This track was written by Lon Osgood & Jay Phillips who wrote songs and produced artists in the SFV during the Seventies. We wrote this song for a KWEST FM album Contest way way way back in the late 20th Century, the mid 70's to be exact. We were one of the contest winners and our winning song "Van Nuys" appeared on the album. Lon Osgood: bass & Lead Vocal; Jay Phillips: Guitar & harmony vocals; Joseph Brasler: Guitar; Steve Clark: drums; Rick Nance: Harmony vocals. Am I missing anyone?

Van Nuys

LonJohzlips (Lon Osgood & Jay Phillips)\ wrote this for Shakey's Pizza Bicentennial tribute to America in 1975.  Their ad agency hired us to provide a birthday tribute song for the video they were producing. It never aired though we cashed our checks. It's Michael Thompson on Lead Vocal, Jay me and Rick Nance on Background vocals, James Petteway on smokin' guitar, Dave Rodrigues on bass, and Vince Prenant on Drums.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LonJohnOzlipsWalden Sound 1975 1

Back in the late ’70’s my writing partner Jay Phillips and me had a meeting at Chappell music to shop a a few of our newest songs. They had already published a couple of our songs and while we awaited our meeting, there on their song request chalk board was a message: Norman Lear is looking for a new theme song Mary Hartman. We decided to give it a shot.   Long story short, Chappell loved it, gave us a cash a cash advance to publish and scheduled time in their studio to demo it.  A mixing session was arranged for the next week. A day before the session we got a call from Chappell’s recording studio telling us both the session and show had been cancelled….There went my penthouse on the Costa Del Sol.

So what you’re hearing is the demo we recorded unmixed. Synthesizers were a brand new concept at the time, which, if you listen, you’ll notice dominates the demo track. Hope it don’t hurt your ears too much.

MARY HARTMAN, MARY HARTMAN

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I'm a Geezer who's been writing and producing songs since the late 60's. All the music I've posting on SoundCloud is music that I've written and produced

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