Artist:Larsen-Feiten Band
Song:Who'll Be the Fool Tonight
Album:Larsen-Feiten Band
The 1980 single Who'll Be the Fool Tonight was a top 30 pop hit. It was also an adult contemporary hit. It was the only chart single for the very short lived Larsen-Feiten Band. They only recorded two albums and it looks like the second album was barely released. I think it's a song music fans may have thought was by The Doobie Brothers. And considering that both bands were on Warner Bros., the confusion may have been deliberate. Guitarist Buzz Feiten and pianist Neil Larsen were jazz and session musicians. It's those studio connections that led to this band. In the 60s, Feiten replaced Elvin Bishop in the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Then in 1970, Feiten was lead guitarist of The Rascals when they had become a jazz fusion band. Meanwhile, Larsen served in the Vietnam War as a band director. He moved to New York post discharge. They met while working sessions and released a 1972 album on Douglas Records as Full Moon. After that, they returned to session work. Both guys moved to Los Angeles in the late 70s. Larsen recorded a couple of jazz fusion albums on A&M's Horizon label. Feiten played guitar on those records along with other session musicians. The other key guy was veteran producer Tommy LiPuma who had success turning The Crusaders into a pop success with Street Life. So I'm pretty sure it was his idea to turn Larsen-Feiten into a pop band. Who'll Be the Fool Tonight reached #29 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #22 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. As I said, I think when fans heard this song, they thought it was someone else. Feiten wrote Who'll Be the Fool Tonight but both guys wrote songs for the album. Musicians were session guys like Kim Hutchcroft on alto sax, Larry Williams on tenor sax, Chuck Findlay on trumpet, Bill Reichenbach on trombone, Willie Weeks on bass, Art Rodriguez on drums and Lenny Castro on percussion. Larsen-Feiten released a second album in 1982. but when that went nowhere and both guys returned to session work. They are still doing that. Here's the video for Who''l Be the Fool Tonight by Larsen-Feiten Band.
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