What a great site - Thank you for organizing it. You have continued the family spirit that Herb and Jerry worked so hard to create - and that is so hard to find otherwise. -- Sharon Steeley, Music Video Promotion

Great site I just stumbled across, would appreciate my 'all access pass'. -- Jimmy Zisson, General Manager of A&M Records, New York

Thanks for this site--best of luck with it! -- David Bradstreet

You sure have a buzz going. I've had 3 emails from A&Mers today alone. Good luck! -- Andy French, Director, Artist Relations & Artist Development

I'm so delighted to see it! Many of us have incredible memories and ongoing great comraderie from those years on The Lot....and I am so glad to see this happen now! -- Cheryl McEnaney, National Artist Development Manager

Thanks for making the site and I'll be checking in to see what's happenin'. -- Richard Cottrell

Thanks Les, I've spoken with more old friends from A&M in the last week than in the last decabe. All because of your site -- Alan Oken

Just a brief note to say thanks for ALL you do in keeping us A&M-ers consistently in the know. My years there were so wonderful and filled with fond memories. Thanks for keeping that alive. -- Miriam Heiman

Keep up the great work on the site. -- Don Rodgers, Promotion Manager, Mid-Western Region, Canada

It's a pretty interesting looking site and I'll check it out further. -- Robin Kirby, Western Regional Sales/Marketing Director

Going through this site reminded me of what I loved about working for A&M. -- Colin Sowa

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Wow, what an incredible site you've created! I can't believe you have not only the names of the Carpenters, but of even the real carpenters like the La Prell twins, etc. -- Jim McCrary, Photographer

It's good to see someone reminding us of the special organization A&M was -- John Hawkins (Edenstreet)

...very fun to see this....Many thanks for your efforts....Best -- Juliea 'Jools' Clarke

What a fabulous site! It certainly brings back a lot of memories… -- David Browde, College Promotions

I've just discovered your web site. Holy smoke!!!!! -- Geoffrey B. Schulman, Director of A&R Administration, Los Angeles

Fantastic Site! Great Work! -- Jean Pierre Guilbert, V.P. Promotion & Artist Development (A&M Canada)

This is a great site! Thanks for keeping the memories alive.... -- Jerimaya Grabher

Clyde Kaplan, Engineer, A&M Studios -- Thanks for putting together this great website about A&M Records.

Thanks for all your hard work in gathering this fantastic web resource of one of the greatest companies that ever existed. -- Jim McCrary, Photographer

Thanks the site is awesome! -- David Abrahams, Audio Librarian

I just saw the A&M website, very impressive. -- Larry Weintraub, Vice President of A&R

This is totally great. Brings back great memories of my years in Canada. -- Charly Prevost

Thank you for sharing with us and for your dedication to A&M Records. It's so wonderful to have a connection to my past. -- Sherry Jones Levy, A&M NYC

It is great to have a site for the A&M family. -- Mary (Sukkestad) Mack, Executive Secretary, International Dept.

Glad to know that you have set up this site. What a neat way to stay in touch. Great job! -- Xander Smith (Other Star People)

Your site is being passed around and mentioned to all ex A&M employees. Your site is great and I'd love to be a part. Thanks for your time and good luck. -- Joe James, Technical Manager, A&M Studios

The website is Great! It really took me back down memory lane. Keep up the good work and thank you! -- Janice Hague, International Promotions Manager, A&M Records GB

Your site is being passed around and mentioned to all ex A&M employees. Your site is great and I'd love to be a part. Thanks for your time and good luck. -- Joe James, Technical Manager, A&M Studios

Thank you Leslie. -- Al Cafaro, CEO, A&M Records

Thanks for this ambitious and remarkable site. Just bouncing around inside the site the other day brought back so many really wonderful memories of the time and place and people when magic was possible and all lights were green. -- Corb Donohue, National Director of Public Relations

I am genuinely so happy to see this site--my daughter's picture is on the cover of one of those catalogs -- Rob Gold, Executive Director of Advertising and Merchandising, A&M Records

Great site...thanks Leslie. -- J. B. Brenner

Great site....brings back a lot of memories. -- Aaron Jacoves, Director of A&R

Your website is absolutely ACE ACE ACE!!! It is great to see real top work and dedication towards a label that meant so much to many. -- Jay Schatz / Chris Skane, A&R / A&M Associated Labels

This is a great site! Thanks for keeping the memories alive.... -- Jerimaya Grabher

I have nothing but positive things to say about you and what you have done to help keep alive the spirit of A&M. -- Al Marks (Promotion, Artist Development)

I'm always amazed every time I spend time on the site and imagine the enormous amount of work and time it has taken you to build this. It's a smorgasboard of history... -- Frann Altman

Thanks for making the site and I'll be checking in to see what's happenin'. -- Richard Cottrell

Kudos to you for recognizing possibly the ultimate artist/people friendly label. -- Ed Rivadavia, Northern Midwest Promotion Manager

Great site I just stumbled across, would appreciate my 'all access pass'. -- Jimmy Zisson, General Manager of A&M Records, New York

I love that you're keeping our history alive. -- Mary Ann Johnson, Artist Relations

Thanks for putting together this great website about A&M Records. -- Clyde Kaplan, Engineer, A&M Studios

Thanks so much Les. It's really an amazing site. -- Janette Rogers Sarabia, Director of Artist Relations

You have made me feel like I have come home safely to family, exactly what the A&M spirit was all about. -- Babs Stock

The website is Great! It really took me back down memory lane. Keep up the good work and thank you! -- Janice Hague, International Promotions Manager, A&M Records GB

Thanks so much for keeping in touch and keeping so many of us in the loop! I couldn't agree more that A&M's biggest 'hit' is the legacy of warm comraderie and real friendship that our collective years there engendered. -- Cheryl McEnaney

This site is AMAZING! THANK YOU! As a fan...and as someone humbled and honored to be ON this list. Outstanding. -- Monte Warden

Congratulations on your internet site. I would like to be included on your staff list as I worked for A&M in Toronto and London. -- France Tetreault-Thomson, Assistant A&R

I had such a good time at A&M, so it's nice to still feel part of it. Keep up the good work with the website. -- Alex Hutchinson, A&M Records, Ltd., Art Department

Thanks for this ambitious and remarkable site. Just bouncing around inside the site the other day brought back so many really wonderful memories of the time and place and people when magic was possible and all lights were green. -- Corb Donohue, National Director of Public Relations

Thanks for doing such epic work on the site. Salut! -- Max Hutchinson

Thank you so much!! I love the A&M site. -- Toni Tennille

I love the website! -- Jewell Kumjian, A&M Studios Concierge

...very fun to see this....Many thanks for your efforts....Best -- Juliea 'Jools' Clarke

Your website is absolutely ACE ACE ACE!!! It is great to see real top work and dedication towards a label that meant so much to many. -- Jay Schatz / Chris Skane, A&R / A&M Associated Labels

Congratulations Leslie on all the good work you do for the A&M community. -- Al Cafaro, President and CEO, A&M Records

Thank you so much for all of your help. It is a great site. Thank you for helping to keep these bands relevant. -- Andrea Bricklin (Bricklin)

Thank you so much!! I love the A&M site. -- Toni Tennille

Thanks, Les! It's so wonderful that you are so involved with the website. I have such fantastic memories of my time spent at A&M. It was definitely a magical place. -- Stacie Surabian, A&M Sales

Thanks so much for all you do for all of us!!!! -- Monique Augusta

Thanks, this is a great site. -- Barbara West, Sr. Director of Business / Legal Affairs

I was just talking to Derek Alpert today...and we had a blast pawing around on this website together. I think it's so cool that you did this! -- Doreen Ringer-Ross

Fantastic Site! Great Work! -- Jean Pierre Guilbert, V.P. Promotion & Artist Development (A&M Canada)

Congratulations on your internet site. I would like to be included on your staff list as I worked for A&M in Toronto and London. -- France Tetreault-Thomson, Assistant A&R

This is totally great. Brings back great memories of my years in Canada. -- Charly Prevost

Thanks Leslie for doing this. It's great to have this resource. You're awesome for keeping it going. -- Carmen DeVida

What a great site, lots of memories. -- Paul McKenna

I love the website! -- Jewell Kumjian, A&M Studios Concierge

I have enjoyed the A&M website you created and visit it often. -- Chuck Beeson, Art Director

Your knowledge and research is both amazing, and from what I viewed, about 98% accurate. -- Randy Alpert (Capt. Badazz)

You're right about the specialness of A&M. It's so hard to explain, but it really was unique. A Camelot, if you will. Thanks for your efforts -- Richard Pachter, Promotions

Thanks so much for keeping in touch and keeping so many of us in the loop! I couldn't agree more that A&M's biggest 'hit' is the legacy of warm comraderie and real friendship that our collective years there engendered. -- Cheryl McEnaney

Your knowledge and research is both amazing, and from what I viewed, about 98% accurate. -- Randy Alpert (Capt. Badazz)

Thanks so much Les. It's really an amazing site. -- Janette Rogers Sarabia, Director of Artist Relations

Congratulations on a great web site. Thanks for all your efforts in making this site. -- Bill Morgan, Director, Technical Engineering, A&M Studios

Wow Leslie!! Lots of great work here... Love what you did! -- Randy Alpert (Captain Badazz)

It's a pretty interesting looking site and I'll check it out further. -- Robin Kirby, Western Regional Sales/Marketing Director

Going through this site reminded me of what I loved about working for A&M. -- Colin Sowa

You sure have a buzz going. I've had 3 emails from A&Mers today alone. Good luck! -- Andy French, Director, Artist Relations & Artist Development

A&M Records was home to me in the '70s. Chuck, Brenda, Gil, Marsha, Rita Ross and family gave me my first intro to the music business and put me on the right track to my own family and an historic artistic career. Love to all. -- Ron Artis, Almo/Irving Music

Clyde Kaplan, Engineer, A&M Studios -- Thanks for putting together this great website about A&M Records.

Wow, what an incredible site you've created! I can't believe you have not only the names of the Carpenters, but of even the real carpenters like the La Prell twins, etc. -- Jim McCrary, Photographer

This is great to see all the names of all of the friends of such a very special place. Thank you! -- Leigh Jackson, Artist Development

This is a great web site on A&M. -- Gary Mannon, A&M Studios

Pretty cool site. Nice to see that the history of the label - which was its greatest asset - has not been forgotten. -- Brandon Costas, Sales Coordinator

I came across the site by co-incidence - congratulations! A great initiative and nicely done. -- Russ Curry, VP European Operations

Thanks for doing such epic work on the site. Salut! -- Max Hutchinson

I was just talking to Derek Alpert today...and we had a blast pawing around on this website together. I think it's so cool that you did this! -- Doreen Ringer-Ross

A friend forwarded the link to your site, it's amazing! -- Monique McGuffin, Graphics Coordinator

I love that you're keeping our history alive. -- Mary Ann Johnson, Artist Relations

Thanks for all the work you do for the website. -- Gary Mannon, A&M Studios

Thanks for all your amazing work with keeping us all connected. -- Doria Leong

I have nothing but positive things to say about you and what you have done to help keep alive the spirit of A&M. -- Al Marks (Promotion, Artist Development)

Solitude Standing - Suzanne Vega

Stock Number

UICY 94434

Label

A&M Records

Country

Japan

Format

CD album.

Released: 2010-2 -24

Recording Notes

SHM limited edition

Track	Track Title	Track Time
1	Tom's Diner	00:02:09
2	Luka	00:03:51
3	Ironbound/Fancy Poultry	00:06:19
4	In the Eve	00:04:15
5	Night Vision	00:02:48
6	Solitude Standing	00:04:49
7	Calypso	00:04:14
8	Language	00:03:56
9	Gypsy	00:04:04
10	Wooden Horse (Caspar Hauser's Song)	00:05:13
11	Tom's Diner	00:02:39

Credit	Role Sort ascending
Suzanne Vega	vocal
Anton Sanko	synthesizer
CP Roth	synthesizer
Michael Visceglia	synthesizer
Glenn Tilbrook	producer
Eric Thorngren	producer
Steven Miller	producer
Ronald Fierstein	producer
Steve Addabbo	producer
Lenny Kaye	producer
Richard Croft	photography
Paula Bullwinkel	photography
Matthew Vega	photography
Sue Evans	percussion
Stephen Ferrera	percussion
Eric Thorngren	mix
Shelly Yakus	mix
Stephen Marcussen	mastering
Marc Shulman	guitar
Frank Christian	guitar
Suzanne Vega	guitar
Steve Addabbo	guitar
Anton Sanko	guitar
Mitch Easter	guitar
Jon Gordon	guitar
Ronald Fierstein	executive producer
Rod O’Brien	engineer
Eric Thorngren	engineer
Steve Addabbo	engineer
Stephen Ferrera	drums
Sue Evans	drums
Melanie Nissen	design
Mitch Easter	co-producer
Michael Visceglia	bass
Frank Gravis	bass
Shawn Colvin	background vocal
Dan Nash	assistant engineer
Jeff Lippay	assistant engineer
Mark McKenna	assistant engineer
Geoff Keehn	assistant engineer
Marc DeSisto	assistant engineer
George Cowan	assistant engineer
Arthur Zarate	assistant engineer
Joe Martin	assistant engineer
Jeff Gold	art direction
Melanie Nissen	art direction
Squeeze	arranger
Eric Thorngren	arranger
Jon Gordon	arranger
Peter Wood	arranger

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