Tim Hardin
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American recording artist; folk musician and composer (1941–1980)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Supplemental rebuttal report regarding the ARCO instream flow study on the Clark Fork River
- Tim Hardin Songbook
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1941-12-23
- Active to
- 1980-12-29
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 283,811
- Total plays
- 2,437,389
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Tim Hardin (born Timothy James Hardin in Eugene, Oregon, USA on 23 December 1941 – 29 December 1980) was an American folk musician and composer. He is best remembered for writing the top 40 hits "If I Were a Carpenter" covered by Bobby Darin and "Reason to Believe" covered by Rod Stewart, as well as his own uneven recording career. Hardin dropped out of high school at age 18 to join the Marine Corps. After his discharge he moved to New York City in 1961, where he briefly attended the American A
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Eugene
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- pianist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- Woodstock Festival
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Columbia Records
- Official website
- www.mathie.demon.co.uk/th/index.html
- Image
- Tim Hardin.png
- Work location
- New York City
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- date of birth
- 1941-12-23
- date of death
- 1980-12-29
- cause of death
- drug overdose
- start of work period
- 1964-00-00
- copyright representative
- Broadcast Music, Inc.
- name in native language
- Tim Hardin
- Commons category
- Tim Hardin
- end of work period
- 1973-00-00
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Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Tim Hardin, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana