Happy Birthday to a paisan from the Bronx...I mean, does it get any better? Happy happy to the late brilliant producer Felix Pappalardi...Pappalardi was a classically trained musician, he graduated from New York Citys The High School of Music & Art and attended the University of Michigan. As a producer, Pappalardi is perhaps best known for his work with British psychedelic blues-rock power trio Cream, beginning with their second album, Disraeli Gears. Pappalardi has been referred to in various interviews with the members of Cream as the fourth member of the band as he generally had a role in arranging their music. He contributed instrumentation for his imaginative studio arrangements and he and his wife, Gail, wrote the Cream hit Strange Brew with Eric Clapton. He also produced The Youngbloods first album. As a musician, Pappalardi is widely recognized as a bassist, vocalist, and founding member of the American hard rock band/ heavy metal forerunner Mountain, a band born out of his working with future bandmate Leslie Wests soul-inspired rock and roll band The Vagrants, and producing Wests 1969 Mountain solo album. The bands original incarnation actively recorded and toured between 1969 and 1971. Felix produced the bands albums, and co-wrote, and arranged a number of the bands songs with his wife Gail Collins and Leslie West. The bands signature song, Mississippi Queen is still heard regularly on classic rock radio stations. They also had a hit with the song Nantucket Sleighride written by Pappalardi and Collins. https://youtube/watch?v=hftgytmgQgE
Posted on: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 13:09:48 +0000
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