Into the Ear of Madness: Week 17 — Everything You Never Knew You’d Ever Know About David Foster’s First Solo Album
Thursday, September 25th, 2008 by Terje Fjelde
Over the next year Terje Fjelde has agreed to listen to nothing but David Foster on his iPod. He’s loaded the thing with over 1,200 songs produced, arranged, composed, and/or played by David Foster. A deal with the devil? He keeps wondering.
In 1982, hot on the heels of his success as a producer and songwriter for Chicago 16, David Foster started recording his first solo album for a Japanese label. Following in the footsteps of his easy listening forefather Burt Bacharach, he recorded instrumental versions of hit songs he had written for other artists. That is, some of them were already hits — and others had lyrics added to them and became hits later on.
“I just rolled a twenty-four track machine and a board into my music room and a bunch of synthesizers. l got up every morning and went into the music room and started recording. It was great and really therapeutic. The guys from the Tubes heard l was doing an album that was one step up from elevator music and they said ‘you’re not producing us again.” David Foster, March 1985
Foster himself has stated that the record is “nothing major,” and most people will indeed identify the self-titled 1986 album on Atlantic as his solo debut. The Best of Me is almost exclusively the sound of Foster’s keyboards, so in a sense the title is appropriate. In addition to an acoustic piano and the Fender Rhodes, there are a lot of antiquated synth sounds which I, for one, find rather charming, but will probably make most of you think of groceries and frozen food. (more…)



Kenny Loggins was never the one who kicked you in the ass with his no-nonsense musical attitude. He’s more like the musical equivalent of a friendly pat on the shoulder - and yes, he’s frequently nonsensical. But that doesn’t really bother me. He’s had a couple of magical moments in his career, and this is one of them. As far as I’m concerned, “Heart to Heart” is the definition of smooth music - and I mean that in a good way. It was co-written by Loggins with Michael McDonald and David Foster.
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