The recent discussion of "Four in the Mornin" got me thinking about other semi-forgotten songs from that era, which was just about the time I became interested in folk music and first picked up the guitar.

Fred Neil was a songwriter hero known only among the innermost of the in-crowd, the most tragically hip. I was really too young and too wet behind the ears at the time to learn very much about him, except that one song very popular among many of the better amateur performers was his "Searching for the Dolphins in the Sea." (That may not be the exact title.) Not a fingerpicker's show-off piece like "4 in the Morning," but more of a haunting-ballad kinda slow tune.

Fred Neil achieved huge but belated commerical success several years later when his "Everybody's Talkin'" -- not his own recording, but as sung by someone else (Harry Neilson?) -- was used as the the theme song for the movie "Midnight Cowboy." If I'm not mistaken, Neil didn't live long enough to capitalize on his "rediscovery" -- if, indeed, he would have wanted to; his aversion to the limelight was part of his legend.

Actually, in addition to lyrics, I's be glad to see chords, tabs, etc., as well as any information, reminiscences, etc., about the mysterious Mr. Fred Neil.