Following is a partial list of Variety
Recording Studio's clients,
some at the 46th Street (1961 - 1968)
and others at the 42nd Street address (1968 - 1990)
Warren Allen Smith (co-owner),
Johnny Taglieri, Joe Cyr, Fernando Vargas (co-owner)
1960s
Abrahamson, Herb - owner A-1 Sound Recording Atlantic Records
Alda, Robert - voice and song
Alfaro, Xiomara - "Siboney," popular Cuban song
Allen, Peter - singer
Allen, Steve – demo sessions
Amram, David – jazz demo; Shakespeare in Central Park; Harold and Maude
Anka, Paul - demos, acetates
Ansonia Records - major Latino label
Apolinar, Danny - Your Own Thing
cues
Bailey, Pearl - with Jimmy Justice in Bway cast
Baird, Bobby - singer
Ballet Hispanico of New York - cues
Bergman, Marian and Alan – studio session; lyricists for "The Way We
Were" (Streisand)
Bikel, Theodore - demos, acetates
Bock, Jerry Fiddler on the Roof
(originally titled Tevye); Fiorello
Brandon, Johnny - demos, acetates
Brummit, Houston - producer, brought Jimmy Smits in for demo
Cabaret - demo by Ebb and
Dander with Liza Minnelli
Caesar, Irving - headed ASCAP, demos and acetates
Cafe Versailles (Ibis Club), cues for bellydancers, acetates
Cassone, Mike - producer
Chayevsky, Paddy - The Passion of
Joseph D, music by David Amram
Checker, Chubby - demos
Coleman, Cy - "Where Am I Going" with Dorothy Fields
Crew, Bob -demos, acetates
Cyrcle - Tom Dawes combo
Darrin, Bobby - demos, acetates
David, Hal – lyricist and publisher
Dawes, Tom - "We're American Airlines" commercial
Dee, Joey and the Starlighters – demo sessions
Ebb, Fred and John Dander – demo Cabaret
with Liza Minnelli
Evans, Bill – jazz pianist
Farres, Osvaldo - demos, acetates
Feliciano, Jose – singer, writer
Ferra, Max - engineer, demos, acetates
Fiddler on the Roof - Jerry
Bock
Fields, Dorothy and Cy Coleman, "Where Am I Going" from Sweet Charity
Fiorello - Jerry Bock, demos
and acetates
Fosse, Bob - demos, acetates
Fuller, Jerry - demos and acetates for Challenge Records
Garner, Earl - demos, acetates
Grant, Micki - demo of proposed Broadway musical
Hamlisch, Marvin with Sheldon Harnick - demos, acetates
Hampton, Lionel - demos and acetates
Harold and Maude - cues by
David Amram
Hirschhorn, Joel and Al Kasha – demo sessions
Hosey, Athena – Songwriters Contact (singer), demos, acetates, pressings
Hunter, Ivory Joe - singer, Unichappell Publisher demo
Kasha, Al - lyricist, with Bob Crew, Frank Slay
Lawrence, Carol (Robert Goulet's wife), singer, actress, demos and
acetates
Lemon, Meadowlark - 45rpm session of singing by Harlem Globetrotter
Levine, Maurice, musician, violinist, remote at Kaufman Hall
Marks, E. B. Music - label
Mercer, Johnny, E B Marks – demo session
Moreno, Rita – of West Side Story,
demo
Parson, Estell – singer, actress, Broadway play demo
Passion of Joseph D - Paddy
Chayevsky
Presley, Elvis Music Corp. - demos, acetates
Severinson, Doc - trumpeter on "Tonight Show," demo
Shearing, George - demo Big Seven Music
Singleton, Charles – session and demo
Slay, Frank - demos
Smits, Jimmy - demo
Stasny, Betty Music Publisher, 1619 B'way- demos, acetates
Swartz, Stephen - Mills Music, Stanley, Sidney, and Irving
Tate, Grady – drummer
Taylor, Sam - "The Man" saxophonist
Weiner, Stu – Wemar Music, George Goldner, demos and acetates
Wheeler, Harold- demos of 60's black musicals
Your Own Thing - Danny
Apolinar, cues, demos, acetates
Fred Vargas, the brains behind
Variety Recording Studio
Master engineer and technician,
pictured at his dub-cutting lathe
David Lescoe, engineer
Bill Wittman, engineer
Clarence Stacy, dub-cutting