The late Marty Balin was one of those artists, even way back before those sounds started to become commercial. Marty Balin’s career in music got started even before his first burst of fame with ...

Curious about the favorite art pieces among the staff, I asked around, and surprisingly, many led me straight to the painting of Jerry Garcia by Marty Balin, each eager to share why this particular ...

Meanwhile, Jefferson Airplane co-founder Marty Balin contributed lyrics and lead vocals to the song “Caroline.” Dragon Fly peaked at No. 11 on the Billboard 200, and was certified gold by the ...

What lifted the album was when former Airplane singer Marty Balin materialised out of the ether one day with a sensuous ballad called Caroline that failed to chart, but got enough airplay to push the ...

Drummer Spencer Dryden either quit or was fired in early 1970, while singer Marty Balin left the group the following ... featured a reunion between Kantner and Balin on the song ‘Caroline’. Kantner ...

It was there that two folk singers, the Ohio-born Marty Balin (who was in a group called the Town Criers) and the San Francisco-born Paul Kantner, met for the first time in 1965. The two decided ...

In what turned out to be his last interview, Marty Balin told me that he couldn’t wait to get back to Mill Valley, his former hometown, to accept a Milley Award from the city for being one of ...

The Jefferson Airplane featured, from left, Marty Balin, Grace Slick, Spencer Dryden, Paul Kantner, Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady. (AP Photo, File) “I’ll be giving my husband’s acceptance ...

FILE - This Dec. 5, 1968 file photo shows the rock band Jefferson Airplane, Marty Balin, from left, Grace Slick, Spencer Dryden, Paul Kantner, Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady, as they pose in their ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Marty Balin, a patron of the 1960s "San Francisco Sound" both as founder and lead singer of the Jefferson Airplane and co-owner of the club where the Airplane and other bands ...

The late Marty Balin, who died this past Friday ... he could still help them takeoff. In many ways “Caroline” was Balin’s audition contribution to Jefferson Starship. Balin hadn’t yet ...