Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Curt Boettcher (January 7, 1944 – June 14, 1987) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer from Wisconsin. He was a pivotal figure in the mid-1960s emergence of Sunshine pop, working with The Association, The Millennium, Sagittarius, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Tommy Roe, Elton John, Gene Clark (formerly of The Byrds), Emitt Rhodes, Tandyn Almer, and the Beach Boys, among others. Boettcher sang some background vocals on The Byrds' The Notorious Byrd Brothers album (which was produced by Gary Usher).In an August 2013 New York Times feature, journalist Alexandra Molotkow summed up his quixotic legacy:If his life had gone just a bit differently, Curt Boettcher might have been another Brian Wilson. Joseph Gordon-Levitt might be playing him in a modern-day biopic. College students would steal and hoard their parents’ copies of his records. As it stands, Boettcher — a pop-music producer whose heyday was the late ’60s — now survives in rock history mostly as a liner-note credit. He could have been, but never was. Yet he enjoys a godlike status among a select group of music fans, for whom obscurity is more enticing than fame.In his later years he recorded and worked under the names "Boetcher" and "Becher," before reverting to the original spelling of Boettcher.. }
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- Curt_Boettcher abstract "Curt Boettcher (January 7, 1944 – June 14, 1987) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer from Wisconsin. He was a pivotal figure in the mid-1960s emergence of Sunshine pop, working with The Association, The Millennium, Sagittarius, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Tommy Roe, Elton John, Gene Clark (formerly of The Byrds), Emitt Rhodes, Tandyn Almer, and the Beach Boys, among others. Boettcher sang some background vocals on The Byrds' The Notorious Byrd Brothers album (which was produced by Gary Usher).In an August 2013 New York Times feature, journalist Alexandra Molotkow summed up his quixotic legacy:If his life had gone just a bit differently, Curt Boettcher might have been another Brian Wilson. Joseph Gordon-Levitt might be playing him in a modern-day biopic. College students would steal and hoard their parents’ copies of his records. As it stands, Boettcher — a pop-music producer whose heyday was the late ’60s — now survives in rock history mostly as a liner-note credit. He could have been, but never was. Yet he enjoys a godlike status among a select group of music fans, for whom obscurity is more enticing than fame.In his later years he recorded and worked under the names "Boetcher" and "Becher," before reverting to the original spelling of Boettcher.".