Information regarding tunes on my list

[chris gordon]

#1 Love I Can See is a cut from the legendary rock and roll hall of fame group the Temptations's 59th CD entitled Awesome. It starts with the original recording done by the Temptations in 1963,before they even had their first hit. They rerecorded this version for the Awesome CD and I wrote the horn arrangement for this recording and played trumpet on the recording as well, with my friends the Tuscaloosa Horns.

#2 Long Time No See is an R&B singel from a yet to be released album produced by the same writer producer that created the Love I Can See tune on the Temptations album. Buster Marbury, grammy winning producer/songwriter and drummer for the Temptations asked me to write the horn arrangement for this tune also and i performed it with my Tuscaloosa Horn friends.

#3 Nutthouse is a rough unfinished tune (missing solos etc.) but it represents a new horn section that i am playing/recording with these days. This section (as yet un-named but working under the temporary titles of Witness Protection Horns, or Soul Purpose Horns) recorded this tune in Muscle Shoals recently at a studio called the Nutthouse. This tune is a head chart created by all the 11 members of the band (6 horns - 3 trumpets, trombone, tenorsax and bari sax) and it was cut live, not overdubbed. We look forward to finishing the recording soon. By the way, two other composer's forum members are playing in this horn section - Shane Porter and Ken Watters!

#4 Southern Pride Industrial Film is just that. A catfish company was fighting a unionization situation and wanted me to write a "song" for the company that would highlight the benefits of working at the factory there. But, they also wanted scoring for the video type material that would intersperse bewtween verses. Here is what I came up with. I wrote, produced, contracted, conducted and played everything here, except the strings.

#5 KTXL TV 40 Station ID - Theme - I wrote the lyrics and this main theme for a package some friends and I were asked to produce for a television station in Sacramento, CA. back in the early 1980's (when everything was still live instruments). i wrote and conducted this main theme.

#6 KTXL TV 40 - Movie of the Week - This :30 bumper was for the smae station and it was another in the package we wrote. This :30 second Movie of the Week spot I wrote and played and conducted, as I did with the Main Theme as well. All of the pieces in that package were set to film created by IF studios in New York.

#7 Little Debbie Snack Foods National Jingle - This national spot for Little Debbie was created in the early 1980's. I played on it and wrote the horn and string arrangements.

#8 First America Communities - This Big Band "Sinatra" style jingle was the National advertisement for First American Communities Retirement Village. They requested something for their target market audience in this style. I wrote, contracted, played, conducted, and produced this spot.

#9 Supernatural Love comes from the same recording session as Nutthouse. This tune I did write the horn arrangement on and the same guys are playing as was listed on Nutthouse, but the vocal is missing and the solos within. Maybe we will get an opportunity to finish this piece because my firend Greg Lowry wrote a great song and you can't hear it all yet, lol.

#10 Twist to This come from the writer/producer Buster Marbury again. I wrote and performed the horns for this song along with my Tuscaloosa Horns friends on this new release. Check out the website www.tuscaloosahorns.com to read the history of this outstanding and historic ensemble as well as to meet the members and view our schedule etc.

#11 Master of Beauty is the third movement of a composition for Chorus, Orchestra, and Soprano entitled Three Addresses to the Lord, which I adapted using John Berryman poetry for the text settings. It is an analogue recording of chorus, soprano, and an orchestal reduction for piano and pipe organ. I took that recording and layered Kurzweil patches on top to create a facimile of the originallhy intended orchestral version. While it is not ideal or well balanced, it does create some type of representation of what the work should sound like.

#12 In the Morning is a composition for chorus with piano accompaniment that I took the text from A.E. Houseman poetry and adapted for use in a three setting suite. The recording is a reading I got of the work when I was in college.

#13 HBO - While i did not write anything on this piece, I did play on it and i place it here as representing the Tuscaloosa Horns work and my playing. This is historic in that this is the very first LOGO ID that HBO had when then first went n the air in the late 1970"s or early 1980's. All created before sophisticated synths - mostly synth sounding patches.

#14 Holiday On Ice - international advertisement #1 - This is a piece shot to film that was used to advertise Holiday On Ice throughout the world. During this season, they were using a Disney character theme and both #14 and #15 reflect this. I did not write this but I played on it. My friends in our group did write this however and I was involved in the creative discussions. But since i was only 18 my friends hadn't yet had enough courage let me pick up a pencil, so I provided verbal suggestions lol.

#15 Another advertising segment for Holiday On Ice.

#16 McDonald's #1 - This regional advertisement for McDonald's was done in the all acoustic days as well. I use these two segments as representing my playing and the writing playing examples of the Tuscaloosa Horns in the 1980's.

#17 McDonald's #2 - Another regional commercial for a large recognizable client.

#18 Anna's Song - I composed this for mhy oldest daughter when she was born. Composed each of my children an instrumental song that bears their names. This is the acoustic jazz version of the tune. I will put up big band versions of both my daughter's tunes at a later time. Both had big band settings that were published by Kendor Music, Inc.. I am playing the piano on this recording and remaining members of the rhythm section were some college students I taught in the mid 1990's.

There will be more to come as I get recordings ready. I have 6-7 commercial songs that I wrote that I would like to share and more big band and other ensembles once i find them.

Chris