Kim Fowley

At A Glance...

Kim has either Produced, Co-Produced, Talent Spotted, Published, Co-Published, Written, Co-Written or performed live with the following artists:

 

Rock, Metal, Punk
Artist	Label/Date	Credit
THE SLEEPWALKERS	1957-1958	Kim was manager, hustler, lyricist for a West LA band that featured Bruce Johnston (Beachboys) and Sandy "Teen Beat" Nelson. Sometimes Phil Spector sat in on lead guitar.
HOLLYWOOD ARGYLES	Lute/1960	Kim was Co-Producer, Co-Publisher, Co-Artist with Gary Paxton.
MOTHERS OF INVENTION	Verve	Kim sang Help I'm A Rock with Frank Zappa on The Freak Out album in 1965 and the unreleased live Whiskey-a-GoGo album in 1967.
THE SEEDS	GNP/Crescendo	Falling Off the Edge of My Mind, Wild Blood, and the unreleased Shock Waves were produced by Kim in 1968.
THE RUNAWAYS	Mercury 1975-1977	Created, produced, and managed by Kim Fowley. He co-wrote songs like Cherry Bomb and School Days. Joan Jett and Lita Ford were in the group.
VENUS & THE RAZORBLADES	Spark/UK	Same type music as the Runaways except they were on Spark, had two minor UK hits, Punk-A-Rama and I Wanna Be Where the Boys Are. Album is re-released and online at www.digitalpressure.com and/or Peer Music.
GERMS	Various	Kim produced the debut album Live At The Whiskey released on various labels through the years from Bomp to Roir to ?
PAUL REVERE & THE RAIDERS	Gardena/1962	Kim produced and co-wrote Like Bluegrass/Leatherneck. James Burton and Joe Osborne from Elvis Presley's Live Vegas Band played guitar and bass respectively.
KISS	Casablanca/Mercury 1975-2000	Recorded two Kim Fowley Co-Written songs - Do You Love Me? and King of the Nighttime World. These two songs have been recorded, re-recorded, and repackaged on over thirteen different Kiss albums, videos, one TV movie soundtrack, and "Detroit Rock City" soundtrack.
ALICE COOPER	Atlantic/1975	Recorded one Kim Fowley Co-Written song, Escape, on Welcome to My Nightmare.
GUNS AND ROSES/POISON	Geffen/Enigma/Capitol	Each band thanked Kim for talent spotting efforts on their debut album(s). The Gold and Platinum records hang on the wall of his office.
Other notable artists Kim has worked with, or had songs recorded or produced by include: Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Steppenwolf, Hollywood Stars, Blue Cheer, BTO, The Dead Boys, Van Halen, The Replacements, 45 Grave, The Idiot Pills, The Flower Leopards, Jeff Dahl Group, Steel Breeze, Blue Oyster Cult, Motley Crue, Fall Dancer, The Dickies, Surf Punks and even sang lead on two GWAR demo tracks.

 

Compilation/Re-Issue
ARTIST	Reissue	Label	Credit
CHEAP TRICK	SEX AMERICA	Epic/Legacy	Kim credited in the liner notes as: Informal Career Consultant (early 90's).
SLADE	THE GENESIS OF SLADE	TMC-UK	Kim producer of five songs on the album (Recorded 1966, Reissued 1996).
CHERIE & MARIE CURRIE	YOUNG AND WILD	Raven/AUST	Kim was Co-Producer of ten songs on the album (Recorded 1977, Reissued 1997).
JOAN JETT	FIT TO BE TIED	Mercury	Kim co-wrote one song on the album (1997).
JOE & EDDIE	THE BEST OF JOE & EDDIE	GNP/Crescendo	Kim wrote one song (Recorded 1954, Reissued 1997).
HELEN REDDY	HELEN REDDY'S GREATEST HITS (and more)	Capitol	Kim co-produced two songs and co-wrote one song.
VARIOUS	TRASH BOX	Hit Records-UK	Kim was artist, producer, and Co-Writer of two songs on the album.
VARIOUS	STEEL BREEZE	Renaissance/BMG	Kim produced the album which included two of his top 30 hits in 1982-1983 (reissued 1997).
STIV BATORS	LA LA	Bomp	Ex lead singer of The Dead Boys/Lords of The New Church in two separate performances Co-Written by Kim Fowley. Co-produced by Jimmy Pursey of Sham '69.
IGGY POP, MITCH RYDER, QUESTION MARK AND THE MYSTERIANS and others	MOTOR CITY IS BURNING	Total Energy	Features a track Co-Written by Kim and performed by Ten High (1988).
SUNRAYS	VINTAGE RAYS	Collectibles	Six songs co-produced by Kim; five songs Co-Written by Kim appear on this package (1996).
PHIL SPECTOR	74-79	Polydor/UK	Re-issue of Phil Spector productions of artists such as Cher, Dion, Nilsson, Darlene Love, and Kim Fowley.
KIM FOWLEY	OUTLAW SUPERMAN, UNDERGROUND ANIMAL	The Dionysis Empire	Forty-three cuts with Kim as artist (late 1960's early 1970's) released in the USA (1997).
BYRDS	BYRD PARTS	Raven/AUST	Released in Australia in 1997 with one Kim Co-Written song.
NEW RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE	WASTED TASTERS	Raven/AUST	Released in Australia with one Kim Co-Written song (1995).
GENE VINCENT	THE BOP THEY COULDN'T STOP	Magnum Force/UK	Released again (8th time) in 1995, produced by Kim Fowley.
THEM	BELFAST GYPSIES	Sonet/Legendary Master Series	Vinyl only reissue of album co-produced by Kim Fowley (mid 1980's).
SOFT MACHINE	TRIPLE ECHO	Harvest/UK	One track produced by Kim (1970).
B. BUMBLE AND THE STINGERS	GOLDEN CLASSIC COLLECTIONS	Collectibles/Ace	Both companies issue this album in the USA and UK with one Kim written song.
VARIOUS	TROUBLE MAKERS	Warner Brothers	Features two Kim Fowley songs produced by the Modern Lovers featuring Jonathon Richmond. Other artists on the package include The Sex Pistols, Devo, and The Gang of Four (1980).
RICHIE VALENS, PROFESSOR LONGHAIR, CHRIS KENNER, SHIRLEY AND LEE, THE HOLLYWOOD ARGYLES, LEE DIAMOND and others	THE SUE STORY	Island	Kim Fowley's Co-Production of "Sho' Know A Lot About Love" By the Hollywood Argyles is contained on this package (1963).

 

Outside the USA
Artist	Credit
THE HELLIONS (Picadilly Records)	Kim was producer of future members of Traffic. Dave Mason and Jim Capaldi, who were in this ill-fated band whose single "Day Dreamin' of You" was written by Jacki de Shannon (1964).
P.J. Proby (Decca/Liberty)	Kim was the master of ceremonies for the Bad Boy Singer on his 1964 live shows. They played the Royal Albert Hall and stole the show from the John Barry produced Adam Faith.
Richie Blackmore	Before Deep Purple: Kim produced Richie in an English group, The Lancasters. Tracks include "Satan's Holiday" and "Earth Shaker". Richie played "Satan's Holiday" with Deep Purple as part of the encore medley on their last USA tour in the early 1990's (1964).
Bo & Peep (Decca)	Kim was Bo, Andrew Oldham was Peep, backed by Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones, pre-Zepplin.
Slade	Were known as the 'N Betweens in 1966 when Kim produced nine sides later leased to Columbia/EMI Records (UK).
Soft Machine	Were produced by Kim as a four piece in 1966. Four songs were recorded and one song released on Polydor (UK) and Harvest (UK) Reissue
Cat Stevens (Deram)	Kim co-wrote "Portabello Road" in 1966.
Mick Fleetwood	Before the MAC; Mick played drums on Kim's 1966 Reprise single "Don't Be Cruel".
Them/Belfast Gypsies	After Van Morrison left Them, the group found Kim and he produced various sides on Them aka Belfast Gypsies on Sonet (Sweden), Vogue (France), Loma (USA, W&G Australia and Island UK) where they were known as Freaks of Nature (1966).
The Seekers (EMI Records UK)	Recorded Kim's Co-Written Christmas song "Emerald City" in 1966.
Family	In 1966 Kim produced Roger Chapman/Rick Grech formed group. Tracks included "Silver Dagger" and "The Great Pretender". Kim introduced Family to Jimmy Miller who later produced their future product.
Manfred Mann (HMV Australia)	Recorded a Hollywood Argyles track sung and Co-Written by Kim on an EP in 1966. The track was "Long Haired, Unsquare Dude Called Jack".
Cream	In 1967 ex-Manfred Mann bassist Jack Bruce recorded this song with Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker on the first collection of Cream Demos.
Emerson Lake and Palmer	Covered "Nutrocker" in "Pictures of and Exhibition" on 1971 Worldwide hit album. "Nutrocker" written by Kim Fowley was Number One in England in 1961 by B. Bumble and The Stingers.
Wigwam (Love Records/Verve Forecast)	Legendary Helsinki, Finland group produced by Kim Fowley in 1970 for Love Records (Helsinki) Verve Forecast (USA).
Contact/Scorpion (MNW Records)	Were produced by Kim in Vaxholm, Sweden in 1966. Kim joined Contact/Scorpion on MNW Records. He was the first staff producer and a self-produced artist.
Cockney Rebel	Were talent spotted by Kim and introduced by name January 1, 1974 during Kim's appearance on "Old Grey Whistle Test".
Mott-The-Hoople (RSO Records)	Became The British Lions and recorded Kim's Co-Written Glam classic "International Heroes" in the late seventies after Ian Hunter left the group.
Plastic Ono Band (Apple)	After John Lennon left the Beatles he played "Live" at Toronto's Varsity Stadium. You can hear Kim as Master of Ceremonies intro the band on the "Live in Toronto" album. Eric Clapton was lead guitar that night (1969).
Stars on 45/Herman Brood/Diesel	Recorded Kim Fowley songs on various albums in Holland. While in Holland Kim met the Peer Music (Holland) force behind Deisel and arranged for their North American release on Regency Atlantic (USA) and RCA (Canada). Late 1970's early 1980's. Kim's song "Nutrocker" ends the Stars on 45 album which sells 8 million units worldwide.
Street Talk/Crocodiles	New Zealand Super groups, Kim produced Street Talk (WEA/NZ) in 1979. Kim Co-Published Crocodiles in 1980 (RCA/NZ). Between them they won five New Zealand music awards.
Ross Wislon (Mondo Rock)	Ross and Kim co-wrote "Down to Earth" in Melbourne, Australia (1979). Later covered by Steppenwolf on their Attic (Canada) album.
The Who/Led Zepplin	Recorded "Nutrocker" as encores from the late 1960's to the early 1970's according to various bootleg/grapevine sources
Kim has Co-Written or Published songs that have been performed or recorded by Primal Scream, Ride (Andy), Girl, Shirley Bassey (UK), The Vancouvers (Spain), Crashland (Australia) and a yet to be identified soccer team in Japan!