John Marascalco
John S. Marascalco ( born March 27, 1931 in Grenada, Mississippi ) is an American songwriter, producer, and publisher in the genres of rhythm and blues, rock ' n ' roll and surf.
John Marascalco already practiced at the high school in his hometown of songwriting. One of his first efforts was a country -like version of Rip It Up. When he first heard Elvis' 1955 recordings for Sun Records on the radio, he visited on April 5, a concert of the rising stars in Charleston, Mississippi and played him the title in the backstage area before. Elvis liked the song and he sent the songwriter to Memphis, where, however, this could not agree with the label boss Sam Phillips on an author contract. After all Marascalco organized a concert Presley in his hometown of Grenada two weeks later. Elvis Presley took Rip It Up until a few years later for RCA Records. This contact Sam Phillips Marascalco could later place his recorded by Billy Lee Riley 1957 Composition Would not You Know and Dance with Me Honey at Sun Records, of which only the former was but coincide with the publication.
After the first unsuccessful run at Sun Marascalco became aware of the Rock ' n ' Roll Little Richard when he heard the second single, Long Tall Sally in early 1956 on the radio. He wrote for him Ready Teddy and offered it in Los Angeles Little Richards producer Bumps Blackwell for publishing at Specialty Records on. He asked for further compositions and Marascalco revised Rip It Up for the extrovert singer, with two songs, the Arranger Blackwell who registered as a co -author. Another co-production of the two was Good Golly Miss Molly, Leo Price, he wrote, Send Me Some Lovin ' and Maybelle Jackson Heeby Jeebies. For Little Richard I Got It Marascalco contributed a new text and the new title She's Got It. Marascalco could only partially benefit from the success of his songs by Little Richard, as the label boss Art Rupe did use the title to bad terms with his own music publishers, so the songwriting royalties failed low and remained the majority of the profit for the label Specialty. Little Richard himself took in an interview with Goldmine magazine in 1989 can claim to have composed most of the songs Marascalcos itself. Marascalco was merely his driver, who suggested him some text ideas. Another Marascalco composition with Specialty, which evolved into the R & B standard, 1956 was Roy Montrells ( Everytime I Hear ) That Mellow Saxophone.
Experience with Specialty Records used Marascalco when he as a songwriter and producer led to the beginning of the 1960s own small record label or founded, including Infinity Records, Lola Records, Cee- Jam Records, JC Records, Sabrina Records and Ruby -Doo Records, whose songs it to a large extent also laid himself at his music publisher Robin Hood Music. Marascalco worked with some renowned musicians in their early career, including with the Burnette Brothers, with the songwriters Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart prior to their joint work for The Monkees and George Motola in Hollywood. Known titles are Dorsey Burnettes Bertha Lou on Surf Records, Fats Domino Be My Guest on Imperial Records and Jesse BelVins Goodnight My Love ( Pleasant Dreams ) on Modern Records.
As a producer and publisher Marascalco was involved around 1963 also in the development of surf and garage rock. He was involved with Richard Delvy of the Challengers in the development of the surf classic Wipe Out the Surfaris. He also financially supported the young Harry Nilsson, whose career he anschob together with my colleague Scott Turner. Together they wrote and published Nillsons early single under various pseudonyms, including the title Groovy Little Suzie, what Little Richard adapted, Baa Baa Black Sheep and All for the Beatles. His productions was promoting Marascalco via radio among other things, the Irish-American DJ Godfrey Kerr, whose own recording The trip he brought out to Cee- Jam Records. Other artists who assisted Marascalco and released on his labels were, for example, The Electras and The Jaguars, whose song Charlena he laid.