And the Hello there and welcome once again to Soda Jaker on songwriting. I'm Brian, accompanied as ever by Simon and

joining us for episode 247 is a multi-grammy winning American Songwriter and musician. He's best known as a founding member of and principal songwriter for the legendary Toto and responsible for penning such enduring classics as Rosanna, Africa, Hold the Line, 99 and Georgie Porgi to name a few.

He's also a staggeringly prolific session musician who's played on an estimated 2,000 recordings.

Across a career that spanned over half a century, he's worked with the legs of Steely Dan, Cheryl Lynn,

Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, Paul McCartney, Glen Campbell, Barbara Streisand and Tina Turner.

In the late summer of 2022 he dropped his first ever solo album, Forgotten Toys, co-produced with fellow

Toto member Joseph Williams and boasting guest appearances from his talented

pals Steve Lucather, Don Felder, Michael McDonald, Steve Jordan and Ray Parker Jr.

We are thrilled to welcome the great David Page to the show.

David was born in Los Angeles in 1954 and raised in Residee in the San Fernando Valley.

His dad was the eminent jazz musician and arranger Marty Page, so music was very much in his

blood and as a kid he would often attend his father's recording sessions where he

rubbed shoulders with the likes of Ray Charles, Duke

Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald.

Our guest first gravitated towards the drums, but at his dad's encouragement took up piano

lessons aged 8.

A few years later, having noticed his teenage son's

flare for poetry Marty encouraged him to try his hand at writing songs. David's

early songwriting influences included Elton John and Jimmy Webb, while the piano starlings of Leon Russell and Larry

Nectal made a deep impression on him as an instrumentalist.

He played in high school bands and went on to study music at the University of Southern California,

eventually dropping out to begin what would prove to be a dazzling session career.

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