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Richard Podolor (Richard Allen Podolor) was born on 7 January, 1936 in Los Angeles, California, U.S., is an American musician, record producer, and songwriter (1936–2022). Discover Richard Podolor's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 86 years old?

Popular As Richard Allen Podolor
Occupation Musician · engineer · record producer
Age 86 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 7 January, 1936
Birthday 7 January
Birthplace Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Date of death 9 March, 2022
Died Place N/A
Nationality United States

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1936

Richard Allen Podolor (January 7, 1936 – March 9, 2022) was an American musician, record producer and songwriter.

Podolor was born in Los Angeles on January 7 1936, and learned guitar as a child.

1950

His career started as a session musician in the 1950s, and he was best known as the producer of Three Dog Night.

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.

1956

He became a session musician at the age of 16, and played on Bonnie Guitar's hit, "Dark Moon", in 1956.

1958

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.

1959

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.

In 1959, the Polodor family established the American Recording Co. recording studios in the Studio City neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.

1960

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 No. 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 an audio 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 studio 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 Alice Cooper, Iron Butterfly, the Dillards, Chris Hillman, and Black Oak Arkansas.

Podolor passed in his sleep on March 9, 2022, at the age of 86.

1961

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".

1982

The studio operated at this location until 1982, then reopened in Calabasas in 1984, where it is still in operation today.