Lenny Castro

[upbeat music] Written by Mead Kendrick III, Somehow Our Love Survives by Joe Sample.

This was a bit past the era, but he was still keeping the fire with JR Robinson on drums, Michael Landau, Lenny Castro, Larry Williams, with a Jerry Hey and Robbie Buchanan on synth arrangement.

Uh, Larry Williams with Jerry Hey, weird combo, weird, and Robbie Buchanan on synth arrangement.

And of course, Al Jarreau bringing the vocal smoothness as well as some uncharacteristically restrained scatting in the outro.

Amanda Green did later release a few albums under her own name and as the audience she's sometimes called the miami amanda green to distinguish her from another amanda green the daughter of aldolf green and phyllis newman who has written songs and performed in new york so yeah so obviously 1990 was the whole album plus a couple of extras but we do have a copy of born to be loved by you which we're going to cover that with the bumbris

Looking at the personnel listing for High Civilization, aside from the Brothers Gibb, on keyboards and synthesizer and programming is Tim Moore, on guitar, Alan Kendall, on bass, George Perry, on percussion, Lenny Castro, and then Joseph Brennan's listed them as Possible.

backing vocalists so whether or not it's confirmed but on backing vocals julia waters and maxine waters engineer femi gia and john merchant so picking up on the engineer femi gia now i know you're quite a big fan of prince yeah and femi gia worked with prince thinking about then the production style that is brought onto high civilization can you hear a prince influence

yes Well, like you, Chris, I did a little bit of research and I couldn't find too much on him either.

Maybe this isn't a guy you said before, and I was thinking of that guy because it was Leonard Castro.

Oh, Lenny Castro.

He's the other guy.

Okay.

You know the Wrecking Crew, right? Yes.

Rick Schlosser on drums, who is a session drummer who'd been a member of Van Morrison and James Taylor's band.

Lenny Castro, of course.

William Reichenbach on trombone.

OK, also Ted Templeman produced.

93, Blink of an Eye, David Williams on guitar, Fred Tackett, Dean Parks, Robin Ford, Warren Haynes, Paul Jackson Jr., Nathan East, Marcus Miller, Ready Freddy Washington on bass, Lenny Castro, bear with me, I gotta just go through this, Kirk Whalen, I'm making a point eventually, 2000, Blue Obsession has David Pak, 2000, Let's see.

Who else is worthy of note on here? Victor Krauss on upright bass.

That's interesting.

Daniel Gonzalez on drums.

And then special guest Lenny Castro, percussionist, appears on five of the tracks.

Which I certainly, one thing I was noticing as I was cranking this up on the way home from Chicago last night was, you know, the high quality auxiliary percussion work on it.

There's a lot of percolating grooves.

And he was also on the most recent PASIC Recap 3 from this past November.

Lenny Castro, episode 197.

Carol Steele, she was episode 230.

And also Keith Rusu, he was part of the Sports Drumline Roundtable.