You Are Electric To Me by Marc Davic Decker
‘YOU ARE ELECTRIC TO ME’ 1986
DOCTOR DADDIO & THE L.A. MINTS

(11 SONGS /1986) TIME; 39:33
1. YOU ARE ELECTRIC TO ME (©1985 Marc Decker, Jacesther Pub., BMI) time 3:54
2. BIRDS OF A FEATHER ((©1986 Marc Decker, Jacesther Pub., BMI) time 3:38
3. I JUST WANNA DANCE WITH YOU (©1985 Marc Decker, Jacesther Pub., BMI) time 4:46
4. MELODY OF THE NIGHTINGALE (©1987 Marc Decker, Jacesther Pub., BMI) time 3:42
5. BEAST IN THE VALLEY (©1985 Marc Decker, Jacesther Pub., BMI) time 4:02
6. BIG SAW (©1985 Marc Decker, Jacesther Pub., BMI) time 2:42
7.PUT ON YOUR HI-HEELS (©1985 Marc Decker, Jacesther Pub., BMI) time 3:02
8. THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT (©Tro-Folkways Music Pub.) time 4:30
9. BLEEDING FOR YOUR REAL LOVE (©1986 Marc Decker, Jacesther Pub., BMI) time 1:44
10. HEART IS A ROCK (© 1988 Marc Decker, Jacesther Pub., BMI) time 4:46
11. OVERDRIVE (© 1988 Marc Decker, Jacesther Pub., BMI) time 2:32
MUSICIANS:
DOCTOR DADDIO Composer/lyricist, keyboards, drum machine on songs 1-5, Bass On Songs 1,2,3,4, Lead vocals On songs 1,2,3,5,6,7,11
JAMES WELCH Electric Guitar
RON ADLER Bass Guitar on songs 3 & 6-11
MARK WILLIAMS Drums, Lead & Backup Vocals on songs 3 &10
ANGELA O’NEILL Lead & Backup Vocals on songs 3 & 5
LISA FINNIE Lead Vocals on songs 3 &9/ Backup Vocals on songs 5,6,8,10,11
DAIL DAWSON Lead & Backup Vocals on songs 2,3,4 & 8
LES LOVITT Trumpet
DAN FORNERO Trumpet
CLAUDE CALLIET Trombone
CHRIS JENNINGS Baritone Sax
JOHN SCHROEDER Tenor and Alto Saxophones
GUEST ARTISTS
JOSEPH WILLIAMS Lead & Backup Vocals on songs 8 & 9
CHERYL CHRISTMAN Lead & Backup Vocals on songs 2 & 4
ROGER STONE Blues Guitar on song 2
ENGINEERS:
DAVE JENKINS, STEVE KLEIN, MAGIC MORENO.
 
ABOUT THE ALBUM:

THIS IS THE SECOND OF MY TWO ALBUMS WHICH WERE PRESSED ON VINYL. I WAS DOCTOR DADDIO AND THE BAND WAS THE L.A. MINTS. WE HAD A HUGE BAND AND PLAYED CONSTANTLY. THE BAND REPRESENTED THE CULMINATION OF A LONG, ‘THINNING DOWN’ PROCESS WHICH TOOK US FROM 24 PIECES TO A TRIM 12 PIECE UNIT. BESIDES THE USUAL GUITAR, BASS, DRUMS AND KEYBOARDS, WE HAD 3 FEMALE VOCALISTS WHO OFTEN SWITCHED BETWEEN LEAD AND BACKUP VOCALS (AS DID I) AND A PUMPIN' 5 PIECE HORN SECTION.. THE RESUMES OF THE BAND MEMBERS WERE INCREDIBLE! FROM ABBA TO TOTO, ROBERTA FLACK TO PHIL COLLINS, THESE CATS ALL PLAYED WITH THE BEST, AND HERE WE ALL WERE TOGETHER. I’M SO GLAD WE WERE ABLE TO CUT THIS RECORD. AS WITH THE FIRST RECORD (JAWBREAKER), WE RECEIVED SOME AIRPLAY AND MOST OF THE TUNES WERE LATER PLACED IN MOVIES I DID THE SCORES FOR.
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