This story is part of American Anthem, a yearlong series on songs that rouse, unite, celebrate and call to action. Find more at NPR.org/Anthem. The song has gone by a ...
The song appeared on the Youngbloods' debut album in 1967 and peaked at No. 5 on the "Billboard Hot 100" in 1969. An appeal to peace and love, the song fit the sentiment of the Woodstock generation in ...
Youngbloods members Jesse Colin Young, Lowell "Banana" Levinger, Jerry Corbitt and Joe Bauer in 1967 Jesse Colin Young, whose voice fills the Youngbloods' ’60s anthem, "Get Together," died Sunday at ...
Part cosmic musing, part call to peaceful action, “Get Together” has been entrancing audiences with the wonder of its wisdom for six decades now. The most popular version of the song, performed by The ...
The voice of an iconic 1960s folk-rock song is dead at age 83. Jesse Colin Young, the leader of the ‘60s group the Youngbloods, died Sunday at his home in Aiken, South Carolina, according to a press ...
Jesse Colin Young, whose vocals as frontman of folk rock band the Youngbloods gave voice to the 1960s’ counterculture, died on Sunday at his home in Aiken, S.C. Young’s publicist, Michael Jensen, ...
Jesse Colin Young, a prolific musician known as the voice of The Youngbloods' era-defining "Get Together," died on Sunday at his home in Aiken, S.C. The news was confirmed via Young's publicist. No ...
Jesse Colin Young, The Youngbloods frontman and bassist who sang the counterculture classic “Get Together” and went on to a long solo career, died March 16 at his home in Aiken, SC. He was 83. His ...