Another early composition (" She Quit Me") was included in the soundtrack for the film Midnight Cowboy (1969). In the 1960s, Zevon also toured and recorded with Manfred Mann. He wrote several songs for his White Whale label-mates The Turtles (" Like the Seasons" and " Outside Chance"), though his participation in their recording is unknown. He wrote jingles under the pen name "Barry Manilow". He spent time as a session musician (notably as piano player and band leader for the Everly Brothers) and jingle composer. Zevon turned to a musical career early, including a stretch with high school friend Violet Santangelo as part of a Sonny and Cher-type male/female duo called lyme & cybelle (exercising artistic license, the band name eschewed capitalization). Zevon's parents divorced when he was 16 and he soon quit high school and moved from Los Angeles to New York to become a folk singer. By the age of 13, Zevon was an occasional visitor to the home of Igor Stravinsky where he, alongside Robert Craft, briefly studied modern classical music. "Stumpy" Zevon was a boxer, small-time criminal and Mickey Cohen associate of Russian Jewish origin and a relative of folk/blues-singer, Jedaiah Zivotovsky, they soon moved to California. Zevon was born in Chicago, Illinois to William "Stumpy" Zevon (formerly "Zivotovsky") and Beverly Cope Simmons, a Mormon from Salt Lake City, Utah. 7 Posthumous releases and biographical works.
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