HISTORY OF SOUND ADVICE STUDIOS
It's been a long time coming for the studio from its humble beginnings of offering 8 track analog recording synced by time code to an XT computer, to it's present offering of virtually unlimited hard disk recording.
Here's a little synopsis of the last 15 years. Exact dates are listed only if known.
January 1, 1990--Sound Advice Studios opens. A local singer named Pauline Callens becomes its first client.
March 17, 1993--LFM Records opens. It is the label of the output of Sound Advice Studios.
May 3, 1993--Elvis Shelton's "Hard Lovin' Truck Drivin' Man", recorded and produced at Sound Advice Studios debuts on the Deano Day show, WCAR in Detroit, MI.
August 13, 1993--Jeff Lehman releases his debut.
November 1994--Christopher Reeve's "Somewhere In Time Tour Guide" Tape is released and is a success on Mackinac Island where multiple copies are sold. The tape becomes the tape guide for those walking the set of the movie "Somewhere In Time", filmed on Mackinac Island and still intact since 1979, the year it was filmed.
December 30, 1994--Jim Gold, singer of Gallery (Oh, It's SO Nice to Be With You, #5, 1972) has success as a demo recorded a year previous at Sound Advice, awards him a publishing/ recording deal with Motown CEO Clarance Avant who puts up money for the group to record based on the demo.
July 17, 1996--Jeff begins recording "Lehman's Terms". Due to Jeff's busy schedule the CD would take 5.5 years to complete. It was finally released in 2002.
November 28, 1996--LFM Records closes.
December 1997-January 1998--Jeff receives royalty cheques for "Don't Look Back" which received airplay in Canada. It is a strange occurrence since its off of Jeff's debut which was released in 1993 and sent to radio stations in early 1994. The CD sat around the desks of radio programmers for nearly 2.5 years before gaining airplay.
March 1998--C&G Newspapers writes about the success of "Don't Look Back".
April 1998--The Jam Rag writes about the success of "Don't Look Back".
December 16, 2001--Lehman's Terms is finished.
December 31, 2001--Sound Advice Studios closes to the public. It remains only as a project studio for Jeff.
April 5, 2002--The first presses of Lehman's Terms are released.
July 3, 2002--Lehman's Terms is released internationally.
July 2003-December 2003--"Everything Must Change" off of Lehman's Terms gets plenty of air play in Europe.
July 2004--Jeff receives royalty cheques for "Eveything Must Change".
October 13, 2004--Neal Rubin writes an article about the success of "Everything" in The Detroit News.
November 1, 2004--The Detroit News Neighborhood sections follows suit writing an article about "Everything". The article is written by Dorothy Bourdet.
November 2004--A small blurb is written about Jeff in Woman's Day Magazine.
December 1, 2004--An in-depth article about "Everything' and Jeff is written for the Macomb Daily by writer Stephen Bitsoli.
February 28, 2005--Sound Advice Studios reopens to the public.
August 2, 2005--Local Detroit artist Jim Wirth reports to Jeff that he is getting airplay in Western Michigan with "Simply Because" partly recorded and mixed at Sound Advice Studios.
Last updated: 08-15-05