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Wally Heider

January 01, 1970

Wally Heider (né Wallace Beck Heider; 20 May 1922 Sheridan, Oregon – 22 March 1989) was an American recording engineer and recording studio owner who refined and advanced the art of studio and remote recording and was instrumental in recording the San Francisco Sound in the late 1960s and early 1970s, recording notable acts including Jefferson Airplane, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Van Morrison, the Grateful Dead, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Santana.[3]

Wally Heider
Born
Wallace Beck Heider

(1922-05-22)May 22, 1922
Sheridan, Oregon[1]
Died(1989-03-22)March 22, 1989[2]
Occupation(s)Recording engineer, entrepreneur

Heider also amassed a collection of remote recordings of Big Bands broadcasting via radio from the middle 1930s into the 1950s, preserving some of the only known recordings of complete arrangements of many notable artists of the era, including entire sections of arrangements that otherwise had to be cut from recordings made in commercial recording studios, due to timing constraints of recording technology at that time.

Biography edit

Early life and education edit

Heider attended the University of Oregon music school and played saxophone in a 12-piece band he founded. After bandleaders directed him to turn away from microphones due to his poor playing, he decided to pursue recording instead.[4] Heider earned a law degree from Hastings Law School and worked as an attorney until the mid 1950s.[4][5]

Career edit

United Recording edit

Heider moved from Oregon to Los Angeles in the late 1950s and was hired by Bill Putnam to work at United Recording as a part-time apprentice, eventually working his way up to apprentice. By 1960, Heider was working as second engineer at United, later taking on the role of chief engineer at Putnam's United Recording Corporation of Nevada (URCON) in Las Vegas, which included both recording studios and a remote recording truck. Heider also leased his mobile recording equipment to United and managed their remote recording business for 18 months.[4]

Remote recording edit

See also: Remote recording

Beginning modestly in Los Angeles in 1958 with an Ampex 351 in the back of a station wagon, Heider began to establish remote recording techniques, recording big bands like Woody Herman. By the time Heider's remote recording truck was hired by Capitol Records to record The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl in 1964, it was a converted 14-foot Dodge box truck, outfitted with a pair of Ampex tape machines and a 12-input, 3-output Universal Audio mixing console built by Bill Putnam.[6] developing remote recording throughout the 1960s and 1970s.[4][7][8] Many of Heider's recordings became hits or critical successes. One of them is the classic album Live in Concert by Ray Charles, captured in 1964 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.[9] Heider recorded the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1966 and the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967;[10][11][12] its many musical acts and the increasing importance of high-quality sound for a concert film signaled a major shift in scale and importance for the remote truck operator.

Recording studios edit

See also: Wally Heider Studios

Heider established Wally Heider Recording at 1604 N. Cahuenga Boulevard in Hollywood in the early 1960s, recording with musicians like Crosby Stills and Nash and Jefferson Airplane.

After working with Bay Area musicians and doing remote recording at the Monterey Jazz Festival and the Monterey Pop Festival,[10] Heider recognized that musicians involved in the San Francisco Sound were having to travel to Los Angeles or New York to record. In 1979, Heider addressed that need by opening Wally Heider Studios at 245 Hyde Street in San Francisco's Tenderloin District[13] across from the Black Hawk nightclub, where he had recorded a series of Miles Davis's live sessions in the mid '60s.[14]

Notable recordings edit

Many of Rolling Stone magazine's Top 500 albums were recorded in Heider's studios including Volunteers by Jefferson Airplane, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere by Neil Young with Crazy Horse, Déjà Vu by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Electric Warrior by T. Rex, Tupelo Honey by Van Morrison, American Beauty by the Grateful Dead, Green River by Creedence Clearwater Revival, Amazing Grace by Aretha Franklin, Procol Harum Live: In Concert with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, and Abraxas by Santana.

Big Band era recordings edit

See also: Hindsight Record Company

Heider's remote recordings of Big Bands broadcasting via radio from the middle 1930s into the 1950s are a treasure trove of "live" recordings performed by a wide assortment of some of the most notable, (as well as lesser known), big band, jazz and popular artists of the entire period. Many of these broadcast recordings provide some of the only known recordings of complete arrangements by those artists, and include entire sections of arrangements that otherwise had to be cut from recordings made in commercial recording studios, because of the timing constraint that was prevalent for records throughout the entire pre-LP recording era. (Recordings made for commercial release on 10" 78-RPM records could not exceed three minutes and thirty seconds of music, and many jukeboxes were automatically timed to change records at 3:20.)

Heider's initial collection of recordings from this era formed the basis of the Hindsight Records catalogue, acquired from Heider in 1979 by Thomas Gramuglia. Through Heider, Hindsight ended up owning over 9,000 copyrights and masters. In 1986, Wally Heider hired music-film consultant Joseph Nicoletti Jr. of Laguna Beach, California to make and present the Big Band masters to MCA, Sony-Interscope, Paramount Pictures and many more broadcast and marketing companies.[15]

After obtaining the rights to Big Band short films of the 1940s and ‘50s originally produced to be shown at movie theaters between double features, Heider founded Swing-Time Video, editing the films and reissuing them on videocassette.[16][2]

Career chronology edit

Musicians, Albums, Concerts edit

Engineers edit

  • John (Jack) Crymes Jr., Recording Engineer, Senior Electrical Engineer (Remote Recording, Wally Heider Recording, Hollywood)
  • Rik Pekkonnen (Wally Heider Recording, Hollywood)
  • Stephen Jarvis (Wally Heider Studio, San Francisco 1970-75)
  • David Fraser (Automatt)
  • Russ Gary (Wally Heider Studio, San Francisco 1968-71) (helped prep Hyde Street for opening 1968-69)
  • Stephen Barncard
  • Ellen Burke (Wally Heider Studio, San Francisco)
  • Lesley Barncard (1975 Cahuenga)
  • Leslie Ann Jones (Automatt)
  • Maureen Droney (Automatt)
  • Michael Rosen (Automatt)
  • John Nowl (Automatt)
  • Fred Catero (Automatt)
  • Jeffrey Cohen (Automatt)
  • Tom Scott (1966)
  • Gray Odell (1966)
  • Ben Gardner
  • Michael Patterson
  • Ken Caillat
  • Dan Agostino (Wally Heider Recording, Hollywood 1974-76)
  • Richard Dashut
  • Chris Morris (for Fleetwood Mac, 1975)
  • Ken Kessie (Automatt)
  • Steve Mantoani
  • Jim Simon (Filmways/Heiders 1978-83)
  • Mel Tanner
  • Harry Sitam
  • Frank DeMedio
  • George Fernandez (first session, Wally Heider Studio, San Francisco 1969)
  • Jerry Martin (Wally Heider Studio, San Francisco 1969)
  • Dave LaBarre
  • Bill Halverson (1966 Monterey crew)
  • Grover Hemsley (1966 Monterey crew)
  • Ken Hopkins (Wally Heider Studio, San Francisco 1970)
  • Dave Mancini
  • Steve Malcolm (1974–80)
  • Biff Dawes (Woody Herman, Live at Monterey) (Cahuenga 1971-82)
  • Gabby Garcia (Cahuenga 1971-79)
  • Larry Cox (Wally Heider Studio, San Francisco and Wally Heider Recording, Hollywood 1968-78)
  • David Coffin (Wally Heider Studio, San Francisco)
  • Andrew Bloch, Hustler/Engineer - Various remote and studio recordings (Cahuenga 1972-78)
  • Howie Schwartz, Engineer/Assistant (Hollywood Selma/Hyde St. 1969-1971)
  • Steve Hirsch, Engineer/Assistant (Hollywood Selma/RCA Studio B/Various Remotes/Wally Heider Studio, San Francisco 1976-81)

References edit

  1. ^ Ancestry.com. "Wallace Beck Heider" in the U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936–2007. DOB: 20 May 1922 → Place of Birth: Sheridan, Yamhill County, Oregon → Father: Otto W. Heider → Mother: Callie B. Beck → SSN: 544-20-3010 – via Ancestry.com.
  2. ^ a b Los Angeles Times (March 24, 1989). "Wally Heider; Founder of Preeminent Recording Studios". Retrieved 11 April 2022. ISSN 0458-3035.
      1. Blog. March 24, 1989. Retrieved April 11, 2022.
      2. Print (Orange County ed. & Home ed.). March 24, 1989. p. 22 (Part I, bottom) (digital image 98) – via Newspapers.com. ProQuest 280715960 (US Newsstream database).
  3. ^ Silvers, Emma (10 November 2016). "Into The Mix: How One Tenderloin Recording Studio Shaped the 'San Francisco Sound'". KQED. NPR. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
  4. ^ a b c d Johnson, Heather (2018). If These Halls Could Talk: A Historical Tour through San Francisco Recording Studios. United States: OutWord Bound Communication. ISBN 978-1-64-254303-2.
  5. ^ "Wally Heider Biography". allmusic.com. AllMusic. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
  6. ^ Hurwitz, Matt (12 January 2017). "Beatles Live!". mixonline.com. Future plc. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
  7. ^ Huston, Chris (September 1970). "Wally Heider Recording Sammy Davis, Jr. Live at the "Now Grove"" (PDF). Recording Engineer/Producer. 1 (3): 13–15. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
  8. ^ McCullaugh, Jim (15 November 1980). "High Tech Times In The World's Recording Mecca". Billboard. Vol. 92, no. 46. p. 90. ISSN 0006-2510.
  9. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (2003). All music guide to soul: the definitive guide to R&B and soul. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 132. ISBN 0-87930-744-7.
  10. ^ a b Brant, Marty (2008). Join together: forty years of the rock music festival. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 28. ISBN 978-0-87930-926-8.
  11. ^ "Live At Monterey". AlbumLinerNotes.com. Retrieved 17 July 2011. Recorded on Wally Heider's 8-Track Remote using 3M analog tape. Engineers: Wally Heider and Bones Howe.
  12. ^ "At Monterey Pop". AlbumLinerNotes.com. Retrieved 17 July 2011. Remote recording by Wally Heider
  13. ^ Buskin, Richard (August 2010). "Classic Tracks: Crosby, Stills & Nash 'Suite: Judy Blue Eyes'". Sound On Sound. SOS Publications Group. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
  14. ^ Bieger, Hannes (February 2014). "Hyde Street Studios, San Francisco". Sound on Sound. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
  15. ^ Description of Hindsight Records, contained in "Michelex Merges with Hindsight Records". News Release, March 9, 2005.
  16. ^ Cash, Laurel; Jones, Fred; Benoun, Ike (May 1989). "Two Industry Greats Lost: Keith Worsley and Wally Heider" (PDF). Recording Engineer/Producer. Retrieved 11 April 2022.

External links edit

  • Wally Heider at IMDb
  • Wally Heider website

January 01, 1970
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Wally Heider ne Wallace Beck Heider 20 May 1922 Sheridan Oregon 22 March 1989 was an American recording engineer and recording studio owner who refined and advanced the art of studio and remote recording and was instrumental in recording the San Francisco Sound in the late 1960s and early 1970s recording notable acts including Jefferson Airplane Crosby Stills Nash amp Young Van Morrison the Grateful Dead Creedence Clearwater Revival and Santana 3 Wally HeiderBornWallace Beck Heider 1922 05 22 May 22 1922Sheridan Oregon 1 Died 1989 03 22 March 22 1989 2 Occupation s Recording engineer entrepreneur Heider also amassed a collection of remote recordings of Big Bands broadcasting via radio from the middle 1930s into the 1950s preserving some of the only known recordings of complete arrangements of many notable artists of the era including entire sections of arrangements that otherwise had to be cut from recordings made in commercial recording studios due to timing constraints of recording technology at that time Contents 1 Biography 1 1 Early life and education 1 2 Career 1 2 1 United Recording 1 2 2 Remote recording 1 2 3 Recording studios 2 Notable recordings 2 1 Big Band era recordings 3 Career chronology 4 Musicians Albums Concerts 5 Engineers 6 References 7 External linksBiography editEarly life and education edit Heider attended the University of Oregon music school and played saxophone in a 12 piece band he founded After bandleaders directed him to turn away from microphones due to his poor playing he decided to pursue recording instead 4 Heider earned a law degree from Hastings Law School and worked as an attorney until the mid 1950s 4 5 Career edit United Recording edit Heider moved from Oregon to Los Angeles in the late 1950s and was hired by Bill Putnam to work at United Recording as a part time apprentice eventually working his way up to apprentice By 1960 Heider was working as second engineer at United later taking on the role of chief engineer at Putnam s United Recording Corporation of Nevada URCON in Las Vegas which included both recording studios and a remote recording truck Heider also leased his mobile recording equipment to United and managed their remote recording business for 18 months 4 Remote recording edit See also Remote recording Beginning modestly in Los Angeles in 1958 with an Ampex 351 in the back of a station wagon Heider began to establish remote recording techniques recording big bands like Woody Herman By the time Heider s remote recording truck was hired by Capitol Records to record The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl in 1964 it was a converted 14 foot Dodge box truck outfitted with a pair of Ampex tape machines and a 12 input 3 output Universal Audio mixing console built by Bill Putnam 6 developing remote recording throughout the 1960s and 1970s 4 7 8 Many of Heider s recordings became hits or critical successes One of them is the classic album Live in Concert by Ray Charles captured in 1964 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles 9 Heider recorded the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1966 and the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 10 11 12 its many musical acts and the increasing importance of high quality sound for a concert film signaled a major shift in scale and importance for the remote truck operator Recording studios edit See also Wally Heider Studios Heider established Wally Heider Recording at 1604 N Cahuenga Boulevard in Hollywood in the early 1960s recording with musicians like Crosby Stills and Nash and Jefferson Airplane After working with Bay Area musicians and doing remote recording at the Monterey Jazz Festival and the Monterey Pop Festival 10 Heider recognized that musicians involved in the San Francisco Sound were having to travel to Los Angeles or New York to record In 1979 Heider addressed that need by opening Wally Heider Studios at 245 Hyde Street in San Francisco s Tenderloin District 13 across from the Black Hawk nightclub where he had recorded a series of Miles Davis s live sessions in the mid 60s 14 Notable recordings editMany of Rolling Stone magazine s Top 500 albums were recorded in Heider s studios including Volunteers by Jefferson Airplane Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere by Neil Young with Crazy Horse Deja Vu by Crosby Stills Nash amp Young Electric Warrior by T Rex Tupelo Honey by Van Morrison American Beauty by the Grateful Dead Green River by Creedence Clearwater Revival Amazing Grace by Aretha Franklin Procol Harum Live In Concert with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and Abraxas by Santana Big Band era recordings edit See also Hindsight Record Company Heider s remote recordings of Big Bands broadcasting via radio from the middle 1930s into the 1950s are a treasure trove of live recordings performed by a wide assortment of some of the most notable as well as lesser known big band jazz and popular artists of the entire period Many of these broadcast recordings provide some of the only known recordings of complete arrangements by those artists and include entire sections of arrangements that otherwise had to be cut from recordings made in commercial recording studios because of the timing constraint that was prevalent for records throughout the entire pre LP recording era Recordings made for commercial release on 10 78 RPM records could not exceed three minutes and thirty seconds of music and many jukeboxes were automatically timed to change records at 3 20 Heider s initial collection of recordings from this era formed the basis of the Hindsight Records catalogue acquired from Heider in 1979 by Thomas Gramuglia Through Heider Hindsight ended up owning over 9 000 copyrights and masters In 1986 Wally Heider hired music film consultant Joseph Nicoletti Jr of Laguna Beach California to make and present the Big Band masters to MCA Sony Interscope Paramount Pictures and many more broadcast and marketing companies 15 After obtaining the rights to Big Band short films of the 1940s and 50s originally produced to be shown at movie theaters between double features Heider founded Swing Time Video editing the films and reissuing them on videocassette 16 2 Career chronology edit1941 1946 production of several Alvino Rey and his Orchestra hits including Bumble Boogie 1946 60s Big band and pop recordings disciple of Bill Putnam assisted at United Western Recorders in Hollywood 1966 Monterey Jazz Festival remote recordings met Dale Manquen 1967 Monterey Pop Festival remote recordings 1968 Studio 3 Los Angeles Crosby Stills amp Nash 1968 1980 Wally Heider Studios 245 Hyde Street San Francisco 1969 remote 24 track recording 1970 remote 8 track recording for example Creedence Clearwater Revival at Oakland Coliseum 1971 72 1971 72 dual 2 inch 24 track remote truck recording e g Procol Harum Live In Concert with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra at the Jubilee Auditorium Edmonton Alberta Canada August 20 1972 Wattstax recording 1974 75 remote concert recordings in the Los Angeles area Instrument rental business in San Francisco until Dolph Rempp and SIR came along 1975 studio at 1604 N Cahuenga Los Angeles 1976 FilmwaysMusicians Albums Concerts editWoody Herman Gary Tole The Who Monterey Pop Jimi Hendrix Monterey Pop Festival 1967 Jimi Hendrix Band Of Gypsys New York Fillmore East 1970 Ravi Shankar Monterey Pop The Beach Boys Smiley Smile Lei d in Hawaii unreleased Wild Honey 20 20 Time to Get Alone only Bob Marley and the Wailers Live at the Roxy Crosby Stills and Nash CSN 1969 Crosby Stills Nash and Young Deja Vu Jefferson Airplane Hot Tuna David Bowie Doobie Brothers Grateful Dead Jefferson Starship Starship Fleetwood Mac Don Kirshner s Rock Concert Creedence Clearwater Revival Earth Wind amp Fire Herbie Hancock The Jacksons Stan Kenton Bee Gees Here At Last Live Frampton Comes Alive West Coast shows Dizzy Gillespie album Free Ride Terry Gibbs album Explosion Big Band live Hollywood 1961 Engineers editJohn Jack Crymes Jr Recording Engineer Senior Electrical Engineer Remote Recording Wally Heider Recording Hollywood Rik Pekkonnen Wally Heider Recording Hollywood Stephen Jarvis Wally Heider Studio San Francisco 1970 75 David Fraser Automatt Russ Gary Wally Heider Studio San Francisco 1968 71 helped prep Hyde Street for opening 1968 69 Stephen Barncard Ellen Burke Wally Heider Studio San Francisco Lesley Barncard 1975 Cahuenga Leslie Ann Jones Automatt Maureen Droney Automatt Michael Rosen Automatt John Nowl Automatt Fred Catero Automatt Jeffrey Cohen Automatt Tom Scott 1966 Gray Odell 1966 Ben Gardner Michael Patterson Ken Caillat Dan Agostino Wally Heider Recording Hollywood 1974 76 Richard Dashut Chris Morris for Fleetwood Mac 1975 Ken Kessie Automatt Steve Mantoani Jim Simon Filmways Heiders 1978 83 Mel Tanner Harry Sitam Frank DeMedio George Fernandez first session Wally Heider Studio San Francisco 1969 Jerry Martin Wally Heider Studio San Francisco 1969 Dave LaBarre Bill Halverson 1966 Monterey crew Grover Hemsley 1966 Monterey crew Ken Hopkins Wally Heider Studio San Francisco 1970 Dave Mancini Steve Malcolm 1974 80 Biff Dawes Woody Herman Live at Monterey Cahuenga 1971 82 Gabby Garcia Cahuenga 1971 79 Larry Cox Wally Heider Studio San Francisco and Wally Heider Recording Hollywood 1968 78 David Coffin Wally Heider Studio San Francisco Andrew Bloch Hustler Engineer Various remote and studio recordings Cahuenga 1972 78 Howie Schwartz Engineer Assistant Hollywood Selma Hyde St 1969 1971 Steve Hirsch Engineer Assistant Hollywood Selma RCA Studio B Various Remotes Wally Heider Studio San Francisco 1976 81 References edit Ancestry com Wallace Beck Heider in theU S Social Security Applications and Claims Index 1936 2007 DOB 20 May 1922 Place of Birth Sheridan Yamhill County Oregon Father Otto W Heider Mother Callie B Beck SSN 544 20 3010 via Ancestry com a b Los Angeles Times March 24 1989 Wally Heider Founder of Preeminent Recording Studios Retrieved 11 April 2022 ISSN 0458 3035 Blog March 24 1989 Retrieved April 11 2022 Print Orange County ed amp Home ed March 24 1989 p 22 Part I bottom digital image 98 via Newspapers com ProQuest 280715960 US Newsstream database Silvers Emma 10 November 2016 Into The Mix How One Tenderloin Recording Studio Shaped the San Francisco Sound KQED NPR Retrieved 4 April 2022 a b c d Johnson Heather 2018 If These Halls Could Talk A Historical Tour through San Francisco Recording Studios United States OutWord Bound Communication ISBN 978 1 64 254303 2 Wally Heider Biography allmusic com AllMusic Retrieved 5 April 2022 Hurwitz Matt 12 January 2017 Beatles Live mixonline com Future plc Retrieved 6 April 2022 Huston Chris September 1970 Wally Heider Recording Sammy Davis Jr Live at the Now Grove PDF Recording Engineer Producer 1 3 13 15 Retrieved 6 April 2022 McCullaugh Jim 15 November 1980 High Tech Times In The World s Recording Mecca Billboard Vol 92 no 46 p 90 ISSN 0006 2510 Erlewine Stephen Thomas 2003 All music guide to soul the definitive guide to R amp B and soul Hal Leonard Corporation p 132 ISBN 0 87930 744 7 a b Brant Marty 2008 Join together forty years of the rock music festival Hal Leonard Corporation p 28 ISBN 978 0 87930 926 8 Live At Monterey AlbumLinerNotes com Retrieved 17 July 2011 Recorded on Wally Heider s 8 Track Remote using 3M analog tape Engineers Wally Heider and Bones Howe At Monterey Pop AlbumLinerNotes com Retrieved 17 July 2011 Remote recording by Wally Heider Buskin Richard August 2010 Classic Tracks Crosby Stills amp Nash Suite Judy Blue Eyes Sound On Sound SOS Publications Group Retrieved 31 March 2022 Bieger Hannes February 2014 Hyde Street Studios San Francisco Sound on Sound Retrieved 30 January 2022 Description of Hindsight Records contained in Michelex Merges with Hindsight Records News Release March 9 2005 Cash Laurel Jones Fred Benoun Ike May 1989 Two Industry Greats Lost Keith Worsley and Wally Heider PDF Recording Engineer Producer Retrieved 11 April 2022 External links editWally Heider at IMDb Wally Heider website Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index 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