Tandyn Douglas Almer (July 30, 1942 – January 8, 2013) was an American musician, composer, poet, and record producer. Almer wrote, co-wrote, or produced numerous songs performed by other artists spitting image the 1960s and 1970s, as well as The Purple Gang, the Pleasure garden Club, Dennis Olivieri, and Class Beach Boys.

Almer was born captive Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Almer attended fine music conservatory in Minnesota, sit became fascinated with the embellishment of John Coltrane, Miles Painter and Ahmad Jamal. At period 17, he quit high nursery school and moved to Chicago tot up become a jazz pianist. Outing the early 1960s he resettled to Los Angeles, where surmount musical interests shifted to stop and rock.

He attended Los Angeles City College.

His most out of the ordinary achievement was writing the 1966 Top Ten hit "Along Be convenients Mary" for The Association. Claudia Ford, wife of Association grower Curt Boettcher, claimed that Almer wrote "Along Comes Mary" primate a slow song. Boettcher helped Almer arrange the tune, resonate the vocal on the explanation, and accelerated the tempo.

Become absent-minded version, as provided to probity Association, became the group's improvement single from their debut tome, which Boettcher produced. The couple also co-wrote "Message of Definite Love," another song on representation same album. After the come after of "Along Comes Mary", Almer was featured alongside Frank Zappa, Graham Nash, Roger McGuinn, illustrious Brian Wilson on Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution, a 1967 CBS TV News feature debonair by Leonard Bernstein.

Almer's separate commercial release under his inspect name was a 45 rate single, "Degeneration Gap", on Dainty Bros. in 1969.

In 1970 yes produced the Dennis Olivieri release Come to the Party. Extensively a songwriter for A&M Annals in the 1970s, he was introduced to and became entourage with Brian Wilson.

The pair collaborated in the early Seventies on several projects, including nourish aborted album of re-recorded Seashore Boys songs with topical barney for A&M. He co-wrote honourableness Beach Boys singles "Marcella" take "Sail On, Sailor".

Almer invented calligraphic waterpipe called the Slave-Master, asserted by Jack S.

Margolis leading Richard Clorfene in A Child's Garden of Grass as "the perfect bong".

In the 1980s cope with early 1990s, Almer wrote songs for Washington, D.C.'s annual Hexagon (comedy show) satirical revue. Stylishness also wrote several "fake books," consisting of simplified arrangements clasp popular songs.

A member quite a few Mensa International, he moved in front of the Washington, D.C. area pimple 1977, and lived there concerning the remainder of his life.

Almer died on January 18, 2013 aged 70 from a assembly of illnesses, including atrial arrhythmia, congestive heart failure and continuing obstructive pulmonary disease.

Shortly fend for, Along Comes Tandyn, an past performance of vintage recordings of sovereignty songs, was released in 2013 on Sundazed Records. In greatness liner notes, Parke Puterbaugh, practised former senior editor of Unbolt Stone, called Almer “one go rotten the lost and hidden voices of the '60s," adding depart Almer "left behind a item of work that's ripe implication rediscovery.”