Garcia invited him to join the band as a lyricist, and Hunter contributed substantially to many of their albums, beginning with "Aoxomoxoa" in 1969. Over the years Hunter wrote lyrics to a number of the band's signature pieces, including "Dark Star", "Ripple", "Truckin'", "China Cat Sunflower", and "Terrapin Station". Hunter was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the Grateful Dead in 1994, and is the only non-performer to be inducted as a member of a band. Upon his death, "Rolling Stone" described him as "one of rock's most ambitious and dazzling lyricists".
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Robert Hunter (lyricist)
Robert Hunter (lyricist) | Introduction
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Robert C. Christie Hunter
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San Luis Obispo, California
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Hunter was born Robert Burns on June 23, 1941 in Arroyo Grande, California, near San Luis Obispo. He was a great-great grandson of the Romantic poet Robert Burns, according to Charles Perry. Hunter's father was an alcoholic, who deserted the family when Hunter was seven, according to Grateful Dead chronicler Dennis McNally. Hunter spent the next few years in foster homes before returning to live with his mother. These experiences drove him to seek refuge in books, and he wrote a 50-page fairy tale before he was 11. His mother married again, to Norman Hunter, whose last name Robert took.
Robert Hunter (lyricist) | Early life
Robert C. Christie Hunter (born Robert Burns, June 23, 1941 – September 23, 2019) was an American lyricist, singer-songwriter, translator, and poet, best known for his work with the Grateful Dead. Born near San Luis Obispo, California, Hunter spent some time in his childhood in foster homes, as a result of his father's abandoning his family, and took refuge in reading and writing. He attended the University of Connecticut for a year before returning to Palo Alto, where he became friends with Jerry Garcia. Garcia and Hunter began a collaboration that lasted through the remainder of Garcia's life. Garcia and others formed the Grateful Dead in 1965, and some time later began working with lyrics that Hunter had written.
Robert Hunter (lyricist) | Introduction
The elder Hunter was a publisher, who gave Robert lessons in writing. Hunter attended high school in Palo Alto, learning to play several instruments as a teenager. His family moved to Connecticut, where he attended the University of Connecticut. He played trumpet in a band called the Crescents. Hunter left the university after a year, and returned to Palo Alto. He enlisted in the National Guard, and spent six months training, before doing a six-month tour of duty. Upon his return to Palo Alto, he was introduced to Jerry Garcia by Garcia's then-girlfriend, who had previously been in a relationship with Hunter.
Robert Hunter (lyricist) | Early life
From Hunter and Garcia's collaboration came many of the songs McNally calls the band's masterpieces, including "Ripple", "Brokedown Palace", and "Attics of My Life". According to "Rolling Stone", "[considered] one of rock's most ambitious and dazzling lyricists, Hunter was the literary counterpoint to the band’s musical experimentation", and his lyrics were "as much a part of the band as Jerry Garcia's singing and guitar."
Robert Hunter (lyricist) | Awards and legacy
Garcia invited him to join the band as a lyricist, and Hunter contributed substantially to many of their albums, beginning with "Aoxomoxoa" in 1969. Over the years Hunter wrote lyrics to a number of the band's signature pieces, including "Dark Star", "Ripple", "Truckin'", "China Cat Sunflower", and "Terrapin Station". Hunter was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the Grateful Dead in 1994, and is the only non-performer to be inducted as a member of a band. Upon his death, "Rolling Stone" described him as "one of rock's most ambitious and dazzling lyricists".
Robert Hunter (lyricist) | Introduction
In 2012, Hunter co-wrote lyrics for the Mickey Hart Band's albums "Mysterium Tremendum" and the follow-up "Superorganism". In an interview with "American Songwriter", Hart categorized Hunter's lyrics compared to other great lyricists saying, "When you're in a situation in the future and you can't explain it, very often a Hunter line or two or three will explain something that's unexplainable." Also in 2012, Hunter co-wrote four songs on Little Feat's album "Rooster Rag".
Robert Hunter (lyricist) | Collaborations
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"And I believe it, you know?" he told "Rolling Stone" in 2015. According to the "New York Times", Hunter's lyrics "helped define the Grateful Dead as a counterculture touchstone". Analyzing his lyrics became a popular exercise among the band's fans, something Hunter took pride in. His approach to songwriting is described as "deeply literary", and responsible for differenting the music of the Grateful Dead from mainstream popular music. The "Los Angeles Times" compared his lyrical aesthetic to that of Bob Dylan and Randy Newman, and wrote he was one of the few lyricists who "delved into the unique characteristics of the American psyche".
Robert Hunter (lyricist) | Awards and legacy
Albums that Robert Hunter recorded as a solo artist:
Robert Hunter (lyricist) | Solo discography
Hunter was the only writer to collaborate extensively with Dylan. During the 2000s, Dylan said Hunter had "a way with words", and "we both write a different type of song than what passes today for songwriting." Hunter was famously averse to explaining his lyrics and avoided interviews. Dennis McNally, author of a history of the Grateful Dead, said the band only "developed their potential for greatness" after they made Hunter their main lyricist. McNally writes that while Garcia was one of the "outstanding guitar players and songwriters of his generation", his lyrical abilities were minor. Many of the Grateful Dead's early lyrics were "superficial" and simple.
Robert Hunter (lyricist) | Awards and legacy
Following the dissolution of the Grateful Dead, Hunter successfully continued his writing career, working on new songs with Jim Lauderdale, Elvis Costello, Cesar Rosas, and Bruce Hornsby, among others. He was seen occasionally playing solo acoustic guitar and performing his classic works, as well as newer songs. In 2004 he opened most of the summer tour of the Dead (a group made up of former Grateful Dead members). He also co-wrote, with David Nelson, many of the songs on the New Riders of the Purple Sage albums "Where I Come From" (2009) and "17 Pine Avenue" (2012). Hunter wrote "Cyclone" for Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers' "Levitate" album, released in 2009.
Robert Hunter (lyricist) | Collaborations
He was born in Pasadena, California, on May 19, 1906, the son of successful architect Myron Hunt and his wife Harriette Boardman. The senior Hunt designed and built a mansion as their family residence. As a young adult, Robert worked briefly for his father, demonstrating that he was a talented designer.
Robert Hunt (poet) | Early life
Robert Hunter MacGimsey (Pineville, Louisiana 1898 Phoenix, Arizona 1979) was an American composer. His most famous song was "Sweet Little Jesus Boy" (1934), a well-known Christmas carol written in the style of an African-American spiritual.
Robert MacGimsey | Introduction
"We could probably write a hundred songs together if we thought it was important or the right reasons were there,” Dylan said of working with him in 2009. Hunter co-wrote the songs for two Jim Lauderdale albums – "Patchwork River" (2010) and "Carolina Moonrise" (2012). Hunter later said that working with Lauderdale was a productive experience, as they both liked working quickly, and wrote an album in a couple of days. Also in 2010 Hunter co-wrote the song "All My Bridges Burning" with Cesar Rosas for the Los Lobos' album "Tin Can Trust". In the same year, Hunter wrote lyrics for 7 Walkers' debut album, including "Louisiana Rain", "Chingo", and "Sue From Bogalusa".
Robert Hunter (lyricist) | Collaborations
Asked in a 2009 interview about some of the song's more "philosophical" lyrics, such as the line "I've got no answers of my own, and none have been provided", Hornsby said, "You know those are Robert Hunter's lyrics with a couple of additions from me." Hornsby commented on his work for "Levitate" ("Cyclone"), saying, "Well, I've always loved [Robert Hunter's] writing. I've loved so many of the Garcia/Hunter songs. They're just timeless sounding to me, could have been written hundreds of years ago. I had this song that had the same feeling as, say, 'Brokedown Palace'." Hunter collaborated with Bob Dylan on multiple occasions; he co-wrote two songs on Dylan's 1988 album "Down in the Groove", all but one of the songs on Dylan's 2009 album "Together Through Life", and "Duquesne Whistle" from Dylan's 2012 album "Tempest".
Robert Hunter (lyricist) | Collaborations
Hunter sometimes wrote lyrics the others composed music around; sometimes, he wrote lyrics to music; and sometimes, the group worked together to create music and lyrics simultaneously. Their musical improvisation was often inspired by psychedelic experiences under the influence of LSD, and by other hallucinatory experiences: Hunter wrote "Dire Wolf" inspired by a dream after watching a film adaptation of "The Hound of the Baskervilles".
Robert Hunter (lyricist) | Grateful Dead
He joined the Grateful Dead at a concert in Rio Nido, California, where he wrote the lyrics that later became "Dark Star". Hunter played a minimal role in the Grateful Dead's next album, "Anthem of the Sun", but he and Garcia worked together to write every song on "Aoxomoxoa", which came after it. Although their musical style was developing, the album produced several popular songs, including "China Cat Sunflower", which became an enduring part of the Grateful Dead's repertoire. A few months before "Aoxomoxoa" was released, Hunter and his then-partner Christie Bourne began sharing a house with Garcia, his wife, and his step-daughter.
Robert Hunter (lyricist) | Grateful Dead
Works compiled and edited by Robert Cavally published through Southern Music Company, San Antonio TX:
Robert Neil Cavally | Works
When the Grateful Dead were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, Hunter was included as a band member, the only non-performer to ever be so honored. In 2013, Hunter received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Americana Music Association. He performed "Ripple" from the Grateful Dead's album "American Beauty". In 2015, Hunter and Garcia were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Hunter accepted the award along with Garcia's daughter, Trixie Garcia, accepting on behalf of her father. Hunter once again performed "Ripple". Hunter said his "pretty much" favorite line he wrote was in "Ripple": "Let it be known there is a fountain that was not made by the hands of men".
Robert Hunter (lyricist) | Awards and legacy
Robert Hunt is a member of the N.Y. Society of Illustrators and is a member and past president of the San Francisco Society of Illustrators. He lives and works in San Anselmo, California, with his wife Lynn. Hunt has two children, William who is a music composer and a daughter who is an animal biologist.
Robert Hunt (illustrator) | Personal life
Robert Alan Hunter was born on 1 October 1975 and grew up in Yokine, a Perth suburb, with his father, Bob, his mother, Trish, and his sister, Simonne. He was known for writing raps about his home and life.
Hunter (rapper) | Early life
While Hunter was in New Mexico, he wrote lyrics for three songs. These songs—"China Cat Sunflower", "St. Stephen", and "Alligator"—would become hits for the Grateful Dead. In 1965, Garcia, Ron McKernan, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh and Bill Kreutzmann formed a band, initially called the Warlocks, but were soon known as the Grateful Dead. They covered songs from other artists but soon began to form their own sound. They recorded and released their first album, which included only two original songs, but soon afterward began to develop more of their own, and started work on "Alligator", using Hunter's lyrics. As a result, they invited Hunter to join them in San Francisco to be their lyricist.
Robert Hunter (lyricist) | Grateful Dead
In an obituary, "The Musical Times" wrote of him as "a song writer of genuine lyrical impulse [who] set words by Byron, Keats and Shelley; he was also a symphonist, in a conservative vein."
Robert Still | Work
He authored letters, lyrics, libretti and caricatures
Robert Dieudonné | Works
He moved to the West Coast in 1918, and lectured in politics and economics at the University of California at Berkeley. Robert Hunter died of a heart attack at his home in Montecito, California on May 14, 1942. He was survived by his wife and three of their children. Caroline Hunter was an active member of the Save the Redwoods League and had worked to preserve the park areas at Point Lobos in Monterey, California. She died in San Francisco on July 6, 1964, at the age of eighty-six.
Robert Hunter (author) | Professor, later life, death
He composed many songs with lyrics from important poets:
Emilio Bobadilla Cáceres | Work
Robert Hunter "(né" Wiles Robert Hunter; 10 April 1874 – 14 May 1942) was an American sociologist, progressive author, and golf course architect.
Robert Hunter (author) | Introduction
Robert Levenson (July 19, 1897 – April 26, 1961) was an American lyricist active in Boston in the late 1910s.
Robert Levenson | Introduction
Nevertheless, his articles were always peppered with a wide array of pop music references ranging from Howlin' Wolf to Lou Reed. Armed with early fax machines wherever he went, he became notorious for haphazardly sending sometimes illegible material to the magazine's San Francisco offices as an issue was about to go to press.
Hunter S. Thompson | Writing style
Bob Hunter (March 19, 1913 – October 21, 1993) was a Los Angeles sportswriter for 58 years and the 1989 winner of the J. G. Taylor Spink Award for distinguished baseball writing.
Bob Hunter (Los Angeles sportswriter) | Introduction
Hunter also had a part in the (re)design of other California courses, including the Valley Club of Montecito, Meadow Club, Mira Vista Golf and Country Club, Northwood Golf Club, and Pittsburgh Golf Club. Hunter proved prophetic when he forecasted the eventual massive increase in golf's popularity, as recreation for all classes and ages of people; this came to fruition in gradual steps following World War II.
Robert Hunter (author) | Golf course design work, writing
At the end of his life he divided his time between the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the University of South Florida. When in California he resided in Berkeley, a city with which he felt a strong affinity.
Robert Helps | Career
After a friend attempted to dissuade him, he said, "It'll be fun! I'll take my typewriter and no telling what'll come out." This incident was the first substantial experience any of the Grateful Dead had with psychedelic drugs, and the creative surge he experienced would prove influential on their collective outlook. Around this time, Hunter was briefly involved with Scientology, and also struggled with addiction to methamphetamine and speed, which drove him to move briefly to Los Angeles and then to New Mexico. Some of his hallucinations later inspired his lyrics, such as those to "China Cat Sunflower".
Robert Hunter (lyricist) | Early life
Robert Wells has written or co-written over 400 published songs. Among the more notable ones:
Robert Wells (songwriter) | Notable songs
His play, "Androboros", written in 1714, was the first known play to be written and published in the North American British Colonies.
Robert Hunter (colonial administrator) | Playwriting
Hunter married artist Maureen Hunter in 1982, and they had three children. Although an early member of the Church of Scientology, by 1999, Hunter no longer belonged to the organization. In 2013, he was compelled to go on a solo tour as a result of medical bills, after surviving a spinal cord abscess in the previous year. Hunter died at his home in San Rafael, California on September 23, 2019. He had recent surgery before his death. Upon hearing news of his demise, tributes and remembrances were shared from his former bandmates Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, and Phil Lesh, alongside other musicians Jim Lauderdale, Trey Anastasio, John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge and Warren Haynes.
Robert Hunter (lyricist) | Personal life and death
He lived with Pauline Kael in Berkeley, California. He was part of the "Activist" group. He was friends with Gian Carlo Menotti, and Samuel Barber, staying with them at "The Capricorn", at Mount Kisco, New York. His work appeared in "Harper's", "Poetry", and "Kenyon Review".
Robert Horan | Life
Robert Hunt was born in 1952 in Berkeley, California and attended High School at San Rafael High School in San Rafael, California. Hunt's grandparents lived a few miles from his family home and he would frequently visit his Grandfather who had suffered a stroke. The stroke left his grandfather with the use of only one arm and during visits he often emphasized the importance of appreciating the ability to do things with ones hands and to try make the most of your hands to create things that solve problems. The artist found early inspiration in what he observed growing up in the late 1960s.
Robert Hunt (illustrator) | Early life and education
He was interested in of all types of music and cultures, which would often influence his musical compositions. Though classically trained, he participated in the folk festival every year. And as well as masses, wrote inane lyrics and silly songs, always happy to make people laugh or to laugh himself.
Robert Marcelonis | Introduction
By 1962, he had written a book, "The Silver Snarling Trumpet", described by McNally as a roman à clef. The volume was not published; however, McNally writes that it showed Hunter's "skill at storytelling and his fantastic ear for dialogue". Recordings of folk and bluegrass bands that included Hunter and Garcia were later released on two albums – "Folk Time" (2016) and "Before the Dead" (2018). Around 1962, Hunter volunteered for psychedelic chemical experiments at Stanford University, research covertly sponsored by the CIA in its MKULTRA program: others participants included Ken Kesey and Allen Ginsberg. He was paid to take LSD, psilocybin, and mescaline, and then report on his experiences, which were creatively formative for him.
Robert Hunter (lyricist) | Early life
Samuel D. Hunter (born 1981) is an American playwright living in New York City. Hunter was born and raised in Moscow, Idaho. He is best known for plays "A Bright New Boise", which won the 2011 Obie Award for playwriting, and "The Whale", which won the 2013 Drama Desk Award and the 2013 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play. He is also the recipient of a 2014 MacArthur Fellowship. Hunter is also a writer and producer for the television show "Baskets".
Samuel D. Hunter | Introduction
Allen was born to a Jewish family in Troy, New York and had 4 children: a son, Gordon, and 3 daughters, Pamela, Diana, and Katie. He was an accompanist for Perry Como, Peter Lind Hayes, and Arthur Godfrey. Many of his compositions were collaborations with lyricist Al Stillman. Allen lived in New Rochelle, New York from 1963, much of his professional life. Three of his most famous songs were: "(There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays","Everybody Loves a Lover" and "Chances Are". Robert Allen died in Quogue, New York of colon cancer at the age of 73.
Robert Allen (song composer) | Biography
Robert Arellano (born July 12, 1969) is an American author, musician and educator from Talent, Oregon. His literary production includes pioneering work in electronic publishing, graphic-novel editions for Soft Skull Press/Counterpoint, and five novels published by Akashic Books.
Robert Arellano | Introduction
Hass's works are well known for their West Coast subjects and attitudes. He was born in San Francisco and grew up in San Rafael. He grew up with an alcoholic mother, a major topic in the 1996 poem collection "Sun Under Wood". His older brother encouraged him to dedicate himself to his writing. Awestruck by Gary Snyder and Allen Ginsberg, among others in the 1950s Bay Area poetry scene, Hass entertained the idea of becoming a beatnik. He graduated from Marin Catholic High School in 1958. When the area became influenced by East Asian literary techniques, such as haiku, Hass took many of these influences up in his poetry.
Robert Hass | Life
Robert Jason Sherman (born July 16, 1968) is an American songwriter and businessman based in London. He was born in Los Angeles to Joyce and Robert B. Sherman, the youngest of four siblings. Stemming from a long line of songwriters and composers, spanning more than four generations, at 16 Sherman became one of the youngest songwriters ever invited to join BMI and is an alum of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. He is perhaps best known for his work on "Love Birds: The Musical" which premiered at the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Robert J. Sherman | Introduction
All of Morris-Nunn's works are in Tasmania, Australia.
Robert Morris-Nunn | List of Notable Works
Tony Hunter series other He also wrote four books under the pseudonym George Griswold:
Robert George Dean | Works
When asked for the source of his greatest creative inspiration, singer songwriter Bob Dylan selected Burns's 1794 song "A Red, Red Rose" as the lyric that had the biggest effect on his life. The author J. D. Salinger used protagonist Holden Caulfield's misinterpretation of Burns's poem "Comin' Through the Rye" as his title and a main interpretation of Caulfield's grasping to his childhood in his 1951 novel "The Catcher in the Rye". The poem, actually about a rendezvous, is thought by Caulfield to be about saving people from falling out of childhood.
Robert Burns | United States
Born Robert Hunter MacGimsey in Pineville, Louisiana, of white parents, MacGimsey spent most of his formative years in the company of blacks who lived and worked for and with his family. Due to their influence he wrote in an "African American" style. and he is often mistakenly assumed to be a black composer. When he was young, MacGimsey sang in the church choir that his mother directed. She ensured that he received training in music, eventually studying under Frank Damrosch at the Institute of Musical Art in New York.
Robert MacGimsey | Early years
These writings are the last known of his.
Robert Chamberlain (poet) | Works
Bob Hunter was born March 19, 1913, and went to Huntington Park High School in Huntington Park, California. After attending the University of Southern California, he went to Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles.
Bob Hunter (Los Angeles sportswriter) | Early life
In 1988, Hunter was honored by the Baseball Writers Association of America with the J. G. Taylor Spink Award for distinguished baseball writing, and was inducted into the Writers Wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame in July 1989. He died at the age of 80 on October 21, 1993 at Sherman Oaks Convalescent Hospital in Los Angeles after a long illness. John Werhas, a former Dodgers infielder and pastor of the Friends Church in Yorba Linda, officiated at his funeral. He is buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery in the Hollywood Hills. In his honor the Bob Hunter Award is presented by the Los Angeles/Anaheim chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
Bob Hunter (Los Angeles sportswriter) | Honors
Chronological list of the compositions of Robert Simpson - Robert Simpson Society
List of compositions by Robert Simpson | References
Primary examples of his work would include the seminal Subsurfing album Frozen Ants and his world music collaborations such as Alien Soap Opera, Fifth Sun and Lotus Blossom.
Greg Hunter | Introduction
In 1962 he became professor at Hunter College, where he stayed until his death.
Robert Schatten | Introduction
This list of compositions by Robert Simpson is a list of the musical compositions of Robert Simpson sorted by genre.
List of compositions by Robert Simpson | Introduction
This was followed in 1900 by "A Tennessee Tantilizer," and in 1901 by "Possum and Taters," "Cotton Bolls," and "Queen of Love." In 1902 he transferred to Jesse French's St. Louis store. "Just Ask Me" was published that year, and "Why We Smile" the next.
Charles Hunter (composer) | Introduction
Robert Linn (August 11, 1925 – October 28, 1999) was an American composer and an educator at the University of Southern California. His notable students there included Morten Lauridsen, Billy Childs, Donald Crockett, and David Froom. His works include music for symphony orchestra, wind orchestra, chorus and chamber ensembles.
Robert Linn (composer) | Introduction
The author Roberto Bolaño spent much of his childhood here. The 90's Alternative music artist Frank Black wrote a song about Los Angeles, the first track off of his eponymous album.
Los Ángeles, Chile | Popular culture
Hawkins' talent was recognized throughout his childhood and teenage years and won "The Best Artist Award" in both his Freshman and Senior years at Homestead High School (Cupertino, California) in the western section of Sunnyvale.
Robert Hawkins (artist) | 1960s
Living in close proximity gave additional impetus to their collaborative songwriting. Hunter's relationship with the band grew until he was officially a non-performing band member. The band's reputation also grew; in 1970, a group led by Miles Davis opened a concert for the band. After "Aoxomoxoa", the band shifted from an experimentalist approach toward Americana and country music, featured in their albums "American Beauty" and "Workingman's Dead". This period produced some of their most successful songs, including "Cumberland Blues", "Box of Rain", and "Sugar Magnolia". Many of these pieces were written by Hunter and would go on to become enduring folk songs; according to McNally, pieces such as "Ripple" grew to be "part of the American canon." The band's composition methods were varied.
Robert Hunter (lyricist) | Grateful Dead
Robert Chesley (March 22, 1943, Jersey City, New Jersey – December 5, 1990, San Francisco, California) was a playwright, theater critic and musical composer. Chesley earned his B.A. in music from Reed College in 1965. Between 1965 and 1975 he composed the music to over five dozen songs and choral works, chiefly to texts by poets such as Emily Dickinson, Willa Cather, James Agee, Walter de la Mare, Gertrude Stein and Walt Whitman. His instrumental works include the score to a 1972 film by Erich Kollmar. In 1976 he moved to San Francisco and became theater critic at the San Francisco Bay Guardian, during its golden period when composer-actor Robert DiMatteo was also on the staff as film critic.
Robert Chesley | Introduction
Robert Wells was born to a Jewish family in 1922 in Raymond, Washington, the son of Edna Irene (Bradford) and Nathan Levinson. He attended a local business college and later the University of Southern California, where he majored in speech and drama. He served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. Both before and after the war, he worked as a scriptwriter and lyricist for both radio and film.
Robert Wells (songwriter) | Early life and career
His correspondence with writers John Haines, Jim Harrison, Dave Smith, and Laura Kalpakian, and film maker Pare Lorentz is at, respectively, the following libraries: Beinecke Library, Yale University; Special Collections and University Archives, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI; The Robert E. and Jean R. Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections, Alden Library, Ohio University, Athens, OH; Special Collections, Charles Young Research Library, UCLA;and Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, NY. His collection of signed and inscribed first edition books and fine press chapbooks by poets William Heyen and Michael Waters is also housed at Ohio University's Mahn Center.
Robert DeMott | Life
Lewis R. Hunter (born July 18, 1935) is an American screenwriter, author and educator and is chairman Emeritus and Professor of Screenwriting at the UCLA Department of Film and Television. Over half of the Oscar winning scripts over the past twenty years have been written by students of Hunter. His former students and advocates include such people as Adrienne Parks, Allison Anders, David Koepp, Mike Werb, Sacha Gervasi, Dan Pyne, David Titcher, James Dalessandro, Diane Saltzberg, Michael Colleary, Don Mancini, Kathy Stumpe, Darren Star, Alexander Payne and Tom Shadyac. Other students include Chuck Loch, Paige Macdonald, Robert Wolfe, Joel Schumacher, Megan Steinbeck, Robert Roy Poole, Lon Diamond, Laurie Hutlzer, Pamela Gray, William Missouri Downs, Robin Russin, Brad Silberling, Greg Widen, and many others.
Lew Hunter | Introduction
He was an avid amateur golfer, and in 1922 won the Gold Vase Tournament at Pebble Beach Golf Links. Although there was little evidence of a formal partnership, Hunter teamed with famous golf course architect Alister MacKenzie to design and build several northern California golf courses, including the Union League Golf and Country Club of San Francisco (now Green Hills Country Club). He later moved to Pebble Beach, California, where in 1926 he authored what was one of the first comprehensive books on golf course architecture: "The Links". He also was involved with MacKenzie during the design of Cypress Point (1928), and improvements to the Pebble Beach course that same year, in advance of the United States Amateur Championship (golf), which was held there the following year.
Robert Hunter (author) | Golf course design work, writing
Robert Lopez (born 1975) is an American songwriter of musicals. Robert Lopez may also refer to:
Robert Lopez (disambiguation) | Introduction
Michael Hayvoronsky's most famous songs include over 30 rifleman's (striletski) songs (some based on his own poems), the Dovbush Rhapsody, overtures, and dances and marches for wind orchestra.
Michael Hayvoronsky | Works
Hunter Johnson (April 14, 1906 – August 27, 1998) was an American composer. His compositions include a piano sonata and the orchestral music for Martha Graham's ballets "Letter to the World", based on the life and poetry of Emily Dickinson, and "Deaths and Entrances". His musical style was a combination of neoclassic, neoromantic, and nationalist. Johnson was born near Benson, North Carolina. He attended Benson High School and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before leaving the state to finish his undergraduate studies at the Eastman School of Music in 1929. UNC later awarded him an honorary doctorate.
Hunter Johnson (composer) | Introduction
Dalley-Scarlett was a prolific composer; many of his 300 works were broadcast or performed locally, although few were published.
Robert Dalley-Scarlett | Compositions
Even in the better-constructed novels the plots are loose and discursive. Nevertheless, his sharp, authentic descriptions of the hunting field have retained their popularity among fox-hunters... Among a wider public his mordant observations on men, women, and manners; his entertaining array of eccentrics, rakes, and rogues; his skill in the construction of lively dialogue (a matter over which he took great pains); his happy genius for unforgettable and quotable phrases; and above all, his supreme comic masterpiece, Jorrocks, have won him successive generations of devoted followers. Although his proper place among Victorian novelists is not easy to determine, his power as a creative artist was recognized, among professional writers, by Thackeray, Kipling, Arnold Bennett, and Siegfried Sassoon, and earned the tributes of laymen as distinguished and diverse as William Morris, Lord Rosebery, and Theodore Roosevelt.
Robert Smith Surtees | Legacy
Hunt is the author of a collection of 18 poems, "The Early World and other poems", dedicated to his lover, poet Witter Bynner. Hunt edited Bynner's "Selected Poems".
Robert Hunt (poet) | Career
Robert Deeble (born 1966) is an American singer-songwriter originally from Long Beach, California, now based in Seattle. His recordings have been noted for their orchestrated arrangements, a subtle, minimalist style of production, and lyrical content. Robert's newest album, "Beloved," was released on March 30, 2018. His most recent single, "Pleasure to Burn," was released in May of 2019 and was inspired by the novel Fahrenheit 451.
Robert Deeble | Introduction
Other films to feature his work include the 1953 film "From Here to Eternity", 1954's "The French Line", the 1956 western "Tension at Table Rock". On television, he served as a writer, songwriter and producer for "The Dinah Shore Chevy Show", as well as a songwriter for numerous one-off variety specials, starring such acts as Gene Kelly, Peggy Fleming, Andy Williams, Victor Borge, Jane Powell, and Harry Belafonte. In 1963, he collaborated with fellow composer and songwriter Sid Ramin to write the theme to "The Patty Duke Show". He also won two Emmy awards for his work on the 1975 special "Shirley MacLaine: If They Could See Me Now|If They Could See Me Now", as well as four consecutive Emmy awards for his work on "The Dinah Shore Chevy Show".
Robert Wells (songwriter) | Other work
Maurice Reginald (Rex) Hunter (5 January 1889 – 18 February 1960) was a New Zealand poet, playwright and fiction writer. He is best known for his work as a journalist in America (New York, Chicago) as well as for his marriage to the South Carolina poet Gamel Woolsey in the 1920s and his friendships with writers Carl Sandburg, Ben Hecht, John Cowper Powys, E. E. Cummings and Llewelyn Powys.
Rex Hunter | Introduction
On Allmusic, William Ruhlmann wrote, "But the heart of the album — seven songs out of 12 — is the work of the new songwriting team of Nelson and Robert Hunter... Hunter comes up with his typically aphoristic, imagistic, and vernacular words (particularly on the title song) and Nelson matches them with catchy, country-tinged melodies that the band plays in frisky country-rock roadhouse arrangements. This may be San Francisco music, but Bakersfield doesn't seem far away as the guitars go twangy and Cage plays down the weepy side of the pedal steel in favor of something more stinging. These New Riders jam a bit more than the original ensemble, and they also rock a bit more." On Jambands.com, Brian Robbins said, "Forget the 40 years of history; forget the dues paid and the groundwork laid for what came to be known as the jamband scene; forget the family tree whose roots are tightly entwined with those of the Dead; just forget all that stuff and throw on a copy of the New Riders of the Purple Sage "Where I Come From".
Where I Come From (New Riders of the Purple Sage album) | Critical reception
During WWII Hunt could not serve in the military because of health issues. He served on the local draft board for a year. In early 1943 he left Bynner at their second home in Chapala, and returned to the United States to assist the war effort. He went to work on the docks in San Francisco, where the city was deeply engaged in the defense industry and supplying the Pacific.
Robert Hunt (poet) | Personal life
The son of actor Ian Hunter, he made film and television appearances from the 1950s to the 1990s, which included "Up Pompeii", the "Carry On"s, "Sherlock Holmes" and "Poirot". Musicals in which he performed included "Damn Yankees", and the scripts he wrote himself for the Aba Daba Music Hall were of a comedic turn - such as "Botome's Dream" (produced in Brighton) in which Shakespeare is put on trial for plagiarism, and "Aladdin & His Microsoft Compatible Floppy Drive Laptop" (performed at the Arches Theatre, Southwark). For many years he and his life partner Aline Waites - herself an actress, playwright and critic - collaborated on scripts for plays, revues and musical theatre of all kinds.
Robin Hunter | Life and career
Hit songs of their day include "Strange Music" from "Song of Norway"; and Stranger in Paradise, "Baubles, Bangles and Beads" and "And This Is My Beloved" from "Kismet".
Robert Wright (musical writer) | Shows
Tom Hunter (14 September 1946 – 20 June 2008, Bellingham, Washington) was an American folk singer best known for his children songs, such as "My Washing Machine Eats Socks", "The Shirt Song" and "There's a Monster in My Closet". His best known song is "Rock Me to Sleep", about a man who is "tired of trying to figure things out, and tired of being so strong". In 1978, Hunter wrote the song "Back to Work in Youngstown", about the closure of the steel mills in Youngstown, Ohio, on Black Monday. His songs have been recorded by many artists, including Willie Nelson.
Tom Hunter (singer) | Introduction
Bruce Hunter (born 1952) is a Canadian poet, fiction and non-fiction author.
Bruce Hunter (poet) | Introduction
Additionally he wrote many popular songs written with lyricists such as Sydney Rosenfeld, J. Cheever Goodwin, Harry B. Smith, and others.
Ludwig Engländer | Works
During this time he got to know music intimately. James Taylor and Paul Simon were his great loves, but he admired Leonard Cohen, Nick Drake and other sentimental musicians who wrote about the sufferings of the poor and abandoned. In Southern California, he began to doubt himself and his work. A rebuff from a girl he loved was the starting point of his despair. Writing about this wretched world and finding some consolation in his clumsy efforts to represent what he saw and felt, he resolved at twenty-seven, after a period of wandering and depressing uncertainty, to become a songwriter.
Gregory Page (musician) | Introduction
His work was a major influence on later composers, including John Taverner (1490–1545) and Thomas Tallis (1505–85).
Robert Fayrfax | Work and influence
He described his writing to "Time Out Barcelona"s Marta Salicrú "[m]y work is very autobiographical – I'm a singer-songwriter ... My songs reflect on and talk about my life and how I've lived it. But I'm not one of those lyricists who explains everything. My stories aren't obvious. There are some singer-songwriters who say too much". His repertoire included new songs, which he hoped to record.
Robert Forster (musician) | Musical legacy
Cowley wrote and produced songs for several San Francisco musicians including friends Paul Parker and Frank Loverde. He was associated with many other musicians such as Kat Mandu, Maurice Tani and Linda Imperial.
Patrick Cowley | Notable collaborations
Lyons is a prolific playwright. Selected works include: Commissioned works include:
Robert Lyons (writer) | Works
Hit songs of their day include "The Donkey Serenade" (written with composer Herbert Stothart "based on a theme of Rudolf Friml") from "The Firefly", "Always and Always" from "Mannequin" and "It's a Blue World" from "Music in My Heart".
Robert Wright (musical writer) | Film work
Other poets' work paid tribute to Howard. John Dryden wrote a poem entitled, "To Sir My Honored Friend, Sir Robert Howard," in which Dryden praised Howard for his poetic abilities.
Robert Howard (playwright) | Works
Hyde stated that the biggest influences at the time on his writing style had been Lou Reed's 1989 album "New York", and playwright Sam Shepard's autobiography "Motel Chronicles".
Dubnobasswithmyheadman | Composition
Hunter's work is held in the following public collections:
Tom Hunter (artist) | Collections
He spent the following year in Paris, studying with French artist Fernand Léger, then returned to UC Berkeley, earning a master's degree in 1952.
Robert Colescott | Biography
He left over a hundred marches and other compositions, including such classics as:
Robert Browne Hall | List of compositions
Robert Wells (born Robert Levinson, October 15, 1922 – September 23, 1998) was an American songwriter, composer, script writer and television producer. During his early career, he collaborated with singer and songwriter Mel Tormé, writing several hit songs, most notably "The Christmas Song" in 1945. Later, he became a prolific writer and producer for television, for such shows as "The Dinah Shore Chevy Show", as well as for numerous variety specials, such as "If They Could See Me Now", starring Shirley MacLaine. He was nominated for several Academy Awards and won six Emmys and a Peabody Award.
Robert Wells (songwriter) | Introduction
Del Naja's work has been featured on all of Massive Attack's record sleeves.
Robert Del Naja | Art work
Robert Edwards (October 4, 1879 – November 2, 1948) was an American artist, musician, and writer, and a prominent figure among New York City's Greenwich Village in the 1920s and '30s. He was editor and publisher of the Greenwich Village "Quill", and was known as the "Bard of Bohemia" and the "Village Troubadour" for his many songs he wrote and sang publicly. Edwards was born in Buffalo, New York in 1879, and in 1901 graduated from Harvard University, where he was editor of the "Harvard Lampoon". He studied at the Art Students' League in Buffalo and New York City, the Chase School, and the Eric Pape and Cowles Art Schools in Boston.
Robert Edwards (artist) | Introduction
A number of writers view "The Last Good Kiss" as Crumley's best work. Its opening line is sometimes cited as the best in the genre:"When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon."
James Crumley | Response
Owens returned to the United States in 1957 to teach music at Albany State College in Georgia. During this time, he began setting the poems of Langston Hughes to music. In 1959, he relocated to Hamburg, Germany; in 1964, he moved to Munich. In Germany, he got a job as a film actor, and was soon in demand as a film and stage actor, composer, and pianist.
Robert Owens (composer) | Biography
Dramatic Orchestral Vocal Chamber and solo instrumental
Raymond Hanson (composer) | Selected list of major works
Robert Ayres Barnet (September 3, 1853 – June 26, 1933) was an American musical theatre lyricist from New York City, active in New York and Boston in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Robert Ayres Barnet | Introduction