Sunburst Recording

“You Tube’s “Hot Girls”

Bob Wayne — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:16:09 +0000

You Tube sensation "The Hot Girls", with over five million views in their first week of release, were at Sunburst recording a segment for KCAL's "Inside Edition" airing tonight, April 24th.

New “BIG DADDY” video hits the airwaves!

Bob Wayne — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:35:58 +0000

Finally the band BIG DADDY has resurfaced with a new video from their version of "My Heart Will Go On" / Theme from "Titanic" recorded and mixed at Sunburst.

Peter Bergman of Firesign Theatre

Bob Wayne — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:16:20 +0000

The staff of Sunburst is sad to report that Peter Bergman of The Firesign Theatre died this past week at the age of 72. Peter along with the other founding Firesign comedy troupe members: Phil Proctor, Phil Austin and David Ossman recorded and mixed three brilliant albums here at Sunburst for Rhino Records between 1998 and 2001. Their recording "The Bride of Firesign" was a Grammy finalist in 2001 for best comedy album.

The comedy and radio world lost a great artist with the passing of Peter… he will be missed by us along with his friends and fans throughout the world.

Archiving Rare UCLA Interviews: Nunnally Johnson

Sunburst_Admin — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:39:10 +0000

The mission of the UCLA Library’s Center for Oral History Research is “to document the history of Southern California and the Los Angeles metropolitan region through oral history interviews”.

Sunburst Recording has been working with the Center archiving some rare audio material, and recently we worked on a fascinating interview with screenwriter Nunnally Johnson (Grapes of Wrath, Tobacco Road, The Three Faces of Eve, and more).

The interview, focusing on Johnson’s storied career, was restored as part of a research project for an upcoming documentary film on the life of Marilyn Monroe by Moxie Firecracker Films entitled, Fragments: Marilyn Monroe.

Check out the online archives at the UCLA Center for Oral History Research .

Tim Robbins Recording at Sunburst

Sunburst_Admin — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:34:30 +0000

Actor and musician Tim Robbins stopped by Sunburst to record some vocal overdubs on a project he was involved with in New York. Tim did a great rendition of a classic Bob Dylan song, "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll'. We were reminded of his brilliant work in the1992 film "Bob Roberts", which was written and directed by Tim, in which he plays a conservative folk singing politician running for office during a fictitious senatorial race. This satirical mockumentary is wonderful and a must see in our book.

Cee Lo Green at Sunburst

Bob Wayne — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:12:23 +0000

Singer/Composer Cee Lo Green stopped by Sunburst Recording on October 17th to do a video spot for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

On 12-15-11, a featured segment of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart aired titled "Too Big To Mail".

Sunburst Recording was used as the location for Cee Lo Green's video portion of the bit.

You can view the clip by following this link: Cee Lo Green on The Daily Show

Jim Hall & Ron Carter live show restoration

Bob Wayne — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:54:57 +0000

In September, we completed the restoration of a number of live shows including the November, 1982 Village West (New York City) performance by Legendary Jazz Guitarist Jim Hall and Bassist Ron Carter. The two shows required tape baking along with some EQ, compression and mixing tweaks to restore new life back into these fabulous performances.

Prince’s Musical Director Records at Sunburst

Bob Wayne — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:05:51 +0000

Morris Hayes, keyboardist and Musical Director for Prince was at Sunburst in late September 2011 recording tracks for an upcoming Family Groove Records project featuring vocalist Derick Hughes. Derick is the former lead singer of both The Tower Of Power and The Commodores.

Charles Alston & Hale Woodruff Murals

Bob Wayne — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 21:28:00 +0000

Audio from the late 1940's mural dedication ceremony at Golden State Insurance Company has been restored and transferred for UCLA Special Collections. The mural panels were completed in Los Angeles in 1949 by noted muralists Charles Alston and Hale Woodruff.

Ryan Ayers releases album

Bob Wayne — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 21:03:49 +0000

Acoustic guitarist Ryan Ayers has just released ERMITA, his debut solo acoustic guitar project. The release was kicked off with a performance at Trilogy Guitars in Playa Del Rey on October 2nd and was Produced by Ryan and Engineered by Mark Camperell. The album was recorded in late 2010 here at Sunburst and is now available on CD, digital download and vinyl formats.