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[…]
Within a year of opening 309 Joe expanded his thriving business to New York. Sigma leased space in the same building that houses the Ed Sullivan Theater. Joe built three studios there. Some of the greatest artist of the 70’s and 80s used them: The Talking Heads, Steely Dan, and[…]