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Herb Bermann is an American lyricist, screenwriter, and actor. He is best known for co-writing the 1967 debut album Safe as Milk for Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band . The second album Strictly Personal featured four of Bermann's songs, however he was uncredited: "Safe As Milk", "Trust Us," "Gimme Dat Harp Boy," and "Kandy Korn" [1] [2]
- The Search For The Mystery Co-Songwriter from ‘Safe as Milk’
- Poetry Book
- Magic Band Albums
Of the 12 songs on the ‘Safe As Milk’ album 8 are co-credited to someone called Herb Bermann. Who was he? No-one at the time seemed to know, he wasn’t a member of the band, he didn’t co-write any songs on the following albums and he was never mentioned in interviews. Very strange. Some fans thought he may have been an anonymous staff-writer foisted...
Pablo Capra (ed): Idlers of The Bamboo Grove – Poetry from Lower Topanga Canyon (Brass Tacks Press 2nd Edn. January 2004) This second edition includes the poem ‘Colophon’ by Herb Bermann. Copies can be bought from the Brass Tacks Press website. Brass Tacks Press have also added a picture of Herb then and now to their MySpace page:
There’s a paragraph in the liner notes on Herb Bermann and they weigh whether Herb Bermann is a real person and really existed. There is some debate about this. Yeah, or whether he’s a figment of Don’s imagination, or a ploy as a tax dodge. It was astounding. I guess it sold more albums because it created a mystery of sorts.
Herb Bermann is an American lyricist, screenwriter, and actor. He is best known for co-writing the 1967 debut album Safe as Milk for Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band. The second album Strictly Personal featured four of Bermann's songs, however he was uncredited: "Safe As Milk", "Trust Us," "Gimme Dat Harp Boy," and "Kandy Korn"
Jun 12, 2015 · Herb Bermann was credited as co-writing eight of the songs on Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band’s debut album Safe As Milk (1967); it would have been a completely different record without him. Yet Bermann kept silent about Captain Beefheart for almost 50 years—so silent that some people said that Captain Beefheart had invented him.
The lyrics of Yellow Brick Road, written by Captain Beefheart and Herb Bermann, take the listeners on a mystical journey, reminiscent of the famous yellow brick road in L. Frank Baum’s novel “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.” This iconic road represents a pathway to a better and brighter place, a metaphor for hope and transformation.
May 24, 2015 · Herb Bermann was credited as co-writing eight of the songs on Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band’s debut album Safe As Milk (1967); it would have been a completely different record without him. According to one observer: "[Captain Beefheart] called the guy 'The Poet.'
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