The Hello and welcome to another edition of Soda Jerker on songwriting.

Thanks for tuning in so to speak to our 45th episode.

Talking to us on today's show is a singer, songwriter, and a first for this podcast a former professional gambler

who brought into being one of the most famous

refrains in pop music history. It's Yonker's own, Chip Taylor. He's had an

absolutely fascinating life and career chip, hasn't he? He has done it all.

From Brill Building songwriter to

respected Nashville country artist to professional gambler and back again to the music

which he still puts out at a prodigious rate even as he approaches his mid-70s.

Amazing.

His two elder siblings aren't exactly what you call underachievers either.

His brother Barry Voight is a renowned volcanologist who actually invented a formula for predicting volcanic eruptions.

Child's play of course.

While John is the famed actor of midnight cowboy and deliverance fame, their father was a professional

golfer too and all three of his sons could by all accounts of term pro themselves.

Those talented bastards. It's an impressive family unit right there.

The Ester Wild James Wesley Voight was born in Yonker's New York in

1940. Though he grew up on the East Coast, he found himself drawn to the country and

Western music he would hear on AM radio, usually when the weather was such that he

could actually pick up the station, and by his teens he was already performing in country bands.

Age 18, he signed to the R&B Division of King Records, best known for launching James Brown's career career becoming the only white artist to do so

and releasing his first single midnight blues under the name Wes Voight and the town three.

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