SONGS from the self titled cassette. DIANE
MURRAY:
NEVER BE ANOTHER YOU
YOU'RE EVERYTHING TO ME
GOODBYE
TAKE A MOMENT
FOOLISH PRIDE
GONNA MAKE YOU MINE
MUSICIANS: Diane Murray VOCALS Steve Skinner KEYBOARDS/DRUMS
George Van Wagner LEAD
GUITAR Larry Saltzman RYTHYM/LEAD GUITAR Keith
Lentin GUITAR
ENGINEERS: Al Basi Paul Goodrich
All songs written by Diane Murray |
 Born into a musical/theatrical family whose
grandfather played trumpet with his own 16 piece orchestra and got his first break through
his granduncle, Augustus "Gussie" Shubert, who brought the prominent
"Shubert Theatre" from Germany to New York. Diane's grandpa opened for such
renowned bands such as Tommy Dorsey and Benny Goodman, and went on tour with his
orchestra, which included several family members. After retreating to his farmland in New
Jersey to raise his family, Diane's father was brought up under the musical environment
and became a saxophonist as well as singer/whistler. Diane's mother also was talented and
acquired notoriety as a skater and dancer, and after marrying Diane's father, the road
ahead for
Diane became a multi-theatrical one.
Growing up in the Motown Era, Diane was particularly inspired by such artists as Diana
Ross and The Supremes, The Shirelles, and a host of other Motown artists which became a
major influence on her singing and dance techniques. Not long after graduation, Diane
signed up with a local talent agency to audition and perform in local clubs, including the
acclaimed "Meadowbrook" in Cedar Grove, New Jersey, as well as a number of other
clubs in and around the area. Soon after, Diane gravitated towards the New York music
scene and met many famous musicians and artists such as The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin
(where she made a cameo appearance in their "The Song Remains the Same" film),
as well as session musicians and local bands, and became actively involved as a backup
singer and dancer with the groups Kingdom and Bulletproof Blues Band, and performed with
them at all of the popular clubs in Manhattan, during which time Diane's songwriting began
to blossom. While "networking" in the New York music scene, she met
producer/engineer, Robert Musso, originator of the "scratch" recording and other
progressive recordings, and expressed interest in working with her on a double version of
"For Your Love To Love Me" (one in hi-tech pop and the other in slow dance at
Diane's suggestion) recorded at Atlantic Recording Studios. After coming close to a
"dance hit" through the record pool's efforts in submitting it to Polygram, and
appearing on MTV, Diane became more inspired to write dance/pop songs and continued to
work on new recordings with Robert which were sent to various record companies around the
world. Through sparks of interest with Complete Records, a subsidiary of Polygram in
Nashville, conferences with MTV host, and Hollywood's Scotti Bros. Records inviting her to
their Los Angeles based studio as well as attend the Grammy Awards, Diane continued to
enhance her style and work on new songs in pursuit of her goal as a successful
singer/songwriter.
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During one of her networking
events, Diane met Chris Spedding at a popular
local downtown club who was seeking to work with new artists and became interested in remixing and producing the hi-techno pop
recordings to lean more towards a "new wave
pop" style to further enhance
Diane's voice and style. During production, Chris expressed interest in Diane covering one of his songs entitled
"Flirt" (contained on her
"New Wave EP"), and working with him on other songs between recording sessions, since Chris liked her melodies. |
As a result of Diane working with Chris, her songwriting became more
diverse and developed more into a rock/pop
style, of which songs are as contained in
her LP's entitled "You're Everything To Me", and in her latest "Eclectic" LP. In addition, Diane did
backing vocals with Chris' band featuring
Anton Fig (currently with Paul Schaffer Band on Letterman), Tony Garnier (currently with Bob Dylan) and Uptown Horns,
as well as backing vocals on Chris' album
"Enemy Within", and backing vocals
during Chris' production of the soundtrack recording of the
film "Hollywood Vice Squad" (during
the bus chase scene). Chris has played
on many famous artists albums ranging from Elton John's "Madman Across The Water", Brian Ferry's Roxy Music
"Avalon", The Who's, Roger
Daltry, Marianne Faithful, Ry Cooder, Tom Waite, and a host of other famous artists and musicians, as well as record and
tour with rockabilly artist Robert Gordon, not
to mention Chris' own albums and with his
band earlier on "The Sharks".
Working with Chris has been a remarkable
period of growth for Diane as well as lay
the foundation for her songwriting technique paving the road ahead to work with other arrangers and producers, such as
Jill Wisoff, formerly with "Stepping
Razor" who recently composed the musical
scoring for Sundance Film Festival's "Welcome to the
Dollhouse" wherein Chris also collaborated
for his work with the "Con Artists".
Initially, Jill directed Diane towards arranger/producer, Steve Skinner, currently co-producer of
"Rent" and producer of Southside
Johnny's, Taylor Dayne's hit album and various other
artists albums, who brought out another
dimension of Diane's music as heard on
the "You're Everything To Me" LP, and Diane's current LP entitled "Eclectic" contains a variety of
songs as well as combining all of the
arrangers and producers. For instance, Jill Wisoff arranged and produced "One Night Stand", originally arranged
by Steve
Skinner, into a dance/pop style, as well as
Diane's earlier slow dance version of
"For Your Love To Love Me" into a "downtown diva" type sound, and Chris Spedding's original arrangements
of "Love Flame" and
"Wandering Love" are arranged and produced by Steve Skinner. Other Steve Skinner arrangements and productions
contained the new LP "Eclectic"
are "Weeping Heart", and a dance songentitled "Out Here In LA" written by Al Basi and Steve Skinner and
recorded at Cassette City. A
"Diane Murray--Compilation LP" is also available. All recordings are available on CD and cassette. For information
on how to order and pricing, click on
"Lyrics/Pics".
  
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NEVER BE
ANOTHER YOU
YOU'RE EVERYTHING
TO ME
DIANE MURRAY
P. O. BOX 272 HASBROUCK HGTS.,
NJ 07604
(917) 921-9477
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All songs copywright 1997 |
