Jerry Corbitt

Jerry Corbitt (born Jerry Byron Corbitt; January 7, 1943 – March 8, 2014) was an American guitarist, harmonica player, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known as a founding member and guitarist of the rock band The Youngbloods.

Corbitt was born in Tifton, Georgia. He began his career in Cambridge, Massachusetts at the beginning of the 1960s as a bluegrass musician, then was known as a folk singer. In mid-1960s, Corbitt met Jesse Colin Young, a Queens, New York City-born moderately successful folk singer. In January 1965, the two began touring in Canada as a duo, eventually naming themselves "The Youngbloods". Young played bass, and Corbitt played piano, harmonica and lead guitar. Later on, they were joined by Corbitt's friend, a bluegrass musician Lowell "Banana" Levinger, and drummer Joe Bauer.

In 1967, having signed with RCA Records, they released their first Billboard 200 album, The Youngbloods. Its single "Get Together", did not sell well, and reached #62 on the Billboard Hot 100. Re-released in 1969, it peaked at #5.

In 1969, Corbitt left the Youngbloods for a solo career, before the band recorded the album Elephant Mountain. In 1971, Jerry Corbitt and former Youngbloods producer Charlie Daniels formed the duo Corbitt & Daniels.

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