Chip Taylor: Biography, Movies & Photos

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1Younger brother of Barry Voight and Jon Voight.
2Uncle of actress Angelina Jolie and actor James Haven
3Ex-brother-in-law of Lauri Peters and Marcheline Bertrand.
4Grand-uncle of Maddox Jolie-Pitt, Zahara Jolie-Pitt, Pax Jolie-Pitt (aka "Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt"), Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, Vivienne Jolie-Pitt and Knox Léon Jolie-Pitt.
5Chose the pseudonym Chip Taylor at the suggestion of his record company due to difficulties in pronouncing his second name (Voight).

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6Chip is also a professional gambler of note.
7Notable pop and country songs written by Taylor include "He Sits at Your Table" (Willie Nelson), "I Can't Let Go" (Evie Sands, the Hollies, Linda Ronstadt), "The Baby" (the Hollies), "Worry" (Johnny Tillotson), "Make Me Belong to You" (Barbara Lewis), "I Can Make It With You" (the Pozo Seco Singers, Jackie DeShannon), "Any Way That You Want Me" (the Troggs, Evie Sands, Melanie, American Breed, Juice Newton, Mary Mason, Lita Ford, Liverpool Five), "On My Word" (Cliff Richard), "Step Out of Your Mind" (The American Breed), "Country Girl City Man" (Billy Vera and Judy Clay), "I'll Hold Out My Hand", "Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)" (Lorraine Ellison, Janis Joplin), "Julie" (Bobby Fuller Four, Marshall Crenshaw), and "Lonely Is As Lonely Does" (the Fleetwoods).
8Shaggy used Thaylors composition "Angel of the Morning" as the basis for his hit "Angel" in 2001.
9In 2012, the Norwegian singer Paal Flaata released an album of only Chip Taylor songs, Wait By the Fire - Songs of Chip Taylor.
10Taylor's double-CD Unglorious Hallelujah/Red Red Rose, his first solo album in five years, was quickly hailed as "a future classic" by Sonic Magazine, whose reviewer declared: "This is the best we've heard from Chip Taylor so far.".
11In 1959, he recorded for King as Wes Voight on 5211 "I'm Movin' In", and his final recording as Wes Voight on King 5231 "I'm Ready to Go Steady" and "The Wind and the Cold Black Night". The two King 45s were released in both mono and stereo, making them some of the first stereo singles available.
12Taylor's first releases were on the King label and their subsidiary DeLuxe.
13Taylor wrote many pop and rock songs, both alone and with other songwriters, including Al Gorgoni (with whom he also performed, as the duo Just Us), Billy Vera, Ted Daryll, and Jerry Ragovoy, first freelancing and then as an employee of a New York City music publisher.
14He was married to Joan Carole Frey from 1964, and they had children and grandchildren. (Joan and Chip were temporarily divorced for several years, starting in the 1990s).
15Taylor's performance of his song "On the Radio" was featured in "Episode 8" of Season 2 of the Netflix TV series Sex Education.
16James Wesley Voight, known professionally as Chip Taylor, was an American songwriter and singer noted for writing "Angel of the Morning" and "Wild Thing".
17Taylor and his brothers (John and Barry Voight) attended Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains, New York. In 1961, Taylor attended the University of Hartford in Hartford, Connecticut, for one year.
18By Taylor's own accounts, from 1980 through 1995 he was very successful at, but unhappily addicted to, gambling professionally on blackjack in New Jersey casinos and on horse races. He then returned to music, starting by singing to his dying mother, Barbara Voight. Taylor has said that the gambling addiction was hard on both himself and his family. He has written that, after having an epiphany, he changed his attitude and created the "Church of the Train Wreck" self-help program for himself and others.
19After an unsuccessful attempt to become a professional golfer like his father, Elmer Voight, Taylor entered the music business.
20Taylor's album Yonkers, NY was a 2011 nominee for a Grammy Award for best recording package, but lost to Brothers by the Black Keys.

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