Career
He was a singer and songwriter in the 60s, recording under his own name, and as The Squirels, San Francisco Earthquakes, and more. He wrote songs for Reparata and the Delrons, The Drifters, Herman's Hermits, The Searchers, Ben E. King, The Shirelles, Kenny Rogers, Ronnie Dove and many others.
He wrote and produced over 25 chart records in his career. His songs included many top ten hits, including "Under the Boardwalk","Captain of Your Ship", "Arizona" and the Grammy Award winning song, "Ai No Corrida", "S-s-single Bed", "Just one more night", Only you can, among them.
His songs have been recorded by The Rolling Stones, Jay-Z, LL Cool J, The Beach Boys, The Jackson 5, The Drifters, Quincy Jones, Joni Mitchell, Debbie Harry, Sam and Dave, Lenny Kravitz, Iggy Pop, Rickie Lee Jones, The Ramones, Gilberto Gil, Kate Bush, Jungle Brothers, Sylvia McNeill among others.
His productions included Rhythms Del Mundo featuring: Coldplay-"Clocks", Bob Dylan- "A hard rains a- gonna fall", Green Day-'I fought the law", "Amy Winehouse-"Cupid", The Gorillaz-"Feel good Inc.", The Arctic Monkeys-"Dancing Shoes", Ibrahim Ferrer-"As time goes by", Sting-"Fragile", Wyclef Jean-"Stayin Alive", Dizzee Rascal-"Holiday", KT Tunstall-"Because the night" and others.
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