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She is a singer-songwriter and producer who grew up in
Los Angeles where her father was the composer Fred Steiner who wrote the
theme to Perry Mason and other TV
music for shows such as Gunsmoke
and Star Trek, and her
grandfather was the composer George Steiner who wrote for Laurel and Hardy
and animations.
She began stepping out on her music career as a member
of Bryndle with Andrew Gold, Kenny Edwards and Karla Bonoff but after
recording an album, which wasn’t released they disbanded. This left her to go out on her own
as a solo singer and songwriter and in 1973 she released her first album, Love
Has Got Me which led to many more and the 1978 chart single “Long
Hot Summer Nights” which reached No. 66 on the Billboard Top
100.
Once the 1980s came around she relocated to Nashville
and started seeing major success as a songwriter when several of her songs
became hits. She toured
nationally on her own and opened many others and over these years she
branched out into production and collaborating with other artists either as
a songwriter or making appearances with other artists as a studio
singer.
In 1995 she found herself back with a re-united
Bryndle and this time a recording was successfully released and a
subsequent tour took place nationally and in Japan. This led to a further album being
released and they still have a good following.
Her songwriting has seen at over 100 songs released
with several BMI million-air winners and has included “I want a Horse”,
co-written with Linda Ronstadt for Sesame
Street on their Grammy winning In Harmony, “Fishin’
in the Dark” co-written with Jim Photoglo for the Dirt Band and
“Save The Best for Last” and “The Sweetest Days”
co-written with Phil Galdston and John Lind and each made a hit by Vanessa
Williams. The song
“Corn, Water and Wood”, co-written with Carol Elliott and a hit
for Michael Martin Murphey gave her a Cowboy Hall of Fame Wrangler Award
and she has also had work included on the 2002 Grammy winners by Cece
Winans and Alison Krauss.
Her career has ended up with her working with a vast
list of artists that include Clint Black, Jerry Butler, Kim Carnes,
Nicolette Larson, Josh Leo, Melissa Manchester, Reba McEntire, Randy
Meisner, Maria Muldaur, Randy Newman, The Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Dan
Seals, The Sweethearts of the Rodeo and Pam Tillis.
Albums she has featured on as a musician are countless
but a selection of them include her own Gypsy Symphony, The Main Refrain
and Strange Company, as well as Riddles in the Sand by Jimmy
Buffett, Intermissions by Andrew Gold, Will the Circle Be
Unbroken by The Nitty Gritty Dirtband, Heart Like a Wheel by
Linda Ronstadt, Man Overboard by Bob Welch, Five-O-Five by
Hank Williams Jr. and Living With War by Neil Young and the
soundtracks of Footloose and Twilight Zone: The Movie.
Currently she works from home at her studio in Los
Angeles and runs the long-running old radio show Folkscene.
In the field of musical education she has been seen
holding workshops at various music festivals and on BMI, ASCAP and NSAI
panels and also works a clinician.
Sources:
1.
http://www.wendywaldman.com/wendybio.html
2.
http://www.wendywaldman.com/discogra.html
3.
http://www.myspace.com/wendywaldman
4.
http://www.taylorguitars.com/artists/clinicians/waldman.asp
5.
http://www.bryndle.com/site/history.html
6.
http://www.buffettnews.com/resources/coralreeferband/?bid=108
7.
http://shopping.yahoo.com/p:Wendy%20Waldman:1927017401
8.
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:apfoxql5ldje~T4
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