Bobby Susser: An Artist’s work is never done

Bobby Susser shares wisdom from his 50 year long career, latest 2018 children’s album, “Green Light”, deciding between health & work, recording with Ben E. King and the music industry.  

1. Bobby Susser (Guest): Bobby Susser (born Robert Howard Susser, July 18, 1942), and also known as Bob Susser, is an American songwriter, record producer, and performer, best known for his young children's music. Among some of his several honors, he is the recipient of the "Distinguished Alumni Award" for his life's work, awarded from Teachers College, Columbia University. Susser has sold over 5 million children's albums.

2. Julia Santana (Guest Host): Julia Santana's professional music experience began with First A.C.T (First All Children's Theater) in New York City. Starring in the role of Jack in the musical version of "Jack and the Beanstalk" called "Clever Jack and the Magic Beanstalk" working alongside Ben Stiller as the giant. She was also a leading cast member of Elizabeth Swadows pop opera " The Girl With The Incredible Feeling". She was later signed to Independent and major record labels such as Atlantic Records and MicMac Records. Releasing her original songs and happily climbing Billboard Dance charts. Julia, also starred has Mimi in the L.A production of "Rent" working alongside Neil Patrick Harris and Wilson Cruz.

3. The Defiant Ones: The Defiant Ones is a 1958 crime film which tells the story of two escaped prisoners, one white and one black, who are shackled together and who must cooperate in order to survive. It stars Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier.

4. Sir Sidney Poitier: (born February 20, 1927) is a Bahamian-American actor, film director, author, and diplomat. In 1964,Poitier became the first Bahamian and first black actor to win an Academy Award for Best Actor, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his role in Lilies of the Field.  The significance of these achievements was bolstered in 1967, when he starred in three successful films, all of which dealt with issues involving race and race relations: To Sir, with Love; In the Heat of the Night; and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, making him the top box-office star of that year. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Poitier among the Greatest Male Stars of classic Hollywood cinema, ranking 22nd on the list of 25.

5. Theodore Meir Bikel (May 2, 1924 – July 21, 2015) was an Austrian-American Jewish actor, folk singer, musician, composer, unionist and political activist. He appeared in films including The African Queen (1951), Moulin Rouge (1952), The Enemy Below (1957), I Want to Live! (1958), My Fair Lady (1964) and The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966). For his portrayal of Sheriff Max Muller in The Defiant Ones (1958), he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

6. Veredhttp://babyintune.com/: Music, Psychology, and Motherhoodabout: I spent ten years playing music by night and studying music therapy and clinical psychology by day. When I had a baby everything changed. Slowly, all of my efforts and talents culminated into one project that felt right.

7. Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and actor. Simon's musical career has spanned seven decades, with his fame and commercial success beginning as half of the duo Simon & Garfunkel (originally known as Tom & Jerry), formed in 1956 with Art Garfunkel. Simon was responsible for writing nearly all of the pair's songs, including three that reached number one on the U.S. singles charts: "The Sound of Silence", "Mrs. Robinson", and "Bridge over Troubled Water".

8. Edie Arlisa Brickell: (born March 10, 1966) is an American singer-songwriter widely known for 1988's Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars, the debut album by Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, which went to No. 4 on the Billboard 200 chart. She is married to Paul Simon.

9. Robert Hilburn: Robert Hilburn is an American pop music critic and author. As critic and music editor at the Los Angeles Times from 1970 to 2005, his reviews, essays and profiles have appeared in publications around the world. Hilburn's memoir, Corn Flakes with John Lennon was published on Oct. 13, 2009 by Rodale.

10. Greg & Steve are a musical group based in Los Angeles, California. The duo, composed of Greg Scelsa and Steve Millang, has been performing and recording children's music since the 1970s. Scelsa and Millang both perform as vocalists and guitarists. They have recorded 18 albums, one music video compilation, and one live concert DVD.  Greg & Steve are marketed toward children from preschool age through primary school and have sold more than 4 million albums, making them the best selling children's music duo in the United States. They also have a rigorous concert schedule, playing an average of 100 shows per year including venues such as Carnegie Hall.

11. I Have Songs in My Pocket was released in 1998 and is the 19th album released by Ben E. King. This album contains young children's songs, written and produced by children's music man, Bobby Susser, known for his young children's series, "Bobby Susser Songs for Children". It was the first team effort between Ben E. King and Susser, and it won the Early Childhood News' Directors' Choice Award and Dr. Toy's / The Institute for Childhood Resources Award.

12. Ben E. King: Benjamin Earl King (born Benjamin Earl Nelson, September 28, 1938 – April 30, 2015), known as Ben E. King, was an American soul and R&B singer and record producer. He was perhaps best known as the singer and co-composer of "Stand by Me"—a US Top 10 hit, both in 1961 and later in 1986 (when it was used as the theme to the film of the same name), a number one hit in the UK in 1987, and no. 25 on the RIAA's list of Songs of the Century—and as one of the principal lead singers of the R&B vocal group the Drifters notably singing the lead vocals of one of their biggest global hit singles (and only U.S. #1 hit) "Save the Last Dance for Me".

13. Charles Eubanks: Eubanks comes from a family of musicians; his cousins ​​are jazz musicians Robin , Duane and Kevin Eubanks . His mother was Perry Lee Eubanks (1925-1982); his father (* 1923) was a jazz trumpeter and bandleader . He attended Cass Technical High School in Detroit and had lessons with a concert pianist and with Arthur Labrew of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Early on, his father had inspired him for jazz music; at age 11 he first played saxophone, then piano in the band The Soul Messengers, then at The Six Lads , by Harold McKinney was conducted. The group played arrangements of the music of Horace Silver and Art Blakey . From 1963 to 1968 he worked as a studio musician with Motown Records, 1967-1971 as a accompanist of dance ensembles at Wayne State University and 1971-1972 as a music educator at Project Music in Detroit. In 1972 he made his first recordings with Wendell Harrison ( An Evening with the Devil ).

14. Alumnus Bobby Susser Wins Independent Music Award: Children’s songwriter and Alumnus Bobby Susser (M.A. ’87) was among the winners of the 13th Annual Independent Music Awards (IMAs) for his contribution to the compilation album “Action Moves People.” Susser produced and performed on the album and wrote two of its pieces and the liner notes. The album won the prize in the Spoken Word (with music accompaniment) category.

15. Horace Ott (born April 15, 1933) is an American jazz and R&B composer, arranger, record producer, conductor and pianist, noted for his work since the late 1950s with a wide variety of artists including The Shirelles, Don Covay, Nina Simone, Houston Person, Village People, and many more.

16. Lou Gimenez: In 2001 I moved The Music Lab to it's current location in Elmont NY just outside of the 5 boroughs of New York City. The focus of the studio changed to more organic production, recording and producing rock, jazz and pop music. Specialties: recording , mixing, and production

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