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Archiving Rare UCLA Interviews: Nunnally Johnson

January 30, 2012
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Tobacco Road Film Poster

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...

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Tim Robbins Recording at Sunburst

January 25, 2012
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Actor and Musician Tim Robbins

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...

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Cee Lo Green at Sunburst

October 18, 2011
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Cee Lo Green at Sunburst

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...

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Jim Hall & Ron Carter live show restoration

October 4, 2011
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Jim Hall and Ron Carter Live

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...

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Prince’s Musical Director Records at Sunburst

October 4, 2011
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Morris Hayes

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.

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Charles Alston & Hale Woodruff Murals

October 2, 2011
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Alston and Woodruff Mural

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.

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