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Welcome to Red Young Productions
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Red Young was born in Fort Worth, Texas. Growing up with a classical background and listening to everyone from Van Cliburn (whom he met at age 11), Ray Charles, B.B. King, Lightnin' Hopkins, Ft. Worth natives Delbert McClinton, Ray Sharpe, King Curtis, Freddy King and many other Texas Blues and Jazz Players. He accompanied vocalists, choirs, played in bands and in general grew up with a well-rounded musical education. Upon leaving high school, he first went to North Texas State in Denton, then on the road with trumpeter Clyde McCoy's band (who recorded Sugar Blues in 1927 and worked thoughout the Big Band era), whom among other things alternated sets with the Supremes at the Steel Pier in Atlantic City and performed on the Johnny Carson show from New York. Since it was 1968, rather than get drafted, Red joined the Air Force Band where he was stationed first in Wichita Falls, Texas; then Ramstein, Germany; and finally Springfield, Massachusetts. In Springfield he learned a great deal about arranging for big band and horn sections and he formed a Chicago/Blood, Sweat & Tears group which played concerts all over New England and started playing the Hammond B3 Organ. Upon discharge in 1972, he stayed around the New England area traveling with an organ trio-Hammond B-3, drums & saxophone. On Monday nights he would venture to New York to see the famed Thad Jones-Mel Lewis band play at the Village Vanguard which further fueled his interest in Big Band music.
After spending a number of years away from Texas, when an opportunity arose to go back, he took it. This time it was a band formed to back up Lloyd Price (Personality, Stagger Lee, Lawdy Miss Claudy). The band toured for a few months and Red again returned to Texas. He joined two brothers to form a 5 piece jazz-fusion band called the Ham Brothers Band and got into the recording scene in Dallas and Ft. Worth. The band became successful on the local Dallas-Ft. Worth scene opening for such acts as Chick Corea, Brian Auger and Weather Report among others. Through this association Red became an integral part of the recording scene at Sugar Hill Studios in Houston run by producer Huey Meaux and recorded albums for Freddy Fender, Kinky Friedman, Noel Redding (bassist with Jimi Hendrix), and many other of Huey's clients. Red did vocal & instumental arrangements on numerous albums as well as keyboard & vocal harmony duties.
Again Red felt the urge to move, this time getting a call to join Tompall Glaser's Outlaw Band which included Mel Brown on guitar and Ben Keith on steel & dobro. His first tour was a package with Willie Nelson, Jesse Coulter, Waylon Jennings and of course Tompall. Willie and Waylon had a big hit with "Good Hearted Woman" so played to 20,000 people each night. After the tour, rather than move to Nashville, Red moved to Los Angeles and was enlisted in Sonny & Cher's band (1977-78 tour including a TV special with Cher), then JOAN ARMATRADING (world tours 1977-79 which included 4 albums and a few TV shows), then his own jazz-fusion band (with Lon Price whom he toured with Armatrading and had met in Ft. Woth in 1964 and Lee Thornburg of Tower of Power and currently on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno), an album with Jerry Williams (1978), a tour, an album and a movie with DOLLY PARTON (1980-81), a tour and album with TANYA TUCKER (1981-Glen Campbell was along for a number of shows), a tour and a few television shows with ERIC BURDON (1982), and in 1983 he joined two girl singers which worked the clubs in Los Angeles called the "Stepsisters" and eventually became part of Linda Ronstadt & Nelson Riddle's tour of 1983-84 (What's New). Red did the vocal arrangements, played piano, sang and did horn arrangements for a section of the show which eventually became known as "Red and The Red Hots'. It became a favorite section of the show and started Red in a direction that he continues to this day. Of course during the 1977-84 period in Los Angeles he recorded not only numerous albums for many other artists but also TV and movie scores for many of the popular shows.
