The Crossroad ( MUSIC )

[murrayhill]

The biggest expense I ever witnessed
for food at a session was when Jimmy Webb was conducting his score
for a 60 piece orchestra, for the sound track of Hanoi Hilton.
It was at The Edison which was one of only three remaining rooms in the City
that could accommodate an orchestra of that size. Movies, as you might surmise
have big budgets, and to provide a classy "snack" for these first call, triple scale musicians,
Jimmy went all out.
I was sitting in the lounge when his copyist/assistant Laura came out of the control
room and went to the phone on an end table. She dialed up a number from a menu she had removed
from a big book of them that the studio kept, and proceeded to order Chinese food for 75 people!

What meant the most to me wasn't the food, however. It was meeting George Young.
http://georgeyoungmusic.com/