KATE SMITH I was a very young audio engineer working at RKO Sound Studios in Manhattan when Kate Smith called the studio. I didn’t take the call. That was done in another part of the company. All I knew was a lady singer and her accompanist were coming into the studio. There was no pre-booking […]
STOP HIM! STOP HIM! I worked on 45th street between 9th and 10th. Leaving work with an attaché briefcase at that time, as I used to do, I walked towards Times Square. Between 9th and 8th . I see a crowd running towards me yelling “STOP HIM! STOP HIM!” At first I don’t know what […]
Around 1972 I was working in 1440 Broadway. At the time it was Good Vibrations Sound Studio. We had already lease purchased it from RKO and renamed it Good Vibes. My brother Manny had done a “Happening” at Lincoln Center where Salvador Dali was to get inside a plastic dome or bubble and from the […]
The Three Carradines The first one I met was Keith. He was rehearsing for “Will Rogers Follies” on Broadway. I was there programming the first use of my theatrical sound automation system (Performance Automation). We didn’t have much contact, but he was always cordial. He was busy with his work, I with mine. When the […]
THE HELLS ANGELS My wife and I decided to take a European vacation. While on vacation my partners had committed the studio to producing a movie about the Hells Angels. Director and one of the partners Leon Gast, was friendly with Sandy Alexander the Hells Angels New York Chapter President. I wouldn’t have wanted to […]
I was in the studio with Richie Havens, the Thursday night before Woodstock. We were together in the studio 8-10 hours a day Mon-Thursday, for years. The Weekend of Woodstock was coming up I said to Richie, should I go with you to this Bethel thing, Exposition, Woodstock thing? (it actually wasn’t called Woodstock yet) […]