As
a successful commercial
songwriter/producer, Preston Glass has
few equals, and fewer who surpass. BMI
tallies 567 fanglasstic titles, so the
bar is high and still rising.
Glass, of New Orleans musical heritage,
also teaches music, as did his
grandfather and mother. Through UCLA he
offers Glassology to a savvy generation
of tin pan hopefuls, as he gladly shares
his tricks and trademarks. Truly
the renaissance writer/producer, he ably
performs his own musical tracks,
arranges, mixes, and writes lyrics and
melodies. Forging
hit after illustrious hit, Professor
Glass often gleans the best from himself
in collaborations. His inspired #1
SMASH, "Miss You Like Crazy",
paired him with Michael Maser and Gerry
Goffin. Their Natalie Cole
recording garnered the coveted BMI
Million-Air Award, and keeps on
going....He also penned the Glassic
Million-Air, "Don't Make Me Wait For
Love" for Kenny G, another
evergreen. Glass's glistening
production is also imprinted on G's
breakout landmark, "Song
Bird". Earth, Wind &
Fire strode to #1 on his "System Of
Survival" production. A third
Million-Air Award was bestowed on Aretha
Franklin's "Who's Zoomin' Who",
a co-write with Narada Michael Walden.
Additional BMI Awards were lauded on his
glassical cuts, "Jimmy
Lee"/Aretha and "We Don't Have
To Take Our Clothes Off"/Jermain
Stewart. In Europe, Glass is recognized
by his Brit Awards Song Of the Year
nominated "Sweetness", a #1 UK
hit for Michelle Gayle.
In
Film and television exploitations,
"Acapulco Heat" used
Glassophonic music recurrently.
"Big Bully", starring Tom
Arnold and Rick Moranis, utilizes the
Glassingle, "You Were My
911". The Showtime movie,
"Right Connections" features
five shards of Glass, with "Night
Vision" spinning three. The
newly released "Down 'N
Dirty" soundtrack LP serves up seven
songs while Glass co-produced the entire
album. His "Shout Of The
Streets" is the closing theme of
"Original Gangstas". Additional film and TV producers that
have gone to Glass for cuts include,
Keenen Ivory Wayans, Quincy Jones, Sidney
Poitier, and Jeff Franklin.
Recent
chart action proves that Glass is truly
Mr. Eveready. The Brian
Culbertson/Atlantic Top 10 LP,
"Somethin' 'Bout Love" features
the smooth-as-Glass track
"Sittin'" Back" and has
charted for 45+ weeks. Glass is Top 10,
again, by Norman Conners/Capitol-Right
Stuff on his "Eternity " LP
with the Glass-penned single, "You
Can't Hurt Me Anymore". Yet
another new face Glassed up in lights,
the hip-hop/top
40 pop act, SOULDECISION, bubbled up to
#1 on Billboard's Heatseekers with the LP
"No One Does It Better". The LP
features chiseled Glass on, "Feelin'
You". With Christina Aguilera and
N'Sync tours rolling for the newcomers,
they are bound to bubble higher.
Nu
Skool Joyntz from Professor Glass include
theme work and music supervision for an
animation by Hand In Hand Productions,
"The Ironheads", and a Bryville
Productions work, "High
Caliber", by scriptwriter, Gerard
Brown ("Juice"). Continuing to
Glassify soundtracks, Glass provided
music, production, and supervision on the
Narcissistic Films feature, "That
Summer In LA" slated to street in
Fall 2001. Due to out soon, as well,
are numerous Glass produced songs with
The Dells and Freda Payne. New
tracks are under construction with The
Natural Four and a three-peat by the
legendary Earth, Wind & Fire.
Timeless
Glassics have, in all, chalked up 30+
Top10 R&B Hits, 5 Top10 Pop Hits, and
5 BMI Award Winning Songs. If that is not
Glasstronomical enough, Natalie Cole and
George Benson both feature a Blast from
Glass in their just released Best
Ofs. So, if you want a Hit,
the Bomb, an Evergreen, or some heavy
metal like, say Gold or Platinum, just
check out the Glassifieds for another
"Hall of Game" track, 'cause
Preston, well... he
got.....
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