![]() ![]() That year Zevon released his debut album, Wanted Dead or Alive. It received little commercial success.ĭuring the early 1970s, Zevon toured regularly with the Everly Brothers as keyboard player, band leader, and musical coordinator. In 1969 Zevon’s song “She Quit Me” was included in the soundtrack for Midnight Cowboy, but recorded by Leslie Miller as “He Quit Me”. As well, Zevon wrote two B-sides for The Turtles: “Like the Seasons” (the B-side to “Happy Together”) and “Outside Chance”. Subsequently, Zevon worked as a session musician with White Whale and other labels. However, elsewhere the single got little notice beyond half a dozen states across the USA. It climbed to #1 in Orlando and #9 in Miami in the summer of 1966. ![]() ![]() The single “Follow Me” became a Top Ten hit in San Jose and San Bernardino (CA), as well as climbing to #11 in Los Angeles.Ī followup release by Lyme & Cybelle was a cover of the Bob Dylan song “If You Gotta Go, Go Now”. In 1965 he formed a folk duo named Lyme (his mother’s maiden surname) & Cybelle. But when his parents divorced when he was 16-years-old, Warren moved to Los Angeles and became a folk singer. Young Warren Zevon studied classical music from age 13 with Igor Stravinsky, from time to time. He worked for years in the Cohen crime family, in which he was known as Stumpy Zevon, and was best man at Cohen’s first wedding. William Zevon worked as a bookie who handled volume bets and dice games for the notorious Los Angeles mobster Mickey Cohen. Once in America, the surname was changed from Zitovsky to Zevon. His father, William Zivotovsky, was a Jewish immigrant from Russia. Warren Zevon was born in Chicago in 1947. #228: Werewolves Of London by Warren Zevon ![]()
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