Paul Anka – Marty Walsh

The Life and Times of a Second Call Studio Musician Part 10

January 9, 2017Marty Walsh

Hi all! Well I must say thanks for reading, this thing seems to be really taking off……. So last Monday we left off in May of 1981. It was around this time that I left my cartage company R&R Express to join Andy Brauers cartage and rental company. The reason…

The Life and Times of a Second Call Studio Musician Part 11

January 16, 2017Marty Walsh

Rounding out 1981 there were a few other recordings of note, one was Gail Davies album “I’ll Be There”. I played on the title track along with Dean Parks. Dean and I did most of the guitar tracks on that album. Great band, Mike Baird on drums, Lee Sklar on…

The Life and Times of a Second Call Studio Musician Part 12

January 23, 2017Marty Walsh

So in this installment I’m going to backtrack a little bit. While I was doing a lot of sessions and that was going really well, the goal was still to try to get a recording contract for my band The Campaign. Toto had hit big and there were other session…

The Life and Times of a Second Call Studio Musician Part 14

February 13, 2017Marty Walsh

Continuing into ’83 there were more sessions for the Donna summer album “She Works Hard For The Money”. Many more obscure sessions on albums that didn’t do much, lots of TV work for 20th Century Fox for my buddy David Fisher. Years before I honed my skills playing on his…

The Life and Times of a Second Call Studio Musician Part 20

April 3, 2017Marty Walsh

Hey everybody, so continuing in 1987 I started a writing relationship with one Frank Musker. Frank had written hits in the 70’s and since I was having a hard time getting the doors opened in the writer/publishing arena I thought “Hey why not write with an established writer?” Doing studio…

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Posts Tagged with Paul Anka

The Life and Times of a Second Call Studio Musician Part 10

The Life and Times of a Second Call Studio Musician Part 11

The Life and Times of a Second Call Studio Musician Part 12

The Life and Times of a Second Call Studio Musician Part 14

The Life and Times of a Second Call Studio Musician Part 20