Installment Vol.5 Page 5

Then their was this high energy pop rock band from Brooklyn, The Shirts. I’ll have more to say about the bands a little later. The bands were all treated equally as to their moneys received per cut on the album. Some things turned out wonderfully well and others didn’t turn out the way we expected. One of the biggest disappointment was when The Talking Heads chose not to be on the album after much mixing and remixing. I never learned who if anyone influenced their decision, or if it was the fact that they were about to be signed by Sire Records. We all thought they sounded great and it was upsetting not to include them. The other big disappointment was that The Blondie Group, as a band, was not together enough live to make a good enough recording. This was after mixing and remixing several times. Craig and Kim felt we could not get it to work. We did not want to jeopardize their career by putting out inferior recordings of their music. They were much too gifted as writers and Debbie Harry’s voice was one of the smoothest, sweetest sounds to be heard. Also, we were all secretly in love with her- she was absolutely beautiful and a lovely person. The good news was I was able to introduce Debbie and Chris to Richard Gottherer during that time and he signed them to a production deal that lead to a record contract with Private Stock Records which eventually propelled them to stardom on Chrysalis Records.

The Shirts




The Talking Heads

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