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HISTORY • Laura Branigan (1984)
"After completing the “August Moon” album with Bobby Caldwell, I returned to Minneapolis from Miami to write songs, work with the T.C. Jammers and The Doug Maynard Band. I was very poor back in those days and I just needed to make some real money. I called Henry Marx, Caldwell’s manager looking for work. Henry offered me tour with Laura Branigan. Laura was selling platinum with her Self Control LP. Laura was one of the sweetest, easy to work with singers I’ve ever known. I just loved her and what a great voice, emotion and power both.
While in Burbank for the Johnny Carson show, Johnny played a joke on me during rehearsal for the song Ti Amo. The joke involved a vocal harmony I sang with Laura. Carson couldn’t resist signaling the soundman to have me repeat a difficult falsetto part over and over. Not knowing Carson was standing in back of me, I finally said if I sing it anymore I wouldn’t be able to sing it for the show. I heard Johnny laughing behind the curtain. The road manager later told me that Johnny likes mid-western people and he likes to joke around with them because he was from the Midwest himself
The Branigan tours lasted about two years until Jeff Lorber heard me at the Hollywood Bowl with Laura’s band and approached me backstage to ask me to join his band. |
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