MANNY FREISER has written, produced and recorded music from 1964 to the present. He manifests a wealth of experience and growth with absolutely no signs of aging whatsoever.
His 60's group, The Grodes (briefly known as The Tongues of Truth), logged many Top 10 singles in Tucson, Arizona. Two of those songs, Let's Talk About Girls and Cry A Little Longer are now considered Cult Classics and forerunners of 80's punk/new wave. They've been recorded by several groups, including The Chocolate Watchband, The Undertones, Imperial State Electric, Better Men Than You, The Diamond Rangs, The Pretty Things, Yard Trauma, Theatrical Fruit, Level Ground, The Vicious Executives and others. Manny's music can be heard on Rhino Records' important compilation of 60's music, Nuggets of The Psychedelic Era, as well as on several classic reissues from Dyonysis Records.
In the 70's, Manny and ex-wife Patti, performing as duo Fire & Rain, recorded for Mercury Records, 20th Century Records, MGM and Barnaby Records, enjoying a Hot 100 single with a remake of the Barbara Lewis classic, Hello Stranger.
Manny is still angry that it wasn't one of his songs.
In the 80's, under the pseudonym Ian Messenger, Manny recorded two albums for Quincy Jones' Qwest Records (distributed by Warner Brothers). The Qwest single, Livin' in the Night, aired on MTV and hit the college charts. A second single, Wait So Long, garnered significant pop airplay and strong radio requests in the southeaast. Also during the 80's, Manny was a marketing executive with A&M Records and Qwest Records, working with such artists as Police, Styx, Supertramp, Sara Vaughan, General Hospital's Jack Wagner -- and, of course, Quincy Jones. None of them remember him.
Since 2004, Manny has worked in the relative safety of his own Sweet Home Recording Studio writing, performing, engineering and producing such records as Way Back Home, Waiting Here, Bigger than The Sky, The One Love, Love Walked In Today and many others. The Moment single received solid pop radio airplay around the country. Fire In The Hole received nearly three-hundred-thousand views on YouTube. Freiser received hundreds of dollars for these and other efforts.
Manny music can be found on his web site: www.MannyFreiser.com as well as on YouTube.
Freiser describes his first book, Tracks In The Sands of Time: 'it's a memoir about a lifelong rock & roll love affair. Volume I spans my innocent emotional beginnings in Pittsburgh, PA, my sources of inspiration for songwriting, the great rock and roll and inside story of Tucson's Grodes, the tale of our underground classics of the Psychedelic Era, Let's Talk About Girls and Cry A little Longer -- and my reflections on music, love and life. You'll meet some very special girls and women, including my first wife, Mia, and an amazingly talented love of my life, second wife, Patti. Third wife, Suzi, has chosen to remain anonymous. Come live vicariously my life of sex, drugs and rock & roll! You'll laugh -- you'll cry -- you'll trash a hotel room...'
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