His father, a doctor, moved the family to upstate New York when Phil was a few years old. “Talking Cuban Crisis” and “50‐Mile Hike,” were among the songs he sang when he appeared at the Thirdside on West Third Street in 1963. By the time he broke into professional playing cabarets in Greenwich Village, he had a repertory of more than 60 songs, virtually all of which had a social punch line or question. Ochs preferred to be called a topical singer rather than a folk singer. Joan Baez and Bob Dylan, superstars of folk music, both sang his songs. Ochs as a major lyricist of urbane song writing. Buys From the Flower Lady,” “Cross My Heart, I Hope to Live,” “The Ballad of William Worthy,” “Outside of a Small Circle of Friends” and “The Bells” established Mr. Ochs's appeal is in his rebel stance, his iconoclastic wit, his self‐burlesque and his obviously literate way with word play and philosophy,” the folk‐music writer said of the performer, who was then 26. guitar playing is rudimentary, and the melodies of his songs are, erratic mixtures of brilliance and mediocrity,” Robert Shelton wrote in The New York Times.
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