Allan Schwartzberg

Allan Schwartzberg (born December 28, 1942) is an American musician and record producer. He has been a member of the rock band Mountain, Peter Gabriel's first solo band, toured with Brecker Brothers' Dreams, B. J. Thomas, Linda Ronstadt, Stan Getz band, and the Pat Travers band. He has experienced success as a prolific session musician, through recordings made from the 1970s through today. He has also played on multi genre hits such as Gloria Gaynor "Never Can Say Goodbye", considered the first disco record, James Brown's "Funky President", Harry Chapin's "Cat's in the Cradle", Tony Orlando & Dawn's Tie A Yellow Ribbon, Peter Gabriel's "Solsbury Hill", The Spinners' "Workin' My Way Back to You", the Star Wars theme, and Rod Stewart's Great American Songbook series including the hit "What A Wonderful World". He has played with musicians and singers including John Lennon, Diana Ross, Jimi Hendrix, Alice Cooper, Kiss, Frank Sinatra, Roxy Music, Robert Palmer, Grace Slick, Roberta Flack, Barry Manilow, Harry Chapin, Barbra Streisand, Deodato, Frankie Valli, and Roger Daltrey. He was also a frequent musician guest with Paul Shaffer's David Letterman Show band.

Early life and education Allan Schwartzberg was born on December 28, 1942, in New York City, New York. He is Jewish and attended yeshiva as a child. He began playing the drums at the age of ten and attended the Manhattan School of Music for three years, studying classical percussion. He claims that his real education was listening to and memorizing the work of musicians like Max Roach, Elvin Jones and Philly Joe Jones.

At the age of 20, he was the house drummer at the famed Half Note Club in downtown New York, performing with a variety of jazz musicians, including Stan Getz, Al Cohn, Zoot Sims, Roy Eldridge, Bob Brookmeyer, Richie Kamuca, Jim Hall, Ron Carter, Anita O'Day, Chris Conner, and Jimmy Rushing.

He was also the leader of the band on the nationally syndicated Geraldo Rivera Show, Goodnight America, which was considered the first rock / R&B "hip" band for a talk show.

Personal life On November 12, 1972, Schwartzberg married Susan Schlossberg. They have two daughters, Samona and Nicole; and three grandchildren, Deven, Talia, and Quinton Cole.

Equipment Schwartzberg endorses Yamaha drums, Zildjian cymbals, Remo drumheads, and Vic Firth drumsticks.

Discography

1970s Year Title Artist 1971 Lay It All Out Barry Mann 1973 Tie a Yellow Ribbon Dawn 1973 True Stories and Other Dreams Judy Collins 1973 Home to Myself Melissa Manchester 1973 Dawn's New Ragtime Follies Tony Orlando & Dawn 1974 Reality James Brown 1974 Twin Peaks Mountain 1974 Verities & Balderdash Harry Chapin 1974 Barry Manilow II Barry Manilow 1974 Veedon Fleece Van Morrison 1974 Ladies Love Outlaws Tom Rush 1975 Crash Landing Jimi Hendrix 1975 Midnight Lightning Jimi Hendrix 1975 Waterbed Herbie Mann 1975 Never Can Say Goodbye Gloria Gaynor 1975 Our Day Will Come Frankie Valli 1975 Portrait Gallery Harry Chapin 1976 Moon Over Brooklyn The Group with No Name 1976 Alice Cooper Goes to Hell Alice Cooper 1976 Smile Laura Nyro 1976 I've Got You Gloria Gaynor 1976 Circus Town Tatsuro Yamashita 1976 Conquistador (Theme to Rocky) Maynard Ferguson 1977Peter Gabriel Peter Gabriel 1977 Portfolio Grace Jones 1977 Glorious Gloria Gaynor 1977 Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk Meco 1977 Lace and Whiskey Alice Cooper 1977 Herbie Mann and Fire Island Herbie Mann 1977 Conquistador Maynard Ferguson 1977 A Song Neil Sedaka 1977 Lady Put the Light Out Frankie Valli 1977 Blue Lights in the Basement Roberta Flack 1977 Portfolio Grace Jones 1978 Songbird Barbra Streisand 1978 Gene Simmons Gene Simmons 1978 Heavy Metal Be-Bop The Brecker Brothers 1978 Think It Over Cissy Houston 1978 Peter Criss Peter Criss 1978 Double Fun Robert Palmer 1979 Platinum Mike Oldfield 1979 Two Sides to Every Woman Carlene Carter 1979 Nils Nils Lofgren 1979 Take a Bite Marlena Shaw 1979 Live and Sleazy Village People

1980s Year Title Artist 1980 Flesh + Blood Roxy Music 1980 Step Aside for a Lady Cissy Houston 1980 Dreams Grace Slick 1980 Connections Richie Havens 1981 Music from "The Elder" Kiss 1981 Scissors Cut Art Garfunkel 1982 NunSexMonkRock Nina Hagen 1982 It's Alright (I See Rainbows) Yoko Ono 1983 School for Spies Kit Hain 1983 In My Life Patti Austin 1984 Parting Should Be Painless Roger Daltrey 1984 Milk and Honey John Lennon and Yoko Ono 1984 Cover Tom Verlaine 1985 "Tears Are Falling" Kiss 1987 Flash Light Tom Verlaine

1990s Year Title Artist 1990 What a Way to Go Mark Murphy 1991 Union Yes 1991 Help Yourself Julian Lennon 1994 Roberta Roberta Flack

2000s Year Title Artist 2003 As Time Goes By: The Great American Songbook, Volume II Rod Stewart 2004 Stardust: The Great American Songbook, Volume III Rod Stewart