P.F. Sloan
Rights position
| Company | Relationship | Ownership classification | Status | Verification | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary Wave Music | listed in artist directory | artist association only | current | verified | directory page |
“Artist association only” is the accurate classification for a directory listing. No composition or recording of this artist has a documented Primary Wave publishing or master ownership interest in the supplied dataset, and SPEC §10 forbids inferring one from the relationship.
Biography
P.F. Sloan was a legendary songwriter and performer, and one of the most elusive and mysterious geniuses to emerge from the mid-1960’s Los Angeles music scene. Born Philip Gary Schlein in 1945 New York, he moved to California with his family in the 1950’s. He recorded his first single, “All I Want Is Loving”, at the age of fourteen for the R&B label, Aladdin. He wrote and played (often along with his writing partner, Steve Barri) for the most popular musical acts of the day, including Herman’s Hermits, The Turtles, The Mamas & the Papas, Johnny Rivers, The Grass Roots, Barry McGuire, Jan & Dean, and Ann-Margret. Phil’s “Eve of Destruction” was a #1 hit in 1965, and a major worldwide success—as relevant today as when it was written. “Secret Agent Man,” composed by Phil and Steve Barri, remains one of the most iconic tunes to arise from that brief wonderful moment in rock ’n’ roll history. Phil continued to write and perform until his death in 2015.
Short biography only; no full biography is published for this artist.
Digital profiles and identifiers
| Scheme | Value | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| Publisher profile | https://primarywave.com/artists/p-f-sloan/ | high |
No MusicBrainz, Discogs, IPI, ISWC or ISRC identifier is present for any artist in this dataset. Those schemes exist in the schema and are unpopulated.
News mentions 2 posts
| Date | Title | Matched by | Confidence | Words |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-11-13 | Boy George & P.F. Sloan Earn Songwriters Hall Of Fame Nomination Congratulations to our 2025 Songwriters Hall Of Fame nominees Boy George and P.F Sloan! Read the full list of nominees HERE. | title | medium | 21 |
| 2023-09-26 | Primary Wave welcomes the estate of the iconic songwriter P.F. Sloan! PRIMARY WAVE MUSIC PARTNERS WITH THE ESTATE OF THE ICONIC SONGWRITER P.F. SLOAN THE DEAL WILL SEE THE PUBLISHING GIANT ACQUIRE SLOAN’S PUBLISHING AND WRITER’S SHARE SONG’S INCLUDE “SECRET AGENT MAN,” “EVE OF DESTRUCTION,” “A MUST TO AVOID,” “YOU BABY,” AND MORE NEW YORK, NY (September 26, 2023) […] | tag+title | high | 636 |
“Matched by” and the confidence are carried through from the source extraction rather than flattened: a tag or tag+title match is high confidence, a title-only match is medium or low. A mention is not a transaction.
Associated repertoire (SPEC §22 category C)
No playlist embed
No Spotify playlist is embedded on this artist's page. 108 of 178 artists have one.
Identity and aliases
| Alias | Type | Confidence | Status | Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P.F. Sloan | source spelling | high | accepted | verbatim name as published in the Primary Wave artist directory |
A candidate alias is not used for matching until a reviewer accepts it. SPEC §12 forbids automatically merging low-confidence matches.