Libby Titus

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Elizabeth "Libby" Titus (nee Jurist; born July 6, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter, actor, and concert producer.

Early life

Titus was born in Woodstock, New York. Her studies at Bard College in upstate New York were cut short by pregnancy and marriage at the age of 21.

Personal life

Titus's mother, Julia Irene Jurist née Mooney (December 29, 1911 – January 27, 1989), was an Earl Carroll dancer. In 1966, Titus married novelist Barry Titus (born 1938), grandson of Helena Rubinstein (1870–1965); they separated in 1968. The couple had a son, the writer Ezra Titus (July 23, 1966 – July 30, 2009).

From 1969 and through much of the 1970s, Titus's partner was musician Levon Helm (1940–2012). They had a daughter, the singer Amy Helm (born December 3, 1970).

In 1987, Titus met musician Donald Fagen (born 1948), who was a contemporary at Bard College, and who still remembered his one sighting of her "from a distance" on campus two decades earlier. They married in 1993.

On January 4, 2016, Titus sustained injuries after Fagen allegedly shoved her against a marble window frame at their Upper East Side apartment. Titus informed the New York Post that she was divorcing her husband. The two have since reconciled.

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Career

On Hot Biscuit, Titus released Libby Titus, an album of folk-rock and pop covers in 1968. Martin Mull's debut album Martin Mull (1972), among other things, she carried on her career, providing support vocals. She was also learning her songwriting skills at the same time.

Phil Ramone, Robbie Robertson, Paul Simon, and Carly Simon appeared on her second album, confusingly named Libby Titus; the last three also contributed to the songwriting. In 1977, Columbia University unveiled the album. It contained four songs co-written by Titus, including "Love Has No Pride," which she co-wrote with Eric Kaz, which was one of her best-known songs. Many times have been recorded, most notably by Bonnie Raitt on Give It Up (1972) and Linda Ronstadt on Don't Cry Now (1973), as well as Daryl Braithwaite whose version was a top-five hit in Australia in early 1977.

In Christgau's Record Guide: Titus' 1977 LP: "I don't like this woman, who comes at me as a cutesy-pie with snobular tendencies." But her voice, sultry and intelligent, leads to a sultry and stoic, which makes me pause. And although there are way too many Carly Simon works on offer (now I know—it's the singer and the song), I'm sure I'll be playing side one again some time, though I doubt I'm in the mood for a vivacious cutie-pie who might possibly mistake me for a celebrity."

Titus worked with Burt Bacharach in the late 1970s. They wrote at least five songs together, two of them ("Realityboat" and "I Live in the Woods") appearing on Bacharach's album Woman, and one ("In Tune") on his soundtrack for the film Together? (Amo non amo) Both were released in 1979. On these recordings, Titus also sang "Riverboat" and "In Tune." "Love You By Heart," Carly Simon's 1979 album Spy included "Love You By Heart," a song she wrote with Titus and Jacob Brackman. Titus wrote "The Sailor and the Mermaid" with Brackman and performed it with Dr. John on the Sesame Street album In Harmony (1980).

Titus and Dr. John produced the music for Robert Frank's short film Energy and How to Get It (1981), and they appeared on film. Titus appeared in Mike Nichols' Heartburn (1986) and Penny Marshall's Awakenings (1990), in which she appeared as a club singer.

In the mid-1980s, Titus appeared at several venues around New York. She was never a good singer, but she was admired at this point in her career for her "feeling for style, especially in jazzier numbers" and her "appealingly sultry insouciance." Titus began producing "rock-and-roll musicales" starring well-known artists in New York restaurants and clubs in the second half of the 1980s. Later, she recalled that her "morrid little evenings" began "at this little Italian restaurant on Thirty-ninth Street that had room for thirty people. It was said that it would be Dr. John plus Carly Simon, and that it was only by invitation."

These sessions culminated in the "inner concert" at the Lone Star Roadhouse on September 20, 1989, which featured Dr. John, Donald Fagen, Phoebe Snow, Jevetta Steele, Jevetta Steele, and Bonnie Raitt, who were all present in the New York Rock and Soul Revue, which Titus produced with Fagen until 1992. Fagen says Titus has reignited his interest in live performance, although he had already started enjoying it in 1974. Walter Becker was also taken by the Rock and Soul Revue to New York, and so was involved in the 1993 restoration of Steely Dan, which Fagen and Becker had suspended while Walter recovered from heroin use in 1981.

Titus went on to write songs with Fagen, including "Florida Room" on Kamakiriad (1993). Pony Canyon Records anthologised three previously unissued songs written by Titus in 1971, two by Eric Kaz and one by Kaz and Titus. Other recordings from the period are also unissued.

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