Youngbloods tenor Jesse Colin Young’s cause of death has been revealed after he pᴀssed away aged 83 in Aiken, South Carolina on Sunday.

The folk rock singer, whose catalog included the 1969 peace-and-love anthem Get Together, had died from a heart attack according to TMZ on Tuesday.

The musician had died from cardiac complications of atherosclerotic and hypertensive cardiovascular disease the Aiken County Coroner’s Office in South Carolina told the publication.

Case report documents revealed that Jessed died at the Aiken Regional Medical Center  at 3:13PM on Sunday as the manner of death is classified as natural according to TMZ.

The singer-songwriter’s death was announced by his publicist Michael Jensen, The New York Times reported Monday. 

Young sang the chorus of the song, ‘Come on people now/Smile on your brother/Everybody get together/Try to love one another right now,’ which the newspaper described as ‘one of the best-known refrains of the 1960s.’

Youngbloods tenor Jesse Colin Young’s cause of death has been revealed after he pᴀssed away aged 83 in Aiken, South Carolina on Sunday; he is pictured performing in Berkeley, California in September 1977

The folk rock singer, whose catalog included the 1969 peace-and-love anthem Get Together , had died from a heart attack according to TMZ on Tuesday. Pictured in LA in 2019

Young’s pᴀssing was subsequently confirmed to Variety by his spouse Connie Young; his cause of death was not immediately made clear.

Get Together was prominently featured in the Oscar winning motion picture Forrest Gump in 1994, as well as other movies such as 1998’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, 2000’s The Dish and 2007’s Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.

Get Together was penned by folk artist Dino Valenti, who used the pseudonym Chet Powers on the track, according to the paper. Valenti had past been a member of the band Quicksilver Messenger Service. 

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Other notable selections from the Youngbloods’ that Young had composed included the 1969 track Darkness, Darkness, which was about American soldiers fighting in Vietnam; Sunlight and Ride the Wind. 

The late vocalist was remembered by a number of industry insiders as news of his pᴀssing spread Monday.

‘Known for Get Together, Darkness, Darkness, Sunlight, and more, his music carried messages of peace and unity that will live on for generations,’ Sirius XM host Eric Alper said.

Publicist Danny Deraney said, ‘Rest in Power Jesse Colin Young. His soft tenor voice sold the song Get Together as the anthem for peace in the 1960’s.’

Musician David Maida shared a sH๏τ alongside the late vocalist, writing, ‘All the great ones are leaving us.’

He continued: ‘Rest In Peace my friend Jesse Colin Young of the Youngbloods. I will miss having coffee hanging backstage and hearing you perform with great impeccable talent! Thanks for the music.’

Young – who would also go on to perform as a solo artist in his career, said that he never lost his spark for performing the iconic track Get Together.

The singer-songwriter’s death was announced by his publicist Michael Jensen

Young’s band The Youngbloods are seen in 1968 (L-R top Lowell ‘Banana’ Levinger and Jerry Corbitt, in the middle Joe Bauer and bottom Young)

 ‘To this day, it gives me a thrill to play it,’ the vocalist said in a 2018 chat with The Arts Fuse.

Young chat about the song’s widespread presence in TV, films and ads, telling the outlet he was always amazed at the track’s enduing popularity.

‘I mean, it was in a Walmart commercial that they had designed for Thanksgiving, but they put out immediately after Charlottesville,’ he said in reference to the racially-divisive incident in Virginia in August 2017 in which a woman named Heather Heyer was killed while protesting.

He described the ad in which the song was played: ‘It was a big table in the middle of a field, and all these different kinds of people were bringing a chair to sit at the table.

‘I’ve only had it described to me, but it didn’t sound like they were selling anything. It was almost like a Thanksgiving…get together!

The singer-songwriter was pictured in a 1975 publicity sH๏τ 

The late vocalist was remembered by a number of industry insiders as news of his pᴀssing spread Monday 

‘I’m thinking like, “Maybe the kids have taken over Walmart, or something,” because I was surprised at how perfect it was for the soul of that song, and to combat all of the ugliness and divisiveness of this time we’re living through.’

Young in 2016 told the website Music Aficionado why he was partial to writing content about the beauty of nature.

‘Love of the natural world is as much a theme in my music as romantic love,’ he said. ‘I get more out of walking over the ridgetop in Marin and looking out at the national seashore than any drugs I ever did.’