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Duncan: /* Performers on the "Ivan The Ice Cream Man" album (?1970?): */

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Performers on the "Ivan The Ice Cream Man" album (?1970?):

Duncan at 09:18, 17 August 2005

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Emdebe: Category:Supporting Cast

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-'''Ivan Ulz''' (May 4, 1944 - October 5, 2017) was a US songwriter. He was born in [[Los Angeles]], grew up in Hollywood and, at the age of eighteen, moved to [[San Francisco]] to pursue a career in folk music.  He wrote the song ''"A Letter to Hayley"'' and recorded it in 1963, under the name ''Billy Kidd''. A cover version by The Four Preps under the new title, ''A Letter To [[The Beatles]]'' (1963) became a minor hit. Moving back to [[Los Angeles]] in the latter half of the 1960s he collaborated with [[Steve Mann]] and [[Lowell George]] writing songs. He released an album, ''Ivan The Ice Cream Man'' in 1970, on which [[Roy Estrada]] played bass and [[Lowell George]] guitar.
+'''Ivan Ulz''' (May 4, 1944 - October 5, 2017) was a US songwriter. He was born in [[Los Angeles]], grew up in Hollywood and, at the age of eighteen, moved to [[San Francisco]] to pursue a career in folk music.  He wrote the song ''"A Letter to Hayley"'' and recorded it in 1963, under the name ''Billy Kidd''. A cover version by The Four Preps under the new title, ''"A Letter To [[The Beatles]]"'' (1963) became a minor hit. Moving back to [[Los Angeles]] in the latter half of the 1960s, Ulz collaborated with [[Steve Mann]] and [[Lowell George]] writing songs. He released an album, ''Ivan The Ice Cream Man'' in 1970, on which [[Roy Estrada]] played bass and [[Lowell George]] guitar.
-Since 1980, he has worked with children and has written and recorded many songs for young children.
+Since 1980, he has worked with children and has written and recorded many songs for young children. Ivan Ulz died in 2017.
 ==Interview with [[Neon Park]] by Charlie Haas published in Wax Paper (1979)==

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-[[Ivan Ulz]] grew up in Hollywood and, at the age of eighteen, moved to San Francisco to pursue a career in folk music.  He wrote the song "A Letter to Hayley" and recorded it as Billy Kidd in 1963.  It did not sell well but was taken up by the Four Preps who reworked it as "A Letter To [[The Beatles]]" and had a minor hit with it.
+'''Ivan Ulz''' (May 4, 1944 - October 5, 2017) was a US songwriter. He was born in [[Los Angeles]], grew up in Hollywood and, at the age of eighteen, moved to [[San Francisco]] to pursue a career in folk music.  He wrote the song ''"A Letter to Hayley"'' and recorded it in 1963, under the name ''Billy Kidd''. A cover version by The Four Preps under the new title, ''A Letter To [[The Beatles]]'' (1963) became a minor hit. Moving back to [[Los Angeles]] in the latter half of the 1960s he collaborated with [[Steve Mann]] and [[Lowell George]] writing songs. He released an album, ''Ivan The Ice Cream Man'' in 1970, on which [[Roy Estrada]] played bass and [[Lowell George]] guitar.
-Moving back to [[Los Angeles]] in the latter half of the 1960's he collaborated with [[Steve Mann]] and [[Lowell George]] writing songs. He released the Ivan The Ice Cream Man album in 1970.
+Since 1980, he has worked with children and has written and recorded many songs for young children.
 ==Interview with [[Neon Park]] by Charlie Haas published in Wax Paper (1979)==
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 '''Neon:''' Yeah. So I was on my way home, and there was this fellow human being in misery, and I picked him up. Almost got hit by a bus doing it. He said I should come with him to Lowell's.
 == Performers on the "Ivan The Ice Cream Man" album (1970): ==
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 Jackson Browne 	- Guitar
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 [[Category:Folk Artists|Ulz]]
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-[[Ivan Ulz]] grew up in Hollywood and, at the age of eighteen, moved to San Francisco to pursue a career in folk music.  He wrote the song "A Letter to Hayley" and recorded it as Billy Kidd in 1963.  It did not sell well but was taken up by the Four Preps who reworked it as "A Letter To The Beatles" and had a minor hit with it.
+[[Ivan Ulz]] grew up in Hollywood and, at the age of eighteen, moved to San Francisco to pursue a career in folk music.  He wrote the song "A Letter to Hayley" and recorded it as Billy Kidd in 1963.  It did not sell well but was taken up by the Four Preps who reworked it as "A Letter To [[The Beatles]]" and had a minor hit with it.
 Moving back to [[Los Angeles]] in the latter half of the 1960's he collaborated with [[Steve Mann]] and [[Lowell George]] writing songs. He released the Ivan The Ice Cream Man album in 1970.
 Since 1980 he has worked with children and has written and recorded many songs for young children.
 ==Interview with [[Neon Park]] by Charlie Haas published in Wax Paper (1979)==
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 [[Category:Supporting Cast|Ulz]]
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 '''WP:''' And who was that hitchhiker, Neon?
-'''Neon:''' Ivan. Ivan the ice cream man. Songwriter extraordinaire. He was hitchhiking in the rain in a tee-shirt, didn't have a coat. He was getting very wet. He had a guitar with him, stuffed under his shirt. That's why I picked him up. He was going to Lowell's house. I was coming from [[The Mothers]]' office, where I'd been talking to [[Herbie Cohen]] about getting paid.
+'''Neon:''' Ivan. Ivan the ice cream man. Songwriter extraordinaire. He was hitchhiking in the rain in a tee-shirt, didn't have a coat. He was getting very wet. He had a guitar with him, stuffed under his shirt. That's why I picked him up. He was going to Lowell's house. I was coming from [[The Mothers]]' office, where I'd been talking to [[Herb Cohen|Herbie Cohen]] about getting paid.
 '''WP:''' Did you?

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 Jackson Browne 	- Guitar
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 Interview with [[Neon Park]] by Charlie Haas published in Wax Paper (1979)
-WP: How did your association with Little Feat begin?
+'''WP:''' How did your association with Little Feat begin?
-Neon: It began with a hitchhiker. Years ago, right after [[Weasels Ripped My Flesh]] came out.
+'''Neon:''' It began with a hitchhiker. Years ago, right after [[Weasels Ripped My Flesh]] came out.
-WP: Where?
+'''WP:''' Where?
-Neon: Sunset and Cahuenga. ([[Lowell George]] attended Hollywood High School near there at Sunset and Highland)
+'''Neon:''' Sunset and Cahuenga. ([[Lowell George]] attended Hollywood High School near there at Sunset and Highland)
-WP: And who was that hitchhiker, Neon?
+'''WP:''' And who was that hitchhiker, Neon?
-Neon: Ivan. Ivan the ice cream man. Songwriter extraordinaire. He was hitchhiking in the rain in a tee-shirt, didn't have a coat. He was getting very wet. He had a guitar with him, stuffed under his shirt. That's why I picked him up. He was going to Lowell's house. I was coming from [[The Mothers]]' office, where I'd been talking to [[Herbie Cohen]] about getting paid.
+'''Neon:''' Ivan. Ivan the ice cream man. Songwriter extraordinaire. He was hitchhiking in the rain in a tee-shirt, didn't have a coat. He was getting very wet. He had a guitar with him, stuffed under his shirt. That's why I picked him up. He was going to Lowell's house. I was coming from [[The Mothers]]' office, where I'd been talking to [[Herbie Cohen]] about getting paid.
 [[Category:Supporting Cast]]

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	Neon: Yeah. So I was on my way home, and there was this fellow human being in misery, and I picked him up. Almost got hit by a bus doing it. He said I should come with him to Lowell's.		Neon: Yeah. So I was on my way home, and there was this fellow human being in misery, and I picked him up. Almost got hit by a bus doing it. He said I should come with him to Lowell's.
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