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Tandyn Douglas Almer (July 30, 1942 – January 8, 2013) was an American musician , composer , lyricist , and record producer .
Almer was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota . His most prominent achievement was writing the 1966 Top Ten hit " Along Comes Mary " for The Association . After the success of "Along Comes Mary", Almer was featured alongside Frank Zappa , Graham Nash , Roger McGuinn , and Brian Wilson on Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution , a 1967 CBS TV News feature presented by Leonard Bernstein . Almers sole commercial release under his own name was a 45 rpm single, "Degeneration Gap", on Warner Bros. in 1969.
Almer attended a music conservatory in Minnesota, and became fascinated with the jazz of John Coltrane , Miles Davis and Ahmad Jamal . At age 17, he quit high school and moved to Chicago to become a jazz pianist. In the early 1960s he relocated to Los Angeles, where his musical interests shifted to pop and rock. He attended Los Angeles City College .
Almer wrote, co-wrote, or produced numerous songs performed by other artists in the 1960s and 1970s, including The Purple Gang , the Garden Club, Dennis Olivieri , and The Beach Boys . In 1970 he produced the Dennis Olivieri album Come to the Party .
While a songwriter for A&M Records in the 1970s, he was introduced to and became friends with Brian Wilson. The two collaborated in the early 1970s on several projects, including an aborted album of re-recorded Beach Boys songs with topical lyrics for A&M. He co-wrote the Beach Boys singles " Marcella " and " Sail On, Sailor ".
Almer was called “one of the lost and hidden voices of the 60s" by Parke Puterbaugh, a former senior editor of Rolling Stone , who said that Almer "left behind a body of work thats ripe for rediscovery.” Along Comes Tandyn , an album of vintage recordings of his songs, was released in 2013 on Sundazed Records .
Claudia Ford, wife of Association producer Curt Boettcher , claimed that Almer wrote "Along Comes Mary" as a slow song. Boettcher helped Almer arrange the tune, sang the vocal on the demo, and accelerated the tempo. That version, as provided to the Association, became the groups breakthrough single from their debut album, which Boettcher produced. The two also co-wrote "Message of Our Love," another song on the same album.
Almer invented a waterpipe called the Slave-Master, described by Jack S. Margolis and Richard Clorfene in A Childs Garden of Grass as "the perfect bong ".
In the 1980s and early 1990s, Almer wrote songs for Washington, DC s annual Hexagon (comedy show) satirical revue. He also wrote several " fake books ," consisting of simplified arrangements of popular songs. A member of Mensa International , he moved to the Washington, DC area in 1977, and lived there for the remainder of his life.
