'3 Men and a Big Band' Perform Standards to Support the Society of Singers

'3 Men and a Big Band' Perform Standards to Support the Society of Singers

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., April 17 /PRNewswire/ -- A trio of hit-makers who've made their mark both behind the microphones and behind the scenes will team up at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles on June 2 for "3 Men and a Big Band." The benefit concert will support the Society of Singers (SOS), an organization dedicated to meeting the emergency financial needs of professional singers and supporting promising students of the vocal arts. Gary LeMel and Jerry Sharell, both of whom launched their careers as singers but are best known as longtime record industry executives, will leave the executive suites to perform selections from the Great American Songbook alongside Steve Tyrell, the veteran songwriter and producer who is currently enjoying the greatest success of his career as a vocalist.

LeMel started as a jazz singer and musician, later became a producer, and went on to supervise some of the biggest soundtracks in history, first at Columbia Pictures and for the last two decades at Warner Bros, where he serves as the President of Worldwide Music while making occasional albums. Sharell began in vocal groups in Pennsylvania and cut a couple of singles before working in key roles at Buddah Records, Elektra/Asylum Records and MCA Home Video; for the past five years, he's served as president and CEO of SOS. Tyrell has written such hits as "How Do You Talk to an Angel," produced records for the likes of Linda Ronstadt, Aaron Neville and James Ingram, and worked in A&R and record promotion; since "A New Standard" in 1999, his albums have been mainstays on Billboard's jazz charts.

The El Rey show will feature the Gregg Field Big Band playing arrangements written by Nelson Riddle for Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole and Ella Fitzgerald, among others. Joe Smith, former CEO of Capitol Records, Elektra and Warner Bros. Records, will serve as emcee. All proceeds will go to SOS, an organization founded in 1984 by Chairman Emeritus Ginny (Mrs. Henry) Mancini and Gilda Maiken Anderson, former professional singers who realized that many of their friends and colleagues were without pensions, unions, medical insurance or places to turn for financial help during tough times.

For more information, call SOS at (323) 653-7672.

Source: Society of Singers

CONTACT: Jane Ayer of Jane Ayer Public Relations, +1-310-581-1330,
ext. 101, jane@janeayerpr.com, for Society of Singers

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