Rick Shorter was an American songwriter, music producer, and author.
27 Facts About Rick Shorter
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Rick Shorter composed, arranged, and produced "If I Call You By Some Name" which was a hit for The Paupers.
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The son of a clergyman who used to be a jazz guitarist, Rick Shorter came from a Seventh-day Adventist background.
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Rick Shorter had his own local radio show while still at junior high.
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Rick Shorter's cousin is jazz saxophonist, Wayne Shorter, founding member of the group Weather Report.
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Rick Shorter met his wife Gwen nee Simmons in a New York night club on 42nd Street.
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Rick Shorter was on the road a week later promoting his new single "Last Thoughts Of A Young Man".
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Rick Shorter had written and produced "Love Hides A Multitude of Sins" for The Esquires.
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Rick Shorter composed a mellow folk-influenced tune called "If I Call You By Some Name" for The Paupers.
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Rick Shorter produced and arranged another song for the group, Copper Penny by group members Adam Mitchell and Skip Prokop.
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Around March 1967, Rick Shorter produced the debut album Magic People for The Paupers, which they had recorded in New York.
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Rick Shorter first met Shorter through some connections he had.
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At the time one of Rick Shorter's roles was gathering studio musicians to record tunes for music publishers.
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The Manhattan musicians introduced to MacDermot by Rick Shorter would become his studio co-musicians over the next few years.
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Also through Rick Shorter, MacDermot met and got to play with Bernard Purdie.
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Rick Shorter produced and directed the music on the album and contributed to some of the sound effects.
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Rick Shorter set her up with musicians that consisted of guitarists John Williamson and Will Betz.
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Rick Shorter composed both songs as well as producing and arranging the recordings.
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Rick Shorter produced their album Open For Business which was released in 1970 on the Traffic label.
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Rick Shorter had done some production work in 1967 for another band Peterson later joined called 3's A Crowd; that band was Canadian and Rick Shorter produced three songs which they recorded at Bell Studios.
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In 1968, Rick Shorter was the musical director for the Broadway musical, Hair.
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Rick Shorter wrote the song "Don't Cry" which was released around 1970 or 1971 on the Lionel Records label.
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Rick Shorter warned young people that there was absolutely nothing to that kind of life.
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Rick Shorter was auditioning for a part in an off-Broadway rock musical.
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Rick Shorter never passed the info on to her, and later as a Christian she recounted this and said that she was glad he didn't, as she didn't know how things would have turned out.
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Rick Shorter wrote the book Nine Months Pregnant; it is mainly about the ordination of women in the Adventist Church and looks at the possibility of the church being affected by the change.
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Rick Shorter suffered a basilar artery stroke in August 2017, and passed away on September 1,2017.