tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6026171904413475346.post6939427992109462360..comments2024-02-06T17:22:39.512-08:00Comments on Bobby Jameson: (part 189) BOB SUMMER AND THE GUYS IN NEW YORKBobby Jamesonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01527521612297449370noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6026171904413475346.post-25270028921038150542009-08-06T01:58:39.822-07:002009-08-06T01:58:39.822-07:00After I quit teaching to play music, I got a job i...After I quit teaching to play music, I got a job in a great independent record store called Lovell's in Whittier. I saw this happen a number of times, but I recall two in particular. Wayne Berry had a great solo record on RCA entitled Home At Last; it was produced by Norbert Putnam, and it had Jesse Ed Davis, Jeff (Skunk) Baxter, JIm Gordon, David Paich, Weldon Myrick, and backup vocals by Jackson Browne and Ned Doheny, just to name a few of the star players on his record. <br /><br />Ned Doheny was the first artist that David Geffen signed to Asylum followed by Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell, JD Souther, and the Eagles. Doheny actually played guitar and added vocals on several of these records and Henley, Frey and Souther reciprocated.<br /><br />Both of these artists had second (or third) records that were actually listed in Phonolog, including specific track names, but neither record was ever released. Because the owner of the store also owned a record distributor, I was able to talk to RCA. At first, they were a little baffled, saying that I was confused, that the record had been released. Then, after a bit more prying insistence, I was told that the record had been shelved and that it would never be released. And that was it! Wayne Berry was basically never heard from again.<br /><br />The same with Doheny. He didn't get a follow-up with Geffen, but he did release one the next year with Columbia (CBS). It was his second on Columbia that was listed but never released. He went on to become a minor star in Japan, but none of his later records were released in the US.<br /><br />Both of these artists wrote great songs, made great music, had great records, but the "men in New York" or LA or Nashville just crapped on their careers and blasted them into oblivion (or Japan in Ned Doheny's case).<br /><br />Your experience here explains exactly how such travesties can happen as well as explaining why so much that is third-rate trash gets promoted while incredibly talented writers and performers get the shaft. I'll save what feels like the onslaught of an anti-corporate tirade for my own blog.<br /><br />The fact that you continued to keep your integrity in the face of this grotesquely unfair (and criminal) conspiracy is another sign of significant and conscious change in who you were choosing to become.<br /><br />TimTim McMullenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04840770464754311701noreply@blogger.com