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Oct 10 2008

Music And Records From Classic Recording Studios: Audio Recording

Posted by: Fusion 45 in Classic Recording Studios, tags: joe jeffrey group, maureen mcgovern

Audio Recording, Cleveland

The Eastern US studio called Audio Recording was opened by Joe Petito in 1956. The Poni-Tails recorded there as did Terry Knight And The Pack, which included future Grand Funk Railroad members Don Brewer and Mark Farner. (Terry Knight stayed in the fold. After Brewer and Farner formed Grand Funk, he hired as their first manager.)

Oddly known in the area for being the studio with the best Coca-Cola machine (12 ounce bottle = 25 cents), Audio Recording turned out a raft of local and regional hits, along with national hits like The Morning After by Maureen McGovern and My Pledge of Love by Joe Jeffrey Group.

Audio Recording is still in business in suburban Cleveland, specializing in broadcast, acoustic and classical recordings along with some folk and blues.

Joe Jeffrey Group - My Pledge of Love
Maureen McGovern - The Morning After

Artwork: Explorer by Bob Bennett

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Sep 02 2008

Summer ‘73

Posted by: Fusion 45 in Props and Missives, Radio Mixes, tags: b.w. stevenson, billy preston, carpenters, chicago, deep purple, dr. john, helen reddy, jim croce, mac davis, maureen mcgovern, paul mccartney, paul simon, seals and crofts, three dog night, wings

It is the 25th 35th anniversary of the Summer of 1973. I was 10-years old during that particular summer.

I have a 10-year old of my own today. He’s sometimes sweet, often petulant, always inquisitive. In short, he’s a lot like his father.

I’ve been thinking a lot about that summer over the past several months, how much the music will always be a soundtrack to that time.

I was going to write a week long series of posts about my summer as a 10-year old, riding our banana-seated bikes around the lake where we camped (predecessors to the mountain bikers of today), catching crayfish in the creek, fishing for blue gills in the lake, burning piles of wood in the fireplace (because we could), singeing marshmallows and eyebrows over the campfire and listening to the jukebox in the campground rec room. Especially the jukebox in the rec room, where we dropped quarters on the pool table and the pinball machine in a freshly built space that smelled forever like concrete and sawdust.

But, I’m off on a business trip tomorrow (a few hours after school starts) and, like the summer of 1973, the opportunity for a long list of reminisces has largely passed.

I did get as far as making a CD of these songs for car listening. Grandmom immediately identified them as “songs from the lake” and my kids immediately wanted to hear Smoke On The Water several hundred times (which they promptly renamed Barbeque On The River).

In a way, I managed to pull my summer and his summer as 10-year olds together. Briefly, which is always the way life is…

And say goodbye to summer…one more time.

The Carpenters - Yesterday Once More