Artie Kornfeld
{{short description|American singer}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2015}}
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| name = Artie Kornfeld
| birth_name =
| alias = Arthur Lawrence Kornfeld
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1942}}
| birth_place = Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
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| death_place =
| occupation = {{hlist|Concert promoter|record producer|songwriter|musician}}
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Arthur Lawrence Kornfeld (born 1942) is an American musician, record producer, and music executive.{{cite web |url=http://www.woodstockstory.com/artiekornfeld.html |title=Artie Kornfeld, Woodstock 1969 Co-Creator-Producer and Rock Music Legend |publisher=Woodstockstory.com |access-date=2014-07-17}} He is best known as the music promoter for the Woodstock Festival held in 1969.{{cite web |url=http://www.jewishbiography.com/biographies/list-of-jews/jewish-music-businessmen/index.html |title=Jewish Music businessmen |publisher=Jewish Biography |access-date=2014-07-17}}{{cite web |url=http://www.history.com/news/remembering-richie-havens-ten-things-you-may-not-know-about-woodstock |title=Remembering Richie Havens: Ten Things You May Not Know About Woodstock — History in the Headlines |last=Barbara Maranzani |work=history.com |year=2013 |access-date=May 8, 2013}} Kornfeld is also known for his collaborations with Artie Kaplan.Second Hand Songs [http://www.secondhandsongs.com/work/124414/adaptations Bensonhurst Blues]
Biography
Kornfeld was born in 1942 into a Jewish lower-middle-class family in Brooklyn, New York, United States.{{Cite news|first=Nate |last=Bloom |author-link= Nate Bloom |title=Woodstock - The Jewish connection |newspaper=The Jewish Standard|date=August 14, 2009 |url= https://jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/woodstock/ |quote=Who’s Artie Kornfeld? He’s another Brooklyn/Queens Jew, born (1942) into a lower-middle-class family, who isn’t all that religious in conventional terms but wears his Jewishness on his sleeve. }}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XI4-VnSrEcAC&q=Artie+Kornfield&pg=PA126|first=Scott R. |last=Benarde|title=Stars of David: Rock'n'roll's Jewish Stories|pages=126 |publisher=Brandeis University Press|date=July 1, 2003|isbn=978-1584653035|quote=Four Jews organized the Woodstock Festival: Michael Lang, Artie Kornfield, John Roberts, and Joel Rosenman}}
In his early teens, when his family had moved to North Carolina, he got a job at the Charlotte Coliseum selling soda pop so he could catch acts such as Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, and Fats Domino.LA Times May 22, 1998 [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-may-22-ls-52297-story.html Life After Woodstock by Jim Washburn]
He later attended Adelphi College and American University where he would further his music career.Woodstock Story [http://www.woodstockstory.com/artiekornfeld.html Artie Kornfeld, Father of Woodstock]
By 1966, Kornfeld had written over 75 Billboard charted songs and participated in over 150 albums.Woodstock Story [http://www.woodstockstory.com/artiekornfeld.html Artie Kornfeld, Father of Woodstock] In 1969, Kornfeld left Capitol Records to co-create The Woodstock Music & Arts Festival, with Michael Lang .McClatchy DC [http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2009/08/13/73676/woodstock-how-pot-fueled-talk.html Woodstock: How pot-fueled talk led to greatest concert ever by Glenn Garvin]Watch BoOm. [http://www.watchboom.com/index.php/articles/sex_drugs_rock_n_roll40_years_later SEX, DRUGS & ROCK ‘N ROLL…40 years later by James Earle]
He hosts a show, The Spirit Show with Artie Kornfeld on artistfirst.com{{cite web |url=http://artistfirst.com/woodstocknation.htm |title=Tuesdays at 10pm Eastern |publisher=Artistfirst.com |access-date=2014-07-17}}
Personal life
Kornfeld moved to Broward County in 1999. In 2009 he moved to Delray Beach, Florida. He lives with Caroline Ornstein.{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=On Woodstock's 45th anniversary, a look back at its Delray resident creator |url=https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/entertainment/local/2014/08/18/on-woodstock-s-45th-anniversary/7189466007/ |access-date=2023-03-06 |website=The Palm Beach Post |language=en-US}}
Discography
= Singles =
- The Changin' Times – "Pied Piper" / "Thank You Babe" – Philips 40320 (1965)
- The Changin' Times – "How Is The Air Up There" – Philips 40341 (1965)
- The Changin' Times – "All In The Mind Of A Young Girl" / "Aladdin" – Philips 40401 (1966)
- The Changin' Times – "I Should Have Brought Her Home" / "Goin' Lovin' With You" – Philips 40368 (1966)
- The Changin' Times – "Free Spirit (She Comes On)" / "You Just Seem To Know" – Bell 675 (1967)Discogs [https://www.discogs.com/artist/1178624-The-Changin-Times The Changin' Times - Discography]
- The Artie Kornfeld Circus – "The Rain, The Park And Other Things" / "The Lonely Mermaid" – Bell 697 (1967)
- The Artie Kornfeld Tree – "Country Morning On 56th Street" / "Rock 'n Roll Babies" – Dunhill D-4259 (1970)
- Artie Kornfeld – "Island Song" / "Feel" – Neighborhood NRA-4206 (1972) 45Cat [http://www.45cat.com/artist/artie-kornfield Artie Kornfeld – Discography]
= Albums =
- The Artie Kornfeld Tree – A Time To Remember! – ABC/Dunhill Records – DS 50092 (1970) Discogs [http://www.discogs.com/Artie-Kornfeld-Tree-A-Time-To-Remember/release/3056297 Artie Kornfeld Tree, The – A Time To Remember!]
Publication
- The Pied Piper of Woodstock (Paperback), 196 pages; Publisher: Spirit of the Woodstock Nation, LLC (October 19, 2009); {{ISBN|978-0-615-32599-6}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.artiekornfeld-woodstock.com}}
- [https://www.namm.org/library/oral-history/artie-kornfeld Artie Kornfeld Interview] at NAMM Oral History Collection (2017)
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Category:Singers from Brooklyn
Category:People from Levittown, New York
Category:Songwriters from New York (state)
Category:American male singers
Category:Jewish American songwriters
Category:Record producers from New York (state)
Category:Jewish American rock musicians
Category:21st-century American Jews
Category:American male songwriters