About Me
Starting out in the music business as a guitarist, Ted Perlman has produced, played guitar, arranged, recorded, and toured with such major artists as Whitney Houston, Harry Belafonte, Bob Dylan, Dave Mason, Diana Ross, Burt Bacharach, Ronald Isley, The Manhattans, Ringo, Joe Cocker, Chicago, rapper Young M.C., Jonathan Richman, salsa star Willie Colon, Dr. Buzzard's Savannah Band, and Frank Sinatra, Jr. All of this experience has made Ted proficient in a variety of musical styles - R&B, Rock, Hip-Hop, Soul, Classical, Pop, Latin, Rap, Country, World, and more. He is originally from New York but now lives in Los Angeles. Back in the 1970's he also lived in Israel, recording and performing with most of the top stars of that country - including a song that former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres wrote the lyrics for! Ted has done extensive work in television and movies. He arranged, programmed, and recorded three songs in the recent Adam Sandler movie "I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry", featuring Lance Bass of *NSYNC. Ted also produced the song "Before We Say Goodbye" for MTV's movie and boy band "2gether". That soundtrack CD sold over 350,000 copies and reached number two on Billboard's Independent Album chart. He also co-wrote the main theme and cues for Showtime's "Full Frontal Comedy", winner of the Cable ACE award for Best Stand Up Comedy series, co-produced two songs in the Ellen Burstyn film "Walking Across Egypt", and produced the title song for the Jean-Claude Van Damme film "Desert Heat". Ted has conducted, played guitar, and arranged music for NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox, "Good Morning America", NBC "Super Bowl", CBS-TV's "Star Search", and others. Some of the products that Ted has done jingles for include McDonald's, Appleby's, Burger King, Korean Airlines, Perrier, and Coca-Cola. Ted maintains academic and lecturing connections with institutions such as UCLA. He is a Pro endorser/consultant and featured in ads for such major musical manufacturers as Sony Digital, Steinberg, Ultrasone, PSP, microphones by Brauner-ADK-Studio Projects & Dave Pearlman, Native Instruments, LinPlug, ikMultimedia, & Frontier among many others. He also writes occasionally for internationally known music magazine "Computer Music" and was the subject of the first podcast by noted music magazine “Electronic Musicianâ€. Ted's latest projects are producing CD's by R&B legend Ronald Isley (with Burt Bacharach), Dave Mason, The Manhattans, Mexican teen rock-en-Espanol star Roberto Enrique, former Bob Geldoff vocalist Zara, various Catholic music artists for the Oregon Catholic Press/Spirit & Song record label, & multi-platinum selling world-famous Phillipino star Imelda Papin. He programmed, arranged, & recorded the top-five platinum selling UK singles "Paradise" and "I Think I Love You" for Curb Records' singer "Kaci", and produced, played, & composed the score for the ABC-TV show "The World Stunt Awards". He also produced and wrote the number one charting & highly reviewed CD "Livin' On Love" for legendary singer Peggi Blu. He recently won a Grammy for his work on the Grammy winning CD by Burt Bacharach, "At This Time", featuring Dr. Dre, Printz Board from the "Black Eyed Peas", and Chris Botti. He also produced seven new songs on Neil Sedaka's Gold-selling "Greatest Hits" CD for Universal/TVT Records in the UK. In February of 2007 a new CD came out from Target's "Spotlight Music Series" that Ted worked on - "New Music From An Old Friend". Ted played the guitar solo on one of the Brian Wilson tracks "What Love Can Do", and co-produced "Still Remember" with Burt Bacharach. A track he mixed for Sony artists "The 5 Browns" on their new CD "Browns In Blue" - a duet with Dean Martin's original vocal of "Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime" - just went to number one TWICE on Billboard's Classical music charts.
