James William Guercio

James William Guercio ( born 1945 in Chicago, Illinois ) is an American musician, songwriter, record producer and former owner of the record label Caribou Records.

Early years

Guercio moved mid-1960s to Los Angeles and established himself first as a studio musician, as a songwriter thereafter. His first success as a songwriter, he scored with the song "Distant Shores ", which was a top 30 hit for the duo Chad & Jeremy. For his compositions he used the name " Jim Guercio ."

Guercio was taken by Columbia Records as a producer under contract and worked with The Buckinghams.

Chicago and further success

During his time at college Guercio friendship had made with Walter Parazaider, who invited him in 1968 to his new band "The Big Thing " to listen. Guercio was excited about the band and offered to act as her manager and producer. The band moved to Los Angeles and called himself - on request Guercios - The Chicago Transit Authority. While working on their debut album with this band, he also produced the second album by Blood, Sweat & Tears, with whom he achieved the award " Album of the Year ".

In 1970, the wanted to bring real Chicago Transit Authority lawsuit against the band, Guercio changed the band name to simply in "Chicago". The band was a huge commercial success. Guercio produced for the group a total of 11 albums ( see main article Chicago ( band ) ).

In addition, he also worked with unknown bands.

Caribou Ranch / Caribou Records

Guercio was built in 1972 in the Rocky Mountains, the Caribou Ranch, a 4,000 -square-foot property on him include an ultra-modern recording studio. In addition to Chicago and Elton John, Deep Purple, Phil Collins and many other stars took advantage of this property for recordings. Soon after, with Caribou Records, he founded his own record label which the distribution channels of Columbia for use Guercio continued to work.

1975 Guercio was manager of the group The Beach Boys, and made with them a few shots that were never published. He took their drummer Dennis Wilson as a soloist under contract and released his album Pacific Ocean Blue under the label Caribou Records. A year later moved the whole band to his record label, published from 1979 to 1985 their records on Caribou. This is because even the most well-known commitment. Even Carl Wilson finally released two solo albums on the label.

In March, 1985, a fire broke out on the Caribou Ranch and destroyed among other things, the recording studio. Total property damage in excess of 3 million dollars was. Guercio then withdrew from the music business, he built not on the studio and hired the operation of its record label. The archives of Caribou Records today belongs to CBS and Sony Music.

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