Panic! At The Disco, Demi Lovato, Oneida, Shemekia Copeland, and Franklin Gothic.Ĭanadian artists with new releases out this week include Johnny Orlando, Chantal Chamberland, A Family Curse, and Carbon Memory.ġ6: Beach Bums - Overcast(Lolipop Records)ġ6: Matthew E. Let’s go.Covid-19 has impacted many facets of the music biz, but new releases and reissues continue apace. Notables with new albums include Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros, Madonna, Hot Chip, I think maybe he was to all of us in that way, you know? Just like, “The chief is going that way. Maybe he was kind of a father figure to Lenny. Lenny said something about him: He said he just was way ahead of everybody else. It was friendly competition.įrom Mo, I learned to be true to who you are and make the music that you love. There was competition, you know, but it was a camaraderie. That studio system that nurtured me and others, like Lenny and Teddy, no longer exists. I got to work with my favorite artists on earth.
I was fortunate enough to be part of the studio system. Mo and Lenny would sign something odd and quirky, like Fleetwood Mac, and believed in them and stuck with them, the way they did with Ry and Randy, and it paid off. Cooder’s records didn’t sell that much, same with Van Dyke Parks– but every other artist in the world thought these guys are the greatest. Lenny had Randy: that stuff didn’t sell until a little bit later. His job was to do his job and stay out of the way. I think it’s partly because he didn’t show off. He was tremendously respected by everyone who came in contact with him. And people were drawn to him because he was forthright and honest. He just didn’t want to be in the limelight at all. He signed Hendrix and Joni Mitchell and Neil Young and Fleetwood Mac. While we were in Rome, or Positano, Mo went to England and signed Eric Clapton. He invited me and my wife Carol along on that trip. And Mo took him on a trip to Europe as a present since he was leaving. When Eddie Rosenblatt was asked to become president of Geffen Records, that meant that he left Warner Bros. So he had to be able to navigate those waters as well. Look where he came from: Sinatra, Norman Granz, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald. Mo was a creative executive and he seemed to not have an ego like some other executives.
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True to his philosophy, he hired the man who he trusted would know how to carry out his vision. He said Lenny was the architect of the A&R department. He had this philosophy that you hire people who you think are good, who have talent, then you let them do what they do. Lenny was my boss and it was he who said let’s do these Newman records and Mo was very open and very generous. Russ Titelman and Steve Winwood Karen Petersen/Courtesy of WMG Come on staff.” Mo guided me through the contract and made a fair contract for me. Lenny took me out to dinner and said, “C’mon. That live record started selling and was getting attention. That led to my working with Lenny on Randy’s live album from the Bitter End, which came out in 1971.
Randy Newman and I worked on Jack’s score to Performance together and that was the beginning of our friendship. He said go upstairs and make a deal with Mo. I brought Little Feat - just Lowell and Billy – to Lenny. You’re welcome to come here.” I found a home. He said to me, “If you ever want to do anything in the record business, the door is open here for you to do it. It was a deli run by a Chinese couple, so it had Chinese food and smoked salmon and corned beef and fortune cookies. We went to Chow’s Kosherama on Riverside Drive. Ry Cooder would be there and Van Dyke Parks and sometimes Randy Newman. around 1967, Jack Nitzsche and I would go hang at his office. When Lenny Waronker went from Metric Music to Warner Bros. He had a big smile and was open and welcoming. I met Mo Ostin in 1963 at Reprise Reprise in a nondescript office building in Los Angeles. Titelman, whose Grammy wins include record of the year for Winwood’s “Higher Love” (1986) and again for Clapton’s “Tears in Heaven,” as well as album of the year for Clapton’s “Unplugged” (1992), talked with Billboard about working with Ostin during Warner Brothers’ glory days. Jerry Allison, Buddy Holly & The Crickets Drummer and Songwriter, Dies at 82
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