1. Dean Friedman was born on May 23,1955 and is an American singer-songwriter who plays piano, keyboard, guitar, and harmonica.
17 Facts About Dean Friedman
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Dean Friedman provided vocals for a series of television commercials in the 1970s in the New York City metro area.
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However, while he did re-record and perform one version for an employee event, Dean Friedman is falsely credited with creating and singing on the jingle for electronics chain Crazy Eddie's "When you think you're ready, come down to Crazy Eddie", which was actually created, performed, produced and recorded in its various versions by Larry Weiss along with Jeff Gottschalk and John Russo.
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The songs of Dean Friedman have been covered by several contemporary bands, including The Barenaked Ladies, Ben Folds Five, Ariel Pink, The Tone Rangers, and The Blenders.
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Dean Friedman has written, performed, and produced the theme music to several TV series including Boon, starring Michael Elphick.
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Dean Friedman composed, performed, and produced the soundtrack to the 1990 cult horror film, I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle, in which he performs the track "She Runs on Blood, Not Gasoline".
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In 1985, Dean Friedman produced a seminal work on the newly emerging synthesizer industry called Complete Guide to Synthesizers, Sequencers, and Drum Machines.
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Dean Friedman set up the New York School of Synthesis and provided a series of videos entitled Intro to Synthesis.
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In 1986, Dean Friedman saw a demo of a powerful virtual reality program that put the user right inside a video game using a video camera.
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Dean Friedman was impressed by the technology and wrote an article for Electronic Musician magazine.
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In 1989, he designed a game called Eat-A-Bug which was licensed to Nickelodeon, used on the series Total Panic and served as a prototype for the series Nick Arcade, for which Dean Friedman produced a dozen games.
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Dean Friedman is the President and Creative Director of InVideo games.
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Dean Friedman invited people to finance the cost of the as-yet unrecorded album by making an advance purchase and by making limited edition signed copies available.
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Dean Friedman copied this tactic again in 2005 with the album Squirrels in the Attic and once more, in 2017, with 12 Songs.
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In 2009, Dean Friedman wrote a "reply" called "A Baker's Tale", in which he firmly placed Blackwell's parentage as being that of the local baker, posting it on Half Man Half Biscuit's MySpace site.
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On September 15,2010, Dean Friedman appeared at a Half Man Half Biscuit gig at the Robin 2 venue in Bilston, West Midlands and performed "A Baker's Tale".
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Dean Friedman's song is included on his 2010 album Submarine Races.