By ADAM S. LEVY FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

Published: 21:47 GMT, 17 March 2025 | Updated: 21:52 GMT, 17 March 2025

Youngbloods tenor Jesse Colin Young, whose catalog included the 1969 anthem Get Together, died Sunday at 83 at his Aiken, South Carolina home.

The singer-songwriter’s death was announced by his publicist Michael Jensen, The New York Times reported Monday.

Young sang the chorus of the song, ‘Come on people now/Smile on your brother/Everybody get together/Try to love one another right now,’ which the newspaper described as ‘one of the best-known refrains of the 1960s.’

The anthem was prominently featured in the 1994 Oscar winner Forrest Gump, as well as other movies such as 1998’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, 2000’s The Dish and 2007’s Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.

Get Together was penned by folk artist Dino Valenti, who used the pseudonym Chet Powers on the track, according to the paper. 

Youngbloods tenor Jesse Colin Young, whose catalog included the 1969 anthem Get Together , died Sunday at 83 at his Aiken, South Carolina home. Pictured in LA in 2019

Youngbloods tenor Jesse Colin Young, whose catalog included the 1969 anthem Get Together , died Sunday at 83 at his Aiken, South Carolina home. Pictured in LA in 2019

The singer-songwriter's death was announced by his publicist Michael Jensen

The singer-songwriter’s death was announced by his publicist Michael Jensen

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Jesse Colin Young dead at 83: Youngbloods front man passes away at his home in South Carolina

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