He is a keyboard player, arranger, producer and songwriter
who has appeared with many artists and groups during the course of his
career.These include Alabama,
Paul
Anka, Bad Company, Natalie Cole, Don
Henley, Russell
Hitchcock , Thelma Houston, Kiss,
Mark
Knopfler, Greg Lake, Little River Band, Richard Marx, Country
Joe McDonald, Randy
Meisner, Stevie Nicks, Dolly
Parton, Steve Perry, Jim
Photoglo, The Pointer Sisters, Smokey Robinson, Kenny
Rogers
, Buffy
Sainte-Marie, Rick Springfield, Survivor, Tanya Tucker and Whitesnake and
he performed on the hits "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes and "Can't Fight
This Feeling" by REO Speedwagon.Albums he has featured on as an artist or producer include Fandango by
Herb
Alpert
, It's the World Gone Crazy by
Glen
Campbell , Alamo
Bay by Ry Cooder, Nightline by Randy Crawford, Don't You Love
Me Anymore by Engelbert Humperdinck, Headroom by Don McLean, Christmas
Time Again by Lynyrd Skynyrd, Special Part of Me by Johnny
Mathis
, Physical by Olivia Newton John, Sudan Village by
Seals & Crofts, Emotion by Barbra Streisand, Dad Loves His Work by James
Taylor
and the soundtracks of Salsa, Footloose and Sweet
November.In the movies he
was the arranger of the James Bond Never Say Never Again and a
composer on That Was Then...This is Now. Moving from Los Angeles to Nashville he built his own
studio and started Manzanita Recording and is also a co-owner of the internet
label Sonic Sorbet Records, which he started in 1999 with Beeb Birtles.
