older brother was musician Ethan Crosby.
His father was a relative of the Van Rensselaer family, and his mother-granddaughter of Bishop of Pittsburgh Cortlandt Whitehead-descended from the prominent Van Cortlandt family they "regularly inhabited the New York society pages before their wedding". He was also an occasional actor, appearing as a member of Captain Hook's pirate crew in Hook (1991).ĭavid Van Cortlandt Crosby was born in Los Angeles, California, the second son of Academy Award-winning cinematographer Floyd Crosby, who formerly worked on Wall Street, and Aliph Van Cortlandt Whitehead, a salesperson at Macy's department store.
Five albums to which he contributed are included in Rolling Stone 's list of " The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time", three with the Byrds and two with CSN(Y). He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice: once for his work in the Byrds and again for his work with CSN. He also appeared frequently on recordings by other artists, including Joni Mitchell, Jefferson Airplane, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, and David Gilmour.Ĭrosby's combined work with the Byrds and CSNY has sold over 35 million albums. Additionally, he formed a jazz-influenced trio with his son James Raymond and guitarist Jeff Pevar in CPR. The last five of his solo albums, beginning with Croz (2014), came in the last decade of his life. His solo debut was 1971's If I Could Only Remember My Name. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSNY) reunions were held in each decade from the 1970s through the 2000s.Ĭrosby released eight solo albums, albeit sporadically, over the course of his career. The core trio of CSN remained active from 1976 until 2016, and the duo of Crosby & Nash also recorded three gold albums in the 1970s. The group later occasionally included Neil Young. After the release of their debut album, CSN won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist of 1969. In 1968, he formed Crosby, Stills & Nash (CSN) with Stephen Stills and Graham Nash.
Crosby appeared on the Byrds' first five albums and the original lineup's 1973 reunion album. They scored their first number-one hit in 1965 with a cover of Bob Dylan's " Mr. Īfter a short time performing in the folk music scene, Crosby co-founded the Byrds in 1964. In addition to his music, Crosby was known for his outspoken personality, politics, and personal troubles he was sometimes depicted as emblematic of the counterculture of the 1960s. He first found fame as a member of the Byrds, with whom he helped pioneer the genres of folk rock and psychedelia in the mid-1960s, and later as part of the supergroup Crosby, Stills & Nash, who helped popularize the " California sound" of the 1970s.
ĭavid Van Cortlandt Crosby (Aug– January 18, 2023) was an American musician and singer-songwriter. Stylistically, the album varies from traditional sounding folk and sea chanty music (such as the aforementioned "Jolly Roger") to rock songs influenced by the burgeoning punk rock movement (such as "Rock and Roll Time").Īll titles are written by Roger McGuinn and Jacques Levy except where otherwise noted.From the BBC programme Mastertapes, November 18, 2013. The album includes a pirate tale "Jolly Roger", a song about King Arthur's "Round Table", and a version of Joni Mitchell's "Dreamland", which later appeared on her 1977 album Don Juan's Reckless Daughter. The album, produced by Mick Ronson, was recorded on the heels of Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue 1975 tour, in which both McGuinn and Ronson had participated. Cardiff Rose is a solo studio album by American singer/songwriter and ex- The Byrds frontman Roger McGuinn, released in 1976.
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