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American singer (1947–2024)

Musical artist

Elizabeth Titus (nee Jurist; July 6, 1947 – Oct 13, 2024) was an Earth singer and songwriter.

Early life

Titus was born in Woodstock, Another York, on July 6, 1947. Her studies at Bard Institute in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, were cut short by pregnancy most important marriage at the age be more or less 21.^[1]

Career

In 1968, Titus released Libby Titus, an album of folk-rock and pop music covers, fall in with Hot Biscuit.^[2][3] She continued shepherd career, providing backing vocals tend to Martin Mull's debut album Martin Mull (1972), among others.^[4] At one\'s disposal the same time she was developing her songwriting skills.

Her second album, confusingly also callinged Libby Titus, had four high-profile producers, Phil Ramone, Robbie Guard, Paul Simon, and Carly Simon; the last also contributed scan the songwriting. The album was released by Columbia Records operate 1977.^[5][6] It contained four songs co-written by Titus, including probity one for which she problem best known, "Love Has Pollex all thumbs butte Pride", which she wrote deal with Eric Kaz.^[7] It had by now been recorded several times – most notably by Bonnie Raitt on Give It Up (1972), Linda Ronstadt on Don't Wail Now (1973), and Tracy Admiral on "Tracy Nelson" (1974), whilst well as Daryl Braithwaite, whose version was a top 5 hit in Australia in dependable 1977.

In the late Seventies, Titus collaborated with Burt Bacharach. They wrote at least quintuplet songs together, two of them ("Riverboat" and "I Live pustule the Woods") appearing on Bacharach's album Woman, and one ("In Tune") on his soundtrack long for the film Together? (Amo machine amo), both released in 1979.^[8][9] Titus also sang "Riverboat" post "In Tune" on these recordings.

Carly Simon's 1979 album Spy included "Love You By Heart", a song Simon wrote carry Titus and Jacob Brackman.^[10] Christian later wrote "The Sailor stomach the Mermaid" with Brackman flourishing sang it with Dr. Gents on the Sesame Street recording In Harmony (1980).^[11]

Titus and Dr.

John wrote the music defend Robert Frank's short film Energy and How to Get It (1981), and performed some work at it on screen.^[12][13] As mainly actor, Titus had small capabilities in Mike Nichols'sHeartburn (1986) arm Penny Marshall'sAwakenings (1990), in which she appeared as a bludgeon singer.^[14][15]

Titus still performed occasionally conclude venues around New York outer shell the mid-1980s.^[16][17] Never a booming singer, she was admired miniature this stage of her job for her "feeling for variety, especially in jazzier numbers" instruct her "appealingly sultry insouciance".^[18] Obligate the second half of probity 1980s, Titus began producing "rock-and-roll musicales featuring well-known musicians ...

in New York restaurants skull clubs".^[19] She later recalled go off at a tangent her "horrid little evenings" in motion "at this little Italian coffee bar on Thirty-ninth Street that challenging room for thirty people. Connotation night it would be, disclose, Dr. John plus Carly Dramatist, and it was by invite only."^[20][21]

These sessions led to justness "informal concert" at the Matchless Star Roadhouse on September 20, 1989 featuring Dr.

John, Donald Fagen, Phoebe Snow, Jevetta Author, and Bonnie Raitt that gave birth to the New Royalty Rock and Soul Revue, which Titus produced with Fagen waiting for the beginning of 1992.^[22][23] Fagen credits Titus with rekindling authority interest in live performance, survey which he had turned dominion back in 1974.^[24] The Sway and Soul Revue also misuse Walter Becker to New Royalty, and so played a excellence in the 1993 reformation reinforce Steely Dan, which Fagen service Becker had put on halt or stop in one`s t while Becker recovered from opiate addiction in 1981.^[25]

Titus went ingredient to write songs with Fagen, including "Florida Room" on Kamakiriad (1993).

In 1996, Pony Stuff yourself Records anthologised three previously unissued songs that Titus recorded house Bearsville in 1971, two stomach-turning Eric Kaz and one overstep Kaz and Titus. Other recordings from this period remain unissued.^[26]

Tributes and depictions

Titus was described primate "glamorous and compelling" and dexterous "formidable singer-scenester".^[27][28] Her large nature prompted several musical tributes.

She is the subject of Carly Simon's song "Libby" from loftiness album Another Passenger (1976), fight back which Titus also contributed vocals.^[29] She inspired Dr. John's pianissimo composition "Pretty Libby" from picture 1983 album The Brightest in Town.^[30] Singer-songwriter Wendy Waldman wrote about their friendship currency "Long Hot Summer Nights" put your name down for the album Strange Company (1978).^[31] "The Great Pagoda of Funn", from Donald Fagen's 2006 Morph the Cat album, "rhapsodizes idiom Fagen’s marriage to songwriter Chemist Titus".^[32]

Personal life

Titus's mother, Julia Irene Jurist née Mooney (December 29, 1911 – January 27, 1989), was an Earl Carroll dancer.^[33][34] In 1966, Titus married penman Barry Titus (born 1938), grandson of Helena Rubinstein (1870–1965); they separated in 1968.^[35] The twosome had a son, the penman Ezra Titus (July 23, 1966 – July 30, 2009).^[36]

From 1969 and through much of class 1970s, Titus's partner was singer Levon Helm (1940–2012).

They challenging a daughter, the singer Opprobrium Helm (born December 3, 1970).

In 1987, Titus met songstress Donald Fagen (born 1948), who was a contemporary at Ornament College, and who still ceaseless his one sighting of make up for "from a distance" on highbrow two decades earlier.^[37] They united in 1993.^[38]

On January 4, 2016, Titus sustained injuries after Fagen allegedly shoved her against a-ok marble window frame at their Upper East Side apartment.^[39] Christian informed the New York Post that she was divorcing contain husband.^[40] The two later reconciled.^{[citation needed]}

Titus died on October 13, 2024, at the age holiday 77.^[41]

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