{"id":2473,"date":"2015-10-25T05:44:01","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T10:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keenerpodcast.com\/?p=2473"},"modified":"2015-10-25T05:44:01","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T10:44:01","slug":"sunday-brunch-with-tom-dowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/?p=2473","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Brunch With Tom Dowd"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tom<\/a>By Bob Berry<\/p>\n

Tom Who?, you say. \u00a0Gimme a few minutes.<\/p>\n

Tom Dowd was already an accomplished musician\u00a0when, while studying and working in the physics lab at Columbia University, he worked on the Manhattan Project<\/a><\/strong>, helping to invent the atomic bomb.<\/p>\n

It was perhaps his only bomb.<\/p>\n

Because Tom Dowd left physics behind, and went to work as an audio engineer, joining a nascent\u00a0Atlantic Records<\/a><\/strong> as that legendary label was exploding. It was Tom Dowd who captured the magic of some of the earliest hits in rock and roll, The Chords’ “Sh-Boom” and “Money Honey<\/a><\/strong>” by Clyde McFatter and The Drifter’s.<\/p>\n

And the hits (and important jazz recordings) just kept on comin’! Ray Charles<\/a><\/strong>, Charlie Mingus, The Modern Jazz Quartet<\/a><\/strong>, LaVern Baker, and more. Including an all-time classic, #1 in 1959, #251 on the Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs<\/a><\/strong> list. Ladies and Gentlemen, Bobby Darin’s Grammy Award winning Record of the Year.<\/p>\n