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I used to be a trumpet player. I did my Bachelor's Degree at University of Southern California and my Masters at Arizona State. I also did some arranging, conducting, teaching, producing and contracting. I played Principal Trumpet in the Orange County Symphony (now the Pacific Symphony) and the Phoenix Symphony as well as a few others. I briefly went out on the road playing lead trumpet with Aretha, Lou Rawls and a few others. I went out conducting for Connie Stevens and Don Ho. In between all this, starting in the early sixties until I quit the biz in 1980, I did jingles (radio and TV commercials), TV shows, a few movies and probably played on at least a thousand records. Most of the records were forgettable and I only remember a few that I did. I worked at MoWest, MoTown's L.A. studio, from the time they opened it in 1972 until 1980. The usual routine was that we would record four songs in each three-hour record date or "session". We would most often do all the songs for an album in two or three sessions. So, for example, when I recorded September for Earth, Wind and Fire, that was during two sessions where we played on about eight tunes for the album that September was a part of. I remember September because it was so challenging. I remember Can't Get Enough of Your Love because Gene Page, the arranger, forgot to write the trumpet parts. Bud Brisbois, the other trumpet player, and I had to play the lick Barry White sang for us when he would cue us from the recording booth. Listed below are a few records that I remember doing or for which I received a "re-use" payment i.e. you get paid when the recording is reused for a movie, TV, a commercial or when it is "sampled" into a new song, etc. To this day I am still being surprised by receiving a re-use check for a song I don't recall recording. Anyway, here are a few. Perhaps you recognize some of them.
Barry White Can't Get Enough of Your Love Oh Love, We Finally Made It (Sampled in Twenty G's by KRS-One) Never, Never Gonna Give You Up
Marvin Gaye Trouble man (Sampled in FT by Brolic) After the Dance (Sampled in Get Retarded by Cannibus, Play On Playa by Nas and With Me by De La Soul) Life’s Opera (Sampled in Get Down by Cam'Ron) Cleo's Apartment
Earth, Wind and Fire September (and two of those sessions for the I Am Album [for which I never got paid or credited due to a clerical error by the contractor, Ben Barrett])
Diana Ross Touch Me In the Morning My Hero Is a Gun (Sampled in Stop Being Greedy by DMX)
The OJ's She Used To Be My Girl
Tower of Power So Very Hard To Go
Hues Corporation I Caught Your Act (and the album from those sessions)
Tavares Whodunit More Than a woman
Al Wilson Show and Tell La La Peace Song
Rose Royce Car Wash I Wanna Get Next to You
Boz Scaggs You Make It So Hard (and the rest of the Slow Dancer album)
Bill Withers She's Lonely (Sampled in Different Kind of Lady by Benzio) Hello Like Before (Sampled in Bridging the Gap by Black Eyed Peas)
Eddie Kendricks Each Day I Cry a Little (Sampled in God Gave Me Style by 50 Cent, Fan Mail by Az, I Tried by Geto Boys) Time in a Bottle (Sampled in You Made Me by Harlem World W Mase)
Edwin Starr Easin’ In ( Sampled in Crime Story by DMX) Runnin' (Sampled in The Bidness by Snoop Dogg)
The Commodores Mary, Mary (Sampled in Hey Fred by Rehab)
Michael Jackson With a Child’s Heart (Sampled in Watch Me by Little Brother)
The Miracles Give Me Just Another Day (Sampled in Movin On Up by 50 Cent and Mr. 17.5 by Young Jeezy)
Freda Payne Band of Gold Bring the Boys Home
Willie Hutch I Wanna be Where You Are (Sampled in Can't Hide From Luv and What You Made Of by Mary J. Blige)
Lamont Dozier Album: Out Here on My Own
Jimmy Jackson Something's Burning You Say You Love Me More Romeo and Juliet
Frankie Crocker Album: Frankie Crocker and the Heart and Soul Orchestra
T-Boy Ross Album: Changes
The Olympics Looking for a Love
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