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January 28, 2011

South Charleston, LaBelle Theatre April 2nd 2011

by Turley Richards — Categories: Turley Speaks — Tags: albums, amari music, Artist, concert, Listening Room, Music, performance, recorded, turley, turley richards, website — Comments Off

Hi all of my W Va friends. I had blogged a few weeks ago about my coming home concert in South Charleston W Va at the LaBelle Theatre on Saturday, April 2nd 2011. I can now say, I’m getting everything in order. I have Jim Snyder taking care of the production and promotion there in S. c. and my webmaster just finished putting on the final touches for purchasing advanced tickets on line. BTW. Lot’s of work involved making this happen and I am so excited about being able to show my home town what I’ve become as a concert performer. It’s totally different then singing in a bar or even out at the S c Mound. Also, Jim Snyder is a great performer as well and he will open the show up at 7:30 and I’ll go on at 8:00. Doors will open at 6:30. www.turleyrichards.com click on tickets and there’s some packages to purchase in bundle type form. I will bring the CDs to the concert and deliver them to you there. How’s that for service? LOL I’ll be doing a lot of my original songs and of course some cover songs with my arrangements. If I have a good singing crowd, I will do a long medley of 50′s & 60′s songs for all of us to have some wonderful moments of great fun. I left W Va in 1964 and my name was changed from Richard Turley to Turley Richards. I’ll tell the story how it came to past. If you can, read my shortened life story at my site and check out all the major stars that I shared the stage with. A lot of you don’t know, that I actually sold over 1.4 million records when you total all the sales. I had 3 of my records make the top 100 in the billboard magazine and did a lot of the major TV shows. I’ve been blessed with a very long music career. I lost my total sight in 1970 and thank the Lord, I was in music. I do believe the lessons I learned growing up in south Charleston with the greatest mother that anyone could ever have, taught me to be strong and keep my nose clean. I’m proud to say, through all those years being surrounded by drugs, booze and of course cigarettes, I never did any of them, maybe that’s why I didn’t become a Superstar. Hahaha!

I hope we have a packed house and I promise we will have a great night of sharing music and stories of my life in the recording business. Please tell your friends to come and enjoy the evening with me. This will be an evening for the adults. I really don’t want any small children because, I might tell a story that shouldn’t be heard by little ones. Also, little children are great concert killers, running all over the place. So, get a baby sitter and make it a night for YOU. I do encourage the teenagers, especially the ones in to music. I feel some of the stories will give them some insight on how hard it is to make it to any higher levels than local success.

As usual, Mr richards or Turley is rambling on and on. LOL so, I will stop here but, just to let you know, this will be on a rotating schedule to come out about every 3 days so, no one will miss it. I will also, be blogging as the days get closer about any kind of news that will be about the show.

I’m an adopted Louisvillian now but, my home will always be south Charleston. There you have it.

Turley~

Ps. If you want to email me about anything, please do.

turley@turleyrichards.com

Get your tickets now, just in case we might sell it out. 300 is not that many so, get to it children. LOL

July 15, 2010

Yippee! Finally! The wait is over! I’m totally pumped up…

by David Nuckolls — Categories: Listening Room, Random Thoughts — Tags: Artist, Listening Room, Music — Comments Off

The Listening Room is ready for you.

After 30-plus weeks of due diligence, lots of tweaking, putting all the nuts, bolts and screws where they belong, The Studio is ready to go. So, all songwriters, singers and bands, head on over to the site turleyrichards.com and click The Studio link and read what is offered.

FACT… almost every single publishing company has signs posted that state, “No solicitation”. Unless you know someone who works for one of these publishers, it’s a total waste of time to mail in your songs because they will not listen to them.
FACT… There is no one out there who will listen to your music and give you feedback. You might have a great song but how do you get someone too listen and give tips on how to improve your craft. Therefore, how can you grow and get better thereby increasing your abilities? It’s next to impossible.
FACT… The Listening Room is designed to give to you a professional opinion of what you should do to enhance your chances of having more success with your God given talents. Advice that could possibly result in publication.
FACT… If you really are serious about moving up to the next level and having the kind of success that we all dream about, I truly feel that my suggestions can be extremely helpful. You would be paying me to give you my honest and professional opinion.
WHY ME?… I’ve been a singer, songwriter, producer and performer for almost 50 years.

As a producer, I have produced projects for the following record labels: Warner Brothers, Silba, Bridge, Calliopy, CBS/Epic, Twentieth Century, Atlantic, Monument, Evergreen, CBS/Priority, Benson, and Mercury Records. I have also produced for many independent record labels. In total I have produced more than 35 artists and co-produced my own prime-time television program in 1972. In 1979-80, I produced my own album ‘Therfu’ for Atlantic Records with Mick Fleetwood (of Fleetwood Mac) as the executive producer. Mick was also my manager at that time. This was my first time, as a producer, to have a song in the Billboard Top 50; ‘You Might Need Somebody’.

As a songwriter, I’ve had over 50 of my original songs recorded on other artists’ albums. One of my songs ‘When I Lose My Way’ made it to number 1 in the UK and South Africa with the artist Randi Crawford. As a singer/performer, I have sold 1.4 million records world wide for the following record labels: Fraternity, ABC/Dot, MGM/Verve, Twentieth Century, CBS/Columbia, Kapp, Warner Brothers, Silba, Calliopy, CBS/Epic and Atlantic Records. Two of my songs made it to the Billboard Top 50 charts with another one making the Billboard Top 100.

Probably the most important talent I bring to the table is my producing experience. A producer’s job is to find and listen to as many songs as possible in order to find the few songs that seem to have that ’hit’ quality. I have listened to as many as 300 to 400 songs just to find that great one. This means my ears have a tremendous amount of experience. I will give my honest, professional opinion about all the songs that are submitted.

Being a songwriter is a great help; it is more subjective. However, it will help me to see if the song is laid out well and that the writer has utilized all the parts of the song to reach a wide and varied audience.

Being an arranger is a little subjective, but it allows me to see if the arrangement has the ability to draw me or any listener into the body of the song.

So, check me out and make that smart move to take advantage of someone who has the ability and experience to truly help you. You have the assurance that I will do all I can to help you. Let’s see what we can do together.

I wish you luck.

Turley~