Imagine a time when one man's voice was heard on about every other song on the radio. Dubbed "the man of a thousand voices," Tony Burrows holds the unique distinction of being the lead vocalist on FIVE hit songs from the 70s including Let's Go to San Francisco, My Baby Loves Lovin', and Beach Baby… In fact all five songs were onehit wonders and four of them were on the singles chart at the same time! You’d think that a musician who sang on so many big hit singles during the same year would’ve been all over the television, yet Tony Burrows's pervading success on the airwaves got him banned from appearing on Top of the Pops for 4 years! Let’s jump into the fascinating story of this 'goto' singer who made a significant mark in the annals of popular music history, all while remaining a mystery to the world outside of the recording studio. You’ll have to pay close attention, but you’re gonna have fun just singing along to the songs featured in our story that is coming up next on Professor of Rock!

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Back in the 60s and 70s, it wasn't uncommon to find that some of your favorite records, even from wildly different artists, had the same musicians playing on them. Take the Wrecking Crew in L.A., for instance…. Those session musicians played on tracks by artists like the Beach Boys, the Byrds, the Mamas and the Papas, and the Monkees, all the way to Herb Alpert, the Fifth Dimension, and the Chairman of the Board…Frank Sinatra…

It took decades for these anonymous session musicians, and their counterparts at Motown in Detroit, the Funk Brothers, to get the recognition they deserved for their contributions to some of the most popular songs ever recorded. What's even more interesting is discovering that some of the biggest AM radio hits of the early ’70s, feature an unheralded and often overlooked lead singer named Tony Burrows. Tony Burrows was called the “man of a thousand voices” because his singing voice was ubiquitous, as a background singer, and as a lead vocalist. From 1970 to 1974, you could virtually turn on AM Top 40 radio anytime, and hear the golden pipes of Tony Burrows: let me explain

we know that a session player is a musician who develops a reputation as being consistently reliable and great to work with, in addition to being highly skilled. The most respected session musicians in the business minimize recording costs for those who hire them, such as a recording artist, or a producer, by mastering parts quickly, adjusting rapidly when the direction of the track changes, and having the ability to record their part in a single take. If you earned a solid reputation in the recording world, you can make a very good living as a session player, and work regularly with some of the biggest names in the business.