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Richard Allen Podolor (1936 – 2022) was an American musician, record producer and songwriter, best known as the co-writer of "Teen Beat" (1959) and the producer of the band Three Dog Night.

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Life and career

Podolor was born in Los Angeles on January 7 1936, and learned guitar as a child. He became a session musician at the age of 16, and played on Bonnie Guitar's hit, "Dark Moon", in 1956. He made some recordings as Dickie Podolor in the late 1950s, and toured as a member of the Pets, a group that also included session musicians Plas Johnson and Earl Palmer. He played on the Pets' 1958 hit "Cha Hua Hua". His success as a musician enabled his family to open a recording studio, the American Recording Company, initially run by his brother Don Podolor. Together with drummer Sandy Nelson, Richie Podolor recorded a demo of "Teen Beat", but the song was then taken up and recorded by other musicians with Nelson, becoming a hit in 1959. Because Podolor was not given a co-writing credit for "Teen Beat", Nelson later credited him with co-writing some of his later recordings, including his 1961 hit "Let There Be Drums".

Podolor released recordings for Imperial Records in the early 1960s, using the name Richie Allen (or, on one single, Dickie Allen). His 1960 single "Stranger from Durango" reached number 90 on the Billboard Hot 100. His early 1960s albums as the leader of Richie Allen and the Pacific Surfers featured top Los Angeles session musicians including René Hall, Tommy Tedesco, Plas Johnson, Lincoln Mayorga, and Sandy Nelson. Two of these Imperial albums, The Rising Surf and Surfer's Slide, were later reissued on CD.

He continued to record under his own name as well as working as a session musician. By the mid-1960s, he increasingly worked as a recording engineer as well as a musician, on recordings by the Monkees, the Turtles, the Electric Prunes, the Grateful Dead, Donovan, and others. He produced two albums for Steppenwolf, engineered all their early hits including "Born to Be Wild", and produced Three Dog Night's "Mama Told Me Not To Come" and "Joy to the World", leading to his work on all subsequent albums by Three Dog Night. Other acts with whom he worked as a producer included Iron Butterfly, the Dillards, Chris Hillman, and Black Oak Arkansas.

Podolor died on March 9, 2022, at the age of 86.

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Discography (producer)

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Three Dog Night

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Iron Butterfly

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Blues Image

  • "Ride Captain Ride" (1970) (Atco Records)
  • Open (1970) (Atco Records)
  • Red White & Blues Image (1970) (Atco Records)
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The Dillards

  • Roots and Branches (1972) (Anthem Records)
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Jellyroll

  • Jellyroll (1971) (Kapp Records US MCA Records UK and Germany)
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The Souther-Hillman-Furay Band

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Chris Hillman

  • Like a Hurricane (1998) (Sugar Hill Records)
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20/20

  • Look Out! (1981)
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Alice Cooper

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Phil Seymour

  • Phil Seymour (1981)
  • Phil Seymour 2 (1982)
  • “Prince Of Power Pop” (2017)
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Dwight Twilley

  • The Luck (recorded 1994, released 2001)
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Steppenwolf

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John Kay & Steppenwolf

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Alcatrazz

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London

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Linking in as of 2022

16 Greatest Hits, An Old Fashioned Love Song, Around the World with Three Dog Night, At Your Birthday Party, Barabajagal, Bill Schnee, Black and White (Pete Seeger song), Captured Live at the Forum, Carmine Appice (album), Celebrate: The Three Dog Night Story, 1965–1975, Cyan (Three Dog Night album), Dangerous Games (album), Daniel Amos, Dave Moreno, Death Proof (soundtrack), Electric sitar, Evolution: The Best of Iron Butterfly, Feelings (The Grass Roots album), For Ladies Only, Forgotten Songs and Unsung Heroes, Gettin' Lucky, Golden Bisquits, Grammy Award for Record of the Year, Harmony (Three Dog Night album), It Ain't Easy (Three Dog Night album), It's a Jungle, Jan and Dean, Joy to the World (Three Dog Night song), Joy to the World: Their Greatest Hits, Kent Henry, Kim Fowley, Let Me Serenade You, Let There Be Drums, Liar (Russ Ballard song), List of surf musicians, Live (Iron Butterfly album), Loin de moi, Mama Told Me Not to Come, Mass in F Minor, Metamorphosis (Iron Butterfly album), Monster (Steppenwolf album), More of the Monkees, Naturally (Three Dog Night album), Never Been to Spain, No Way Out (The Chocolate Watchband album), One Man Band (Three Dog Night song), Open (Blues Image album), Out in the Country, Paradox (John Kay and Steppenwolf album), Phil Seymour, Pieces of April (song), Playa Del Rock, Ray Pohlman, Return of the Champions, Richard Allen, Ride Captain Ride, Ride with Me (Steppenwolf song), Rubicon (Rubicon album), Sandy Nelson, Seven Separate Fools, Shambala (song), Shane Alexander (musician), She Don't Care About Time, Special Forces (Alice Cooper album), Steppenwolf (Steppenwolf album), Steppenwolf 7, Suitable for Framing, Teen Beat (song), The Best of 3 Dog Night, The Electric Prunes (album), The Family of Man (Three Dog Night song), The Hondells, The Pets (1950s band), The Rowans (album), The Second, The Souther–Hillman–Furay Band (album), The Ventures Play Telstar and the Lonely Bull, Three Dog Night (album), Tribe of Gypsies, Underground (The Electric Prunes album), Wolftracks



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