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The Wally Heider Orchestra

Wally had a dance band in the 40′s and Biff Dawes found an acetate (one-off-disk recording) of the band live: Did Wally himself set this up? check out       THE WALLY HEIDER ORCHESTRA

Posted on May 24, 2010 at 10:40:25 by biff · Permalink · Leave a comment
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My sister was Ginger Mews….

Ginger passed away May 19, 2000 at the young age of 59.  (She came to be with us on Christmas Day 1999 with the hope treatment for her cancer would buy some time.)  We later flew to SF and had a wonderful celebration of her life.  There is a memorial bench in Golden Gate Park [...]

Posted on May 13, 2010 at 11:58:48 by Vicki Mews Dykstra · Permalink · One Comment
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RUSS GARY’S Recollections Part One

Noted CCR mixer Russ Gary Talks about his Heider experience…

When Wally Heider was an assistant engineer at United/Western Studios on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood, he was the biggest big band enthusiast on the planet and would take his portable tape recorder to gigs and record the show so the guys in the band could hear their performance. He kept the recordings for his own enjoyment. He made friends in all the big bands of the day, and when bands came to United/Western to record, they would ask for Wally as their engineer. Thus, Wally’s career took off.

Posted on January 15, 2010 at 14:17:46 by Rebel · Permalink · 3 Comments
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RUSS GARY’S Recollections Part Two

This is part two of this article. To see part one, go to http://wallyheider.com/wordpress/archives/rebel/39/ San Francisco Between late 1968 and early 1969 I made several trips to San Francisco to help prepare the studios for opening day. The original staff members included studio manager Mel Tanner, formerly an engineer at Coast Recorders in San Francisco. [...]

Posted on January 15, 2010 at 13:10:16 by Rebel · Permalink · One Comment
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Heider Truck in Long Beach 1977

CLICK THE PHOTO FOR FULL SIZE This is a photo of the Wally Heider Recording truck on location during the recording of Boston, Long Beach 77\’. I was on the sound crew for Boston and I happened to take the photo.  It is fairly low res. but it might be good for this site.  The recording [...]

Posted on May 11, 2009 at 11:00:00 by danaroun · Permalink · Leave a comment
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