SAMM BROWN III

SAMM BROWN III is a film/TV composer (and member of the SOCIETY OF COMPOSERS & LYRICISTS) who has over 25 years experience as a successful record producer, songwriter, arranger, orchestrator, and conductor. He has received numerous industry awards including those from the RIAA and ASCAP, and has had 9 number 1 recordings, 6 top ten hits, and 6 gold/platinum albums.

NUMBER ONE RECORDINGS

MICHAEL JACKSON, (One Day In Your Life/single), producer/songwriter, arranger, conductor

NEW EDITION, (Under The Blue Moon/album), strings/horn arranger & conductor

MAXINE NIGHTINGALE & JIMMY RUFFIN, (Turn To Me/single), producer/strings-horn arranger

DAVID NAUGHTON, (Making It/single), strings/horn arranger & conductor

TAVARES, (Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel/single), horn arranger

PEACHES & HERB, (Too Hot/album), strings/horn arranger & conductor

DANCING MACHINE, (The Jackson 5/album), strings/horn arranger & conductor

YVONNE ELLIMAN, (Love Me/album), strings/horn arranger & conductor

JERRY BUTLER & BRENDA LEE EAGER, (Close To You/single), producer/strings/horn arr., conductor

As a film/TV composer he has scored the dramatic cable television series: Isidingo and Generations; composed the music for the Hollywood Film Festival trailer; and music for the acclaimed British Rockumentary Michael Jackson: A Remarkable Life.
As a producer/songwriter or as an arranger/conductor he has contributed successfully to the careers of such recording artists as: Michael Jackson, Maxine Nightingale, David Naughton, The Jacksons, Tavares, The Sylvers, The New Edition, Jerry Butler, Gemini, Arpeggio, Peaches and Herb, Clay Hunt, The Supremes, The Atkins, and many others, both here in the U.S., as well as in Europe and Japan.
Along with Quincy Jones and Freddie Perren, Samm Brown III is the only other record producer to have a #1 international hit ("One Day In Your Life") with megastar Michael Jackson during the 1970's and the 1980's. "One Day In Your Life" was also Michael Jackson's first #1 record in the U.K.
Samm is also a former staff writer and producer for Motown Records, a staff writer at Chappell, Almo-Irving, and Jobete music publishing companies. A past chairman of the N.A.R.A.S. Institute; he served on the N.A.R.A.S. Board of Governors (Chicago Chapter), and was a member of the 1983 Producers Grammy Screening Committee, and he is a frequently requested guest speaker on the subjects of songwriting, artist management and record industry business.
He has also taught songwriting master classes privately and at numerous workshops and seminars including: California Lawyers for the Arts, National Academy of Songwriters and Expos, The Arizona Songwriting Association, The Los Angeles Songwriters Showcase, The Vocal Career Symposium, UCLA Extension courses, California State University Northridge Music Industry Studies program, and has been a judge for the internationally known John Lennon Songwriting Contest.

Mr. Brown is also a Ford Foundation scholarship graduate of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Combining his career in the record industry with his broadcast journalist background (reporter for ABC News WLS-TV, Chicago, where he was the youngest African-American in the country to hold that position), Mr. Brown utilizes his unique expertise in both fields every Sunday at 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM Pacific on public radio's KPFK 90.7 FM, where he hosts the only weekly, one-hour radio talk show in the nation that focuses exclusively on the $700 billion a year entertainment industry: Samm Brown's FOR THE RECORD.

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