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James Timothy Hardin (December 23, 1941 – December 29, 1980) [1] [2] was an American folk music and blues singer-songwriter and guitarist. In addition to his own success, his songs "If I Were a Carpenter", "Reason to Believe", "Misty Roses" and "The Lady Came from Baltimore" were hits for other artists.
Allmusic stated in their review: "Tim Hardin 1 is one of the most powerful and compelling records of its era... The result is a seminal folk-rock album, every bit as exciting and urgent as it was in 1966, and as important a creative effort as Bob Dylan's Bringing It All Back Home and Highway 61 Revisited.
After having had his recording contract terminated by Columbia Records, Tim Hardin achieved some success in the 1960s as a songwriter based in Greenwich Village.The original recording of "Reason to Believe" comes from Hardin's debut album, Tim Hardin 1, recorded in 1965 and released on the Verve Records label in 1966 when he was 25.
A list of musical groups and artists who were active in the 1960s and associated with music in the decade: A ... Tim Buckley; Tim Hardin; Timi Yuro; The Tokens; Tom ...
"If I Were a Carpenter" is a folk song written by Tim Hardin in the 1960s, and re-recorded with commercial success by various artists including Bobby Darin, The Four Tops and Johnny Cash. [1] Hardin's own recording of the piece appeared on his 1967 album Tim Hardin 2.
This Is Tim Hardin is an album by folk and blues artist Tim Hardin released in 1967 in mono and stereo by Atco Records, a subsidiary of Atlantic Records which released it on cd in 1998. These recordings from 1963 and 1964 predate his better known Verve albums and were not issued until after the success of those albums. The songs are in a more ...
The Best of Tim Hardin is a compilation album by folk artist Tim Hardin, released in 1969. All the songs are taken from Tim Hardin 1 and Tim Hardin 2 . The album was released again in 1974 on the Archetypes label and is out of print although all the songs are available on other Hardin compilations.
The original LP release has a long poem on the back cover by Hardin titled "A Question of Birth...". Tim Hardin 2 contains Hardin's most popular and much-covered composition "If I Were a Carpenter", most notably Bobby Darin, whose version peaked at No. 8 in the US and No. 9 in the UK in 1966.