Fu uno dei membri fondatori dei Crazy Horse, gruppo d'accompagnamento del musicista canadese Neil Young. Whitten è noto anche per essere l'autore del brano I Don't Want to Talk About It, rivelatosi un hit per Rita Coolidge, Rod Stewart ed Everything but the Girl.
Morto per overdose di alcol e Valium nel 1972,McDonough, Jimmy. Shakey: Neil Young's Biography, Anchor Books, 2003), pag. 388 la sua figura venne ricordata nella canzone The Needle and the Damage Done di Neil Young presente nell'album Harvest dello stesso anno. Sempre Young, che era molto amico di Whitten, dedicò alla sua memoria anche l'album del 1975 Tonight's the Night.
Discografia Album con The Rockets 1968 - The Rockets (White Whale Records) con Joe Beck 1969 - Nature Boy (Verve Forecast Records) Danny Whitten suona in un brano (in Let Me Go) con Neil Young 1969 - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (Reprise Records) 1970 - After the Gold Rush (Reprise Records) 1975 - Tonight's the Night (Reprise Records) Danny Whitten suona in un brano (in Come on Baby Let's Go Downtown) 1991 - Live (D.V. More Record) registrazioni Live del 1970 con Crazy Horse 1971 - Crazy Horse (Reprise Records) 2005 - Gone Dead Train: The Best of Crazy Horse 1971–1989 (Raven Records) con Barry Goldberg 1971 - Blasts from My Past (Buddah Records) con Neil Young & Crazy Horse 1990 - The Loner (Manic Depression Records) 2 CD, registrazioni Live del 1970 e 1971 2004 - Boston Tea Party 1970 (Screamer Records) registrazione Live del 1970 2006 - Danny by the River (Seymour Records) registrazioni Live del 1970 2006 - Live at the Fillmore East (Reprise Records) con DVD, registrazioni Live del 1970 2010 - Electric Factory (Midnight Dreamer) registrazioni Live del 1970
Singoli Danny and the Memories 1963 - Surfin' Granny / Mirror Mirror (Liberty Records) inedito 1964 - Can't Help Loving That Girl of Mine / Don't Go (Valiant Records) The Psyrcle 1966 - Baby, Don't Do That / ? (Lorna Records) inedito The Rockets 1968 - Hole In My Pocket / Let Me Go (White Whale Records) Crazy Horse 1971 - Downtown / Crow Jane Lady (Reprise Records) 1007 1971 - Dance, Dance, Dance (mono) / Dance Dance Dance (stereo) (Reprise Records) 1025 1971 - Dance, Dance, Dance / Carolay (Reprise Records) 1025 1971 - Dirty Dirty / Beggar's Day (Reprise Records) 1046
Brani musicali composti da Danny Whitten Dance to the Music On the Radio (D. Whitten/B. Talbot) Dirty, Dirty (D. Whitten) (Come On Baby Let's Go) Downtown (D. Whitten/N. Young) Hole in My Pocket (D. Whitten) I Don't Need Nobody (Hangin' Round My Door) (D. Whitten) I Don't Want to Talk About It (D. Whitten) I'll Get By (D. Whitten) Let Me Go (D. Whitten) Look at All the Things (D. Whitten) Love Can Be So Bad (D. Whitten/L. Vegas) May (D. Whitten/B. Talbot) Mr Chips (D. Whitten) Oh Boy (D. Whitten) Wasted (D. Whitten/L. Vegas/P. Vegas) Whatever (D. Whitten/B. Talbot) Won't You Say You'll Stay (D. Whitten)
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Voci correlate Crazy Horse (gruppo musicale) The Needle and the Damage Done Tonight's the Night
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