Tom Snow
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Tom Snow | |
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Birth name | Thomas Righter Snow |
Born | 1947 Princeton, New Jersey, US |
Occupation(s) | Songwriter, singer-songwriter (1970s) |
Instrument(s) | Keyboards |
Labels | Capitol Records (solo releases) |
Website | www |
Thomas Righter Snow (born 1947 in Princeton, New Jersey) is an American songwriter.
Biography
Snow has written songs for
Along with
On November 11, 2011, at an independent TED event, Snow delivered a TED talk which he entitled "The Mulch Pile."[2]
Snow also released solo albums in the 1970s and 1980s.
Tom Snow was a member of the band Country, which released a sole album on Clean Records, a subsidiary of Atlantic Records in 1971. Snow sang co-lead and played piano. The band included Michael Fondiler, who shared lead vocals and played rhythm guitar, Bob DeSimone on drums, Steve Fondiler on bass and Ian Espinoza on lead guitar and dobro. Their little-known but assured self-titled debut featured Mark and Matt Andes of Spirit and Jo Jo Gunne and Lowell George of Little Feat. Vexed by management troubles – Michael O'Bryant was replaced by Peter Asher – the album sank without a trace. Re-released on the Slipstream label in 2013,[3] the album garnered favourable reviews.
Snow left after the first album, but the rest of the band continued, and a second album was recorded but never released. A single from those sessions, "Strange Arrangement", was released, which featured Snow and the rest of the band but was credited as a solo work by Ian Espinoza. It also failed and Clean Records pulled the plug. The band now has the original masters and plans are afoot to finally release this album, which was to be entitled Bigalo Jive. UK fanzine Fantastic Expedition told the Country story in its Issue No. 8.[4]
Snow co-wrote Melissa Manchester's "Your Love is Where I Live", which also features Stevie Wonder, on Manchester's You Gotta Love the Life (2015).[5]
Discography
- Solo albums[6]
- Taking It All in Stride (Capitol, 1975)
- Tom Snow (Capitol, 1976)
- Hungry Nights (Arista, 1982)
References
- Allmusic. Retrieved July 24, 2015.
- YouTubeTEDxAmericanRiviera
- ^ "Country (Self-Titled)". Slipstream Records. Retrieved February 16, 2016.
- ^ "Fantastic Expedition". Fantastic Expedition. Retrieved February 16, 2016.
- ^ You Gotta Love the Life (Media notes). Los Angeles, California: Long Run Entertainment, L.L.C. 2015.
- Allmusic. Retrieved July 24, 2015.