Gene Page

Arranger Gene Page’s appealing orchestrations were a hallmark of million-selling strikes by Barry Light, various Motown works, Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams, Whitney Houston, Peaches & Natural herb, Kenny Rogers, the Righteous Brothers, Aretha Franklin, Elton John, the Whispers, Gladys Knight, and a slew of others. Web page arranged the majority of Mathis’ LPs from the ’70s and ’80s, with “Emotions” getting one of the better. Web page also scored Television shows and films. Born in LA, Web page studied traditional music during his youngsters. Winning a scholarship or grant towards the Brooklyn Conservatory, Web page moved to NY. His initial big break in the documenting field was carrying out the string preparations for the Righteous Brothers’ “You’ve Shed That Lovin’ Feelin’,” which parked at number 1 pop for 14 days and hit number 3 R&B in the Billboard graphs in past due 1964, early 1965. He also organized Dobie Gray’s “The In Masses,” quantity 11 R&B, and Solomon Burke’s “Surely got to Obtain You off My Brain,” number 1 R&B for three weeks, both early 1965. Web page first fulfilled Barry White colored when he and the near future “Icon of Like” co-arranged Bob and Earl’s “Harlem Shuffle” for Marc Information, quantity 44 R&B, past due 1963. In the middle-’60s, when White colored was employed by Bob Keane for his Bronco/Mustang brands, he hired Web page to do plans. In 1968, Bronco/Mustang folded and White colored started performing freelance independent creation. Though White colored recorded edges for Larry Marks on BMC, Malcolm Hayes on OKeh, and Brendetta Davis on Liberty, and published and produced tunes for NBC-TV’s Sunday morning kids display The Banana Splits, these were slim times. Web page helped him out giving him organizing assignments and nonrepayable loans. White’s fortunes started to change for the better after he fulfilled the female performing trio of Glodean & Linda Wayne and Diane Taylor at a documenting session where these were performing history vocals. After he renamed the trio Like Unlimited, he caused them for over a 12 months, developing their vocals, composing songs to them, and documenting their tracks. In the mean time, Page’s busy documenting career was right now getting augmented by film and Television work. He have scored the soundtrack for Sid & Marty Krofft’s H.R. Pufnstuf, which premiered on NBC-TV’s Sunday morning hours lineup in Sept 1969. His sibling Billy Web page wrote “Some Gorgeous,” the initial one from Pufnstuf superstar Jack port Wild’s debut record, The Jack Crazy Record on Capitol. Web page also constructed the soundtrack for the 1970 Robert Altman film Brewster McCloud, released on MGM Information. Billy also created Gene’s Music From the initial Soundtrack Blacula. Originally released by RCA Information in the summertime of 1972, the soundtrack towards the traditional horror film starring Shakespearean professional William Marshall and Ketty Lester was among Gene’s first initiatives as a documenting musician. The Hues Company of “Rock and roll the Fishing boat” fame had been highlighted in the film and on the LP. It had been reissued by Razor & Connect in summertime 1998. Larry Nunes, a pal of White’s, had taken among the recordings to Russ Regan, who was simply the head from the Uni label possessed by MCA. “Walkin’ in the torrential rain (With the main one I REALLY LIKE),” with White “phoning” in his component, went precious metal, peaking at quantity six R&B, quantity 14 pop on Billboard’s graphs in springtime 1972. Like Unlimited’s From a Girl’s Perspective became a million-seller. Immediately after, Regan remaining Uni for 20th Hundred years Information. Without Regan, White’s romantic relationship with Uni soured. Along with his romantic relationship with Uni in chaos and Like Unlimited contract-bound using the label, White colored decided he had a need to use another work. He wished to utilize a male designer. He produced three track demos of himself performing and playing the piano. Nunes noticed them and insisted that he re-record and discharge them being a documenting musician. They argued for times before Nunes in some way convinced Light to accomplish it, and Light agreed upon with 20th Hundred years Information where Regan was leader; Web page did the agreements on his early ’70s strikes. This decision resulted in Light having a silver- and platinum-laced documenting career. White colored got a contractual launch from Uni for Like Unlimited plus they became a member of him at 20th Hundred years. On Like Unlimited’s second 20th Hundred years album In Warmth, released in fall 1974, Gene Web page organized the majestic ballad “I Participate in You,” which visited number 1 R&B in past due 1974. In Warmth, Like Unlimited’s most fascinating album, presented the same top-notch studio room band noticed on White’s strikes, Page’s and White’s powerful plans, the follow-up solitary “Share just a little Like within your Center” (quantity 21 R&B, springtime 1975), the standout songs “Move Me No Hill” and “I Required Love-You HAVE THERE BEEN,” an extended edition of “I Participate in You,” and “Love’s Theme” — with lyrics. Light continued to make use of Page’s abilities on his productions for himself, Like Unlimited, as well as the Like Unlimited Orchestra. Gene Web page recorded many albums, using the 1978 Arista LP Close Encounters getting the most effective. The title monitor, a disco cover from the John Williams theme in the 1977 Steven Spielberg/Richard Dreyfuss film, charted at quantity 30 R&B in early 1978. In fall 1999, two Barry White colored best-of models that feature Page-arranged paths, All Period Greatest Strikes and Greatest Strikes Volume 1, had been on Billboard’s Best Pop Catalog Albums graphs, due partly to White’s looks on Fox-TV’s Ally McBeal. Gene Web page passed away in his indigenous LA in 1998.