Gary Peterson

Gary Peterson is an American record producer. He is probably best known as the creator of Golden Throats. Peterson and partner Pat Sierchio produced four volumes of the series for Rhino Records, which collect bizarre examples of celebrities singing pop music classics.^[1]

Peterson began as Rhino's first dedicated editor, researching, proofing and overseeing all the information printed on their audio releases, and is credited for embellishing packages with original recording and release information (and often full discographies) in the burgeoning days of the reissue business.^[2] He worked for Rhino Entertainment and the Warner Music Group from 1984 to 2004, and eventually produced a number of reissues and compilations of artists such as Todd Rundgren, Warren Zevon, Little Feat, Fleetwood Mac,^[3] Captain Beefheart, Devo, The Spinners,^[4] Tower Of Power, Chicago,^[5] The Doobie Brothers, Michael McDonald, Carly Simon,^[6] Linda Ronstadt, Daryl Hall & John Oates, Edgar Winter, Gary Wright, Lee Michaels, Cactus, Poco, Tommy James & The Shondells, and Sammy Davis Jr. Besides Golden Throats, he co-produced other "various artists" collections, such as the Poptopia series which anthologized "power pop" music, and the Supernatural Fairy Tales: The Progressive Rock Era boxed set. Examples of his exhaustive vault research can be found in Little Feat's Grammy-nominated^[7] boxed set Hotcakes & Outtakes^[8] and the reissue of Waiting For Columbus,^[9] as well as the expanded reissues of Fleetwood Mac's Rumours and Tusk (which AMG noted as "one of the finest expanded reissues of a classic record yet released.").^[10]

External links

• The Sad Sounds Of Singing Actors
• Covers By Unlikely Big Stars Is An Album So Bad, It's Good
• A Hit Parade: When Capt. Kirk Took On The Beatles
• Album Brings Back Highly Brittle Star Trash
• The Singer, Not The Song, Makes 'Golden Throats'
• Voices That Shatter Class
• Torched Songs
• Star Dreck
• Celebs Make World's Worst Rock Album!
• Some Unlikely Crooners Have Made Recordings That Have Turned Into Very Entertaining Collectibles
• Country Music Is The Prey
• Ahhh, Bad Music. There's Nothing Like It
• These Beatles Covers Are Forgettable Camp
• Songs In The Key Of...What?
• Celebs Should Have Confined Singing To Shower

References

1. Hilburn, Robert (October 24, 1997). "These Beatles Covers Are Forgettable Camp". Los Angeles Times.
2. "Gary Peterson". allmusic. All Media Guide.
3. Martin E. Adelson. "Gary Peterson". Discog.fleetwoodmac.net. Retrieved 2014-07-17.
4. Archived July 15, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
5. Archived July 15, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
6. https://web.archive.org/web/20110715181113/http://rhinomedia.com/rzine/pressrelease.lasso?PRID=129. Archived from the original on July 15, 2011. Retrieved December 24, 2010. Missing or empty |title= (help)
7. "Grammy 2001 Nominations". Thefreelibrary.com. Associated Press. Retrieved 2014-07-17.
8. "Hotcakes & Outtakes". Deaddisc.com. Retrieved 2014-07-17.
9. Billboard - Google Books. Books.google.com. 2002-04-27. Retrieved 2014-07-17.
10. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Tusk [Expanded]". allmusic. All Media Guide.