“Werewolves of London” began as a joke by Phil Everly (of The Everly Brothers) to Zevon in 1975, over two years before the recording sessions for Excitable Boy. The song was recorded in several years later for his third album Excitable Boy. In 1975 Warren Zevon cowrote a song titled “Werewolves of London”. It was produced by Jackson Browne and charted on the Billboard Album chart. In 1976, his self-titled album, Warren Zevon, was released. The song was recorded by Linda Ronstadt, peaking at #31 on the Billboard Hot 100. Upon his return to the USA, he wrote “Poor, Poor Pitiful Me”. Warren Zevon moved to Spain for most of 1975. Zevon also penned “Carmelita”, which was recorded by Murray MacLauchlan in 1972. He also co-writing tracks on Phil Everly’s second and third albums Phil’s Diner and Mystic Line. Zevon worked closely with Phil, arranging and playing keyboards on his first and third solo albums – Star Spangled Springer (1973) and Mystic Line (1975). Into the mid-70s, Zevon toured with Don Everly and Phil Everly separately, as they tried to launch solo careers after their breakup. That year Zevon released his debut album, Wanted Dead or Alive. It received little commercial success.ĭuring the early 1970s, Zevon toured regularly with the Everly Brothers as keyboard player, band leader, and musical coordinator. In 1969 Zevon’s song “She Quit Me” was included in the soundtrack for Midnight Cowboy, but recorded by Leslie Miller as “He Quit Me”. As well, Zevon wrote two B-sides for The Turtles: “Like the Seasons” (the B-side to “Happy Together”) and “Outside Chance”. Subsequently, Zevon worked as a session musician with White Whale and other labels. However, elsewhere the single got little notice beyond half a dozen states across the USA. It climbed to #1 in Orlando and #9 in Miami in the summer of 1966. The single “Follow Me” became a Top Ten hit in San Jose and San Bernardino (CA), as well as climbing to #11 in Los Angeles.Ī followup release by Lyme & Cybelle was a cover of the Bob Dylan song “If You Gotta Go, Go Now”.
In 1965 he formed a folk duo named Lyme (his mother’s maiden surname) & Cybelle. But when his parents divorced when he was 16-years-old, Warren moved to Los Angeles and became a folk singer.
Young Warren Zevon studied classical music from age 13 with Igor Stravinsky, from time to time. He worked for years in the Cohen crime family, in which he was known as Stumpy Zevon, and was best man at Cohen’s first wedding. William Zevon worked as a bookie who handled volume bets and dice games for the notorious Los Angeles mobster Mickey Cohen. Once in America, the surname was changed from Zitovsky to Zevon. His father, William Zivotovsky, was a Jewish immigrant from Russia. Warren Zevon was born in Chicago in 1947. #228: Werewolves Of London by Warren Zevon
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