Jerry Corbitt

Jerry Corbitt (1943-2014) was a folk singer/songwriter and musician best known as a founding member of 1960s pop/rock group The Youngbloods.

Corbitt, born and raised in Cambridge, was an up and coming folk singer and bluegrass musician in the Greenwich Village folk scene when he met Jesse Colin Young. The two began to perform as a duo under the moniker “The Youngbloods”, and the rest was history.

Shortly after their great success with “Get Together” in 1969, Corbitt left the group to pursue a career on his own. In 1971, he found some success of his own playing with famed country musician Charlie Daniels (who’d produced The Youngbloods' third album) as part of a duo, Corbitt and Daniels.

While he released a handful of solo records, Corbitt’s main renown in later years came from his production work for artists like Don McLean, Pete Seeger, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Janis Ian, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee and Ramblin' Jack Elliot. He also frequently worked writing incidental music for TV, commercials and film.

Corbitt died in March 2014 after a long battle with lung cancer.