Kooper was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1944, the son of Sam and Natalie Kooper. Apart from the fact that he's made, and continues to make great music, it's the public's loss that he's not better respected outside the ranks of his fellow musicians. Instead, in terms of public recognition, Kooper has been relegated to second-rank status, somewhere midway between John Mayall and Steve Winwood. As a producer at Columbia, he signed the British invasion act the Zombies just in time for them to complete the best LP in their entire history and still later, Kooper discovered Lynyrd Skynyrd and produced their best work. He played on two classic blues-rock albums in conjunction with his friend Mike Bloomfield.
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