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| '''Biff Rose''' is an ] singer/songwriter |
'''Biff Rose''' is an ] singer/songwriter/comedian. | ||
| ⚫ | Paul 'Biff' Rose first came to notice, in Hollywood, as a comedy sketch writer with ] for a host of television variety shows, ultimately working with some regularity on the ] show. Eventually, Rose moved back to the songwriting he had developed during his youth growing up in ]. A song written with Sahl co conspirator ], ''Fill Your Heart'', found its way on to a ] record, and eventually, onto ]'s breakout release, '']''. | ||
| Rose is a fringe figure from the sixties and seventies ] scene, though he was not in any way truly ever a "folkie". His 'music' married old timey piano style with sensical and non sensical diatribes padded with slang lingo. Rose has often looked to the work of others for his lyrical side, relying on many, including Paul Newman's uncle, Joseph S. Newman, whose poetry was first brought to light by the more widely renowned ]. | |||
| ⚫ | Paul 'Biff' Rose first came to notice, in Hollywood, as a comedy sketch writer with ] for a host of television variety shows, ultimately working with some regularity on the ] show. Eventually, Rose moved back to the songwriting he had developed during his youth growing up in ]. A song written with Sahl co conspirator ], ''Fill Your Heart'', found its way on to a ] record, and eventually, onto ]'s breakout release, '']''. |
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| In the meantime, Rose began writing his own lyrics and marrying them to the carnival-esque sounds he produced on the ]. Much of Rose's music tended towards his comedic side, with which he often prodded the political climate of the time. | In the meantime, Rose began writing his own lyrics and marrying them to the carnival-esque sounds he produced on the ]. Much of Rose's music tended towards his comedic side, with which he often prodded the political climate of the time. | ||
| ]'s Tetragrammaton label released his first two LPs in 1968 and 1969. Once Tetragrammaton folded, he recorded for Buddha, United Artists, and Pacific Arts among others. He appeared on Johnny Carson's "Tonight Show" frequently throughout 1968-70, as well as The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and Playboy After Dark. | |||
| ]'s Tetragrammaton label released his first two records. Once releasd from there, Rose became a journeyman artist for the rest of his career, recording for Buddha, United Artists, and Pacific Arts among others. He was able to parlay a whole lot of luck, being in the right place at the right time, and his peculiar brand of entertainment, and so began what could have been, but was not, a fortuitous string of twelve performances on ]'s ]. These culminated with his 12th (and final) appearance when the performace of his song, Jesus and Mary Magdalene, led to Rose being banned from returning to the show. Despite this flack, his albums began to sell more regularly. However, Rose's live performances became increasingly erratic. He often offered only a litany of paranoiac rants set to piano trills rather than anything that resembled actual recitations of his "songs". | |||
| He released his first CD, "Bone Again," in 1996, and continues to release new CDs regularly. | |||
| Rose recorded sporadically as the seventies wore on, finally vanishing from the scene entirely. He said in a chance ] interview with ], a music journalist and friend from Rose's Hollywood days who happened on the singer accidentally while on vacation in Florida, that he'd been living out of his ] bus, and jokingly added that he hoped to get a new one in exchange for the plug. Nothing more was heard from the singer/songwriter throughout the 80's. | |||
| Rose popped up again in the mid nineties, apparently back in New Orleans, with a vanity disc. He began assembling new ]s of his past style, ghosting the regularlity with which he had recorded in the late 60's and early 70's. But these recordings were doused with angry 'in jokes' the audience of old was not privy to, and the wordplay relied heavily on disillusioned sentiments of a man whose time had come and gone. Finally, in the year ], he was arrested in ] for sexual misconduct with a minor, a boy under the age of eleven. He fled the state to avoid prosecution. | |||
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Biff Rose is an American singer/songwriter/comedian.
Paul 'Biff' Rose first came to notice, in Hollywood, as a comedy sketch writer with George Carlin for a host of television variety shows, ultimately working with some regularity on the Mort Sahl show. Eventually, Rose moved back to the songwriting he had developed during his youth growing up in New Orleans. A song written with Sahl co conspirator Paul Williams, Fill Your Heart, found its way on to a Tiny Tim record, and eventually, onto David Bowie's breakout release, Hunky Dory.
In the meantime, Rose began writing his own lyrics and marrying them to the carnival-esque sounds he produced on the piano. Much of Rose's music tended towards his comedic side, with which he often prodded the political climate of the time.
Bill Cosby's Tetragrammaton label released his first two LPs in 1968 and 1969. Once Tetragrammaton folded, he recorded for Buddha, United Artists, and Pacific Arts among others. He appeared on Johnny Carson's "Tonight Show" frequently throughout 1968-70, as well as The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and Playboy After Dark.
He released his first CD, "Bone Again," in 1996, and continues to release new CDs regularly.
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