Chapter 15 Holdin’ My Own “Help Me, Somebody Please” / “Cry Together” Stevie keeps his word / Jermaine Jackson “Silly” My Melody After maybe seven or more years at Sigma, I had never received a single comment from my boss Joe Tarsia about my work. Maybe once in a while[…]
Chapter 14 The session that wasn’t… “Seed’s a Star” / The Secret Life of Plants / “Turn Out the Lights” / “Lady Love” Sometime in 1978 Evan Solot approached me with an interesting proposition. Evan played trumpet often in the horn section. I once suggested Evan to play a solo[…]
Chapter 13 Odds and Ends “You Are So Beautiful to Me” / Nightflight Early on while I was still assisting, Don Murray and I were booked to cut a song produced by Richie Rome, a very well respected and excellent arranger and producer from South Philly. It was an odd[…]
Chapter 12 Grover Michael Henderson “Take Me I’m Yours” / In the Night-Time / Wide Receiver Many great artists came and went through the halls of Sigma in the 10 years that I was there. One of the finest spirits I was lucky enough to know was Grover Washington Jr.[…]
Chapter 11 “Fix it in the mix” “I Don’t Love You Anymore” and other Teddy tunes Gene and John During my ten tears at Sigma, I was lucky enough to work with many greats. In the first year and a half that I was an Assistant Engineer I[…]
Chapter 10 Two at once… “Sadie” Thom and the “C” bus WMMR Radio Concerts Don Murray and I were assigned to record a project with Thom Bell. It was to be the next Spinners album but at that time we were recording two albums at the same time. We[…]
Chapter 9 Working some classic hits! “Ten Percent” / “Bad Luck” / “Wake Up Everybody” “Close the Door” / “Then Came You” Changes to the team: Resurrection Rhythm Section One night soon after being promoted to a First Engineer I was booked in Studio 2 with Norman Harris for[…]
Chapter 8 Rock and Roll! Duke, James and Good God! Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall Don Murray is a wonderful man. He was a very close friend and the engineer I spent a lot of time with while having been requested by Thom Bell. Don has[…]
Chapter 7 My first times as a First Engineer Bunny “Living for the Weekend” / “I Lied” / Life on Mars One of the first sessions I got to record a part of was a string and horn date for Gamble and Huff with Bobby Martin doing the arrangement.[…]
Chapter 6 Gams and Huff and more time with Joe “The Rich Get Richer” “Dirty Old Man” / “When Will I See You Again?” / “She Loves You” Another funny moment I recall working with Joe Tarsia was a night (which was rare with Joe) and we were mixing[…]