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Secant Records

January 19th, 2012 · 6 Comments

I think this was back in 1972.  At any rate, I was still in high school when I wrote string and flute arrangements for this local 45.  Jan Ince sang two of her songs, and Caltrick Simone (whose real name I’ve forgotten) produced.  I also played ‘cello on it.  An internet search reveals that copies still surface on eBay.

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  • 1 Dave Nuttycombe // Nov 17, 2013 at 10:30 pm

    Doug,

    First, Caltrick’s real name was Jeff Stein, I believe. (That might have been his brother’s name, though. Definitely Stein. Can’t recall how he came up with the showbiz pseudonym.)

    But I digress. I played drums on this record — my first time in a studio. Jan went on to marry an English film composer and lived over there for a while. Last I heard she was living in rural Virginia.

    I found this page because I just heard from the nephew of another Secant artist, David Coggshall. Did you do the strings on his record, too?

    Take care,

    DN

  • 2 Doug // Nov 17, 2013 at 11:42 pm

    Hey, nice to hear from you. It was so long ago. Any idea what happened to Simone/Stein? And no, that was the only Secant record I worked on.

  • 3 jeff // Nov 17, 2013 at 11:43 pm

    Hi Doug – curious about this Secant release – my uncle was David Coggeshall and I think his was the next record out for them… just trying to piece together his story a little bit more and was curious if you may have worked with him. Throw me an e-mail some time if you get this. Thanks!

  • 4 jeff // Nov 17, 2013 at 11:44 pm

    Ha!

  • 5 Ben Case // Nov 14, 2015 at 2:02 pm

    Jeff Stein is correct. His brother is Danny. I was wondering where Caltrick is because my mother (92 years old) just asked about him. I was thinking on one of the Secant records Caltrick put an instrumental version of something disco like.

  • 6 Chris Devol // Apr 15, 2017 at 11:01 am

    Caltrick Simone produced some of my demos at Track Recorders in Silver Spring, MD back in the 1970s. I too wonder what became of him. He once got Tony Bongiovi and Lance Quinn interested in my tunes, but nothing came of it. Just an FYI for anyone who cares…..