Education
Erasmus Hall High School.
Erasmus Hall High School.
His songs have been recorded and performed by many top artists, including The Persuasions, Maria Muldaur, Gary Wright, and Jay and the Americans. His song "Everybody"s a Masterpiece" was recorded by Three Dog Night. Reicheg"s "Looking for an Echo" was recorded by Kenny Vance, The Persuasions on their album Chirpin", and by others
The song was also the musical theme of the Martin Davidson film of the same name. historian January Stewart has called Reicheg"s song "Foreign the Sake of the Children" an "ode to marital fidelity a delicious postmodern balancing act of send up and the real McCoy." Reicheg was born and raised in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn in the shadow of Ebbetts Field.
After graduating from Erasmus Hall High School, he served in the United States. Army, stationed in Germany from 1956 to 1958. Upon discharge, he attended Brooklyn College, received a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degree in speech and theater, and acted in college productions.
There he learned to play guitar and joined the burgeoning folk music scene in Greenwich Village. In various folk groups and as a solo performer, he toured extensively, playing coffee houses, cabarets and clubs in the United States. and Canada, including The Bitter End, Gerde’s Folk City, The Blue Angel and The Troubadour.
He was a featured performer at the 1964 New York World"s Fair, and part of The American Hootenany Festival that toured colleges throughout the United States. During those years he recorded for Laurie, 20th Century Fox (as Lenny and Dick) and Decca records (as Sunrise Highway).
,, and From the early 1960s until the present, Reicheg has appeared in hundreds of television shows and films, including, later in his career, Betty White" General’ s Office Their Rockers. He has been seen in numerous stage productions and live performances, including a role in the touring company performance of The Odd Couple starring Jack Klugman and Tony Randall.
