1. Erik Jacobsen is best known for his work in the 1960s with Tim Hardin, the Lovin' Spoonful, the Charlatans, and Sopwith Camel, and later with Norman Greenbaum, Tazmanian Devils and Chris Isaak.
13 Facts About Erik Jacobsen
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Erik Jacobsen's first major video project was an auto-biographical webside, All About Erik, launched in 2019.
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Erik Jacobsen was born in Oak Park, Illinois, on the west side of Chicago.
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In 1964, after hearing the Beatles, Jacobsen quit the Knob Lick Upper 10,000, intending to produce records that combined folk music with electric instruments and drums.
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Erik Jacobsen produced various demos for different combinations of these musicians, prototypes of the folk rock style.
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Erik Jacobsen published the band's original songs through his Faithful Virtue Publishing Company and was a major factor in their development.
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Erik Jacobsen discovered singer-songwriter Tim Hardin in 1964, managed him, and produced his first album, Tim Hardin 1.
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Songs that Hardin later recorded as demos for Erik Jacobsen include "If I Were a Carpenter" and others that appeared on Tim Hardin 2.
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In 1964, Erik Jacobsen recorded the original blues-style recordings that were eventually released as Tim Hardin 4 on Verve Records.
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Erik Jacobsen expanded his search for talent to California and worked there with the first of the newly emerging San Francisco rock bands, The Charlatans.
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Erik Jacobsen went on to produce their 1973 cult classic, The Miraculous Hump Returns from the Moon.
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In 1969, Erik Jacobsen produced and published the song "Mill Valley", a number one Adult Contemporary hit for Rita Abrams, a kindergarten school teacher, singing with the Strawberry Point School Third Grade Class.
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Erik Jacobsen's record went on to become an international number one hit, selling over one hundred million copies.