Larry "Wild Man" Fischer was born Lawrence Wayne Fischer, 1944 in Los Angel… Read Full Bio ↴Larry "Wild Man" Fischer was born Lawrence Wayne Fischer, 1944 in Los Angeles, USA. Fischer has been variously described as a jobless, homeless, paranoid, certified-psychotic street singer, and as the missing link between Syd Barrett and Homer Simpson. He passed away in June of 2011
Fischer was institutionalized at age 19 for attacking his mother with a knife. Following his release, Fischer wandered L.A. singing his unique brand of songs for 10¢ to by-passers. Discovered by Frank Zappa, with whom he recorded his first album, Fischer became an underground concert favorite, earning him the title "godfather of outsider music." Zappa was responsible for Fischer's initial foray into the business of music, an album called An Evening with Wild Man Fischer, contains 36 tracks of "something not exactly musical." Frank and the Wild Man remained close--until Fischer threw a beer bottle at baby Moon Unit.
He has collaborated with Linda Ronstadt, Tom Waits, Jim Morrison, and Janis Joplin, and has recorded with Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo.
Fischer went on to record three full-length albums for Rhino. In the 1980s, Fischer worked with Art (Bill Mumy) and Artie Barnes (Robert Haimer), to produce two albums, Pronounced Normal (1981) and Nothing Scary (1984). Fischer has appeared on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In and has been the subject of his own comic book The Legend Of Wild Man Fischer. In 1986, Barnes and Barnes also wrote and produced "It's A Hard Business", a duet featuring Fischer singing along with the late Rosemary Clooney. The song was the result of a bizarre telephone friendship that began after Clooney heard Fischer's song "Oh God, Please Send Me A Kid To Love."
Fischer was institutionalized at age 19 for attacking his mother with a knife. Following his release, Fischer wandered L.A. singing his unique brand of songs for 10¢ to by-passers. Discovered by Frank Zappa, with whom he recorded his first album, Fischer became an underground concert favorite, earning him the title "godfather of outsider music." Zappa was responsible for Fischer's initial foray into the business of music, an album called An Evening with Wild Man Fischer, contains 36 tracks of "something not exactly musical." Frank and the Wild Man remained close--until Fischer threw a beer bottle at baby Moon Unit.
He has collaborated with Linda Ronstadt, Tom Waits, Jim Morrison, and Janis Joplin, and has recorded with Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo.
Fischer went on to record three full-length albums for Rhino. In the 1980s, Fischer worked with Art (Bill Mumy) and Artie Barnes (Robert Haimer), to produce two albums, Pronounced Normal (1981) and Nothing Scary (1984). Fischer has appeared on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In and has been the subject of his own comic book The Legend Of Wild Man Fischer. In 1986, Barnes and Barnes also wrote and produced "It's A Hard Business", a duet featuring Fischer singing along with the late Rosemary Clooney. The song was the result of a bizarre telephone friendship that began after Clooney heard Fischer's song "Oh God, Please Send Me A Kid To Love."
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Circle I'm going around your house, baby Just like a circle a…
Handy Man Hey girls, gather round Because of what I'm puttin' down Oh,…
I'm a Christmas Tree I'm a Christmas Tree I'm a Christmas Tree Everybody hangs …
Merry Go Round C'mon let's merry go, merry go, merry go round! Boop…
People People, People who need people, Are the luckiest people in…
The Taster C'mon, let's do the Taster when my love was so…
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OriginalMindTrick
This is a gold chest of samples.
Alex Paxton
The only reason to listen to it other than as a weird historical artifact. Don't ever play this to someone to try to introduce them to avant-garde music!
PlanetWisconsin
Discovered on Sunset Blvd wearing one shoe. 😎
Stonefruit Media
The song or wild man?
John LaStrada
Some things Warner Brothers recorded and actually released in 1968 is of questionable nature. This is one. If I worked there heads would've rolled for sure. I would rather have put out more Frank Zappa music & Captain Beefheart than this. It's on Bizarre Records so Zappa had something to do with this crap. Maybe it was on a dare. Who would actually listen more than once to this?
Give Iceberg Slim or Lord Buckley a contract instead -- they would actually sell some records at least.
John LaStrada
@Juan - You're right in this case Juan but Warner/Reprise is the one who gave outsiders a voice.
If you check their roster at this time that label recorded, stuck with many artists who didn't sell at the start & didn't delete many artists who didn't sell.
Randy Newman was one -- his first album they gave away for free. But they kept him on.
The Grateful Dead in the early days wasn't doing too well in album sales. They had a following for live performances & little else. So they held on for a while but some executives wanted them gone.
There were some artists that didn't move any product -- (Harry) Nilsson didn't until he went to RCA. Hamilton Camp, Matthew Ellis & Turley Richards basically disappeared.
Norman Greenbaum didn't last long even though he had a major hit with "Spirit In the Sky." It's dicey business. Ruthann Friedman wrote the hit "Windy," for The Association but she lasted one LP & she had many musical friends in high places.
Wild Man (with or without Zappa) didn't make many records. Neither did the GTOs & Ed Sanders. It got to the point Warners/Reprise threw these artists up against the wall to see what would stick.
Captain Beefheart had a long career but on Warners/Reprise he only had a few LPs. Not what I would call a catalog.
Major labels don't invest much in eccentric music. This is why Zappa started his own record label. All he wanted was a distribution deal. That's how he survived. Great musician -- but commercially, too erratic. Progressive, then doo-wop, then popish with intricate playing, then experimental, then eccentric, then jazzy. Audiences get lost.
Juan
It was on reprise/bizarre, frank did something no one else would, gave the outsiders a voice.
Stonefruit Media
You L, Wild Man W
John LaStrada
@Georgia Greene - Then release it on an independent label.
Warners is a major label -- if you don't sell units, you get nixed. Wild Man didn't last very long there because he didn't sell.
I'm not saying you can't have the music or variety that you feel you need -- but if you work at a place like Warners it's a business decision Georgia, not an artistic one.
Release the material independently so Ms. Greene can get it (probably cheaper too) -- and others don't have to suffer for it.
Georgia Greene
this is incredible music, just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean other people don’t. i have psychosis and a variety of severe mental disorders and illnesses and music like this makes me feel seen. be kind to people and be kind to music you’re not into, it’s just not made for you.