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The Ron Hicklin Singers

1960s-1980s group of Los Angeles studio singers From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The Ron Hicklin Singers were a group of Los Angeles studio singers contracted and organized by Ron Hicklin. They are mostly known as the real singers behind the background vocals on The Partridge Family recordings.

In Los Angeles studio circles in the 1960s through 1980s, they were the vocal equivalent of (and often worked with) The Wrecking Crew, performing backup vocals on thousands of songs, TV and movie themes, and as lead (while remaining anonymous) singers on thousands of radio and television commercials.

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Members

The core group usually consisted of (by voice type):

However, this core group was often augmented with other specialist vocalists such as:

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Motion pictures, television and radio work

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The group performed themes for major motion pictures in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.

The group also sang the themes for major hit-TV shows of the period:

In addition, they sang many commercial vocals, including United States advertising campaigns for:

  • Kawasaki - "Kawasaki, Let the Good Times Roll"[14]
  • Datsun - "Drive a Datsun, then Decide"
  • McDonald's - "You Deserve a Break Today", written by Kenny Karen[15]
  • Wheaties - "Go Tell Your Mama What The Big Boys Eat", Clio Award Winner
  • California Raisins - "Yum, Yum", 2 Clio Awards
  • Gatorade - "Gatorade Is Thirst Aid For That Deep Down Body Thirst"

Radio and television station-ID jingle companies throughout the last four decades of the 20th century used the group in their productions, including:

  • The Heller Corporation[16]
  • Killer Music Broadcast Division
  • JAM Creative Productions
  • TM Productions (now known as TM Studios, a division of Dial Global Media) on syndicated-radio ID jingle packages including:
    • Hot Hits
    • Fusion[17]
    • The "You" campaign
    • Good Feelings
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Noteworthy recording work

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The group also sang on recordings credited to:[5]

Works of selected members

The Bähler Brothers were part of the singing group hired by Ron Hicklin on Hugo Montenegro's Albums.

The Bähler Brothers, Jackie Ward, and Ron Hicklin joined David Cassidy as the singers on the Partridge Family.

Member Jackie Ward also had a hit on her own as Robin Ward with the 1963 hit "Wonderful Summer".[20]

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Later Careers

John Bähler lives in Branson, Missouri and conducts the "new" Lawrence Welk orchestra as well as running Portraits By Bähler.

Bähler's wife, Janet Lennon-Bähler of the Lennon Sisters, still tours in casinos and resorts around the country as part of an extensive nostalgia circuit, bringing music of the 1940s and 1950s to a new audience.

Tom Bähler, a long-time close associate of composer Quincy Jones as well as being associate producer and arranger of "We Are the World",[21] lives in California's Santa Ynez Valley north of Los Angeles and continues to occasionally produce as well as record. He is also a songwriter of renown, having penned the Bobby Sherman hit "Julie, Do Ya Love Me"[22] and Michael Jackson's "She's Out of My Life".[23]

Ron Hicklin himself retired from the business in the mid-1990s, and lives in Vonore, Tennessee and Ko Olina (on Oahu) with his wife, Trudi.

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Discography

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Partial chronological list of albums containing one or more cuts with one or more Ron Hicklin Singers:[24]

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There were also multiple albums for each below:

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References

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