Video Picture: Jerry Scheff with Elvis Presley live in Cleveland, Ohio on October 23rd, 1976. Jerry Scheff born January 31st, 1941 in Denver, Colorado grew up in the San Francisco Bay area. After serving in the U.S. Navy he returned to California, ending up in Los Angeles as a session musician. After working at the Sands night club in Los Angeles with 16 year old Billy Preston, Merry Clayton, and Don Sugarcane Harris, he played on his first hit record, The Associations Along Comes Mary (1966). That success led to other early record appearances with Bobby Sherman, Johnny Mathis, Johnny Rivers, Neil Diamond, Nancy Sinatra, Pat Boone, Sammy Davis Jr., Bobby Vinton, The Everly Brothers, and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. In 1971, he appeared on L.A. Woman, the final album recorded by The Doors with Jim Morrison. In July 1969, Scheff became a member of Elvis Presleys touring TCB Band. With the band, he performed on tour in concert with Presley from August 1969 to June 1973 and again after a near 2 year break upon returning to Elvis Presleys band from April 1975 until Presleys final show on June 26, 1977 at the Market Square Arena in Indianapolis. He appears on Aloha from Hawaii (Elvis 1973 live television concert), Back In Memphis, Thats The Way It Is, Elvis As Recorded At Madison Square Garden, the documentary movie from 1972 Elvis On Tour, and Moody Blue, among others. In later years, Scheff worked with Willy DeVille, Bob Dylan, John Denver, Elvis Costello, The Doors, Sam Phillips, Richard Thompson, and many other artists. Scheff also was a bassist for Southern Pacific on their debut album. He also participated in the 1987 cable television concert Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night. In June 2009 he gave a sold out performance in Breda, Netherlands with the remaining TCB band members. Scheff has two sons: Jason and Darin Scheff. Jason has been the bassist for the band Chicago since 1985. As of 2010 he now splits his time in his home in a small village in Northumberland, England with his wife Natalie and in his native California. Scheff wrote the 2012 musical autobiography titled Way Down: Playing Bass with Elvis, Dylan, the Doors, and More: The Autobiography of Jerry Scheff.
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