Sly And The Family Stone, "Heard You Missed Me, Well I'm Back" (Epic, 1976) saxophone, backing vocals
Sly And The Family Stone, "Back On The Right Track" (Warner Brothers, 1979) saxophone (uncredited)
Huey Lewis and The News,self-titled first release (Chrysalis, 1980) songwriter, arranger, backing vocalist, saxophone, guitar
"Rock Justice" musical soundtrack (EMI 1980) saxophone, piano
Huey Lewis and The News, "Picture This" (Chrysalis, 1982) co-producer, songwriter, arranger, backing vocalist, saxophone, guitar
Patrick Simmons, "Arcade" (Elektra 1983) songwriter, "Don't Make Me Do It"
Pablo Cruise, "Out of our Hands" (A&M Records, 1983) saxophone solo, "Talk to me Right"
Huey Lewis and The News, "Sports" (Chrysalis, 1983) co-producer, songwriter, arranger, backing vocalist, saxophone, guitar
Grace Slick, "Software" (RCA Records 1984) backing vocals and BV arrangement on "Through the Window" and "It Just won't Stop"
Heart, self-titled release (EMD/Capitol Records, 1985) backing vocalist on #1 single "These Dreams" and "Nothin At All"
We Are The World, self-titled (Columbia/CBS 1985) backing vocalist on title track, songwriter,vocalist, performer, "Trouble In Paradise"
Philip Lynott, (unreleased, 1985) backing vocals and BV arrangement, "I'm Still Alive" and "Can't Get Away"
Huey Lewis and The News, "Fore" (Chrysalis, 1986) co-producer, songwriter, arranger, backing vocalist, saxophone, guitar
Nick Lowe, "The Rose of England" (CBS Records, 1988) backing vocalist and BV arrangement, "I Knew the Bride (When She Used to Rock 'n' Roll)"
Huey Lewis and The News, "Small World" (Chrysalis, 1988) co-producer, songwriter, arranger, backing vocalist, saxophone, guitar
Huey Lewis and The News, "Hard At Play" (EMI America, 1991) co-producer, songwriter, arranger, backing vocalist, saxophone, guitar
Huey Lewis and The News, "The Heart of Rock and Roll" (Chrysalis/Capitol, 1992) songwriter, arranger, backing vocalist, saxophone, piano, guitar
"People Get Ready", A Tribute To Curtis Mayfield (Shanachie records, 1993) produced, arranged and sang "It's Alright" with Huey and The News
Huey Lewis and The News, "Four Chords and Several Years Ago" (Elektra, 1994) co-producer, arranger, backing vocalist, saxophone, guitar
"Holiday Heroes" compilation CD (Soul Purpose Records, 1995) songwriter, lead vocal, producer, "My Christmas Wish"
Huey Lewis and The News, "Time Flies" (Elektra, 1996) songwriter, arranger, backing vocalist, saxophone, guitar
Deborah Coleman, "Soft Place to Fall" (Blind Pig Records, 2000) songwriter, "Don't Lie to Me"
Doc Kupka's Strokeland Superband "Kick It Up A Step" (Strokeland Records, 2000) backing vocals and BV arrangement on "Bittersweet With a Ray of Hope"
Huey Lewis and The News, "Plan B" (Silvertone, 2001) co-producer,
Johnny Colla, "Lucky Devil" (Way Out West, 2002) self-produced
"Night Of The Proms" compilation (2003) co-writer (Power of Love Live) engineer
Huey Lewis and The News, "Live At 25" (Rhino, 2005), co-producer, songwriter, arranger, backing vocalist, saxophone, piano, guitar
SVT, "No Regrets" re-release (Rykodisc, 2005) producer, remixer, liner notes
"Pineapple Express" compilation (Sony BMG 2008) co-writer, co-producer, cowriter, arranger, backing vocalist, saxophone
Ronnie Spector, Best Christmas Ever (Bad Girl Records, 2010) songwriter, "My Christmas Wish"
Johnny Colla, "I Hear Voices!" (Way Out West, 2012) self-produced

Our much-overlooked tribute to the Stax Label. I co-produced, arranged, sang backing vocals and played sax. I think the arranging and overall sound had to be the most challenging job for me on this CD, simply because we were pulling songs from an entire decade or so and I wanted to make sure they all sounded like they were "coming from the same place." We also had the pleasure of working with our old pal Jimmy Gaines, and Paul Thorn guitarist Bill Hinds, who lives and breathes this stuff. He definitely gave it an air of authenticity, and he's a darned nice guy!

Huey and The News contributed our twenty-five-year-old rendition of "Winter Wonderland" to this compilation. Jeffrey "Nik" Norman and I revisited the original multitrack and did an impressive remix; better than that old beaten-up cassette stuffed away in your closet . . .

During the winter of 2003 Huey and I headed over to Germany to participate in this amazing show, a mixture of both pop and classical music where we played our three or four biggest hits behind a seventy-piece orchestra and forty-voice choir. On a personal note this trip worked out especially well for me ~  a life-changer really ~ a day into the three-week tour I met my future wife/choir girl Christie!

Out of the blue one day I was contacted by an agency to produce a few tracks for Yoshi, who (naturally) I'd never heard of. But when I listened to his song demos I put all the puzzle pieces together; he was a huge HLN fan, he was extremely famous in his mother country of Japan, and he wanted his heroes on his project! I was both flattered and honored, and contracted all the Newsers (except Huey of course) to rehearse and cut the tracks, while Yoshi flew over to watch it all come down. One song in particular, "Just Only Love," had a striking resemblance to "If This Is It" and I arranged it accordingly - put together lush "JC BVs" and a big five-piece horn arrangement - and it's really worth hearing if you get the chance. The cool back story through it all is the fact that this was the first time I worked with HLN's long-standing trumpet man Marvin McFadden, and a few months later he would become a permanent fixture with the band.

A wonderful tribute CD to this legendary R&B/rock &roll singer/songwriter with (as the cover intimates) quite a guest list! I shared a lead vocal duet with Arlene Smith on "Letter Full Of Tears."

We struggled a little with our sixth core effort, but listening back years later I hear an impressive collection of songs by many of my favorite songwriters.

I guess you could say this is the one that started it all for HLN! After several misfire bands and a couple brushes with stardom (Van, Sly) I could tell we were on to something. My best recollection? We didn't really have a "band" yet (I'm fairly certain a guy named Stu Feldman played bass) but Huey managed to get us a one-off single deal with Phonogram in England. We delivered the product, then spent the rest of the money making our first bona fide "Huey Lewis and American Express" demo. That demo fell into the hands of Bob Brown, he took us on with the agreement we'd go our separate ways if he couldn't land us a proper record deal in six months, and the rest is history . . .

Sound Hole's only release (Hole-E-Smoke Records, 1975) and my first record eve;. I think we sold fifteen copies (wanna buy one?) I sang backing vocals and played sax on "Back To The Summer Of Love," a very cool, timeless Brian Marnell tune, and played sax and shared the lead vocal duties with John Farey on "Everyday (For The Rest Of My Life)"

This bootleg CD is a bit of a misnomer. It indeed includes the Van/Sound Hole performance at The Orphanage, but it also it contains several cuts with Van and his Street Choir. Best guess is somebody pinched this audio from the Orphanage video that was shot that night. Tom "Big Daddy" Donahue - the Godfather of FM radio - did a short interview with Van before the show. Then with very little rehearsal and even less experience, Van led us through a brisk set. It was a three-camera shoot, cameras were massive back then, and although I faked it pretty good I was petrified . . .