Biography

Bert Sommer was a singer-songwriter and musician whose first live gig was Woodstock, 1969, where he sang the songs "America" and "Jennifer" as part of a 10-song set. He was also in the original production of "Hair" on Broadway and was on the poster for the LA program. Bert released four albums between 1968-1977, and had one hit single, "We're All Playing in the Same Band." His songs were on the soundtrack of Ultra Violet's "Hot Parts"(1972). He was in the Krofft Supershow Saturday-morning TV variety show as the character Flatbush of "Kaptain Kool and the Kongs" in 1976. He resumed his singing career in Albany in the 1980s and died of respiratory failure on July 23, 1990.
- IMDb mini biography by: S. Watts

"Jennifer," the song that Bert composed and performed at Woodstock, was about singer Jennifer Warnes.

Despite Sommer being one of the first performers at the Woodstock Festival and receiving the festival's first standing ovation, the audio recordings of Sommer's performance at the Festival did not become publicly available until 2009. At the time of the Festival in 1969, Sommer had an exclusive contract with Capitol Records. They denied permission for the use of his songs in albums and films created by other companies.