Post by trekkielo on Mar 24, 2022 12:55:45 GMT -5
First Sandy Nelson on February 14, now Richard Podolor, 3/9/2022, may he RIP. 
Ironically, I was listening to American Top 40 from October 5, 1974, "Top Ten Producers of The 70's" last Friday, March 18, where Richard Podolor did rank at #2 when Casey Kasem played these 4 songs in this order!
"This is Casey Kasem on American Top 40, ranked at #2 in our countdown is a man regarded as one of the most creative and inventive men in the field, his name is, Richard Podolor, he's a highly respected recording engineer, and has been operating his own Hollywood studios for the past 16 years, Podolor's credo for making hits is pretty well known, he says, a 3-minute song, should be a 3-minute piece of theater, a piece of drama, the next 4 songs we hear will show us what he means, here's Three Dog Night in early '72"...
#2-1 Never Been to Spain - Three Dog Night
"Richard Podolor, 2nd ranked among the top producers of this decade places a lot of importance on the technical gimmicks available to the record producer, he says it's often necessary to take the best pieces from several different takes of the same song in order to get one good composite, for example in Three Dog Night's Mama Told Me, Podolor says that every separate word of the chorus is from a different take, Mama, Told, Me, Not, To, Come, like that, but when he got it all together, he and the Dogs had a smash"...
#2-2 Mama Told Me Not to Come - Three Dog Night
"This is Casey Kasem in our special countdown on AT40, the Top Ten Producers of The 70's, Casey's Coast-to-Coast, American Top 40, here's another example of the technical inventiveness that Richard Podolor says is necessary for producing hits, he says that on Blues Image's Ride, Captain, Ride, he recorded cymbals, then played the tape backwards, which added some coloring to the tune, he also recorded a guitar on which a chord was struck and then detuned, and then he ran the tape backwards, so that it starts out garbled, and gradually returns to a nice clean chord, in Podolor's words, a total randomness, that suddenly gels into something beautiful on the downbeat, and the record was a smash 4 years ago peaking, at #4"...
#2-3 Ride, Captain, Ride - Blues Image
"Well here on AT40 is a final example of what Richard Podolor means when he says, a 3-minute record, should be a 3-minute piece of drama, 3 years ago this song held the #1 spot for 6 straight weeks"...
#2-4 Joy to the World - Three Dog Night
Ironically, I was listening to American Top 40 from October 5, 1974, "Top Ten Producers of The 70's" last Friday, March 18, where Richard Podolor did rank at #2 when Casey Kasem played these 4 songs in this order!
"This is Casey Kasem on American Top 40, ranked at #2 in our countdown is a man regarded as one of the most creative and inventive men in the field, his name is, Richard Podolor, he's a highly respected recording engineer, and has been operating his own Hollywood studios for the past 16 years, Podolor's credo for making hits is pretty well known, he says, a 3-minute song, should be a 3-minute piece of theater, a piece of drama, the next 4 songs we hear will show us what he means, here's Three Dog Night in early '72"...
#2-1 Never Been to Spain - Three Dog Night
"Richard Podolor, 2nd ranked among the top producers of this decade places a lot of importance on the technical gimmicks available to the record producer, he says it's often necessary to take the best pieces from several different takes of the same song in order to get one good composite, for example in Three Dog Night's Mama Told Me, Podolor says that every separate word of the chorus is from a different take, Mama, Told, Me, Not, To, Come, like that, but when he got it all together, he and the Dogs had a smash"...
#2-2 Mama Told Me Not to Come - Three Dog Night
"This is Casey Kasem in our special countdown on AT40, the Top Ten Producers of The 70's, Casey's Coast-to-Coast, American Top 40, here's another example of the technical inventiveness that Richard Podolor says is necessary for producing hits, he says that on Blues Image's Ride, Captain, Ride, he recorded cymbals, then played the tape backwards, which added some coloring to the tune, he also recorded a guitar on which a chord was struck and then detuned, and then he ran the tape backwards, so that it starts out garbled, and gradually returns to a nice clean chord, in Podolor's words, a total randomness, that suddenly gels into something beautiful on the downbeat, and the record was a smash 4 years ago peaking, at #4"...
#2-3 Ride, Captain, Ride - Blues Image
"Well here on AT40 is a final example of what Richard Podolor means when he says, a 3-minute record, should be a 3-minute piece of drama, 3 years ago this song held the #1 spot for 6 straight weeks"...
#2-4 Joy to the World - Three Dog Night
