Today is Easter Sunday 2017. I walk into to our bedroom to see my wife tuned into the Marble Collegiate Broadcast on TV. Many thoughts and memories come rushing to mind. When I went to synagogue on the Sabbath or the Holidays, there was always one non-Jewish guy working there. In this religion you are […]
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Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Phil Ramone Aaron Baron was one of the two owners of “Location Recorders, Inc.” Larry Dahlstrum was his partner. Together they had built one of the finest and first recording trucks. They originally called it “Fly by Night Audio”, but nobody would give them a bank loan under that name. […]
Being a Float in the New York Yankee Parade. Around 1977-1978 It was fall and Ira Hersher came to me with an idea. He, and his girlfriend at the time, Eleanor Radzivillover, wanted to make a Salsa song and release in time for the Yankees to win the World Series. The problem was The Yankees […]
Jack Klugman – Richie Fitzgerald is the older brother, co-owner of Sound Associates, one of the big three theater sound supply companies. Richie and his younger brother Peter, were brought up in the theater business by their father Tom Fitzgerald. Richie and Peter both know everybody in the theater business. When Jack Klugman was recovering […]
I don’t know what the motivation for inventing/creating is. I don’t even know if there are a number of motivations, or just one. What I do know is, I have always just done it. There was and is always inventing or analyzing creation going on in my head. Often rethinking a piece of music in […]
Ray Barretto “Cocinando” Ray Barretto had just recorded “Que Viva La Musica”. Alan Manger, my partner and also a recording engineer, had done a great job with the band recording. Alan was busy working on the movie “Our Latin Thing”, so I jumped in to finish the recording and do the mix. “Cocinando”, was maybe […]
MARTHA RAYE My bother Charles and his wife Joan had just moved to California. Charles was writing music for film and that was where the films were made, so they moved. They were living in an apartment on a street called La Cienega. La Cienega intersects Sunset Strip. Their apartment was only a few blocks […]
Our Latin Thing The Street Concert Part of the Our Latin Thing movie was a scene shot in front of a church, on its steps. There Larry Harlow and Pacheco decided to do an outdoor street concert for the movie. Larry’s band played great as usual. Pacheco was going to play a flute solo […]
I was in Sound On Sound studio recording “Man From San Juan”. The album was produced by Mike Martinez. The particular song was a piece of poetry with a Bass playing a kind of “call and response” with the poetry. It was kind of a Bee-Bop thing. Cachao, a world famous acoustic bass player, was […]
Some time between 1972-1975, I produced some NRBQ recordings that included “Riding In My Car”. There were 6 partners in Good Vibrations Sound Studios. Each was allowed to record one Artist of his own choice and produce an album for no cost. Elliot Sacks was one of the partners. He had no technical or artistic […]