George Daly (Music Industry)
Encyclopedia
George Daly is a music executive
, songwriter
, musician
, video and music producer and technology inventor, who originally worked as an A&R (Artist & Repertoire) music executive . He has worked with and/or introduced many notable artists, with artists and groups as varied as Janis Joplin
, The Tubes
, The Cars
, Tool
, Huey Lewis
, and Carlos Santana
.
Moving from the Washington, DC area to San Francisco in the ‘60’s, Daly befriended Janis Joplin and, due to that link, was eventually hired by Columbia Records
as San Francisco Head of A&R during the Clive Davis
era. Daly followed this up with being named head of A&R at Elektra/Asylum Records
, followed by his direct hiring by legendary label chief Ahmet Ertegun
at Atlantic Records
(WMG), and Zoo Entertainment (Bertelsmann Music Group /BMG) where he was again named Vice President of A&R. He is the recipient of multiple Gold and Platinum awards.
As a significant executive in the music industry, Daly has discovered such original music talents as the seminal new-wave group The Cars (whom he signed to a long-term Elektra/Asylum deal on a paper napkin, after their live performance at Harvard University where his sister was attending) whose first album, The Cars, stayed on the charts for an astonishing 139 Weeks and sold over six million copies in the US, the radical Bay Area surreal pop performers, The Tubes, who he brought to A&M Records
, as well as contracting modern theatrical rockers, Green Jelly, who morphed into modern edge Multi-Platinum rockers, Tool. In addition, in various roles Mr. Daly has also worked professionally with many of the classic music legends including writing with Boz Scaggs
his seminal ballad 'Slow Dancer'
, of the Scaggs album of the same name, considered by some to be Scaggs' greatest musical achievement, producing Huey Lewis as well as Carlos Santana by serving as the Executive Producer and line producer of the Carlos Santana interactive video life story DVD, The River of Color and Sound
division of Columbia Records under the guidance of Clive Davis. This was a time when Columbia Records entered the West Coast rock market with a vengeance, opening both a state-of-the art recording studio (CBS recording studio, Folsom St, San Francisco) and establishing major label Columbia Records' A&R offices in San Francisco at Fisherman's Wharf. Including that entry point in the music business, Daly has been a senior executive at Columbia Records, Elektra/Asylum Records, Atlantic Records and BMG, four of the biggest U.S. record labels and is presently the CEO of About Records distributed by Universal Music Group/UMG
/Fontana. As an A&R executive, Daly has had responsibility for, and sometimes introduced the world to, many of the ground-breaking music acts that eventually defined their genre and became legends, including Janis Joplin, Carlos Santana, The Cars and Tool among others. Throughout his career he had the opportunity to work directly under such historically significant music business icons such as the famous golden-eared and ground-breaking Clive Davis, the legendary Atlantic Recording Company founder Ahmet Ertegun, as well as songman and longtime major music business leader and serial president, CEO and Chairman of Atco, Atlantic, Warner Music, MCA, Universal Music Group and now in 2011, Chairman, Sony Music Entertainment, Doug Morris
.
Daly's tenure in the music businesses' modern high-sales era coincides almost exactly with the rise of the modern "tonnage" popularity of recorded music, through and up to the present rapid growth of all the contemporary online digital music delivery systems of social media oriented and iPhone-format mobile phone oriented channels of subscription and distribution of popular music.
, called in Rolling Stone Magazine in 1968 "one of the three greatest living guitarists". He followed up in 1968 by forming the band the Grin, which he founded with fellow Hangmen alumni and drummer friend Bob Berberich and, again with the young accordionist turned telecaster guitarist extraordinaire Nils Lofgren
, before Lofgren recorded on several Neil Young albums and later joined Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band.
and his producer at the time, industry icon Rob Fraboni
, went on the road with the Rolling Stones during their Bridges To Babylon tour and recorded the Stones for six nights on the tour in California and Nevada using Daly’s experimental Aura-Live recording technology. These recordings have not been released as of 2011 and are the possession of the Rolling Stones band. At the long-time behest of Fraboni, Daly experimented with multiple technologies over several years before ultimately creating the “digital to analog-sounding processor”, HaloField, a digital audio "human response altering" process said to have the same somatic effect on listeners as pure analog reproduction of sound.
, Carlos Santana
, Tool
, Boz Scaggs
, Green Jelly
and many others as well as live recordings of the Rolling Stones in partnership with producer Rob Fraboni, as well as rehearsals and demos with, chronologically, The Hangmen, (originally with himself, David Ottley, Thomas Guernsey, Robert Berberich and Paul Dowell with their album Bittersweet/Monument Records); the Dolphin with Dowell, Berberich, Lofgren and Roy Buchanan
on Sire Records
; The Grin with Nils Lofgren
; The Tubes
(rehearsal and studio sessions CBS Records; and other sessions co-produced with Stephen Barncard); Huey Lewis
(in Clover, Summers Here/Pyramid Records); Marc V (Too True/Elektra Records); Family Brown
(Imaginary World/United Artists Records); Grammy
™ Award nominated composer Michael Hoppé
(Simple Pleasures/Seventh Wave); Pamela Polland
(Pamela Polland/Columbia Records); Boulder (Boulder, Elektra Records);the earliest recordings of famed singer songwriter Alejandro Escovedo
in the early Punk/New Wave band The Nuns
, with Jennifer Miro; Blue Train, (Blue Train, All I Want Is You/BMG) which gave BMG/Zoo it's first pop Top 40 US Hit; Laura Allan, the singer often cited as the important inspiration to Joni Mitchell in her Blue and post Blue vocal style; Booker T. (Bittersweet/Epic Records); Skinny Songs for Heidi Roizen
; Tim Hockenberry, (Back In Your Arms/About Records/Universal Music Group); Larkin Gayle (Two Hands/About Records/Universal Music Group; Jon Collins, (Jon Collins/Coliseum/About Records); and others.
Daly also wrote and produced what is believed to be the first digitally recorded (SoundStream™ system) live music video and TV series, StudioLive™, short listed in the Emmy's technical category and staring noted jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard
and directed by Ric Trader with music composed and conducted by noted TV and jazz composer, Allyn Ferguson
. The digital audio music for this production was released on Elektra Records/WEA as the album Fly Like The Wind and the one-hour TV pilot was sold to consumers by Sony Home Video and broadcast on PBS. He also wrote, produced and served as a Executive Producer of the multimedia life story of Carlos Santana, The River of Color and Sound for Polygram Multimedia. Daly and Colin Farish created the pilot television show Sanctuary of Sound™ with Daly on-screen and in discussion with such music business notables as Narada Michael Walden
and Ben Fong-Torres
. Daly has also been a consultant to the Smithsonian Institution, where he produced the long-running “Star Spangled Banner” original instrument exhibit recording at the Museum of American History site in Washington, DC. Daly consulted with the Smithsonian Institution and produced for that institution a recording of the 1844 version of Francis Scott Key’s original Star Spangled Banner using a modern studio orchestra playing very rare instruments from the 19th century, these made available to Daly for his production by the Museum of American History in conjunction with Dr. Arthur Mollela, then a department Chairman of the Museum.
Music executive
A music executive or record executive is person within a record label who works in senior management, making executive decisions over the label's artists...
, songwriter
Songwriter
A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...
, musician
Musician
A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
, video and music producer and technology inventor, who originally worked as an A&R (Artist & Repertoire) music executive . He has worked with and/or introduced many notable artists, with artists and groups as varied as Janis Joplin
Janis Joplin
Janis Lyn Joplin was an American singer, songwriter, painter, dancer and music arranger. She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company and later as a solo artist with her backing groups, The Kozmic Blues Band and The Full Tilt Boogie Band...
, The Tubes
The Tubes
The Tubes are a San Francisco-based rock band, whose 1975 debut album included the hit single, "White Punks on Dope". During its first fifteen years or so, the band's live performances combined quasi-pornography with wild satires of media, consumerism, and politics...
, The Cars
The Cars
The Cars are an American rock band that emerged from the early New Wave music scene in the late 1970s. The band consisted of lead singer and rhythm guitarist Ric Ocasek, lead singer and bassist Benjamin Orr, guitarist Elliot Easton, keyboardist Greg Hawkes and drummer David Robinson...
, Tool
Tool (band)
Tool is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 1990, the group's line-up has included drummer Danny Carey, guitarist Adam Jones, and vocalist Maynard James Keenan. Since 1995, Justin Chancellor has been the band's bassist, replacing their original bassist Paul D'Amour...
, Huey Lewis
Huey Lewis
Huey Lewis is an American musician, songwriter and occasional actor.Lewis sings lead and plays harmonica for his band Huey Lewis and the News, in addition to writing or co-writing many of the band's songs...
, and Carlos Santana
Carlos Santana
Carlos Augusto Alves Santana is a Mexican rock guitarist. Santana became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered rock, salsa and jazz fusion...
.
Moving from the Washington, DC area to San Francisco in the ‘60’s, Daly befriended Janis Joplin and, due to that link, was eventually hired by Columbia Records
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
as San Francisco Head of A&R during the Clive Davis
Clive Davis
Clive Davis is an American record producer and music industry executive. He has won five Grammy Awards and is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a non-performer. From 1967 to 1973 he was the President of Columbia Records. He was the founder and president of Arista Records from 1975...
era. Daly followed this up with being named head of A&R at Elektra/Asylum Records
Elektra Records
Elektra Records is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group. In 2004, it was consolidated into WMG's Atlantic Records Group. After five years of dormancy, the label was revived by Atlantic in 2009....
, followed by his direct hiring by legendary label chief Ahmet Ertegun
Ahmet Ertegun
Ahmet Ertegün was a Turkish American musician and businessman, best known as the founder and president of Atlantic Records. He also wrote classic blues and pop songs and served as Chairman of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and museum...
at Atlantic Records
Atlantic Records
Atlantic Records is an American record label best known for its many recordings of rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and jazz...
(WMG), and Zoo Entertainment (Bertelsmann Music Group /BMG) where he was again named Vice President of A&R. He is the recipient of multiple Gold and Platinum awards.
As a significant executive in the music industry, Daly has discovered such original music talents as the seminal new-wave group The Cars (whom he signed to a long-term Elektra/Asylum deal on a paper napkin, after their live performance at Harvard University where his sister was attending) whose first album, The Cars, stayed on the charts for an astonishing 139 Weeks and sold over six million copies in the US, the radical Bay Area surreal pop performers, The Tubes, who he brought to A&M Records
A&M Records
A&M Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group that operates under the mantle of its Interscope-Geffen-A&M division.-Beginnings:...
, as well as contracting modern theatrical rockers, Green Jelly, who morphed into modern edge Multi-Platinum rockers, Tool. In addition, in various roles Mr. Daly has also worked professionally with many of the classic music legends including writing with Boz Scaggs
Boz Scaggs
William Royce "Boz" Scaggs is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. He gained fame in the 1970s with several Top 20 hit singles in the United States, along with the #2 album, Silk Degrees. Scaggs continues to write, record music and tour.-Early life and career:Scaggs was born in Canton,...
his seminal ballad 'Slow Dancer'
Slow Dancer
Slow Dancer is the sixth album by Boz Scaggs, originally released by Columbia in 1974.-Track listing:All tracks composed by Boz Scaggs; except where indicated# "You Make It So Hard "# "Slow Dancer" - 3:10...
, of the Scaggs album of the same name, considered by some to be Scaggs' greatest musical achievement, producing Huey Lewis as well as Carlos Santana by serving as the Executive Producer and line producer of the Carlos Santana interactive video life story DVD, The River of Color and Sound
Early life - science and music
Born George William Daly, Jr., 10 June 1945, the second of six siblings, at the US Naval Medical Hospital at Annapolis, MD of Captain George William Daly, Sr., former Deputy Chief of Industrial Relations for the US Navy and Frances Helen Daly, a housewife and artistic mentor to the young George. He showed an aptitude in his early years for both science and invention as well as music, writing his first song in 4th grade and crafting early electric guitars and sound amplifier circuits. In the eighth grade he created a sound over light-wave link - his own invention for a school science fair. By his early teens he was playing guitar, bass and keyboards and writing songs resulting in the formation of several garage bands, culminating in the seminal DC garage band, The Hangmen, credited on record with the singles "What a Girl Can't Do", "Faces" and "Bad Goodbye" among others and all released on Nashville's Monument Records, of which "...Girl...", with its Everly Brother's Wake Up Little Susie guitar riff and powerful drumming (written and recorded by Hangman Tom Guernsey with Joe Tripplet, also recording included Hangmen drummer Bob Berberich and other session musicians), plus the crowd-pleasing riot-causing Hangmen band's live performance, all pushed the band past the Beatles to the number one position in the DC and Baltimore region, while Daly's original song, Faces, is still noted in the 21st century as a prototypical and classic YouTube garage punk rock anthem, still artistically powerful today.Music industry
Daly's first post after joining Columbia Records in 1969 was heading the San Francisco A&RA&R
Artists and repertoire is the division of a record label that is responsible for talent scouting and overseeing the artistic development of recording artists. It also acts as a liaison between artists and the record label.- Finding talent :...
division of Columbia Records under the guidance of Clive Davis. This was a time when Columbia Records entered the West Coast rock market with a vengeance, opening both a state-of-the art recording studio (CBS recording studio, Folsom St, San Francisco) and establishing major label Columbia Records' A&R offices in San Francisco at Fisherman's Wharf. Including that entry point in the music business, Daly has been a senior executive at Columbia Records, Elektra/Asylum Records, Atlantic Records and BMG, four of the biggest U.S. record labels and is presently the CEO of About Records distributed by Universal Music Group/UMG
Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group is an American music group, the largest of the "big four" record companies by its commanding market share and its multitude of global operations...
/Fontana. As an A&R executive, Daly has had responsibility for, and sometimes introduced the world to, many of the ground-breaking music acts that eventually defined their genre and became legends, including Janis Joplin, Carlos Santana, The Cars and Tool among others. Throughout his career he had the opportunity to work directly under such historically significant music business icons such as the famous golden-eared and ground-breaking Clive Davis, the legendary Atlantic Recording Company founder Ahmet Ertegun, as well as songman and longtime major music business leader and serial president, CEO and Chairman of Atco, Atlantic, Warner Music, MCA, Universal Music Group and now in 2011, Chairman, Sony Music Entertainment, Doug Morris
Doug Morris
Doug Morris is an American music executive. He is the current Chairman and CEO of Sony Music Entertainment. He previously served as Chairman and CEO of the Universal Music Group from 1995 to 2011.-Life and career:...
.
Daly's tenure in the music businesses' modern high-sales era coincides almost exactly with the rise of the modern "tonnage" popularity of recorded music, through and up to the present rapid growth of all the contemporary online digital music delivery systems of social media oriented and iPhone-format mobile phone oriented channels of subscription and distribution of popular music.
Song writing and music performance
Daly’s music career as a songwriter and performer initially involved founding and performing in three historically noteworthy DC bands - The Hangmen, The Dolphin, and Grin. Initially playing guitar and keyboards and writing songs for The Hangmen in 1964, the band, which toured behind a #1 regional hit that pushed the Beatles off the #1 position in local radio charts. Daly's, The Hangmen band performances instigated as least one 3000+ person fan riot in suburban Virginia, written up in Billboard magazine as one of the first such '60's US "rock & roll riots" prior to the Beatles complete dominance of the charts. He followed this by creating the rarely-heard but historically important and short-lived DC folk-blues band, The Dolphin (Sire Records/London Records), in 1967, which included Daly, Berberich, Paul Dowel, and later Nils Lofgren and originally included the guitar immortal Roy BuchananRoy Buchanan
Roy Buchanan was an American guitarist and blues musician. A pioneer of the Telecaster sound, Buchanan was a sideman and solo artist, with two gold albums early in his career, and two later solo albums that made it on to the Billboard chart. Despite never having achieved stardom, he is still...
, called in Rolling Stone Magazine in 1968 "one of the three greatest living guitarists". He followed up in 1968 by forming the band the Grin, which he founded with fellow Hangmen alumni and drummer friend Bob Berberich and, again with the young accordionist turned telecaster guitarist extraordinaire Nils Lofgren
Nils Lofgren
Nils Hilmer Lofgren is an American rock music recording artist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist...
, before Lofgren recorded on several Neil Young albums and later joined Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band.
Technology and patents
Daly holds several US patents for audio and musical devices and is inventor of various audio devices including the early electrical guitar processor, the Moan Tone used by Nils Lofgren and others in live performance and recording and the recording studio device, Master Mount (later sold to Tandy Corp.) and is holder of US Patent # 4,151,971 and US Patent 4,074,883 as well as the US Patent App. for a novel digital sound/human response-altering technology, HaloField. During a break from the music business of several years, Daly consulted for the US Government's satellite corporation and designed for Comcast/STC, the PSR2000, the first prototype desktop appliance for digital music downloads in conjunction with Hartford Gunn, then President of STC, and prior first president of PBS. In 1997 Daly, at the request of Keith RichardsKeith Richards
Keith Richards is an English musician, songwriter, and founding member of the Rolling Stones. Rolling Stone magazine said Richards had created "rock's greatest single body of riffs", and placed him as the "10th greatest guitarist of all time." Fourteen songs written by Richards and songwriting...
and his producer at the time, industry icon Rob Fraboni
Rob Fraboni
Rob Fraboni is a California-born record producer and audio engineer well-known for his work with Bob Dylan, The Band, Eric Clapton, The Rolling Stones, Tim Hardin, The Beach Boys, Joe Cocker, and Bonnie Raitt, and as Vice President at Island Records where he remastered the entire Bob Marley catalog...
, went on the road with the Rolling Stones during their Bridges To Babylon tour and recorded the Stones for six nights on the tour in California and Nevada using Daly’s experimental Aura-Live recording technology. These recordings have not been released as of 2011 and are the possession of the Rolling Stones band. At the long-time behest of Fraboni, Daly experimented with multiple technologies over several years before ultimately creating the “digital to analog-sounding processor”, HaloField, a digital audio "human response altering" process said to have the same somatic effect on listeners as pure analog reproduction of sound.
Video, TV, digital multimedia, and music production
As head of A&R at three of the largest major record labels as well as his own, Daly has overseen many hundreds of artist signings and productions of album recordings, including multi-platinum artists the CarsThe Cars
The Cars are an American rock band that emerged from the early New Wave music scene in the late 1970s. The band consisted of lead singer and rhythm guitarist Ric Ocasek, lead singer and bassist Benjamin Orr, guitarist Elliot Easton, keyboardist Greg Hawkes and drummer David Robinson...
, Carlos Santana
Carlos Santana
Carlos Augusto Alves Santana is a Mexican rock guitarist. Santana became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered rock, salsa and jazz fusion...
, Tool
Tool (band)
Tool is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 1990, the group's line-up has included drummer Danny Carey, guitarist Adam Jones, and vocalist Maynard James Keenan. Since 1995, Justin Chancellor has been the band's bassist, replacing their original bassist Paul D'Amour...
, Boz Scaggs
Boz Scaggs
William Royce "Boz" Scaggs is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. He gained fame in the 1970s with several Top 20 hit singles in the United States, along with the #2 album, Silk Degrees. Scaggs continues to write, record music and tour.-Early life and career:Scaggs was born in Canton,...
, Green Jelly
Green Jellÿ
Green Jellÿ is a Grammy-nominated American comedy rock band formed in 1981. Originally named Green Jellö, the band changed its name due to legal pressure from the owners of the Jell-O trademark, Kraft Foods, who claimed that it was an infringement of their trademark...
and many others as well as live recordings of the Rolling Stones in partnership with producer Rob Fraboni, as well as rehearsals and demos with, chronologically, The Hangmen, (originally with himself, David Ottley, Thomas Guernsey, Robert Berberich and Paul Dowell with their album Bittersweet/Monument Records); the Dolphin with Dowell, Berberich, Lofgren and Roy Buchanan
Roy Buchanan
Roy Buchanan was an American guitarist and blues musician. A pioneer of the Telecaster sound, Buchanan was a sideman and solo artist, with two gold albums early in his career, and two later solo albums that made it on to the Billboard chart. Despite never having achieved stardom, he is still...
on Sire Records
Sire Records
Sire Records is an American record label, owned by Warner Music Group and distributed through Warner Bros. Records.-Beginnings:The label was founded in 1966 as Sire Productions by Seymour Stein and Richard Gottehrer, each investing ten thousand dollars into the new company. Its early releases as a...
; The Grin with Nils Lofgren
Nils Lofgren
Nils Hilmer Lofgren is an American rock music recording artist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist...
; The Tubes
The Tubes
The Tubes are a San Francisco-based rock band, whose 1975 debut album included the hit single, "White Punks on Dope". During its first fifteen years or so, the band's live performances combined quasi-pornography with wild satires of media, consumerism, and politics...
(rehearsal and studio sessions CBS Records; and other sessions co-produced with Stephen Barncard); Huey Lewis
Huey Lewis
Huey Lewis is an American musician, songwriter and occasional actor.Lewis sings lead and plays harmonica for his band Huey Lewis and the News, in addition to writing or co-writing many of the band's songs...
(in Clover, Summers Here/Pyramid Records); Marc V (Too True/Elektra Records); Family Brown
Family Brown
Family Brown was a Canadian country music band founded in 1967 by Joe Brown , along with his son Barry and daughters Lawanda and Tracey , as well as Dave Dennison and Ron Sparling . Between 1967 and 1990, the band charted several singles in both Canada and the United States...
(Imaginary World/United Artists Records); Grammy
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
™ Award nominated composer Michael Hoppé
Michael Hoppé
Michael Hoppé is a composer, record producer and recording artist from the United Kingdom who now lives in the U.S.A. For many years he was head of A&R for the PolyGram record label. He signed New Age acts such as Vangelis, Jean Michel Jarre and Kitaro to the label as well as resigning ABBA and...
(Simple Pleasures/Seventh Wave); Pamela Polland
Pamela Polland
Pamela Polland is an American singer-songwriter who made three albums for Epic and Columbia Records in the 60s and 70s and whose songs have been recorded by a number of popular artists...
(Pamela Polland/Columbia Records); Boulder (Boulder, Elektra Records);the earliest recordings of famed singer songwriter Alejandro Escovedo
Alejandro Escovedo
Alejandro Escovedo is an American singer-songwriter.-Biography:The son of Mexican immigrants to Texas, Escovedo is from a family that boasts several professional musicians, including brothers Coke Escovedo and Pete Escovedo, and Sheila E...
in the early Punk/New Wave band The Nuns
The Nuns
The Nuns were a punk rock/new wave band in San Francisco in the late 1970s. The band has periodically reformed and played to the present day. The band formed in 1975, and were the among the first punk bands in California. In January 1978, together with The Avengers they opened for the Sex Pistols...
, with Jennifer Miro; Blue Train, (Blue Train, All I Want Is You/BMG) which gave BMG/Zoo it's first pop Top 40 US Hit; Laura Allan, the singer often cited as the important inspiration to Joni Mitchell in her Blue and post Blue vocal style; Booker T. (Bittersweet/Epic Records); Skinny Songs for Heidi Roizen
Heidi Roizen
Heidi Roizen is a Silicon Valley executive, venture capitalist, and entrepreneur.She graduated from Stanford University in 1980 with a bachelor's degree in English and earned her MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business three years later.From 1983 to 1996, Roizen was co-founder...
; Tim Hockenberry, (Back In Your Arms/About Records/Universal Music Group); Larkin Gayle (Two Hands/About Records/Universal Music Group; Jon Collins, (Jon Collins/Coliseum/About Records); and others.
Daly also wrote and produced what is believed to be the first digitally recorded (SoundStream™ system) live music video and TV series, StudioLive™, short listed in the Emmy's technical category and staring noted jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard
Freddie Hubbard
Frederick Dewayne "Freddie" Hubbard was an American jazz trumpeter. He was known primarily for playing in the bebop, hard bop and post bop styles from the early 1960s and on...
and directed by Ric Trader with music composed and conducted by noted TV and jazz composer, Allyn Ferguson
Allyn Ferguson
Allyn Malcolm Ferguson Jr. was an American composer, best known for the themes for 1970s television programs Barney Miller and Charlie's Angels, which he co-wrote with Jack Elliott...
. The digital audio music for this production was released on Elektra Records/WEA as the album Fly Like The Wind and the one-hour TV pilot was sold to consumers by Sony Home Video and broadcast on PBS. He also wrote, produced and served as a Executive Producer of the multimedia life story of Carlos Santana, The River of Color and Sound for Polygram Multimedia. Daly and Colin Farish created the pilot television show Sanctuary of Sound™ with Daly on-screen and in discussion with such music business notables as Narada Michael Walden
Narada Michael Walden
Narada Michael Walden is an American producer, drummer, singer, and songwriter. He was given the name Narada by guru Sri Chinmoy in the early 1970s and his musical career spans three decades, in which he was awarded several gold, platinum and multi-platinum awards...
and Ben Fong-Torres
Ben Fong-Torres
Benjamin Fong-Torres is an American rock journalist, author, and broadcaster best known for his association with Rolling Stone magazine and the San Francisco Chronicle .-Biography:Due to the Chinese Exclusion Act, Fong-Torres' father, Ricardo Fong-Torres Benjamin Fong-Torres (方振豪; Cantonese:...
. Daly has also been a consultant to the Smithsonian Institution, where he produced the long-running “Star Spangled Banner” original instrument exhibit recording at the Museum of American History site in Washington, DC. Daly consulted with the Smithsonian Institution and produced for that institution a recording of the 1844 version of Francis Scott Key’s original Star Spangled Banner using a modern studio orchestra playing very rare instruments from the 19th century, these made available to Daly for his production by the Museum of American History in conjunction with Dr. Arthur Mollela, then a department Chairman of the Museum.