The Salt Water Taffy

The core group who comprised Sodium Drinking water Taffy was Rod McBrien, Johnny Giametta, Phil Giarrantano, Kathy Weinberg, and Janie Brannan. McBrien, the co-writer and maker for the group, was their innovator. He grew up in Amityville, near Long Isle, in NY. He’d created and documented his first tunes in senior high school, and fronted a music group known as the Tornadoes, who documented an individual for R&M Information. Quickly, that group was banging within the doors from the Brill Building, where Jim Gribble, a supervisor, loved what he noticed in their fresh demos, signing these to a documenting/management agreement. Their album premiered on Down Information, then a fresh George Goldner label. McBrien, in the mean time, became an apprentice audio-engineer at Ultra-Sonic Documenting Studios, in Long Isle, where he fulfilled George “Darkness” Morton and designed the Shangri-Las’ “Innovator of the Pack.” He also joined up with the Valrays, and later on moved to Roulette Information’ studios, where he fulfilled songwriter Ted Daryll. Furthermore to dealing with the Valrays, McBrien caused the Casualeers and another group known as the Eastern Picture. From Roulette, McBrien relocated to Allegro, a studio room possessed by Laurie Information, situated in the cellar from the Brill Building. McBrien continuing working being a songwriter (he composed a few music for the Hollies, actually) and manufacturer in the East Coastline music scene, making Pebbles & Shells, a studio room group who documented a Daryll-McBrien cooperation “Let’s BECOME MORE Than Close friends Tonight” (originally compiled by Daryll for the Lovin’ Spoonful). McBrien earned vocalist Johnny Giametta to focus on the melody, and soon both were friends, in addition to writing partners. These were so close which they actually became a member of the U.S. Coastline Guard Reserves collectively beneath the “friend strategy.” McBrien and Giametta, alongside Phil Giarrantano from the Valrays, made a decision to generate what McBrien offers since known as a “white edition of the 5th Dimensions.” These three founded Sodium Drinking water Taffy, and added two females towards the group, Janie Brannan (from Tallahassee, FL) and Kathy Weinberg (from Fish pond Creek, Okay), who have been both professional studio room singers and experienced just relocated to NY to consider studio function. When bubblegum strikes started to graph during this time period, Giametta and McBrien sat down and published “Finders Keepers.” They commissioned latest Eastman College of Music grad Meco Monardo to set up the demonstration (Monardo later on had a big success with his personal disco-fied version from the Celebrity Wars theme music). McBrien performed the outcomes for Buddah Information VP/GM Neil Bogart, who keep these things re-record the melody with a fresh lead singer, so the the next time, McBrien earned Tommy Piccardo (aka Tommy Western world) who sang business lead on the melody. Buddah’s Bogart enjoyed the melody this time around, and continuing to provide McBrien the chance to build up his vocal group, despite the fact that they didn’t use West once again (he afterwards penned strikes for the Partridge Family members, created Jim Croce, and partnered with Terry Cashman because the Buchanan Brothers). Several studio singers moved in and out of Sodium Water Taffy’s account thereafter — including Tom Brannon, Sam Dalessio, Sarah Daly, Osa Danem, Terry Stallings, Bobbie Jacobson, Mary Lou Gilbert Scott, Bob Waite, and Al Messenger — with Giarrantano and Weinberg getting the only real two original associates to stay in Salt Drinking water Taffy through the entire group’s life (they dropped in like and afterwards wedded). One record premiered, Finders Keepers, before Buddah ultimately lost desire for the group. McBrien after that moved them to United Performers for the discharge of “Summertime Woman,” that was later on re-released on Metromedia. After Sodium Drinking water Taffy dissolved, McBrien created his personal organization in the 1970s, and published and created music to promote ever since, earning numerous Clio Honours. Giametta had an effective insurance business profession. The others possess continuing to sing, mainly in their regional churches.