Westcoast & AOR
Jay Graydon

Cover: Past To PresentPast To Present – The 70s

Release Year: 2006
Label: Sonic Thrust
Country: USA
Produced by Jay Graydon, David Foster

Musicians:
Jay Graydon: Vocals (Track 1, 3, 5, 7) Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, Synthesizer, Programming
Bill Champlin: Vocals (Track 2, 14, 15, 16 & 20)
Lisa DalBello: Vocals (Track 4)
Marc Jordan: Vocals (Track 6)
Ed Whiting: Vocals (Track 8 & 10)
Tata Vega: Vocals (Track 9 & 17)
Nettie Gloud, Carmen Twillie: Vocals (Track 12, 14, 15 & 16)
Dave McDaniel, David Hungate, Mike Porcaro, David Shields: Bass
David Foster: Piano, Fender Rhodes,
Greg Mathieson: Fender Rhodes
Jeff Porcaro, Willy Omelas, Mike Baird, Ralph Humphrey: Drums
David Foster: Background Vocals

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Jay Graydon has released an album featuring quite valuable materials recorded by Graydon and Co. in the 70s. All songs on this album has been transferred from analog masters into a digital masterpiece of quality music for this release. The album is titled as "Past to Present - the 70s -" featuring Jay Graydon on vocals, guitars, bass and some synth stuff. It also features great singers such as Bill Champlin, Marc Jordan, Tata Vega, Lisa DalBello, Ed Whiting and more. On all tracks other musicians include such top names as David Foster, Jeff Porcaro, Mike Baird, David Hungate, Mike Porcaro, Greg Mathieson, to name a few. Apart from the 10 main songs, there are 10 more bonus tracks - fun stuff like TV themes, a jingle, and a few instrumental tracks of some of the first 10 songs. The first track is the demo version "If There's A Way" featuring Jay's lead vocal, later recorded by Waters on the group's 2nd album "Waters" in 1977. Jay's melody line guitar part for this track is very impressive as same as Water's version. This must be one of typical good Graydon's tunes."What Good Is Love" early demo version sung by Bill Champlin himself follows and as you know this song was re-recorded by Bill for his acclaimed solo album "Single". Next is "You Can Count On Me" with solid melody, sweet chord changes and Jay's sweet vocal.It is not well-known that this beautiful song was recorded by Cory Wells only for 45rpm single.The 4th track "You're My Day" is also recorded by Cory Wells which appeared on his 1st solo album "Touch Me" in 1978. Lisa Dal Bello takes lead instead on this demo version, more disco song of the era. Early demo versions of the legendary Airplay are also included; "Should We Carry On" and "She Waits For Me". Marc Jordan vocal demo version "Secret Lovers",written for Japanese female singer Mariya Takeuchi, is worth listening. "Throw A Little Bit Of Love" demo with Ed Whiting were recorded by many artists later such as Cory Wells and Stevie Woods. "I Fall In Love Every Day" demo with Tata Vega on this CD is also known for Jaye P. Morgan version. Among 10 bonus tracks, "It's Right To Be In Love" should be remarked. This unreleased song is really great with Bill Champlin.


Just to make it clear: This isn’t the long lost, never released second album by Airplay. It’s a collection of Jay Graydon songs from the seventies that for some strange reason wasn’t released back then. But who cares, because this is really good. Classic 70’s style westcoast with all the trimmings and of course a nice bunch of musicians like David Foster, Jeff Porcaro, David Hungate, Bill Champlin and Greg Mathieson to name a few. Included here are 2 pre-production demos of songs that later ended up on the Airplay album, an early version of a Bill Champlin song and 8 full length songs that were previously unreleased. As a bonus we get a few instrumental versions of a couple of the songs and some short jingles. A total of 20 tracks alltogether. The thing that strikes me is how good Jay’s vocals sound. Why didn’t he do solo-albums already in the 70’s and 80’s? And why did we have to wait over 26 years to hear these gems? And how many more gorgeous songs are still unreleased? Please let us have them all because we need more of this fine kind of music. Until that dream comes true I’ll enjoy this album. This CD is a beautiful piece of musical brilliance.


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