Trust In Love – James Gallagher

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Chapter 19

Chapter 19 Headed East to the ‘Big Apple’ House of Hearts “Da Butt” I was finished with Los Angeles at a point where the money was in bad shape and money from working with Rory on the road was not nearly enough to afford to stay in Los Angeles. But[…]

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Chapter 18

Chapter 18 LA LA Land “We Are the World” / Don’t leave without me. / “Gypsy Boy” La La Land, as Stevie loved to call it, was for me a place for lots of work and lots of play. Yes, I attended my fair share of parties while living there.[…]

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Chapter 17

Chapter 17 Go West Young Man! Wonderland “Overjoyed” The Bossa Nova Hotel and “Maniac(s)” The ‘Pope of Pop’ and Bossa Nova Hotel Well, that Christmas turned out to be a momentous one for me indeed. This has not been an account of my personal life but rather my professional one.[…]

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Chapter 16

Chapter 16 The album that wasn’t and the some that were “What You Gonna Do ‘bout My Lovin’” / “Put Your Body in It” Stevie and MYX Saying goodbye As a First Engineer I got to do a lot of cool projects in the many years at Sigma but one[…]

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Chapter 15

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[…]

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Chapter 14

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[…]

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Chapter 13

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[…]

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Chapter 12

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.[…]

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Chapter 11

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[…]

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Chapter 10

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[…]

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