SEALED LP: BEN SIDRAN: THE DOCTOR IS IN

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Ben Sidran: The Doctor Is In

FACTORY SEALED LP

Format: Sealed LP
Country: U.S.A.
Record Company & Release Number: Arista: AL-4131
Original release date/year: 1977
Bar Code: NONE
Condition of the cover: Mint
Condition of the record: Sealed - Assumed Mint
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds, 1 ounces
My inventory number: 208104B
Notes: - - -
Please contact me if you have any difficulty viewing the photos. Songs

• Get It Yourself
• Song for a Sucker Like You
• Broad Daylight
• See You on the Other Side
• One Way Grave
• Set Yourself Free
• Nobody's Fool
• Charlie's Blues
• Be Nice

Credits

• Ben Sidran: Percussion, Piano, Vocals, Main Performer, Producer
• Gary Mallaber: Percussion, Tambourine, Drums
• Ray Armondo: Percussion
• Ray Armando: Percussion
• Chuck Domanico: Bass
• Randy Fullerton: Bass
• John Guerin: Drums
• Larry Carlton: Guitar
• Richard Davis: Bass
• Blue Mitchell: Trumpet
• Tony Williams: Drums
• Phil Upchurch: Bass, Guitar, Drums

Album Review
ALBUM REVIEW NOT AVAILABLE ON ALLMUSIC.COM
Biography
Ben Sidran biography by Jim Newsom, All Music Guide

• Pianist Ben Sidran grew up in Racine, WI. In the early '60s, he played with Steve Miller and Boz Scaggs in a band called the Ardells at the University of Wisconsin. After Miller moved to San Francisco and secured a recording contract, he called on old friend Sidran to join him in the Steve Miller Band following the departure of original keyboardist Jim Peterman. Sidran contributed on the keys and as songwriter on several Miller albums beginning with Brave New World in 1969, co-writing the classic "Space Cowboy" and three other tunes on that LP. He also authored "Steve Miller's Midnight Tango" on Number 5 and collaborated with Miller on several other tunes through the years. He produced his friend's under appreciated release, Recall the Beginning...A Journey From Eden in 1972. Sidran received a Ph.D. in philosophy/musicology, writing his doctoral thesis on African-American culture and music in the United States. The thesis was published to positive critical response in 1971 as Black Talk. Since 1972, he has released a number of solo albums in a cool, easy swinging style similar to Mose Allison. His early albums relied on acoustic instruments and lyrical references to his musical heroes. Later releases used electronic instruments and tasty synthesizers for an interesting sound best presented on albums like 1985's On the Cool Side and Cool Paradise from 1990.
• Through the years, Ben Sidran and Steve Miller have remained close friends, popping up from time to time on one another's recordings or live performances. In 1988, Sidran co-produced one of Miller's most interesting latter-day recordings, Born 2B Blue, a collection of jazz standards dressed up in the same cool, low-key arrangements Sidran employs on his own albums.
• Sidran has produced recordings for Mose Allison, Diana Ross, and others, and collaborated with Van Morrison and Georgie Fame on the tribute album The Songs of Mose Allison: Tell Me Something in 1996. In addition to making music himself, Sidran has hosted programs on VH1 and continues to write about the music he loves.

• This record came from a record store called "Phantasmagoria" which was located in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Phantasmagoria went out of business in 1978. I purchased most of their unsold inventory some years later when I owned "Music Madness" - a new & used record store in Catasauqua, Pennsylvania.
• Phantasmagoria used round colored stickers to indicate the price of the albums. They had a sign on the wall with the color sticker combinations for the customers to use so they knew the price of the albums. Most of the albums still have these stickers on them, and in some rare cases, the stickers are written on. Some of the records have prices on them. This is the price you would have paid for the record in 1978 if you would have bought it at Phantasmagoria. Please don't confuse these prices with their current value.
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