Narada Michael Walden

[Editmaster JT]

Anyone else ever notice that (nearly) all of his productions started with the exact same intro? :lol:

Love that vrooming sound. People should use that more these days.

[efunk_adelic]

:lol:


You can tell he produced Sister Sledge's LP All American Girls you can hear his signature.... varooom intro...


now I got I Shoulda Loved Ya in my head.... :P

[QUINNY]

He was rather one dimensional and somewhat overrated, and his drumming had the most erratic time keeping,eh? Didn't like his voice either, but at least some of his stuff did the business!!

Didn't he produce Aretha's Freeway of Love? That's a little different.

[DoctorDisco]

I just threw out one of his Promo albums from the 1970s...it only had one track that was any good on it. The album was titled Narada Michael Walden.

How interesting a thread on this site should pop up at the same time!

[Nano]

Originally Posted by QUINNY

Didn't he produce Aretha's Freeway of Love? That's a little different.

Yep. I think he had bought some machines by then. "Who's zooming who" was also great on that album.

I loved Narada's work BITD... Not so right now, but it's still OK. He also produced Stacy Lattisaw's first album (with "Jump to the beat") and went on to do things for Diana Ross and Whitney Houston. He even worked for Al Green sometime.
One of his first jobs was as drummer for the Mahavishnu Orchestra (jazz-fusion group by John McLaughlin). He did some stuff on that vein on his Victory LP and it was brilliant.

Vrooom!

[eddie]

His first four albums on Atlantic have been reissued by Wounded Bird. He does have loyal fans who are more album-rock and adult contemporary oriented. Those fans site his work with Santana as stellar and regard his disco work as a sell-out.

[Editmaster JT]

I made a sound file once with a bunch of his 80s intros back to back. Just the similar ones.. Whitney's "How Will I Know", Sheena Easton's "So Far So Good", Jermaine Stewart's "We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off", etc, and ended it with "Who's Zoomin' Who" which is slightly different but still has the signature 'vroom' which was perfect for that song :lol:

I realize he did plenty of varied work without such intros, but it always struck me funny how so many big hits he produced started out nearly identically. I guess when something works, you might as well stick with it 8)

[Bona boy]

I really love the work of NMW but if you notice he co-created much of his dance-orientated material with such as Allee Willis, Preston Glass & Randy Jackson who were to be equally praised for making that brilliant sound. On his first foray into disco, namely 'I Dont Want Nobody Else To Dance With You', NMW actually collaborated with the one & only Patrick Adams to get the right sound!