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| Producer/arranger/songwriter Patrick Adams' career spans more than 30 years. His plentiful resume includes work with Sister Sledge (their 1974 debut LP on Atco/Atlantic Circle of Love), Loleatta Holloway, Coolio, Herbie Mann ("Superman," number 26 pop, early 1979, from the 1 |
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
Dear Kanye
Dear Kanye,
You have my sincere condolences for your family loss. We are only blessed with one mother to nurture us and point us in the right direction. God bless her and give her all the rewards to be found in His grace.
You also have my condolences on your Grammy awards loss. When I look at the nominations I see that you have a genuine chance of winning three or four awards. I congratulate you on those wins. You are a brilliant creator who has put in a lot of time and energy. You have made a lasting mark on the music scene and deserve the awards you receive. A Grammy nomination is a great honor. Many artist including the Beatles never received nominations at the height of their careers, which brings me to my point.
You come from a generation which demands instant gratification. You want to be seen and heard, admired and patted on the back right in the middle of act one of your three act play. Before you learn how to bake cakes with consistency you want to bite into it and enjoy a taste while it's still in the oven. Your dictionary came without the word patience. In today's world, graduation from college is just a prelude to higher levels of education. For the master players in the world there is Medical school or Law school followed by an internship or residency. I am still sitting here trying to understand the sense of any person under 30 years old doing a biographical movie. Unless of course he feels his life and career is over but that's another story.
There is also a word humility which seems to escape young dogs. I learned a long time ago never to argue with success. No one can deny that there are a few self promoting flashy multimillionaires out there spitting and living the good life. However true success is measured by stability and longevity. When you produce your 20Th gold album or you write your 100Th song I will be the first to say you have proved yourself to be more that a loud mouth and a spoiled brat.
If you win 8 Grammy awards I will be very happy for you but very sad for the music industry. In a world where there is a concentration of power because of limited ownership of media companies, a clean sweep of the Grammy Awards would be a sign of the worst kind of corruption. If I am right and you win 3 or 4 awards, You should be proud of your accomplishments, humbly accept the acknowledgment of your contemporaries and move on to bigger and better records. You are just a baby in the music business. You have a long way to go.
God bless you and I hope you can accept this letter for what it is. - The opinion of one man who has been there and wishes you lots of success in a long career.
Patrick Adams
Producer/ arranger/ songwriter
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| Producer/arranger/songwriter Patrick Adams' career spans more than 30 years. His plentiful resume includes work with Sister Sledge (their 1974 debut LP on Atco/Atlantic Circle of Love), Loleatta Holloway, Coolio, Herbie Mann ("Superman," number 26 pop, early 1979, from the 1978 Atlantic LP Super Mann), Bumblebee Unlimited (the 1979 RCA LP Sting Like a Bee), Universal Robot Band (Dance and Shake Your Tambourine), Narada Michael Walden (I Don't Want Nobody Else, Love Me Only, and the radio-aired LP track "Give Your Love a Chance" from his 1979 Atlantic LP Awakening), and Musique ("In the Bush," number 29 R&B, fall 1978), among many others. Born Patrick Peter Owen Adams on March 17, 1950, in New York City, Adams' childhood was spent singing in choirs and attending concerts at the legendary Apollo Theater. When he was a preteen, Adams' father bought him a trumpet. In his teens, Adams began playing guitar and writing songs. He honed his arranging skills by dissecting the song structure and arrangement patterns of the records he heard on the radio. To build his audio engineering skills, he'd go to recording studios and observe how recordings were created. At 16, he was asked to join the Sparks, who he appeared with in the 1967 Warner Bros. movie Up the Down Staircase starring Sandy Dennis. Soon afterwards they were signed to Curb/MGM and the single "Cool It" b/w "Woe, Woe" was released. They began playing shows with Jerry Butler, the Rascals, and the Commodores. In 1970, Adams was hired as the vice president of A&R for NY-based Perception/Today Records, discovering and signing the teenage vocal trio Black Ivory. The group's lineup was lead singer Leroy Burgess, Stuart Bascombe, and Russell Patterson. Their first single, Adams' ballad "Don't Turn Around," went to number 38 on Billboard's R&B chart in late 1971. Their first three singles and a Burgess song, the hopeful "If I Could Be a Mirror," were included on the Don't Turn Around LP, issued February 1972. They had two more charting singles on Today: "Time Is Love" b/w a credible cover of Michael Jackson's "Got to Be There" from the Don't Turn Around LP (number 35 R&B, early 1973) and "Spinning Around" b/w "Find the One Who Loves You" (number 45 R&B, summer 1973). In 1974, Adams left Perception/Today Records and started his own production company, PAPMUS (Patrick Adams Productions Music). One of Adams' best known recordings is Inner Life's "I'm Caught Up (In a One Night Love Affair)." First released as a 12" single by Greg Carmichael on TCT Records, it was picked up by Prelude Records and went to number 22 R&B, late 1979. Adams and Carmichael produced many dance classics over their eight-year collaboration, including sides by Donna McGhee, Universal Robot Band, Bumblebee Unlimited, and Fonda Rae's original version of "Touch Me (All Night Long)." Cathy Dennis' remake of the Adams/Carmichael song held the number two pop spot for two weeks in spring 1991. Adams has won the ASCAP Songwriter of the Year Award three times, including a 1992 award for "Touch Me (All Night Long)." Other Adams-related releases are Eddie Kendricks's Arista LP Vintage '78 (reissued in 1997 by Razor & Tie), Kendricks' 1979 Arista LP Something More, the 1997 two-CD set Salsoul Essentials from U.K. label Charly Records, the CD reissue of Candi Station's 1976 Young Hearts Run Free, Debbie Taylor's 1997 Sequel CD Still Comin' Down on Ya, the Unidisc CD reissue of Musique's 1979 LP Keep on Jumpin', the Unidisc reissue of the Kay Gees' 1979 LP Burn Me Up, Rainbow Brown's 'Til You Surrender with Fonda Rae on Vanguard Records, Shannon's 1986 Atlantic LP Love Goes All The Way, the Main Ingredient featuring Cuba Gooding's 1981 RCA LP I Only Have Eyes for You, and sides by Gladys Knight, Ace Spectrum, Rick James, Jeanie Tracy, and Bruni Pagan. His engineering credits include Make It Last Forever by Keith Sweat, Follow the Leader & Let the Rhythm Hit 'Em by Eric B & Rakim, Rakim's The 18th Letter/Book of Life, Salt-N-Pepa's Hot, Cool & Vicious, and James Moody's Heritage Hum/The Teacher on Collectables. |
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| Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
Dear Kanye
Dear Kanye,
You have my sincere condolences for your family loss. We are only blessed with one mother to nurture us and point us in the right direction. God bless her and give her all the rewards to be found in His grace.
You also have my condolences on your Grammy awards loss. When I look at the nominations I see that you have a genuine chance of winning three or four awards. I congratulate you on those wins. You are a brilliant creator who has put in a lot of time and energy. You have made a lasting mark on the music scene and deserve the awards you receive. A Grammy nomination is a great honor. Many artist including the Beatles never received nominations at the height of their careers, which brings me to my point.
You come from a generation which demands instant gratification. You want to be seen and heard, admired and patted on the back right in the middle of act one of your three act play. Before you learn how to bake cakes with consistency you want to bite into it and enjoy a taste while it's still in the oven. Your dictionary came without the word patience. In today's world, graduation from college is just a prelude to higher levels of education. For the master players in the world there is Medical school or Law school followed by an internship or residency. I am still sitting here trying to understand the sense of any person under 30 years old doing a biographical movie. Unless of course he feels his life and career is over but that's another story.
There is also a word humility which seems to escape young dogs. I learned a long time ago never to argue with success. No one can deny that there are a few self promoting flashy multimillionaires out there spitting and living the good life. However true success is measured by stability and longevity. When you produce your 20Th gold album or you write your 100Th song I will be the first to say you have proved yourself to be more that a loud mouth and a spoiled brat.
If you win 8 Grammy awards I will be very happy for you but very sad for the music industry. In a world where there is a concentration of power because of limited ownership of media companies, a clean sweep of the Grammy Awards would be a sign of the worst kind of corruption. If I am right and you win 3 or 4 awards, You should be proud of your accomplishments, humbly accept the acknowledgment of your contemporaries and move on to bigger and better records. You are just a baby in the music business. You have a long way to go.
God bless you and I hope you can accept this letter for what it is. - The opinion of one man who has been there and wishes you lots of success in a long career.
Patrick Adams
Producer/ arranger/ songwriter
www.papmus.com
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| Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
There but for the Grace Of God...
I live in Manhattan in New York City.
On September 7, 2001, the Friday before 9/11,
I met with Judy T. in the lobby of Number One World Trade Center. Judy is my best friends wife. She worked on the sixty-something floor as a nurse. Her unselfish nature and pleasant personality made her a natural winner at anything she did, and as would be expected she was also the fire warden for her floor. As we stood in the lobby she jokingly asked if I came down by limo. She would always kid me about my flamboyant style.
"No," I laughed. "As a matter of fact I came in the worst possible choice. My music partner Tony Terrell was kind enough to bring me in his white van. I don't think I should leave him parked alone outside too long. Somebody might get the wrong idea!"
"Well here is my new cell phone number," she said proudly as she passed me the slip of paper.
"I have joined the 21st century! Now if I could only get my body to join me."
She was a little frightened about needing a hip operation. After a few more moments of small talk I exited. Tony made a wrong turn as we left and instead of hitting the Henry Hudson parkway we woundup having to drive through a maze of barriers and detours which took us the long way around the WTC complex.
I looked at Tony and made a joke about taking the grand tour.
Like many New Yorkers, on the morning of the eleventh I was awakened by a phone call and directed to my television. The first hour or so was spent trying to make sense of what was happening. It was at the moment that the first tower began to crumble that I was shocked into reality. My friend Judy is down there. Knowing her - shes doing her best to direct people to safety and not thinking of herself. After a short frantic search I found her number but it just kept ringing. For the first ti |
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