Talk:Trade Martin

Edit request on 4 October 2012

'Trade Martin is an American musician, songwriter, and producer.

Martin worked with Johnny Power in the late 1950s, recording as Johnny & the Jokers and together launching the label Rome Records, active from 1960 to 1962. The label signed the groups The Earls, Del & the Escorts, and The Glens. On many of these recordings, Martin played all of the backing instruments, overdubbing them track by track. Martin also released some solo material on Coed Records, including the 1962 hit "That Stranger Used to Be My Girl", a #28 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1962. He released several further singles on Roulette Records and other labels in the 1960s and an LP entitled Let Me Touch You on Buddah Records in 1972.

Martin spent nearly thirty years in production and arrangement, doing work from the '60s girl group era through to 1980s pop. Among his credits are songs by Eric Andersen, Ellie Greenwich, Lesley Gore, ([[The Allman Brothers], The Tokens, Ian & Sylvia, Rick Nelson, Pam Russo, and Solomon Burkediscovered and wrote and produced B.T. Express, . He also wrote a number of songs covered by noted acts, including "Take Me for a Little While" (Vanilla Fudge), (Cher), (Dusty Springfield), (Patti La Belle), "Peace to the World" and " Business With My Baby Tonight" (Jeff Rubin and Trade Martin) (B. B. King), and "Don't You Double Cross Me" (Dave Edmunds).

Martin wrote several film scores. Credits include Stormy Monday, The Inkwell, It's My Party, and West New York.

Released in August 2010, Martin's single, "We've Got To Stop The Mosque At Ground Zero" was recognized as "the worst song in the history of recorded music" at Fark.

In January 2011, rights-management firm Beach Road Music, LLC, content-owner of the Coed Records' catalog, re-released a digitally re-mastered version of Martin's 1964 Coed single "Liverpool Baby" on the compilation album From The Vault: The Coed Records Lost Master Tapes, Volume 1.

Dippydooo (talk) 18:50, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

I'm going to weakly say no on this one only because I believe if you want to expand discussion on Martin's career, it should be broken out into a separate discography or credits section, rather than make these sentences awkwardly long. Not done:. —KuyaBriBri^Talk 20:02, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

References

There seems to be a bit of identity confusion here. The song, "Don't You Double Cross Me," which was performed by Dave Edmunds (under the title "Don't You Double") was written by Moon Martin, who was a different person. It should, therefore, be removed from this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.165.81.136 (talk) 16:59, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

please remove vandalism again

Please remove the paragraph "Released in August 2010,[4] Martin's single, "We've Got To Stop The Mosque At Ground Zero" was recognized as "the worst song in the history of recorded music" at Fark.[5][6]" This has been removed multiple times, according to the page history, along with other vandalism, but the most recent insertion has not been removed. The Fark citation that "recognizes" this as the worst song is simply a thread with one person's posted opinion, along with some responses agreeing and others suggesting alternatives. Fark is not recognized as a source of legitimate music reviews. The review in this case is apparently based on political opinion. Fasmith73 (talk) 17:37, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

Done. Agreed, just a forum. --Stfg (talk) 15:03, 30 November 2013 (UTC)