He was the real deal, a person who has an ethical and very complex and marvelous view of the world and he took great efforts and pains to write about it, think about it and do the right thing. He told me he was watching you on “The Smothers Brothers” on New Year’s Eve 1967 and, when you sang the line, “Human kindness is overflowing,” from Randy Newman’s “I Think It’s Going To Rain Today,” he started crying. PAUL KRASSNER: Counter-culture Hall of Famer

I’m friends out here with (Yippies co-founder) Paul Krassner… Ten years ago, we started to see each other a lot and talk about, why don’t we do something together? Then we started texting each other notes about what the songs could be and we got together for dinner at the Beverly Wilshire with my granddaughter and his wife and other friends, and they said, 'That’s a great idea!' But he says – and I agree – that we’ve remained friends because we were married to other people. I was leaving him – he was not leaving me – but, based on our original relationship, we continued to see one another, talk to each other, write each other letters, meet up once in a while in New York and California. A little later down the road, he wrote 'Suite: Judy Blue Eyes.” I always say the rumors lasted longer than the romance. We courted for a couple of weeks and (then) we were having an affair. Stephen started playing and I was totally smitten. Then David said, “There’s someone I’d like you to meet.” And I didn’t remember meeting him at the Whiskey. It had James Burton and Van Dyke Parks and Chris Ethridge. I was there with my producer, David Anderle, who produced “Who Knows Where the Time Goes.” Then I went into the studio with this new band that David had created for us. He says we met at the Whiskey A-Go-Go in Los Angeles. I know you worked with Stephen on “Who Knows Where the Time Goes” (in 1968), but, how did you meet him?

Sweet judy blues eyes