Blog
THE DRAMATICS
THE DRAMATICS The first million selling record I played on for the Dramatics was “Whatcha See is Whatcha Get”. Don Davis was the producer and it was released on the Stax-Volt record label. I used my […]
RODRIGUEZ
RODRIGUEZ One day Mike Theodore and I got a call from Rainy Moore, The manager/girlfriend of urban folk singer Rodriguez. She told us Rodriguez had been dropped from Harry Balk’s record label Impact and was looking for a new deal. We had done some arrangements […]
RINGO STARR
RINGO STARR I was on an expedition in the high Sierras in Northern California on horseback. When I rode back to base camp I was surprised to hear there was a message waiting for me. The message was […]
WILSON PICKETT
WILSON PICKETT One day in the early 70s I got a telephone call from Brad Shapiro. Brad and Dave Crawford were producing an album on Wilson Pickett at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio with the Swampers in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. They offered me double scale for […]
GOLDEN WORLD AND RIC-TIC RECORDS
GOLDEN WORLD AND RIC-TIC RECORDS My first session at Golden World Studios surprised me. One day I got a call from Herman Wheems who worked for Ed Wingate the owner of Gold World Studios and the record labels Golden World and Ric-Tic. Herman asked me […]