Steve Tyrell
b. USA. Raised in Houston, Texas, Tyrell's professional life began when he was a teenager and he sang with R&B bands at numerous venues in the state. He moved on to work in the music industry for many years, first joining Scepter Records when he was aged 19. Among sessions on which he was active in production capacities are those resulting in Dionne Warwick's hits "Message To Michael", "The Look Of Love" and "Alfie". He also worked with the Shirelles among many other singers and songwriters, including a role in B.J. Thomas' 1969 hit, "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head", and he co-produced Linda Ronstadt's Grammy Award winners "Don't Know Much" (in duet with Aaron Neville) and "Somewhere Out There' (in duet with James Ingram), used on the soundtrack to 1986"s An American Tail. Tyrell was for a while a producer of R&B for Atlantic Records. In Los Angeles, he moved into film and television work, sometimes as musical director. Among his credits is the television show WKRP. He composed scores for The Rainbow Warrior (1992), Family Prayers (1993), and Once Upon A Time ... When We Were Colored (1995). In 1999 he had musical direction/supervision credits for Dudley Do-Right and Blast From The Past.
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Albums
- (2006) Steve Tyrell: The Disney Standards
- (2005) The Songs Of Sinatra
- (2003) This Guy's In Love
- (2002) This Time Of The Year
- (2001) Standard Time
- (1999) A New Standard
Top Tracks
- Baby, It's Cold Outside
- The Way You Look Tonight
- Give Me The Simple Life
- It Had To Be You
- Fly Me To The Moon
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