Scott Paton

As I wind through the hills of Bel Air, I am frantically searching for 1111 Linda Flora Drive, the home of Jan Berry—the former leader of ‘60s surf music duo...

Last night, network TV actually pulled off a whammy with some emotional heft–a side-winding wallop worthy of the generally superior drama series that have po...

Thousands of professional recording studios around the world have shuttered as DIY, computer-based technology has helped make high-end recording a home-based...

For more than a week now, Eric Vinal’s phone has been ringing off the hook. As Film Commissioner for Onondaga County in Central New York, his standard pace ...

Where once upon a time the Main Street of every U.S. city sported a local record store, downloads, streaming and online retailers conspired --and largely suc...

As a child actor, Paul Petersen was a fixture in American living rooms —at least the ones with TV sets–portraying Jeff Stone, the irascible son on “The Donna...

After dominating movie and television production for three-quarters of a century, California saw its lock on location filming and even post-production begin ...

In 2016, Dean Torrence, of '60s singing surf duo Jan & Dean, published a long-awaited autobiography that takes the reader back to the guys' heyday and be...

With each passing year, time seems to take an increasingly heavy toll on our pop culture heroes. Luminaries in the realms of Music, TV and Film are slipping...

From the earliest days of my career as a writer/interviewer for Casey Kasem's "American Top 40," and over the course of the next couple of decades, I wrote a...

2022 marks the 60th anniversary of the most influential musical ensemble to emerge, literally and figuratively, from the shores of America. The ongoing lega...

This was a radio industry trade ad for an eight-hour radio broadcast I wrote, produced and co-hosted with Smokey Robinson. I wrote the copy and dummied-up t...

Contracted by the Universal Music Group to write and produce three separate broadcast documentaries celebrating Motown Records' 50th Anniversary in 2009, the...

In the midst of producing the second of three Motown radio documentaries (all nail-biting deadlines, by the way), my clients at Universal Music Group said, "...

As architects of “the Philly Sound”, Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff crafted sophisticated funk classics for the O’Jays, Harold Melvin & the Blues, Teddy Pend...

Dick Clark's impact on pop culture and television programming can't truly be measured. He gently and insidiously helped usher Rock & Roll into the mains...

--Press Release-- November 11, 2011 Entertainment AIDS Alliance -- the Industry's only non-profit dedicated to AIDS research, prevention and services --pre...

Bob is 70. 70, somehow, sounds daunting. Especially for one of our second-generation Rock & Roll heroes. We’d just gotten used to the founding fathers...

From the over-hyped "Brian Is Back" campaign of the late '70s to the present day, Wilson's live appearances have consisted of little more than token cameos a...

In 1993, the Music Business was a thriving, robust industry. The term "illegal download" meant stealing something off the back of a freight truck. Burgeoning...