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I used to be a trumpet player.  I also did some arranging, conducting and contracting.  I played in a few symphony orchestras as well as going out on the road with a few acts.  Starting in the early sixties through about 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.

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 some 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 or a commercial, 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

Never, Never Gonna Give You Up

 

Marvin Gaye

Trouble man

After the Dance

Life’s Opera

 

Earth, Wind and Fire

September

 

Diana Ross 

Touch Me In the Morning

My Hero Is a Gun

 

The OJ's 

She Used To Be My Girl

 

Tower of Power 

So Very Hard To Go

 

Hues Corporation 

I Caught Your Act

 

Tavares 

Who Done It

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

 

Bill Withers 

She's Lonely

Hello Like Before

 

Eddie Kendricks 

Each Day I Cry a Little

Time in a Bottle

 

Edwin Starr

Easin’ In

 

The Commodores 

Mary, Mary

 

Michael Jackson 

With a Child’s Heart

 

The Miracles 

Give Me Just Another Day



 
 

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