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Libby Titus (born Elizabeth Jurist; 6 July 1947) is an American singer, songwriter, actor, and concert producer. ==Life and career== Titus was born in Woodstock, New York. Her studies at Bard College in upstate New York were cut short by pregnancy and marriage at the age of nineteen.〔Alec Wilkinson, "Return of the Dark Brothers", ''Rolling Stone'', No. 837, 30 March 2000, pp. 32–38.〕 This did not, however, prevent her from pursuing her musical ambitions. In 1968, she released ''Libby Titus'', an album of folk-rock and pop covers, on Hot Biscuit.〔(Libby Titus First Album ), Hideki Watanabe's Libby Titus Fan Site. Retrieved 12 March 2013.〕〔(Hot Biscuit Disc Company ), Soulful Detroit Forum. Retrieved 12 March 2013.〕 She continued to perform as a singer, and provided backing vocals for Martin Mull's debut album ''Martin Mull'' (1972) among others.〔(Martin Mull: Martin Mull ), The Band Website. Retrieved 12 March 2013.〕 At the same time she was developing her songwriting skills. Her second album, also confusingly called ''Libby Titus'', had four high-profile producers - Phil Ramone, Robbie Robertson, Carly Simon and Paul Simon - who produced separate tracks. Carly Simon also wrote or co-wrote four songs for the album. It was released by Columbia in 1977.〔(Libby Titus: Libby Titus ), The Band Website. Retrieved 12 March 2013.〕〔(Libby Titus: Libby Titus ), Discogs. Retrieved 12 March 2013.〕 It contained four songs co-written by Titus, including the one for which she is best known, "Love Has No Pride", which she wrote with Eric Kaz.〔(Libby Titus Second Album ), Hideki Watanabe's Libby Titus Fan Site. Retrieved 12 March 2013.〕 It had already been recorded several times – most notably by Bonnie Raitt on ''Give It Up'' (1972) and Linda Ronstadt on ''Don't Cry Now'' (1973) – and is now established as a standard. In the late 1970s, Titus collaborated with Burt Bacharach. They wrote at least five songs together, two of them ("Riverboat" and "I Live in the Woods") appearing on Bacharach's album ''Woman'', and one ("In Tune") on his soundtrack for the film ''Together?'' (''Amo non amo''), both released in 1979.〔(Burt Bacharach and the Houston Symphony Orchestra: Woman ), Discogs. Retrieved 12 March 2013.〕〔(Burt Bacharach: Together? ) Allmusic. Retrieved 12 March 2013.〕 Titus also sang "Riverboat" and "In Tune" on these recordings. Carly Simon's 1979 album ''Spy'' included "Love You By Heart", a song she wrote with Titus and Jacob Brackman.〔(Carly Simon: Spy ), Allmusic. Retrieved 12 March 2013.〕 Titus later wrote "The Sailor and the Mermaid" with Brackman and sang it with Dr. John on the ''Sesame Street'' album ''In Harmony'' (1980).〔(Various: In Harmony ), Discogs. Retrieved 12 March 2013.〕 Titus and Dr. John wrote the music for Robert Frank's short film ''Energy and How to Get It'' (1981), and performed some of it on screen.〔(Various: It's Clean, It Just Looks Dirty ), Discogs. Retrieved 12 March 2013.〕〔(Energy and How to Get It ), IMDB. Retrieved 12 March 2013.〕 As an actor, Titus had small parts in Mike Nichols's ''Heartburn'' (1986) and Penny Marshall's ''Awakenings'' (1990), in which she appeared as a club singer.〔(Heartburn ), IMDB. Retrieved 12 March 2013.〕〔(Awakenings ), IMDB. Retrieved 12 March 2013.〕 Titus still performed occasionally at venues around New York in the mid-1980s.〔Stephen Holden, "Music Noted in Brief", ''New York Times'', 17 January 1983, p. C.20.〕〔Stephen Holden, "Folk City at 25: The Times They Are a-Changin'", ''New York Times'', 13 September 1985. p. C.5.〕 Never a powerful singer, she was admired at this stage of her career for her "feeling for style, especially in jazzier numbers" and her "appealingly sultry insouciance".〔Stephen Holden, "Music Noted in Brief", ''New York Times'', 17 January 1983, p. C.20.〕 In the second half of the 1980s, Titus began producing "rock-and-roll musicales featuring well-known musicians ... in New York restaurants and clubs".〔Stephen Holden, "Spontaneous Interaction in a Tribute", ''New York Times'', 24 September 1989, p. A.71.〕 She later recalled that her "horrid little evenings" started "at this little Italian restaurant on Thirty-ninth Street that had room for thirty people. One night it would be, say, Dr. John plus Carly Simon, and it was by invitation only."〔Quoted in Fred Kaplan, "What Rhymes with Orange Alert?" ''New York Times'', 26 February 2006, p. 2.32.〕〔Quoted in Alec Wilkinson, "Return of the Dark Brothers", ''Rolling Stone'', No. 837, 30 March 2000, pp. 32–38.〕 These sessions led to the "informal concert" at the Lone Star Roadhouse on 20 September 1989 featuring Dr. John, Donald Fagen, Phoebe Snow, Jevetta Steele, and Bonnie Raitt that gave birth to the New York Rock and Soul Revue, which Titus produced with Fagen until the beginning of 1992.〔Stephen Holden, "Spontaneous Interaction in a Tribute", ''New York Times'', 24 September 1989, p. A.71.〕〔Alec Wilkinson, "Return of the Dark Brothers", ''Rolling Stone'', No. 837, 30 March 2000, pp. 32–38.〕 Fagen credits Titus with rekindling his interest in live performance, on which he had turned his back in 1974.〔Fred Kaplan, "What Rhymes with Orange Alert?" ''New York Times'', 26 February 2006, p. 2.32.〕 The Rock and Soul Revue also brought Walter Becker to New York, and so played a part in the 1993 reformation of Steely Dan, which Fagen and Becker had disbanded in 1981.〔Alec Wilkinson, "Return of the Dark Brothers", ''Rolling Stone'', No. 837, 30 March 2000, pp. 32–38.〕 Titus went on to write songs with Fagen, including "Florida Room" on ''Kamakiriad'' (1993). In 1996, Pony Canyon Records anthologised three previously unissued songs that Titus recorded for Bearsville in 1971, two by Eric Kaz and one by Kaz and Titus. Other recordings from this period remain unissued.〔(Bearsville Box Set ), Hideki Watanabe's Libby Titus Fan Site. Retrieved 12 March 2013.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Libby Titus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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