Off The Record: The Joe Smith Collection [Free Download From iTunes]

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Joe Smith was a top record company executive (Warner Bros., Elektra, Capitol) who wrote an oral history of the music business in the late 1980s with a veritable Who's Who of over 200 music legends from Artie Shaw to Bono. These are some of the original, unedited audio tapes of those interviews.

 

Artist interviewed in these recordings:

 

Abe Somer

Aerosmith

Ahmet Ertegun

Artie Shaw

B. B. King

Barry White

Bill Graham

Billy May

Bo Diddley

Bob Thiele

Booker T. Jones

Burt Bacharach

Christine McVie

Dave Brubeck

David Bowie

Dick Clark

Donovan

Ellie Greenwich

Elton John

George Harrison

George Martin

Gerry Goffin

Graham Nash

Herbie Hancock

Herbie Hancock

Isaac Hayes

James Brown

Jerry Garcia

Jo Stafford

Joan Baez

Les Paul

Linda Ronstadt

Little Richard

Lou Levy

Lou Rawls

Lou Reed

Mick Jagger

Mickey Hart

Milt Gabler

Mitch Miller

Natalie Cole

Pat Benatar

Patti Page

Paul McCartney

Paul Weston

Pete Seeger

Peter Frampton

Randy Newman

Ray Charles

Robert Plant

Ruth Brown

Smokey Robinson

Stan Getz

Sy Oliver

Tom Petty

Tony Bennett

Yoko Ono

 

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