As a teenager, I had a sound studio, Starfire Sound, in my parents’ spare room. It was a fairly professional setup, with a non-perpendicular, insulated wall and double glass separating the performance area from the mixing area. At one time I even owned the Ampex 8-track, 1-inch tape deck formerly used by Kate Smith. It was filled with tubes, and stood eight feet high, four feet wide, and weighed hundreds of pounds — a lot like Kate Smith, in fact. The thing never really worked, and all of our songs from the seventies were recorded on a 4-track Teac, mixing tracks down over and over again to create a multi-track (and multi-hiss) effect.
A high school friend of mine, Jerry Robinson, was in a professional touring band. He and I recorded a dozen songs, but some of those have been lost. I also recorded several songs with my guitar teacher, Richard Morrison.
In addition, I produced a number of recordings for clients, and produced and did session work at Spectrum Studios in Venice. Those recordings belong to others, and are not listed here.
In 1991 the newborn Danielle went to France with Linda while she worked on EuroDisney for six months, and I filled my spare time by composing using a Yamaha SY-99 synth. How things had changed! Now I could lay down as many tracks as I wanted, with no degradation, and had an entire orchestra of instruments available to me. The second set of songs listed below reflect this period.