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Lenny Pickett- clarinet, piccolo, saxophone, contrabass.Sharon Marley Pendergast – background vocals.Stephen Marley– lead and background vocals.Ziggy Marley- buitar, lead and background vocals.In 1989, “Conscious Party” won “Grammy Award” for Best Reggae album. It was recorded 1987 – 1988, at “Sigma Sound Studios” in New York City, and was produced by Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth. On April 5, 1988, “Virgin” label released “Conscious Party”, the third Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers album.

You Are the Love of My Love – Linda Creed, Michael Masser.Hold Me – Michael Sembello, Daniel Sembello.Beyond the Sea (la Mer) – Charles Trenet, Jack Lawrence.Nothing’s Gonna Change My Love for You – Michael Masser, Gerry Goffin.I Just Wanna Hang Around You – Chuz Sembello, Daniel Sembello, Jon Sembello, Michael Sembello.Please Don’t Walk Away – James Newton Howard, Steve Lukather.No One Emotion – Cliff Magness, Mark Mueller, Tom Keane.Jim Boyer, Ed Rak, Elliot Scheiner, Russ Titelman – mixing.Michael Abbott, Mike Allaire, Nelson Ayers, Mike Birnholz, Paul Brown, Ollie Cotton, Nick Delre, Paul Higgins, Steve Hirsch, Cliff Jones, Barbara Ivone, Leslie Klein, Robin Laine, Bruce Lampcov, James Nichols, Bobby Warner, Jay Willis – engineer assistant.Dick Bogart, Kendal Brown, Dean Burt, John Convertino, Jim Gallagher, Josiah Gluck, Cliff Hodson, John Rollo, Nicholas Spigel – additional engineering.Jim Boyer, Lee Herschberg, Gary Ladinsky, Michael Mancini, Elliot Scheiner, Russell Schmitt, Thom Wilson – engineer.James Taylor – backing and harmony vocals.Patti Austin – backing and harmony vocals.Gene Page – rhythm track and string arrangements.Michael Masser – rhythm track arrangements.Ralph Burns – string arrangements, conductor.Frank Foster – horn arrangements, conductor.Errol “Crusher” Bennett – finger cymbals.Steve Kipner – Oberheim DMX, Oberheim DSX sequencer.Bryan Lee Janszen – Simmons drum programming.Dave Weckl – additional drums, additional cymbals.Clif Magness – drum programming, track arrangements.Dave Grusin – string synthesizer, flute.Randy Goodrum – synthesizer programming, Oberheim DMX, Oberheim DSX sequencer.Robbie Buchanan – keyboards, synthesizer programming, arrangements.Daniel Sembello – DX7 Rhodes, synthesizer bass, synthesizers, drum programming, ride cymbal.Richard Tee – Fender Rhodes, synthesizer bass.Rob Mounsey – Synclavier, vocoder, synthesizer bass.Clifford Carter – keyboards, synthesizers, drum programming.James Newton Howard – acoustic piano, synthesizers, string arrangements.Randy Waldman – keyboards, synthesizers, arrangements.

Wells Christie – Synclavier programming.Michael Sembello – guitars, drum programming, backing vocals.George Benson – lead and harmony vocals, guitar.It was recorded in 1984, at “Amigo Studios”, “Devonshire Sound Studios”, “Bill Schnee Studios” in Hollywood, “Atlantic Studios”, “A&R Recording”, “Automated Sound Studios”, “Rosebud Recording”, “The Hit Factory”, “the Review Room”, “Avatar Studios”, “Sigma Sound Studios” in New York City, “Grand Slam Studios” in New Jersey, “House of Music” in Orange, NJ, “Bossa Nova Hotel”, “Village Recorders” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Russ Titelman, Michael Masser, Daniel Sembello and Michael Sembello. Thanks.On January 7, 1985, “Warner Bros” label released “20/20”, the 22nd George Benson studio album. Email me at if you find this podcast useful, please share it with others that you think would enjoy listening. Your comments and suggestions are always appreciated. Thank you for listening to this and the previous 25 episodes. This is an important part of our recording heritage, and I urge any of you who have access to pioneers like Joe Tarsia to take the time to capture their history. The video includes many still photos taken at Sigma, thanks to former Sigma engineer Arthur Stoppe.

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I sat down with Joe in January of 2019 at his home and recorded our conversation using a Flea M49 in the bidirectional position, to a Tascam DR-100 portable recorder.Ī slightly longer version of this interview is available on my YouTube channel at He has lived through the evolution to stereo and multitrack tape and from mono vinyl records through the CD and into the digital age. He started in a mono studio, using very few microphones, hardly any outboard gear, and recording to tape. Joe Tarsia founded Sigma in 1968 but his career as an engineer goes back to the 1950s at Cameo Parkway Records.

Eventually Sigma had two studios in Philadelphia and three in New York. Sigma Sound Studios in Philadelphia was responsible for a huge number of hit records, starting in the 1960s and continuing into the 21st century.