Posted on 09/10/2020 1:16:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway
I worked for Ray back in the day put a few sound systems in his budding car collection Spent many an afternoon chating with him amazing talent thanks for posting very humble guy
He stole the song! It’s identical to Want a New Drug by Huey Lewis!
I always thought he seemed like a nice guy.
Dude could write songs.
Nice to hear. I guess when you put in sound systems for someone who has that background, they have to be really good.
He stole the song! It’s identical to Want a New Drug by Huey Lewis!
There is a great music business phrase, though: Change a word, get a third.
As for Leo Sayer, is it me or is he like a twin brother of Richard Simmons?
I worked for Rogers Sound labs in so cal and yeah we put in mostly home speaker components from thier line with hand would cross overs and filters it was a cool time to be in that field that was still into cassettes the new tech moving from 4 and 8 track
You didn’t read the article.
It wasn’t “Ghostbusters”.
It was “You Make Me Feel Like Dancing”.
Everything is now brought under the umbrella of racism, even if it isn’t. People cheat other people. They lie and steal. It doesn’t become racism when a black is the victim.
he did suggest taking the midrange speakers and put them out of phase with the woffer ant tweeter. seemed to calm down the midrange bulge
I heard Stevie Wonder called him to hire him for sessions, and a tour, but Parker hung up the first time, because he didn't really think it could be him.
This is FR, we don’t need to read the article.
There is a long history of the wrong people being credited for writing a song in the music business.
Some of the Grammy awards have been controversial. For example, the Kingston Trio’s “Tom Dooley” won the award for best country-western song and a few years later, Petula Clark’s “Downtown” was dubbed the best rock and roll recording. While “Tom Dooley” may qualify as country-western, “Downtown,” a down-tempo bolero, is most certainly not rock and roll.
Label suits (and unions) have screwed more musicians and ruined more music than you will ever know. One of the reasons I hate the music business, even though we have been in it for 50 years.
Ray Parker sounds like a very talented songwriter who never hired a competent manager or agent. I recall most of his big songs.
Singer Janis Ian had a somewhat similar fate.
She was only 14 when she wrote and performed her biggest hit
Society’s Child. Her record label, Atlantic refused to release it for years, since it had to do with interracial romance. A good Agent or Manager may have prevented that refusal from happening.
Does Parker think racism may have been a factor — a white industry insider deciding to pull one over on a young Black kid from the streets of Detroit?
Biggest laugh line I’ve come across this year, well, this decade, well, this CENTURY.
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