Episode # 57 Art Phillips (music composer, producer, guitarist and owner/director of 101 Music Pty Ltd®)
June 5, 2023
Interviewer Chip Schell (Dan Schell)
Featured guest: Art Phillips
Episode Description
Art Phillips, originally from Erie, Pennnsylvania, now residing and working as a music composer and producer in Sydney Australia – followed in his father’s footsteps and played guitar starting when he was about 8 years of age. In his teens he became the musical director for Ron Seggi, vocal artist and radio announcer extraordinaire. When Art was 19, he got the job as guitarist for The Lettermen (the famous mid-late 60’s pop vocal trio).
Art Phillips has two Emmy awards for original music that he composed in the mid-1980s on the TV show Santa Barbara. He has scored over 1,500 hours of original music for broadcast TV series, films, documentaries, and advertisements. In the mid -1970s, he moved to Los Angeles and became a top session guitarist working with artists such as Barry Manilow, Minnie Riperton, Teena Marie, Dory Previn, Demis Roussos, John Rowles, and the group that drew him away from Erie when he was just 19 years old — The Lettermen.
Thanks to the JPT Foundation for sponsoring the Erie Music History podcast. The goal of the foundation is to provide education scholarships to grade school-age children as well as annual giving to local organizations and charities. The foundation has a large hall that hosts bingo four days a week and is available for rentals, and it is also the home of this podcast’s monthly music night, which is the first Tuesday of the month from 6-9.
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