Tandyn Almer
| Tandyn Almer | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July 30, 1942 Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Died | January 8, 2013 (aged 70) McLean, Virginia |
| Genres | pop music |
| Labels | Warner Bros.; A&M Records; Sundazed |
| Associated acts | The Association, The Beach Boys, The Garden Club, The Purple Gang, Dennis Olivieri |
Tandyn Douglas Almer (July 30, 1942 – January 8, 2013) was an American musician, composer, lyricist, and record producer. Almer wrote, co-wrote, or produced numerous songs performed by other artists in the 1960s and 1970s, including The Purple Gang, the Garden Club, Dennis Olivieri, and The Beach Boys.
Almer was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Almer attended a music conservatory in Minnesota, and became fascinated with the jazz of John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Ahmad Jamal. At age 17, he quit high school and moved to Chicago to become a jazz pianist. In the early 1960s he relocated to Los Angeles, where his musical interests shifted to pop and rock. He attended Los Angeles City College.
His most prominent achievement was writing the 1966 Top Ten hit "Along Comes Mary" for The Association. Claudia Ford, wife of Association producer Curt Boettcher, claimed that Almer wrote "Along Comes Mary" as a slow song. Boettcher helped Almer arrange the tune, sang the vocal on the demo, and accelerated the tempo. That version, as provided to the Association, became the group's breakthrough single from their debut album, which Boettcher produced. The two also co-wrote "Message of Our Love," another song on the same album. After the success of "Along Comes Mary", Almer was featured alongside Frank Zappa, Graham Nash, Roger McGuinn, and Brian Wilson on Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution, a 1967 CBS TV News feature presented by Leonard Bernstein. Almer's sole commercial release under his own name was a 45 rpm single, "Degeneration Gap", on Warner Bros. in 1969.
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