David Blue

Originating from Providence, Rhode Island under the birth name S. David Cohen—which he later reclaimed for one album release—David Blue took part in Greenwich Village’s folk singer/songwriter community throughout the 1960s and counted Bob Dylan among his closest friends, a connection he described in Dylan’s film Renaldo & Clara. Over the 1960s and 1970s he released multiple albums on Elektra, Reprise, and Asylum, yet gained his chief recognition from the songs “I Like to Sleep Late in the Morning” and “Wanted Man,” the latter covered by the Eagles. In December 1982 he suffered a fatal heart attack at age 41 while jogging through Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village.