Dino Valenti, Vince Martin, Peter Stampfel of the avant-folk ensemble the Holy Modal Rounders, John Sebastian, Gram Parsons, Jerry Jeff Walker, Barry McGuire, and Paul Kantner (Jefferson Airplane). Some of Neil's early compositions were recorded by Buddy Holly and Roy Orbison. He played guitar on the demo version of Bobby Darin's 1958 hit Dream Lover and was a demo singer on a late-1950s Elvis Presley movie soundtrack session. He recorded "One Heart," a song by Doc Pomus and Scott Turner (misidentified by Neil biographer Peter Lee Neff as "Steve"). According to Turner, the song arrived in Los Angeles too late to be used in the film. In his memoir, Richie Havens recalls first seeing Neil in a duo with Martin at Cafe Wha?, and that "Tear Down the Walls" was the first protest song he had heard in Greenwich Village, "the first to point me in a clear direction." He also remembers Neil and Valenti's version of Ray Charles's "What'd I Say?" They would continue performing while making their way out the cafe's back door, then returning through the front, while keeping the song going. "I can still see and hear Neil and Valenti coming down that center aisle, raising the roof of the Wha?, 'tearing down the walls' that were keeping me from expressing what I needed to do." Discography Albums 1964: Tear Down the Walls (Elektra) with Vince Martin 1965: Bleecker & MacDougal (Elektra), reissued in 1970 as A Little Bit of Rain1966: Fred Neil (Capitol), reissued in 1969 as Everybody's Talkin' 1967: Sessions (Capitol) 1971: Other Side of This Life (Capitol), live and alternate versions Compilations 1986: The Very Best of Fred Neil (See for Miles) 1998: The Many Sides of Fred Neil (Collectors' Choice) 2003: Do You Ever Think of Me? (Rev-Ola) 2004: The Sky Is Falling: The Complete Live Recordings 1965–1971 (Rev-Ola) 2005: Echoes of My Mind: The Best of Fred Neil 1963–1971 (Raven) 2008: Trav'lin' Man: The Early Singles (Fallout) Anthologies including tracks by Neil 1963: Hootenanny Live at the Bitter End (FM) 1964: A Rootin" Tootin' Hootenanny (FM) 1964: World of Folk Music'' (FM) Selected songs "Candy Man" "Everybody's Talkin'" "Ba-di-da" "Tear Down the Walls" "The Dolphins" "Green Rocky Road" "The Other Side of This Life" "Country Boy & Bleecker Street" "That's the Bag I'm In" "Blues on the Ceiling" "Wild Child in a World of Trouble" "FareTheeWell" "Little Bit of Rain" References