Wally Heider (''né'' Wallace Beck Heider; 20 May 1922

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– 22 March 1989) was an American

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and

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owner who refined and advanced the art of studio and

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and was instrumental in recording the San Francisco Sound in the late 1960s and early 1970s, recording notable acts including

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, the

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, and

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. Heider also amassed a collection of remote recordings of

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broadcasting via radio from the middle 1930s into the 1950s, preserving some of the only known recordings of ''complete'' arrangements of many notable artists of the era, including entire sections of arrangements that otherwise had to be cut from recordings made in commercial recording studios, due to timing constraints of recording technology at that time.

Biography

Early life and education

Heider attended the

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music school and played saxophone in a 12-piece band he founded. After bandleaders directed him to turn away from microphones due to his poor playing, he decided to pursue recording instead. Heider earned a law degree from Hasting Law School and worked as an attorney until the mid 1950s.

Career

United Recording

Heider moved from Oregon to Los Angeles in the late 1950s and was hired by

Bill Putnam Milton Tasker "Bill" Putnam (February 20, 1920 – April 13, 1989) was an American audio engineer, songwriter, producer, studio designer and businessman, who has been described as "the father of modern recording". He was the inventor of the mo ...

to work at United Recording as a part-time apprentice, eventually working his way up to apprentice. By 1960, Heider was working as second engineer at United, later taking on the role of chief engineer at Putnam's United Recording Corporation of Nevada (URCON) in Las Vegas, which included both recording studios and a

truck. Heider also leased his mobile recording equipment to United and managed their remote recording business for 18 months.

Remote recording

Beginning modestly in Los Angeles in 1958 with an Ampex 351 in the back of a station wagon, Heider began to establish remote recording techniques, recording

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. By the time Heider's remote recording truck was hired by

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to record ''

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'' in 1964, it was a converted 14-foot Dodge box truck, outfitted with a pair of

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tape machines and a 12-input, 3-output

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built by Bill Putnam. developing remote recording throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Many of Heider's recordings became hits or critical successes. One of them is the classic album ''Live in Concert'' by

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, captured in 1964 at the

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in Los Angeles. Heider recorded the

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in 1966 and the

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in 1967; its many musical acts and the increasing importance of high-quality sound for a concert film signaled a major shift in scale and importance for the remote truck operator.

Recording studios

Heider established Wally Heider Recording at 1604 N. Cahuenga Boulevard in Hollywood in the early 1960s, recording with musicians like Crosby Stills and Nash and Jefferson Airplane. After working with Bay Area musicians and doing remote recording at the

and the

, Heider recognized that musicians involved in the San Francisco Sound were having to travel to Los Angeles or New York to record. In 1979, Heider addressed that need by opening

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at 245 Hyde Street in San Francisco's Tenderloin District across from the Black Hawk nightclub, where he had recorded a series of Miles Davis's live sessions in the mid '60s.

Notable recordings

Many of ''

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'' magazine's Top 500 albums were recorded in Heider's studios including ''

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with

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, ''

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'' by T. Rex, ''

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, '' American Beauty'' by the

, ''

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, '' Procol Harum Live: In Concert with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra'', and ''

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Big Band era recordings

Heider's remote recordings of

broadcasting via radio from the middle 1930s into the 1950s are a treasure trove of "live" recordings performed by a wide assortment of some of the most notable, (as well as lesser known), big band, jazz and popular artists of the entire period. Many of these broadcast recordings provide some of the only known recordings of ''complete'' arrangements by those artists, and include entire sections of arrangements that otherwise had to be cut from recordings made in commercial recording studios, because of the timing constraint that was prevalent for records throughout the entire pre-LP recording era. (Recordings made for commercial release on 10" 78-RPM records could not exceed three minutes and thirty seconds of music, and many jukeboxes were automatically timed to change records at 3:20.) Heider's initial collection of recordings from this era formed the basis of the

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catalogue, acquired from Heider in 1979 by Thomas Gramuglia. Through Heider, Hindsight ended up owning over 9,000 copyrights and masters. In 1986, Wally Heider hired music-film consultant Joseph Nicoletti Jr. of Laguna Beach, California to make and present the Big Band masters to MCA, Sony-Interscope, Paramount Pictures and many more broadcast and marketing companies. After obtaining the rights to Big Band short films of the 1940s and ‘50s originally produced to be shown at movie theaters between double features, Heider founded Swing-Time Video, editing the films and reissuing them on

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Career chronology

*1941, 1946: production of several

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and his Orchestra hits, including ''Bumble Boogie'' (1946) *'60s Big band and pop recordings *disciple of

; assisted at

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in Hollywood *1966

remote recordings; met Dale Manquen *1967

remote recordings *1968 Studio 3, Los Angeles Crosby Stills & Nash *1968-1980

, 245 Hyde Street, San Francisco *1969 remote 24-track recording *1970 remote 8-track recording; for example

at Oakland Coliseum. *1971-72 1971-72 dual 2-inch 24-track remote truck recording; e.g. Procol Harum Live: In Concert with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra at the Jubilee Auditorium, Edmonton Alberta, Canada. *August 20, 1972

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recording *1974-75 remote concert recordings in the Los Angeles area *Instrument rental business in San Francisco until Dolph Rempp and

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came along *1975 studio at 1604 N. Cahuenga, Los Angeles *1976 Filmways

Musicians, Albums, Concerts

*Gary Tole *

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, Monterey Pop *

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, Monterey Pop Festival 1967 *

, Band Of Gypsys (New York, Fillmore East) 1970 *

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, Monterey Pop *

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: ''

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'', '' Lei'd in Hawaii'' (unreleased), '' Wild Honey'', ''

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'' ("Time to Get Alone" only) *

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, Live at the Roxy *

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, CSN 1969 *

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, Deja Vu *

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, "Here At Last Live" *

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- West Coast shows *

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, album Free Ride

Engineers

*John (Jack) Crymes Jr., Recording Engineer, Senior Electrical Engineer (Remote Recording, Wally Heider Recording, Hollywood) *Rik Pekkonnen (Wally Heider Recording, Hollywood) *Stephen Jarvis (Wally Heider Studio, San Francisco 1970-75) * David Fraser (

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) * Russ Gary (Wally Heider Studio, San Francisco 1968-71) (helped prep Hyde Street for opening 1968-69) * Stephen Barncard * Ellen Burke (Wally Heider Studio, San Francisco) * Lesley Barncard (1975 Cahuenga) *

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(Automatt) * Maureen Droney (Automatt) *

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(Automatt) * John Nowl (Automatt) *

Fred Catero Fred Catero (February 4, 1933 – October 6, 2022) was an American record producer and engineer. Catero was originally from New York City, where he worked for CBS Records/Columbia, recording artists such as Chicago and Blood, Sweat & Tears. Invit ...

(Automatt) * Jeffrey Cohen (Automatt) * Tom Scott (1966) * Gray Odell (1966) *

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* Dan Agostino (Wally Heider Recording, Hollywood 1974-76) * Richard Dashut * Chris Morris (for Fleetwood Mac, 1975) * Ken Kessie (Automatt) * Steve Mantoani *Jim Simon (Filmways/Heiders 1978-83) * Mel Tanner *

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(first session, Wally Heider Studio, San Francisco 1969) * Jerry Martin (Wally Heider Studio, San Francisco 1969) * Dave LaBarre * Bill Halverson (1966 Monterey crew) * Grover Hemsley (1966 Monterey crew) * Ken Hopkins (Wally Heider Studio, San Francisco 1970) * Dave Mancini * Steve Malcolm (1974-80) * Biff Dawes (Woody Herman, Live at Monterey) (Cahuenga 1971-82) * Gabby Garcia (Cahuenga 1971-79) *Larry Cox (Wally Heider Studio, San Francisco and Wally Heider Recording, Hollywood 1968-78) *

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(Wally Heider Studio, San Francisco) * Andrew Bloch, Hustler/Engineer - Various remote and studio recordings (Cahuenga 1972-78) * Howie Schwartz, Engineer/Assistant (Hollywood Selma/Hyde St. 1969-1971) * Steve Hirsch, Engineer/Assistant (Hollywood Selma/RCA Studio B/Various Remotes/Wally Heider Studio, San Francisco 1976-81)

References

External links

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Wally Heider website
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