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THIS WEEK'S ITINERARY:

This coming week, Dec 3 at 6:30 PM, we will continue where we left off last week breaking down the songwriting process.

Our guest speaker via speakerphone will be legendary A&R exec & music business consultant Don Grierson. Please visit his website for more information at www.DonGrierson.com.

This internationally acclaimed, legendary A&R executive came from down under where he got his start as a disc jockey at the age of 17 to prominence in the recording industry, discovering and working with many of the most notable artists of the late 20th Century, being involved promotionally with the launching of The Beatles label, Apple Records, and launching several labels.

A citizen of the United Kingdom, Don immigrated to the United States from Australia, and jump-started his career by doing record promotion for several labels, including Chess and Capitol Records. During that time, he was involved in the promotion of The Beatles, and was singularly recognized with the only Golden Apple Award ever presented by them for "Outstanding promotion in launching Apple Records in the United States".

At Capitol, Don was also manager, international A&R/promotion where he signed Little River Band and director, merchandising and advertising. When Capitol created a second label, EMI America Records in 1978, he became its vice president, A&R. His successes at EMI America included Michael Johnson, Kim Carnes, Sheena Easton, Kate Bush, Sir Cliff Richard, J. Geils Band and Kenny Rogers.

In 1982, Grierson moved back to Capitol as vice president, A&R, where he signed and helped guide a number of hit-making acts, including Heart, Joe Cocker, Freddy Jackson, Melba Moore, Steve Vai, Megadeth, WASP and George Clinton. He was personally involved with the recording careers of Tina Turner, Bob Seger, Anne Murray, The Motels, Duran Duran, Power Station, Thomas Dolby, Ashford & Simpson, Billy Squier, and assisted in the emergence of Crowded House, Poison, The Smithereens and Great White.

In 1987, Don resigned from Capitol to join CBS/Sony as senior vice president, A&R, Epic Records, where he personally signed and worked with such acts as Celine Dion (via Sony Canada), Bad English (finding their #1 hit "When I See You Smile"), Iron Maiden, Basia, Tony Terry, Kaoma, and The Cover Girls, as well as bringing his expertise to bear on the careers of Cheap Trick (finding their #1 single "The Flame"), Cyndi Lauper, Gloria Estefan, REO Speedwagon, The Jacksons and Europe. Under his direction, the Epic A&R staff also signed successful acts Living Colour, Indigo Girls, Allman Brothers Band, Alice Cooper, Social Distortion, Firehouse, Suicidal Tendencies, Front 2423, Ottmar Liebert and Joe Satriani. Don also directed music supervision for the feature film soundtracks for Hook (Universal Pictures, Steven Spielberg, dir.), Bugsy (TriStar Pictures, Barry Levinson, dir.), Tap (TriStar Pictures, Nick Castle, dir.), Queens Logic (New Visions Pictures, Steve Rash, dir.) and Iron Eagle (TriStar Pictures, Sidney J. Furie, dir.).

In 1993 Grierson created Drive Entertainment, a company with emphasis on classic artist and niche market catalog exploitation, where he compiled and packaged over 140 albums. In 1998 Grierson re-entered the broader based music market and currently operates his own independent consultant company, doing executive producer A&R projects, working with labels, artists, managers and publishers, both in the US and overseas. He recently completed an album with American Idol finalist Jon Peter Lewis and is now overseeing a major album project for Vietnamese superstar YENN.

Don is a music supervisor for independent films, an instructor at Musicians Institute in Los Angeles, a long time voting member of NARAS, a consultant to CRCJianian, a joint venture partnership between Los Angeles based consultancy firm, AIM Group LLC and the China Record Corporation (CRC), the Chinese governments oldest and largest record company as well as being a consultant
for the US division of Melke Pty Ltd, Australia, a very successful branding, marketing and promotional company.

Don has also just written (with co-author Dan Kimpel) and had published, his first book "It All Begins With The Music". Click here to find out more about Don's book.

Affiliations:

* NARAS - Long Term Voting Member
* Audition for Hollywood.com - Advisory Board
* Musicians Institute - Instructor

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These classes are brought to you by Frigo Recording Studios & Hollywood Dreams Publishing for songwriters & aspiring songwriters of all levels!

LEAD by NSAI trained songwriter R.E. Russell of Hollywood Dreams Publishing

Are you interested in writing songs that people want to hear?

Would you like your songs to be fit for radio airplay?

Would you like to write songs that record labels and major artists would want to record?

If you answered YES to any of those questions, then this series is for you!

WHEN: Thursday evenings, 6:30pm – 9:00pm starting Nov. 5

WHERE: Frigo Recording Studios, 110 Sherwood Dr, Boalsburg, PA

COST: $25 per class, due at the beginning of each class

Seating is limited so if you would like to attend, please…

RSVP to Frigo Recording – 814-466-6786 or email marc@frigorecording.com
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