Peter LaFarge was a songwriter
He was born in New York City, on April 30th, 1931,


Oliver Albee La Farge is his original name and then he later changed it to Peter LaFarge
He was bitten by the rodeo bug and left school before graduation.
He spent three years in the Navy aboard the aircraft carrier Boxer during the Korean War. Later the boxer had a bad explosion and although Peter escaped physical injury, it messed with his mind.
After Peter went to the Goodman School of Theater in Chicago where he studied acting.
He married a young girl from Michigan named Suzan Becker in 1958