Merrick is best known for writing "Follow," which appeared on the 1967 Richie Havens LP Mixed Bag (MCA Verve/Folkways), which Rolling Stone called a "Sixties folk epic.
"[1] Havens also performed the song in concert appearances at the Newport Folk Festival and Carnegie Hall.
[2] Merrick also wrote "From the Prison," which Richie Havens recorded for his second studio LP, Something Else Again, released in January 1968.
Following this he moved his family away from New York City and teamed up briefly with fellow Mercury artist Kenny Rankin to appear on The Tonight Show and open for Flip Wilson in various venues throughout the US.
Jerry Jeff Walker later recorded Merrick's "The Stranger (He Was the Kind)" on his double album A Man Must Carry On.