Hello friend, thanks as always for listening to The Tully Show. This week we are joined by Mitchell

Cohen, a man who was involved with and witnessed firsthand the rise of Clive Davis's

Aristor records in the 70s, the Barry Manalo era through to the Whitney Houston era of the 80s

and beyond. One of the things I most enjoyed about reading this book and talking to Mitchell

was actually learning about all the other Aristor acts that are lost to the mist of time who did not

achieve the same commercial heights as the aforementioned and I decided to do a show about those

over on my Patreon every month I do a show called I heard these guys are good and when you're done

listening to this maybe go check that companion pod out as well this month on I heard these guys

are good the rest of the 70s and 80s Aristor roster you might just find you're not going to find

your new favorite band of all time but you might hear some good stuff come find us patreon.com slash

mike tully patreon.com slash mike tully okay you ready to start this show

uh your host the evening is really funny dude um I forgot his last name but I've seen him before

he's really funny uh give it up for Mike

coming to you live on tame from an above ground basement in rapidly gentrifying culvert city adjacent

california boasting a partially obstructed view of the world famous Hollywood sign this is the tully

show I am your host Mike tully joining me today a longtime employee at Clyde Davis's

aristor records who has written a history of that labels founding and indeed golden era in a book

published by the venerable trouser press entitled looking for the magic new york city the 70s and the

rise of aristor hello and welcome Mitchell Cohen well thanks for having me it is a pleasure to have

you here I've been looking forward to speaking to you for a while and I have enjoyed I love that

your publicist was kind enough to provide spotify playlists to yeah tie into the book because it's

it's so tantalizing reading about all of these acts and many ways for me it was more exciting

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