datamusicata's profile james lee stanley / Member since July 2007 / Last seen 20 hours ago
I've shared the stage with stephen stills, robin williams, chicago, bonnie raitt, bill cosby, steven wright, nicolette larson, poco, dionne warwick, blood, sweat and tears, sandra bernhardt, robin trower, the dixie dregs, chick corea, freddie hubbard, ramsey lewis, jeff lorber, cecilio and kapono, michael smith, john hiatt, corky siegel, tom dundee, tom paxton, mary travers, john prine, commander cody, peter tork, phil collins, art garfunkel, david crosby and john batdorf. And maybe a hundred others too numerous to mention.
My Freelance Human Being CD was also hailed as a masterpiece and the Best Recording of 1999 by Fi Magazine, which also listed it among the Top200 CD's of all time the following year.
I wrote the top five song, Coming Out of Hiding, and have charted every album I ever tried to, including the Envoy, which the Mac Report hailed as a classic and was listed in the Top 100 for Airplay in 1993. I'll talk about that in the radio column. I've had songs recorded by Nancy Sinatra, Pamala Stanley, and many lesser known, but supremely talented folks.
I secured a second recording contract with Wooden Nickel/RCA and made three albums for them. Then a fourth album for Regency/MCA and after that, I took it upon myself to be my own record label, releasing 23 albums of James Lee Stanley music and several duet cd's with Michael Smith, John Batdorf, and Peter Tork.
I've sold over sixty thousand lps, cassettes and cd's myself personally. The latest releases by me are All Wood and Stones (www.allwoodandstones.com) with John Batdorf and a solo CD, The Eternal Contradiction (June 2007)(www.jamesleestanley.com) I also have released CD's on Laurence Juber, Chris Bennett, Hamilton Camp, Thom Bishop, Tom Paxton, and several soundtracks to forgettable films.
I have produced recordings by Peter Tork of the Monkees, Mike Pinder of the Moody Blues, Tom Dundee, Michael Smith, Nicolette Larson, Hamilton Camp, James Durst, Sharon Abreu, Pamala Stanley and many others. I composed, arranged and performed all the music on all three Emmy Award winning Cathy Specials for CBS, the Ace Award winning Tom Parks Comedy Special for HBO, as well as the award winning Tom Parks Diabetes Video.
I endorse Taylor Guitars, Elixir Strings, and also play a Collings D2H, a Martin D-28H and was a beta tester for Alesis for three years. (After my 1968 D-28 and 1966 D-18 were stolen from my car in NYC in 1980, I picked up a Washburn electric/acoustic and used that for thirteen years. I used a James Demeter preamp in the chain and it always sounded great. Nothing like an expensive preamp).
I started singing and performing by the time I was 8, singing the banana boat song by harry belafonte on the school stage as I banged away on a quaker oats container I had disguised as a bongo drum.
I starred as davy crockett, in the third grade school play.
Sang in the chorus from the third grade on and started playing clarinet in the fourth grade.
Picked up the ukelele in the fifth grade and the guitar in the eigth grade.
Starred in the high school shows, had a recording contract with le grand records (gary us bonds, jimmie soul) by 16 and had my own night club (the folk ghetto, 213 freemason st, norfolk, va) by 17.
Then life interrupted the dream: I spent three years, three months and 18 days in the USAF (but who's counting?), worked as a chinese linguist and company clerk for the Base Civil Engineer, building the air base CCK in Taiwan.
Then back to civilian life in the good old USA, music major at Cal State, president of the honor society, winner of the composer's contest and the speech contest, outstanding student of the semester, 3.8 avg. would have been 4.0 but the guy in the copying class was a dick and gave me the only c I ever got in college.
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