| Influences | Frank Baker(voice teacher), Marty Balin, Todd Rundgren, Nelson Riddle, The Tubes, Talk Talk, The The, Frank Sinatra, Ennio Morricone, Terry Riley, Sharon Robinson, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Orson Welles, Robert Ryan, Sherwood Anderson, David Amram, Phil Ochs (the later LA records) Serge Gainsbourg, Jacques Brel, Gary Null, Nellie McKay, Fiona Apple, Tom Rapp, Kajagoogoo, Hal Roach, Harvey Orkin, Robert Frank, Björk, The Little Rascals, Madi Horstman (Jolly Ramey), Charlie Chaplin, Theodore Dreiser, Beatrice & Clara Steuer, Krishnamurti. Max Steiner, E.Y. Harburg, Sammy Cahn, John Schaefer, Joe Hill, Stephen Foster, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Richard Rodgers, Cole Porter, Jimmy Van Heusen, Earl Robinson, Dorothy Fields, Burt Bacharach, Hal David, Kurt Weill, Irving Berlin. Jimmy Webb, Stephen Sondheim, Leonard Bernstein (West Side Story made a MAJOR IMPRESSION. It's GREAT! To have that as a young boy was a real gift. Thank you LB,SS I love you both!), Bernard Herrmann, Dimitri Tiomkin, Eric Gordon, Kelli Rae Powell, Claude Debussy. Thornton Wilder, George Bernard Shaw |
