Kevin Gavin on Charlie Parker Wecords

[JSngry]

[Fer Urbina]

About Gavin.

Have not listened to it for a while, but it looks like a serious effort by Gavin to put something out as a soloist. It's more or less the band Mundell Lowe put together for the soundtrack of "Satan in High Heels" (rhythm: Lowe/Costa/Duvivier/Shaughnessy) augmented with strings in some tracks.

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[Harold_Z]

That's wild. Kevin Gavin on CP records. Kevin Gavin was big in the NYC jingle scene through at least the early 80s. I had always heard that he and Barry Manilow wrote the "You Deserve A Break Today" jingle for McDonalds.For a time he was partners with Sid Woloshin, another name that won't ring a bell but another huge name in the jingle industry. After they began to work independently I know Sid wound up with the McDonalds account.

[Fer Urbina]

Have put it on and it's... nice. Gavin sings in a rather straight-forward manner, no jazz inflections at all. Sometimes he sounds a bit like a less energetic Bobby Darin. There are three settings, big band, and small combo (rhythm + Phil Bodner on ww) with or without strings. More details can be seen here.

Jerome Gavin, Kevin's brother wrote the liner notes and four of the tunes with his brother. A fifth is by Dick (brother of Andy) Williams and Kevin Gavin.

There are almost no instrumental solos to speak of (Mundell Lowe takes a chorus in "My Beginning with You"), although I must say that George Duvivier may have slipped a few dollars to Phil Ramone, because the bass in my mono copy is huge (fine by me), even, or especially, with the big band.

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[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

so, what youre saying, is this is produced by the same guy who produced Billy Joel The Stranger? okay, fine by me!

[Fer Urbina]

so, what youre saying, is this is produced by the same guy who produced Billy Joel The Stranger? okay, fine by me!

Don't have the LP with me at the moment, but the producer is someone else. Ramone is listed as "sound engineer" or something to that effect.

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[JSngry]

Phil Ramone was a very successful engineer before he became an even more successful pop producer. He's all over the Creed Taylor-era Verves, among other places.