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Dude is a wealth of knowledge about that whole Philly era...i learned alot

Was Mel influenced by Matt Dennis, or possibly vice versa?

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Another awesome interview. Thank you Richard.

Kenton was such a hip arranger and had the movie star looks as well

Very difficult melody.

Happy new year Richard & Family! Warm regards from London. Thank you very much for sharing this - I shall ask my daughters to follow you, as this is very helpful for both girls since they learn to play on guitars at home. Wishing you a positive new year ahead! Best regards, Family Leberman❤ x

Metheny Mays Egan and Gottlieb!!!! The GREATEST QUARTET EVER!!!! TY MAESTRO

To me, Pat's focus is both intimidating and inspirational. Thank you.

Good inter view Barry

My quiet time is not the same....RIP.

Absolutely brilliant. Pat is an American treasure. I come away fully inspired.

Two of the greats!

Look… I’m a musician and journalist who actually met Basie, Kenton and others. Stan Kenton IS brilliant… and absolutely could not swing PERIOD. And Innovations in Modern Music is among the most important works of art made during the 20th century. Both things - he’s a genius and yet can’t swing - can be and are simultaneously true.

Thanks so very much for the podcast share! I'm a drummer who is getting back into playing after many years and it is great to hear tips on playing with arthritis in mind. I've been an improv player by preference, but I also read sheet music. I wish I could have heard stuff like this back when I was in school 30 years ago because I never would have believed all those people telling me being an improv player was a bad thing. You rock Richard! Love your tutorials and courses on ProMix :)

the Jackson's. great music

Although Pat is a great musician he has a habit of absorbing promising musicians only to spit them out after a few years.

By 1949, Frank was Singing to empty tables

Thanks for this great interview, Richard. I was totally waiting for Bobby to talk about "Love Chant" which came out under Eli's Second Coming and was such a cool disco record in the summer of '76...

I could listen to SEXY ALL DAY......REST ASSURED 🌹

Great, lots of fun, Mike is a musical hero of mine -thank's Richard for a delightful interview!

Bobby so nice to hear you my brother always love and peace ✌️ Rick Brennan from CHANGE N Philly love. 🙏 333.Rick

Wow!!! Not that I needed to be reminded why I love Pat but such a great interview solidifies how great he is

Bobby Martin wrote songs for The Invitations, with Lee Kirton, Look on the good side on Siver Blue Records.

This dude has a knack of black music (Gr8 David knew about Jazz as well). Thought he was black and later he's the arranger of R&B's best Album of All Time. Marvin Gaye's Whats Going On. SALUTE!!

Made me go straight to my P.I.R albums to look at the credits and get a better perspective on some of my favourite songs, great interview!

Lyle was an amazing man-he is much missed.

Esquivel's excellent album "Latin-esque" on RCA Victor in Living Stereo in 1962 was one of RCA's "Stereo Action" series, the music that surrounds you! I like to think that his music was created for audiophiles who loved their modern Stereo systems.

How many are here from visiting with Charles Phoenix sites? I know! Not me! I have been an Esquivel fan since 1960, when I fell in love with the music of Henry Mancini, and his music led me to Esquivel, and others in the Exotica genre. (Of course, I was a Martin Denny fan since 1958, when I first heard "Quiet Village".) But Juan Garcia Esquivel. He was smokin' hot! No wonder Sinatra and Dino, and the Rat Pack, loved his music! They were my parents' generation, I was raised on my Dad's Big Band Swing of the 1940s, and my Mom's love of old time Gospel, Country, Western and Bluegrass music, so naturally I was hooked on Elvis Presley when I was only 8 years old in 1955 when I first heard an Elvis song (on Sun Records) man, I was gone, and Rock'n'Roll was my thing. But I also loved Modern Jazz like Mancini's Jazz period, 1957-1967, and Stan Kenton, Dizzy and Shorty Rogers, and even Sun Ra. Esquivel was really cool, ultramodern Space Age Mid-Century Modern Classic Latin Beat Light Pop Orchestral, with the cool vocal chorus, and eclectic things, like "Boink! Boink!" Ir was like the soundtrack to a wild crazy ultramodern Technicolor cartoon series. I started collecting Esquivel and Mancini records in the 1960s, and loved every RCA Victor release I could find by them. They had to be cool if they were on Elvis Presley's label! Esquivel's piano stylings are beyond flamboyant - he was brilliant, sonic and spectacular! I wish I had been old enough to see him perform live in concert in Las Vegas. At least I got to see Elvis perform there in 1969!

Saw Iron butterfly in wait chapel... Next week saw Kenton's band... excellent orchestra seats for both... Kenton's band was louder...😅 As loud as led Zeppelin 😂

Thanks for a very informative trip into Philly Sound. Appreciate your work.

He co-wrote, " I Just Don't Be Lonely". I wanna be loved... needed.. Depended on the Love...I can't give 🎵🎵, when you're gone... when you're gone. I just don't wanna be lonely 🎵🎶...

Last Training Home what a Classon piece

On your picture of Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, you have the names reversed - as is incorrect. BTW there was a major arranger you didn't name JOE RENZETTI one of Huff & Gamble's first arranger.

I love these behind the scenes stories. This interview should be required in contemporary music history and composition courses at Berkeley

Excellent interview. Way too short. He just breezed through some of the most impactful songs of my life like he was talking bout the weather. Always saw his name on records. Him being the guy on the Sitar and seeing a picture of it just blew my mind. That was the most defining single instrument of the era for me. It’s like all my young memories are tied to it.

Thanks!

BOBBY ELI AND BOBBY MARTIN WERE THE REAL DEAL,THIS WAS A GREAT INTERVIEW RICHARD.

I met Bobby Eli when we were kids. We live three blocks from each other. The last time I visited his house with Morris, who was the lead singer for the dream lover.

The songs with Chaka Khan still groove to this day👍

I used to read the album credits on the records created by these guys. Bobby's memories brought back so much.

What a great interview thank you

I love Stan Kenton's music and I loved this documentary! Thank you for producing it!

great job; i owned so many of those projects and remember seeing all those great names you mentioned. greatest era for RnB and stands the test of time from songwriting, producing, AND arranging standpoint

She is fantastic. Doesn't get the credit she deserves.

3:44 talks about Chicago

What role did Quincy Jones played in the arrangement of these songs on the Mercury Records label ?

Pat and Lyle is like peanut butter and jelly, when I first heard pat in the seventies, there was an instant connection of my love for his music, it's spiritual to me personally, thank you Lyle you would never be forgotten Genius 🙏.

That was fantastic. Full stop.

Bobby Eli produced one of my favorite groups, Blue Magic