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2 unusual facts about Enoch Light


Enoch Light

In the 1930s Light studied conducting with the French conductor Maurice Frigara in Paris.

The first of the albums produced on his record label, Command Records, Persuasive Percussion, became the first huge hit based solely on retail sales.


Audition Records

The first Audition Records, with no connection to the Audition Records based in Berlin, was sold in October 1959 by Enoch Light to ABC-Paramount Records.

Frontier Psychiatrist

The song is built around many sampled elements, much like other tracks from its parent album, including prominent vocal samples of comedy duo Wayne and Shuster and an orchestral background sourced from an Enoch Light version of the composition "My Way of Life" (1968).

Killer Joe Piro

Piro was invited to shake his moneymaker for the cover of discothèque albums Discotheque! (Enoch Light), The Mule (Skitch Henderson), and Viva La Pachanga (Joe Sherman).


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