{"id":21502,"date":"2026-03-25T15:57:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=21502"},"modified":"2026-03-25T15:57:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:57:44","slug":"musician-behind-iconic-1960s-hits-dies-at-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=21502","title":{"rendered":"Musician behind iconic 1960s hits dies at 86!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"270\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Chip Taylor<\/span><\/span>, best known for writing the hit \u201c<span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Wild Thing<\/span><\/span>,\u201d has died at 86. His passing was confirmed on March 24 by his family and musician <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Billy Vera<\/span><\/span>, who said he died peacefully in hospice.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"272\" data-end=\"409\">Born James Wesley Voight, he was the brother of <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Jon Voight<\/span><\/span> and uncle of <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Angelina Jolie<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"411\" data-end=\"694\">Taylor built a legendary career as a songwriter, also writing \u201c<span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Angel of the Morning<\/span><\/span>\u201d and songs recorded by artists like <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Willie Nelson<\/span><\/span> and <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Linda Ronstadt<\/span><\/span>. He also released his own music, including \u201cEarly Sunday Morning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"696\" data-end=\"868\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">He was inducted into the <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Songwriters Hall of Fame<\/span><\/span> in 2016. Taylor is survived by his children and grandchildren, and was preceded in death by his wife in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chip Taylor, best known for writing the hit \u201cWild Thing,\u201d has died at 86. His passing was confirmed on March 24 by his family and musician Billy Vera, who said he died peacefully in hospice. Born James Wesley Voight, he was the brother of Jon Voight and uncle of Angelina Jolie. Taylor built a legendary&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=21502\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Musician behind iconic 1960s hits dies at 86!&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21503,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21504,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21502\/revisions\/21504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}