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From 2004. If you think the session players on all the Motown hits (from "Standing in the Shadows of Motown") deserve notoriety for their contributions to music history then you're gonna think the same of Sal DiTroia who has contributed his mellifluous guitar playing to more music you already know and have known for years than you can imagine (see bio below). Here for the first time - and long overdue, I might add, is the wonderful music from the man himself. Play Natural Time Play The Key To Your Heart Play Samples of the entire album Songs on this album are: 1. In A Heartbeat 2. Out Of Focus 3. Natural Time 4. The Key To Your Heart 5. Eighteen Wheels 6. To Be With You Again 7. Darcy's Smile 8. Look At The Sky 9. Feel The Breeze 10. Austin 11. Something I'm Afraid To Say  |
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More About Sal DiTroia He's A Believer Every time you hear "I'm a Believer" on the radio or watch The Godfather on television, Sal DiTroia collects a check. He's the studio musician who played guitar on The Monkees' peppy 1966 hit and worked on the score for the 1972 movie's foreboding wedding scene. DiTroia performed on Billy Joel's first album, on Simon & Garfunkel's hits "The Boxer" and "Scarborough Fair," and on all of Dionne Warwick's hits, including "Alfie" and "Do You Know the Way To San Jose?" He's worked with everyone from Grace Slick to Country Joe McDonald. He's even played tennis with Dustin Hoffman and watched Burt Bacharach and Hal David have a fight in the studio. "They invested in a movie that lost a lot of money," DiTroia says." Hal said, 'It's going to be a flop,' and it was." Recording with Barbara Streisand --widely known to be difficult to work with..."was a memorable project," DiTroia says. But he respects her perfect pitch and ear for music. "She started out playing a Greenwich Village club for $75 a night, but if the piano was out of tune, she'd walk out," he says. "If the club owner claimed it had been fixed, she could tell if it hadn't," he says. It was in New York that he met one of his heroes, electric guitar virtuoso Les Paul, whose advice DiTroia still recalls; "Don't get complicated. Always play for the public." Nowadays, the native New Yorker, while continuing his session work, has taken a long overdue step and branched out into a solo performing career. He has released a new CD, called "Lost in the Music". - From Tampa Bay Illustrated, 2005 Please visit Sal's website |