[Vintage-Audio] Re Anita Kerr Question

[LeeHazen at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/24/06 3:13:17 PM Central Daylight Time, 
dfischer at usol.com writes:

<< Lee? Did you do the mix for the Anita Kerr albums in 1962 "From Nashville 
 "Pop Hits"" and "The Vocal Stylings Of The Genius In Harmony", a tribute to 
 Ray Charles? >>

boy, I wish I had.  I was fresh off active duty in the USN at that time and 
had
just started playing bass in clubs on the weekends.  A few days a week I 
worked
as a staff musician for the National Songwriter's Guild - a mail order demo 
service.  On occasions, I also sang demos for $2.50 a song, guitar and bass 
brought me $2.00 per part per song.  It was a living - -  during that time I 
was
slowly building up a stash of recording gear and I built my own stereo mike
mixer similar to the Ampex MX 10 mixer. I started recording local groups in 
clubs in
l963 and in my kitchen studio in l964.  Nashville was still a distant dream 
which
didn't happen for me until l968.  Now, 38 years later, I'm on the retired 
side of
that career.

Lee Hazen