John Punter
John Punter (born 27 January 1949) is an English and Canadian former record producer and recording engineer. He has worked with many bands and musicians, such as Spoons, Japan, Procol Harum, Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry, Re-Flex, Doctors of Madness, Sad Café and Slade. His career in music spanned over 30 years and many different genres. He is now retired from the entertainment business, and ran a small bar in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. On July 24, 2019, he became a citizen of Canada. Selected production, mixing and remixing *Japan - '' Quiet Life'' - 1979 *Japan - ''Gentlemen Take Polaroids'' - 1980 *Japan - ''Oil on Canvas'' - 1983 *Ivan - ''The Spell'' *Johnny Cougar - “I Need a Lover” -1978 *Spoons - '' Arias & Symphonies'', '' Vertigo Tango'' *Bryan Ferry - '' Let's Stick Together'' - 1976 *Nazareth - ''Nazareth'' - 1970 *Nazareth - '' 2XS'' - 1982 *Roxy Music - '' Country Life'' - 1974 * Doctors of Madness - '' Late Night Movies, All Night Brainstorms'' *Sad Café - '' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Record Producer
A record producer or music producer is a music creating project's overall supervisor whose responsibilities can involve a range of creative and technical leadership roles. Typically the job involves hands-on oversight of recording sessions; ensuring artists deliver acceptable and quality performances, supervising the technical engineering of the recording, and coordinating the production team and process. The producer's involvement in a musical project can vary in depth and scope. Sometimes in popular genres the producer may create the recording's entire sound and structure. However, in classical music recording, for example, the producer serves as more of a liaison between the conductor and the engineering team. The role is often likened to that of a film director, though there are important differences. It is distinct from the role of an executive producer, who is mostly involved in the recording project on an administrative level, and from the audio engineer who operates the re ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Let's Stick Together
''Let's Stick Together'' is a 1976 album by Bryan Ferry. His third solo release, it was his first following the disbanding of Roxy Music earlier in the year. Unlike Ferry's two previous solo releases, ''Let’s Stick Together'' was not a dedicated album project, instead predominately made up of singles, B-sides, and an EP. Three tracks were exclusive to the LP, all remakes of Roxy Music tracks: "Casanova", "2HB", and "Chance Meeting". It had a generally favourable critical reception, but only just made the UK Top 20. Production Five of the tracks on the album were remakes of Bryan Ferry songs previously recorded with Roxy Music. " Re-Make/Re-Model", " 2HB", " Chance Meeting" and " Sea Breezes" were from the band's self-titled debut album (1972), while "Casanova" was taken from '' Country Life'' (1974). In most cases the re-recordings were smoother and more oriented to jazz and R&B than the original Roxy Music versions. The other six tracks on the album were covers. The sax-dr ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Amazing Kamikaze Syndrome
''The Amazing Kamikaze Syndrome'' is the eleventh studio album by the British Rock music, rock group Slade. It was released on 9 December 1983 and reached No. 49 in the UK charts. The album was produced largely by bassist Jim Lea (musician), Jim Lea. The two UK Top 10 singles released from the album, "My Oh My (Slade song), My Oh My" and "Run Runaway", were produced by John Punter. In 1984, the album was re-packaged and released as ''Keep Your Hands Off My Power Supply'' by CBS Associated records in the United States and Canada. Both "Run Runaway" and "My Oh My" were US Top 40 hits that year, giving the band their long-awaited breakthrough there. Background Following Slade's performance at the Reading festival in 1980, interest in the band was revived and a major record deal with RCA signed. ''The Amazing Kamikaze Syndrome'' was the band's second studio album for the label and had mostly been recorded in 1982. In November that year, the album's first single, "(And Now the Waltz) ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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A Step Further
''A Step Further'' is the fourth album by the band Savoy Brown. It was released by Decca in the United Kingdom and by Parrot in the United States in the fall of 1969. It is the last of the band's albums on which their long-time pianist Bob Hall played. The album track "Made Up My Mind" had first appeared as the B-side of the U.S. single release on Parrot Records 45-40039 (released June 1969), fronted by "Train to Nowhere", from their album '' Blue Matter''. The track "Waiting in the Bamboo Grove" would later be released as the B-side of the U.K. single release on Decca F 13019 (released May 1970), of "A Hard Way To Go" from their album '' Raw Sienna''. Side two was recorded live at Cooks Ferry Inn, Edmonton, London, on Monday 12 May 1969. Track listing Side one #"Made Up My Mind" ( Chris Youlden) – 2:56 #"Waiting in the Bamboo Grove" (Kim SimmondsBGO Records Blue Matter / A Step Further) – 3:37 #"Life's One Act Play" (Youlden) – 6:29 #"I'm Tired" (Youlden) – 3:21 #"Whe ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Savoy Brown
Savoy Brown (originally Savoy Brown Blues Band) were a British blues rock band formed in Battersea, southwest London, in 1965. Part of the late 1960s blues rock movement, Savoy Brown primarily achieved success in the United States, where they promoted their albums with non-stop concert tour, touring. Founder, guitarist and primary songwriter Kim Simmonds was the sole constant member of the band from its formation in 1965 until his death in 2022. They were one of the bands that UK Decca Records, Decca (US London/Parrot) stuck with through the lean times until they started selling records; it took four or five albums until they started to sell in the US. In the late 1960s and 1970s, the band managed to break into the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Formation The band was formed by guitarist Kim Simmonds and harmonica player John O'Leary, following a chance meeting at Transat Imports record shop in Lisle Street, Soho, in 1965. In naming themselves, the group put together ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Autumnal Park
''Autumnal Park'' is the debut studio album by Australian new wave band Pseudo Echo. ''Autumnal Park'' peaked at No. 11 in Australia and produced two Top 20 singles, including "Listening", which peaked at No. 4 in Australia. It was released in North America under the title, ''Pseudo Echo''. At the 1984 Countdown Music Awards, the album was nominated for Best Debut Album. Background Pseudo Echo was formed in 1982 in Melbourne by school friends Brian Canham and Pierre Gigliotti, joining Anthony Argiro and Tony Lugton. They played around Melbourne and were discovered by Molly Meldrum, a television presenter for the pop-music series ''Countdown''. Meldrum convinced them to perform on the show, on which they performed a demo version of "Listening" in June 1983. Shortly after, they were signed to EMI Australia and "Listening" reached No. 4. ''Autumnal Park'' was released in June 1984. Reviews AllMusic AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American onl ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Pseudo Echo
Pseudo Echo are an Australian New wave music, new wave band formed in 1982 by Brian Canham (vocals, guitar, and keyboards), Pierre Gigliotti (bass keyboards and bass guitar), and Tony Lugton (keyboards). Later members included Anthony Argiro (drums), Vince Leigh (drums), and James Leigh (keyboards). In the 1980s, Pseudo Echo had multiple Australian top 20 hits with "Listening (song), Listening", "A Beat for You", "Don't Go (Pseudo Echo song), Don't Go", "Love an Adventure (song), Love an Adventure", and "Living in a Dream (Pseudo Echo song), Living in a Dream". Their 1986 cover version, cover of "Funkytown#Pseudo Echo version, Funky Town" (a 1979 Disco hit by Lipps Inc.) was an international success, peaking at No. 1 in Australia and New Zealand and becoming a top ten hit in Sweden, Canada, the United States, and in the United Kingdom. Their 1984 debut album, ''Autumnal Park'', peaked at No. 11 on the Australian Kent Music Report. ''Love an Adventure'' followed in ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Welcome To The Cruise
''Welcome to the Cruise'' is the debut album by British singer-songwriter Judie Tzuke, released in 1979. The album peaked at No. 14 on the UK Albums Chart and was certified gold in 1981 by the British Phonographic Industry for sales in excess of 100,000 copies. Recorded and mixed at AIR Studios in London, the album includes the hit single "Stay with Me till Dawn", which peaked at No. 16 in the UK and remains Tzuke's only top 40 hit to date (the album was also titled ''Stay with Me till Dawn'' in the US). In 2002, "Stay with Me Till Dawn" was chosen by the British public as one of the fifty best British songs 1952–2002 (ranking number 39). In 2004, the song was sampled by Mylo for the track "Need You Tonite", which is taken from his album ''Destroy Rock & Roll''. The tracks "For You" and "Sukarita" were originally produced by Lem Lubin. "These Are the Laws" was originally a 7" single released under the name of "Tzuke and Paxo" ("Paxo" being Mike Paxman, Tzuke's long-time musica ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Judie Tzuke
Judie Tzuke ( ; born Judie Myers, 3 April 1956) is an English singer-songwriter. She is best known for her 1979 hit "Stay with Me till Dawn", which reached number 16 on the UK singles chart. Life and career Early life Tzuke's family relocated from Poland to England in the 1920s, and changed their surname from Tzuke to Myers, like other Jewish families from Eastern Europe. Her mother, Jean Silverside, was a television actress, and her father, Sefton Myers, was a successful property developer who also managed artists and singers—most notably Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice during the writing of ''Jesus Christ Superstar''. Tzuke preferred the original family name, started using it at school and so, when Tzuke embarked on her singing career, she used it as her stage name. Educated in the visual arts, performing arts, and music, Tzuke performed in folk clubs from the age of 15. Her meeting with Mike Paxman in 1975 was a turning point and they began to collaborate. Under the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Misplaced Ideals
''Misplaced Ideals'' is the second studio album by English rock band Sad Café, released in April 1978 by RCA Records. Despite no singles being released from the album and its lack of commercial success, it peaked at number 50 on the UK Albums Chart. The album wasn't released in North America, where instead it was decided that a compilation album, also titled '' Misplaced Ideals'', of the band's first two albums be released. Reception Reviewing the album for ''Record Mirror'', Mary Ann Ellis gave the album 3 out of 5 and wrote "Sad Cafe are going to need all the help they can get selling this record which is probably why they've employed shock tactics on the cover... guaranteed to stop record shop browsers in their racks. 'Misplaced Ideals' is just another recruit to that, growing army of average albums. Not bad, not good. Competent but unexciting eliciting neither orgasms nor groans. Just another variation (or is it?) on the same well worn (out) theme. There are some good (sta ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Late Night Movies, All Night Brainstorms
Late or LATE may refer to: Everyday usage * Tardy, or late, not being on time * Late (or the late) may refer to a person who is dead Music * ''Late'' (The 77s album), 2000 * Late (Alvin Batiste album), 1993 * Late!, a pseudonym used by Dave Grohl on his ''Pocketwatch'' album * Late (rapper), an underground rapper from Wolverhampton * "Late", a song by Kanye West from ''Late Registration'' Other uses * Late (Tonga), an uninhabited volcanic island southwest of Vavau in the kingdom of Tonga * "Late" (''The Handmaid's Tale''), a television episode * LaTe, Oy Laivateollisuus Ab, a defunct shipbuilding company * Limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy, a proposed form of dementia * Local-authority trading enterprise, a New Zealand business law * Local average treatment effect, a concept in econometrics * Late, a synonym for ''cooler'' in stellar classification See also * * * ''Lates'', a genus of fish in the lates perch family * Later (other) Later may refer ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |