Navigating the Music Industry From Gleason
By: Joseph Rainone (JoJo Gator)
People ask me, “How did the New Kids on the Block happen?” Well, Maurice Starr had the ideas, he had the artists, and I had my crew. But Philip Greene (Uncle Phil) my mentor, and Normandy Sound made all the New Kids on the Block hits happen, and we lit the world on fire with those kids. Producer and engineer to the stars.
News Flash!!! Phil and I are teaming up again to bring the hit machine to Nashville. We're booking sessions at Blackbird and The Den for 2024. Phil Greene, JoJo Gator, and Howard Rosen. Hundreds of millions of records sold. If you want hits book today contact Jojogatorbands@gmail.com or by phone at 863-812-1637. Here is a partial list:
Platinum / Gold Records and Chart Hits
New Kids On The Block
Album: "Greatest Hits" 2008 Sony / Legacy
Mixed eleven of the songs and co-produced one song
Charted on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart
Platinum album
Johnny A
Album: "Get Inside" 2004 Steve Vai's Favored Nation Records
Mixed entire album
Charted on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart
Dropkick Murphys
Album: "Live on St. Patrick's Day" 2004 Epitaph Records
Recorded live at Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel, Providence
Charted on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart
Neil Carswell
Album: "Southwind" 2003 Eastwind Records
Recorded and produced by Phil Greene and Stu Kimball in Nashville, TN
Charted on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart
Peter Wolf
Album: "Sleepless" 2002 Artemis Records
Mixed several cuts on this album including cuts with
Keith Richards and Steve Earle
Four-star review in Rolling Stone Magazine by Jann Wenner, who called it an 'instant classic.' Voted one of the '500 Greatest Albums of All-Time' in the Special Collectors Issue of Rolling Stone Magazine #937
Charted on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart
Joey McIntyre
Album: "Stay the Same" 1999 Columbia / Sony Records
Recorded, mixed and co-produced
Reached Number 49 on Billboard's Top 200 Album chart
Gold record
Joey McIntyre
Single: "Stay the Same" 1999 Columbia / Sony Records
Recorded, mixed and co-produced
Reached Number 10 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
Gold record
Roomful of Blues
Album: "There Goes the Neighborhood" 1998 Rounder Records
Co-produced, recorded, and mixed
Reached the Top Ten on Billboard's Top Blues Albums chart
Roomful of Blues
Album: "Under One Roof" 1997 Rounder Records
Recorded and mixed
Peaked at Number One on Billboard's Top Blues Albums chart, staying on chart for several months
Grammy Nominee for Best Contemporary Blues Album
Roomful of Blues
Album: "Turn It On! Turn It Up!" 1996 Rounder Records
Mixed
Reached Top Ten of Billboard's Top Blues Albums chart for twenty-five weeks
Grammy Nominee for Best Contemporary Blues Album
Roomful of Blues
Album: "Roomful of Christmas" 1996 Rounder Records
Recorded and mixed
Charted on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart and Top Ten on Billboard's Top Blues Albums chart
Nils Lofgren
Singles: "Valentine" and "Walking Nerve" 1993 Rykodisc
Mixed
Featuring Bruce Springsteen on harmonies
and Ringo Starr on drums
Charted on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart
Tommy Page
Single: "I'll Be Your Everything" 1991 Sire Records
Recorded vocals and mixed
Reached Number 1 on Billboard's Top 100 Singles chart
Tommy Page
Album: "Paintings in My Mind" 1991 Sire Records
Mixed 3 cuts on this album
Reached Number 38 on Billboard's Top 200 Album chart
Bootsauce
Album: "Bull" 1991 Vertigo/PolyGram (Canada)
Co-Produced, recorded and mixed
Gold album
Bootsauce
Album: "The Brown Album" 1990 Vertigo/PolyGram Records (Canada)
Co-Produced, recorded and mixed
Gold album
Bootsauce
Single: "Everyone's A Winner" 1990 Vertigo/PolyGram Records (Canada)
Mixed and fixed this single which reached Number 3 on Billboard's Canadian Top 200 Albums chart
New Kids on the Block
Album: "Step By Step" 1989 Columbia Records
Mixed this album which sold over 17 million records worldwide and reached Number 1 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart and Billboard's Top Pop Albums chart
Triple platinum album (US)
New Kids On The Block
Single: "Step by Step" 1989 Columbia
Mixed
Reached Number 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
Platinum single
New Kids on the Block
Single: "Tonight" 1989 Columbia Records
Mixed
Reached Number 7 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
Gold single
New Kids on the Block
Single: "Cover Girl" 1989 Columbia Records
Recorded, mixed and arranged horn parts for this single which reached Number 2 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
Gold single
New Kids on the Block
Album: "Hangin' Tough" 1988 Columbia Records
Mixed this album which sold 37 million worldwide and 10 million in the US. Reached number 1 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart and Billboard's Top Pop Album chart
Multi-platinum album
New Kids on the Block
Single: "Hangin' Tough" 1988 Columbia Records
Recorded, mixed and played guitar solo
Reached number 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
Platinum single
New Kids On the Block
Single: "I'll Be Loving You Forever" 1988 Columbia Records
Mixed the single remix
Reached number 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
Gold single
New Kids on the Block
Single: "Please Don't Go Girl" 1988 Columbia Records
Mixed
Reached number 10 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
Gold single
New Kids On The Block
Single: "Didn't I Blow Your Mind" 1988 Columbia Records
Recorded and mixed
Reached Number 8 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
Platinum single
New Kids On The Block
Single: "You Got It (The Right Stuff)" 1988 Columbia
Mixed
Reached Number 3 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
Gold single
Bob Rivers Comedy Corp.
Album: "Twisted Christmas" 1988 Critique / Atlantic Records
Mixed
Reached Number 19 on on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart
and is still playing on the radio every Christmas Season
Gold album
New Kids on the Block
Album: "New Kids on the Block" 1987 Columbia Records
Mixed a cut from this album, which sold over 3 million records
Reached Number 20 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart
Triple platinum album
Marcus Lewis
Single: "Searchin' For a Good Time" 1987 Aegis/CBS Records
Mixed
Reached number 35 on Billboard's Hot R&B Singles chart.
New City Rockers
Single: "Black Dog" 1986 Critique / Atlantic Records
Mixed and recorded the vocals on this single
Reached the Top 40 on The Billboard Hot 100 singles chart
John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band
Album: "Tough All Over" Scotti Brothers/CBS Records 1985
Recorded and mixed
Reached Number 40 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart
John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band
Single: "C-I-T-Y" Scotti Brothers / CBS Records 1985
Recorded and mixed
Reached Number 18 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band
Single: "Tough All Over" Scotti Brothers / CBS Records 1985
Recorded and mixed
Reached Number 22 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band
Single: "Small Town Girl" Scotti Brothers / CBS Records 1985
Recorded and mixed
Reached Number 64 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
Tom Browne
Single: "Rockin Radio" 1985 Arista Records
Mixed and recorded the Trumpet on this single
Reached Number 9 on Billboard Dance chart
John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band
Album: "Eddie and the Cruisers Original Soundtrack"
Scotti Brothers / CBS Records 1983
Recorded and mixed
Reached Number 9 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart
Triple platinum album
John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band
Single: "On The Dark Side" Scotti Brothers / CBS Records 1983
Recorded and mixed
Reached Number 7 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band
Single: "Tender Years" Scotti Brothers / CBS Records 1983
Recorded and mixed
Reached Number 31 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
Steve Smith (Journey Drummer)
Album: "Orion" 1983 CBS Records
Recorded and mixed
Reached the Top 10 on Billboard's Top Jazz LPs chart
Jeff Lorber
Single: "In the Heat of the Night" 1983 Arista Records
Re-recorded keyboards, vocals, and mixed this single from the album of the same name with producer Maurice Starr which reached Number 10 on the Billboard's Hot Black Singles chart
Jeff Lorber
Album: "In the Heat of the Night" 1983 Arista Records
Re-recorded keyboards, vocals, and mixed
Reached Number 7 on Billboard's Top Jazz LPs chart
Billy Cobham's Glass Menagerie
Album: "Live at Montreux" 1982 Elektra / Musician
Recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival, mixed at Normandy Sound
Reached the Top 10 on Billboard's Top Jazz LPs chart
Steve Smith (Journey Drummer)
Album: "Vital Information" 1982 CBS Records
Recorded and mixed
Reached the Top 10 on Billboard's Top Jazz LPs chart
Billy Cobham's Glass Menagerie
Album: "Observations and Relections" 1982 Elektra / Musician
Recorded and mixed
Reached the Top 10 on Billboard's Top Jazz LPs chart.
Frank Guintero
Album: "Bird & Stars" 1979 CBS Records Venezuela
Reached Number 1 in Venezuela on Billboard's Hits of the World chart for 6 weeks
Other Notable Recordings:
Dropkick Murphys
Recorded St. Patrick's Day 2003 as a WBCN Live Radio Broadcast
Martin Celler
Album: 'Live in Austin, Texas' 2003 Rykodisc Records
Mixed
Alejandro Escovedo
Album: 'Live in Austin, Texas' 2003 Rykodisc Records
Mixed
Dropkick Murphys
Album: "Live at the Avalon" 2002 Epitaph Records
Recorded live in concert
Kim Trusty
Album: "Live at Chan's" (2 albums)
2002 and 2003 Independent label
Recorded and mixed
Peter Wolf
Single: "Never Like This Before" 2002 Artemis Records
Mixed
The Black Crowes
Album: "The Black Crowes Live at the Orpheum"
2002 American Recordings / Sony
Recorded
Peter Wolf
Album: "Long Line" 1995 Warner Brothers
Mixed the song "Forty To One" (featuring Aimee Mann)
Blood, Sweat and Tears with Fred Lipsius
Album: 'Blood, Sweat and Tears with Fred Lipsius' 1994
Recorded, mixed, and co-produced this reunion album.
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Album: "Ska-Core, the Devil and More" 1992 Taang! Records
Recorded and mixed.
Jonzun Crew
Single: "Cosmic Love" 1992 Critique / BMG Records
Co-produced, recorded, and mixed
Copperhead
Album: "Copperhead" Mercury Records 1991
Produced, recorded and mixed
Featuring singer/songwriter Neil Carswell
Favorite Angel
Single: "Only Women Bleed" 1991 Imagine / Columbia Records
Recorded vocals and mixed
Tam Tam
Single: "Do It Tam Tam" 1991 Island Records
Mixed
John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band
Album: "Roadhouse" Scotti Brothers / CBS Records 1990
Recorded and mixed
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic
Album: "Magnetic Flip" Birdsongs of the Mesozoic 1990
Ace of Hearts Records
Recorded this album produced by Rick Harte
The Neighborhoods
Album: "The Neighborhoods" 1990 Atlantic Records
Produced, recorded and mixed
Co-produced by Brad Whitford of Aerosmith
The Neighborhoods
Album: "Reptile Man" 1989 Roadrunner Records
Produced, recorded and mixed and was named 'Album of the Year' by Musician Magazine
Finest Hour
Single: "Make That Move" 1989 PolyGram Records
Mixed
Young Saints
Singles: "Live For Today" and "New Solutions"
PolyGram Records 1989
Mixed
The Zulus
Album: "The Zulus" 1988 Slash / Warner Brothers Records
Recorded and mixed
Produced by Bob Mould
Bandwagon
Album: "Three Sides of Hunger"
Calder Records / Big Noise Records 1986
Produced, engineered, mixed and arranged
Featuring John Cafferty, Cheryl Wheeler,
Belly's Gail Greenwood and other artists
Won The Jefferson Award in 1987 from
The Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Foundation for Outstanding Public Service for raising monies and awareness of the plight of the homeless in America
Joe Henderson
Album: "Joe Henderson" 1986
Live to two-track album
Mission of Burma
Album: "The Horrible Truth" 1985 Ace of Hearts Records
Recorded and mixed
Produced by Rick Harte
Mission of Burma
Album: "VS" 1982 Ace of Hearts Records
Recorded
Produced by Rick Harte
Historical influential album which led to the formation of bands like R.E.M. and the birth of the Alternative scene
Digney Fignus
Album: "The Girl with the Curious Hand" 1982 CBS Records
Recorded and mixed
Digney Fignus
Single: "The Girl with the Curious Hand" 1982 CBS Records
Recorded, mixed and co-produced
Reached Number 10 on MTV Video Countdown
Duke Robillard
Album: "Rockin' Blues" 1982 Rounder Records
Recorded and mixed
Neats
Albums: "Neats" 2 Albums Mid-'80s Ace of Hearts Records
Recorded
Produced by Rick Harte
The Lyres
Albums: "The Lyres" 3 Albums Mid-'80s Ace of Hearts Records
Recorded
Produced by Rick Harte
Nervous Eaters
Album: "Hot Steel and Acid" 1980 Ace of Hearts Records
Recorded
Produced by Rick Harte
Note: This partial discography represents roughly 15 percent of the records/artists Phil has worked with.
