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March, 2007

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My First Meeting with Wally

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007 by mirage

I was working at Filmways/Heider Recording in 1978 as an aspiring engineer. They had us doing everything but what I wanted to do. After 5Pm we all had a chance to answer the phone system. One night this guy calls up for Ray Thompson’s home phone number and I wouldn’t give it out since we [...]

About posting….

Thursday, March 15th, 2007 by admin

I’ve seen this happen a couple of times – a person writes a piece for the blog and it apears password protected. It’s not you — it’s this ambiguious Wordpress software. If you are viewing an edit/author page, then you are already ‘connected’ and recognized – you do NOT need to put anything in [...]

How I met Wally

Sunday, March 11th, 2007 by Peter Granet

1970; I was working at National Recording in New York. National was in the building torn down to make room for Trump Towers. One day Duke Ellington and his brother Mercer came into the studio to record a few compositions with a new sax player. Johnny Hodges had just died [...]