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Carl Marsh :
Carl Marsh :: Arranger - Composer - Conductor
Biography:
The 70's
I began my career playing woodwinds in the Memphis Symphony Orchestra - at the same time I played recording sessions on acoustic guitar and began arranging and writing for orchestras. These sessions included artists like
Isaac Hayes,
The Ohio Players, The Bar-Kays,
Wilson Pickett,
Staple Singers - you know, the
Memphis Soul thang. Later in that decade I switched to keyboards and arranged and played on about a gazillion more sessions for all the artists that were recording in Memphis, as well as others in Los Angeles: Jose Feliciano, Tom Jones, Johnny Mathis, The Temptations, etc.
Carl's album credits are many especially on into the eighties and nineties ... but of interest here are these LPs from the seventies :
The Bar-Kays --- Injoy (1978) --- Conductor, Orchestra Arrangements
Sticky Fingers --- Sticky Fingers (1978) --- Synthesizer, Keyboards
Southern Exposure --- Headin' South --- Synthesizer, Keyboards
THP --- #2 Tender Is the Night (1978) --- Synthesizer, Keyboards
Anita Ward --- Songs of Love (1979 --- Synthesizer, Harp, Moog Synthesizer
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All this comes up because I just recovered a box of records from an ex (twenty-five years later !! ) and in it is
Denise Lasalle's I'M SO HOT lp
( paid 2.50 for it used back then --- cover still stickered). It's a fine collaboration with a rich mixture of styles ....including the prerequisite
Millie Jackson bitch rap on
YOU'LL NEVER GET YOUR HOOKS ON MY MAN .
MAY THE FUNK BE WITH YOU is a gospel laden disco/funk groove .
GIVING UP ... a slow story-telling song written by
Van McCoy and sounds ideal fo
r Gladys Knight .
I'M SO HOT a
Cheryl Lynn meets
Shalamar groove.
COMA TA YA HA DANCE (WE CAME TO EARTH TO DANCE) .....space disco ?? Aliens funking , includes a reference to those
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS tones
... we don't wanna take your ladies, we jus' came to dance . This song sounds rather
Jamiroquai !! :icon_eek:
Needs a 12" : T
EAR FOR TEAR ....a horn/string diva song with a well disciplined application of
RING MY BELL pings ... a remix with a nice break or two .....and wow:icon_cool: ...
That would be the song to get this LP for, in my opinion ....if it weren't for another song I keep gravitating back to :
TRY MY LOVE (background vocals:
try it baby , you might like it ....su-gar) an old-styled horns and strings composition with just enough of a persistent euro synth growl added to it so that the result is a great merging of sounds .
That synth line is infectious and it says on the LP that the ARP 2600 was played by
Carl Marsh and that's when I decided to find out more about him.
TRY MY LOVE I'll describe as sounding like
Rod Stewart's DO YA THINK I'M SEXY meeting
Blondie's HEART OF GLASS ......... which to my ears is a very good thing .... :icon_rolleyes:
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