Larry "Wild Man" Fischer
BY ROCKIN' ROBIN (a/k/a ROB DURKEE)
Larry "Wild Man" Fischer, one of the most weirdly unique cult singers of all time who's "My Name Is Larry" is never argued by anyone as the world's worst song ever, died Thursday (June 16, 2011) of heart failure at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. According to writer Richard Cromelin of the Los Angeles Times, he was 66.
To put it mildly, Wild Man Fischer (WMF) was one of a kind. There never was any kind of performer before him and they'll never be anyone like him again. Ever. He was a one-in-a-trillion performer.
And perhaps the ultimate irony of his life is that every songwriter whose material is used in a movie's re-release (e.g. DVD) has the singer of "My Name Is Larry" to thank. On April 28, 1988, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Paramount Pictures' license to use WMF's song "Merry-Go-Round" in the 1969 movie "Medium Cool" didn't apply to the movie's videocassette release. Thus, Fischer was due to be paid a tidy sum of money. At the time in 1988, his attorney didn't know his whereabouts.
Wild Man Fischer rose to fame as a cult performer in the Los Angeles metroplex. He actually got his start in music in the 1960's by coming up to people on the Los Angeles streets and asking, "You wanna buy a song for a dime?" That's right, for a mere dime, you'd hear WMF sing a song for you. Usually a very short song. While frequenting the club scene, Fischer crossed paths with Solomon Burke, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer who'd give him his nickname of "Wild Man." WMF was featured on one "Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In" TV show on NBC.
Larry Wayne Fischer was born November 7, 1944 and attended Fairfax High School. Sadly, he was plagued by mental problems most of his life. In recent years, it's believed that he lived in various downtown Los Angeles low-rent hotels or motels. In more recent months, he'd been living in an assisted living facility in Van Nuys before being hospitalized with heart problems. Earlier in his life, he was once reportedly institutionalized for attacking his mother with a knife. Fittingly, after being freed from a mental institution, he entitled his next LP release, "Pronounced Normal." This writer nearly got the chance to meet WMF along with radio talk show personality Melrose Larry Green about the year 2000. However, Green cancelled the lunch date because Fischer "is too mentally unstable.
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BY ROCKIN' ROBIN (a/k/a ROB DURKEE) Larry "Wild Man" Fischer, one of the most weirdly unique cult singers of all time who's "My Name Is Larry" is never argued by anyone as the world's worst song ever, died Thursday (June 16, 2011) of heart failure at
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