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BOBBY MARTIN

Let's get to know Bobby Martin (not the Ex-Zappa band member) and (not the football player), but the Multi-Grammy winning producer/arranger/ songwriter that has his own story to share.

I am the one and only (Producer Bobby Martin). I'm the famous music producer/arranger/songwriter BOBBY MARTIN who arranged and conducted Michael Jackson and THE JACKSONS 1st platinum single record called (Enjoy Yourself). I produced the 2nd double platinum single in music history, a song called "KISS AND SAY GOODBYE". I arranged, produced, and wrote hits for LOU RAWLS, and I conducted the whole orchestra. I wrote out all those notes and charts. I am a producer, songwriter, arranger, teacher, conductor, maestro, music director, and regular musician. I am a Grammy award winner as well. Some people say that I'm The Legendary Arranger Producer Bobby Martin or they call me the one and only Bobby Martin. That's probably because I do it all, and I'm still very active with recording music and active in teaching others. Today I'm working on some of my best material that I've ever produced or composed. Wait until you hear my song that's called "IT'S GOT TO BE (NOW OR NEVER)". I arranged the theme song for the hit t.v. show SOUL TRAIN. I even did that song that goes "MONEY" "MONEY" "MONEY" "MONEY", you may have heard that on the DONALD TRUMP television series. I produced the great JEFFREY OSBORN and PATTI LABELLE. Remember the song ME AND MRS. JONES, "that's me"! Or the SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER MOVIE, which I got one of my Grammys for. Do you remember L.T.D., or LARRY GRAHAM? You may remember "JUST THE LONELY TALKING AGAIN" by WHITNEY HOUSTON, or TEDDY PENDERGRASS. THE THREE DEGREES were incredible! And THE BEE GEES were "THE BEATLES" of the 70's. It's impossible to list everything, there are so many songs that I am a part of today. I was the man responsible for making the music that we all love. My productions and arrangements are played on the radio each day and are also heard in movies or on television shows. "Do you remember the song, "IF YOU DON'T KNOW ME BY NOW" that SIMPLY RED did"? "IF YOU DON'T KNOW ME BY NOW" was 1st recorded with a group called HAROLD MELVIN AND THE BLUENOTES "they are one of my favorite groups". Just check out my discography, you can look me up if you search for Producer Bobby Martin or Arranger Bobby Martin to see the songs I've produced, arranged, and wrote. You can learn about Bobby Martin and the history of music! This is a good site to check out along with many others. I'm known around the whole world. I can't list all the songs that I've done on one page. As strange as it sounds, "all of the songs I worked on became hits"! People around the whole world ask for me and search for me. They don't know about all the music I've done. They know about one or two of the songs that I did. They could never imagine that I've done thousands of songs. From the days of Blues & Jazz, then Motown Soul / R&B / Rock / Pop / Disco /Funk / to Smooth Jazz, and Newer R&B sounds. It's easy for me, because "I LOVE MUSIC"! You can contact Producer Bobby Martin at bobby.martin@cox.net. Or for more information, just search online for Producer Bobby Martin, or Arranger Bobby Martin. Long ago, before I started arranging and producing, I was actually known for being a famous vibraphone player, I was the famous ROBERT MARTIN or ROBERT L. MARTIN. I played in a Jazz/R&B band. The band and I had a hit record that was being played on the radio, and so I decided to move to the big city. "It was a big change for me" I was famous and living in a big city. "I mean Philadelphia", "which we called Philly". I did arrangements as well as played vibraphone in our band. "And these guys could play some serious Jazz and R&B"! I even did a little singing and piano back then. I was a young star yet I never dreamed of becoming a famous producer or great arranger. During that time, I decided that I would start trying to Produce Professionally, and so I did. I began producing, writing, and arranging, and conducting hit songs. This was long before Philadelphia International Records was around. I can go way back as a Arranger/Producer to the Motown days. Meaning, I can remember all the way back when Jazz was real hip, and when American Music was just starting to come about. I recorded Many Jazz artist as an Arranger/Producer/Songwriter. But before all that, "like I said", I used to jam on the vibes/vibraphone. I was Bobby Martin "The Jazz Man". We call vibraphones - vibes. And oh... what a lovely sound they make! I went from Jazz, to Soul and Rock and Roll, to Country and Motown, to R&B, to Funk and Afro Cuban, to 70's, to Disco, to Dance, "wait"....... I gotta catch my breath! Then from the 80's until 2010, we sampled and mixed, and we are doing re-mixes of all the past projects that I Produced or arranged, or composed. They re-mixed and sampled all of the stuff that I did, and made hip hop and R&B, or pop for todays new artists. We somehow came up with new ways of winning Grammy Awards and Gold Platinum Awards from my music that I wrote and produced years ago! It just never stops going and going and going. Most of these songs went platinum or gold platinum. I've even gotten awards for songs because I own the publishing on them, or because I was responsible for seeing that the project comes together and works. I've worked in A&R departments of record labels and I've worked as an executive producer. I still receive invitations and nominations for awards in the mail "to this day". But I'm just a humble and happy musician like you, that likes to jam. I can still jam and write and compose, and produce etc. ("what a blessing")! And now, I'm doing everything and anything that is music, as long as it's not real dirty sounding. From R&B, to Smooth Jazz, to Pop. And my grandson Miguel Martin, who produces as well, has me doing the executive producing on some of the things that he produces for the young generation. All to say, that if a note was a boat, I could line up enough boats to stretch around the world! (IF FOR ANY REASON YOU DON'T BELIEVE WHAT YOU JUST READ ABOUT ME, THEN JUST SCROLL DOWN THIS PAGE TO LOOK AT ONLY A FEW OF MY PROJECTS)! Producer Arranger Bobby Martins Releases: