You Are a Song is an example of what's right with the record - a sentimental, sweet tune draped in strings and harmonies, a pefect representation of how folk-rock turned into mellow soft rock by emphasizing the melody and the feel.
Life Is You. To favorites 3 Download album. Album : Life Is You Video Upload powered by https. Album 10 Songs. Memory 4. No Wonder 5. Trust in Somebody 6. Climbing 8. Wham Bam 9. Right on Time Goodbye, So Long. I knew at that moment that music was what I was meant to do.
Self-taught, except for a year of sight-singing courses in at the Dick Grove School of Music, my earliest musical influences were my dad and my uncle, but it was the British Invasion that really changed everything for me. My father, Jack Batdorf, was a musician and I performed with him in clubs from around the age of five singing material like Blue Suede Shoes and Hound Dog, a natural part of my upbringing which led to me being in bands all my life. We auditioned for Atlantic and signed a record deal but the record never got made.
I kicked around LA for a few years and then decided it was time for a change of scenery so I drove to Nevada with my girlfriend and moved in with her parents. Atlantic Records signed us the next day. After a five-year run with Batdorf and Rodney, I started the band Silver in The way this came about follows. We had recorded two other albums in 71 and 72 on Atlantic and Asylum Records. The Arista album had a top hit, You Are A Song , but we could never crack the top 20 with a hit song from any of our albums.
Clive Davis thought the group was one hit away from being a major act. Clive approached us with two songs that he thought were slam dunk hits. The problem was, Mark and my relationship was so strained that it was really hard to continue as a duo. We had scheduled a meeting with Clive to play him the new songs but we never had that meeting. I decided the day before that I no longer wanted to continue the relationship with Mark.
I really wanted to start something fresh, so Clive gave me two weeks to put something together. I thought he was great. I met another singer songwriter at a party a few weeks before and his name was Greg Collier. He had a great vocal sound and wrote some cool songs. The three of us got together and worked up each others songs and there really was a magical blend with the voices.
The three of us continued to write and rehearse but our management wanted to make it a five-piece so we would be a band. Harry had subbed for America for a while and they really liked him and so did we. He was a cool guy and played and sang great. Tom had been in a band with Tom Petty for years in Florida and quit to seek fame and fortune in Hollywood.
We were kicking around names and he came up with Silver and that was that. We chose Indigo Ranch, a studio out near Malibu, to record the tracks and vocals. It was a beautiful ranch in the mountains overlooking the ocean. The band, except for Tom, stayed there and recorded into the wee hours of the morning, woke up and went right back at it. It was interesting for me after all those years as Batdorf and Rodney, just to kind of do my part to make the band sound good.
I sang lead on three songs and unison lead vocals with Harry and Brent at times. After a week or so, the basic tracks had been cut as well as most of the vocals. As we were breaking camp, Arista released Wham Bam and it really started moving up the charts very quickly. We finished up with the overdubs at Sound Labs in Hollywood, and United Western is where the orchestral overdubs were cut. As much as we absolutely loved Ahmet, it was the right move. We needed a producer.
He hadn't done much producing but when we recorded a demo for him at the Record Plant, he realized he simply needed to guide an already tightly rehearsed band. Man, could he make those acoustics sing.
Bill was awesome. We cut the entire album's basic tracks in three days and then started working on the vocals and other overdubs. David Geffen brought the group America to one of our sessions and the next day and we got booted off our scheduled session so America could record with Bill. Man were we pissed!!
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