There’s a certain orenda, spiritual force, to Diane Stewart’s 1983 composition, “Matter of Time” which the all-female ensemble captured with their, I believe it was 8 track recording. In 2024 we are giving it the production values the song truly deserves, including in this shorter rendition, an “Itchycoo Park” mix, swirling phase-shifted vocals at the song’s conclusion. The Small Faces hit (and later Jimi Hendrix tracks engineer Larry Lessard reminded me – “Bold As Love” and “Little Wing”) Not having Stewart’s amazing vocal range, I opted for a more low-key approach, and at my request Lessard added the British engineer George Chkiantz’ creation for the Small Faces.
Girls Night Out are Alizon Lissance, Cercie Miller, Didi Stewart, Kathy Burkly, Myanna Pontoppidan, Sandy Martin and Wendy Sobel (replacing the original guitarist, Patty Larkin; Sobel was also produced by Rolling Stones’ producer Jimmy Miller with a wonderful rendition of “Baby, It’s You.”)
Their 4 song demo from the mid 1980s was amazing, sheer talent! And with Tina Turner’s resurgence with “Let’s Stay Together” in 1984, all things were possible to this group of talented artists.*
Enclosed is my 2024 rendition of “Matter of Time,” the 1980s hit on WBCN 104.1 FM in Boston.
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Matter of Time Mix 3 3:44Copyright (C) 1983 Diane Stewart, ASCAP
Peter Calo – all instruments
Joe Viglione – Vocals
Larry Lessard – Engineer
Produced by Viglione, Calo, Lessard
While I was producing the Bobby Hebb “Sunny” boxed set in 2013,
Peter Calo, Carly Simon’s Music Director, couldn’t make the session.
Jimmy Webb (Up Up and Away, MacArthur’s Park etc) needed Calo for
a TV show. So Peter mailed his Hebb parts in I call it from Hebb to Webb (We are working on a smaller Hebb box right now)
Peter and I have been recordings for years now, we go back about 40 years
as friends. Essentially, I have the contemporary Carly Simon sound backing
me up with Rob Fraboni (Clapton, Rolling Stones, Bonnie Raitt) mastering.
Indeed I am blessed.
MATTER OF TIME, A HIT ON WBCN
Around 1985 or 87 who knows, right? I was co- promoting Girls Night Out as my then business partner was their manager.
Matter of Time appeared on a 4 song cassette which we mailed out to radio.
A vinyl 45 would have been more collectible but c’est la vie, we had to get
it out quickly. (the cassette has now been transferred to digital)
Producer Jimmy Miller was thoroughly impressed with Didi one night at Jonathan Swifts, and I asked her to sing “White Rabbit” and “Somebody to Love” on my Marty Balin LIVE on the Boston Esplanade video. Didi saw the Jefferson Airplane at the open air concert in New York City (Central Park) ….and was obviously a fan,.
Didi singing Grace’s parts on my Marty Balin solo DVD, his first solo release.
is pure magic. She is one of the giants of our scene. I’m thrilled that she sang with the late Marty Balin check this outtake out:
Volunteers https://youtu.be/4zClkjJXlsM Marty Balin rare clip • 6 13 08 Rehearsal for June 14 2008 Boston Esplanade Joe Viglione Director
MATTER OF TIME 2024 ….about 36 years later
This is a rough draft of the mix, for my upcoming Peter Calo Sessions album, which is almost complete. The only covers are Mack the Knife and Matter of Time, the rest is my material Soul that Loves You, Lots of You in My Life, Salt Water Summers 2022 version, Friend, Reflect Love, very proud of the album and it has taken years to construct. We are taking our time.
I’m glad to give the song new life all these years later….
Recording history
Peter Calo on all instruments Fri, Aug 23 at 12:26 AM
Vocal at Newfound Lake NH Sept 3, 2024 Larry Lessard engineering
Joe V singing, Ben driving
First mix in Sunday November 10, 2024 Mix by Larry Lessard
Shorter mix Received Tuesday 12 November 2024 at 5:51 PM
Spotify !!! 431 tracks posted MATTER OF TIME short version https://open.spotify.com/…/4SFC23u8qbNm…/discography/all Produced by Viglione/Calo/Lessard from the new cd CAN’T WAIT TO SEE YOU SMILE https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCduDzp_dEQlbClJjYdlPOTw You Tube Stores: Amazon, Anghami, Apple Music, MediaNet, Boomplay, Deezer, Instagram/Facebook, Adaptr, Flo, YouTube Music, iHeartRadio, Claro Música, iTunes, Joox, Kuack Media, NetEase, Qobuz, Pandora, Saavn, Spotify, Tencent, Tidal and TikTok & other ByteDance stores
the Peter Calo Sessions, Can’t Wait to See You Smile
431 TRACKS on Spotify/YouTube, many of the Calo/Viglione collaborations
here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCduDzp_dEQlbClJjYdlPOTw
1)Lots of You in My Life https://open.spotify.com/album/2NMRJx5phVeUj9zxh5tlPj
2)Matter of Time (Didi Stewart, Girls Night Out) https://open.spotify.com/album/78EoW7A521eE2Bzx0DQGxL
3)Soul that Loves You https://open.spotify.com/album/2KhYVjWYLuzBVcVTuorzuJ
4)Clive Davis Should Have Signed Me to Arista https://open.spotify.com/album/0zMPsQNvNWJk2qFwOaG3qw
5)Can’t Wait to See You Smile Joe Viglione vocals and guitar, Phil Greene on electronic drums, engineering August 18, 1987 Peter Calo not on this track
https://open.spotify.com/album/2yRRowDORsqybEZolHY1Ua
6)Wave Descends Peter Calo instrumental, Joe Viglione Vocal rough mix https://open.spotify.com/album/6IAsqSnPtN2rLMEJj9hpxx
7)Up In Maine (Sal Viglione/Joe Viglione) https://open.spotify.com/album/5HkeUkR6i0KbjjGxCQKmqz
Subject: Up In Maine
https://youtu.be/Imq7VyhaAiY
YouTube
Here’s a song dad wrote in the early 1960s when we had the second cottage on Western Ave Extension, York Beach, Maine.
It’s about the Wild Kingdom Amusement Park, the Star of the Sea Catholic Church, Nubble Light…from my dad’s new album that I recorded in 1971, 1972, 1986 on Foster Ct in Medford,
the tapes found, transferred and enhanced.
Up in Maine
https://youtu.be/Imq7VyhaAiY
Back in the early 1960’s Sal Viglione wrote a song for his wife and kids entitled “Up In Maine.” On December 8, 2020 pianist Mike Dooner, Pamela Ruby Russell and Joe Viglione recorded the song at Wellspring Sound Studio with Matt Hayes as Engineer. On December 14, 2020 we created a preliminary mix and sent the music to Peter Calo. Calo worked his magic on the recording and here we are on the Winter Solstice, December 21, 2020 with the first mix. Family photo from the Viglione archives, Anne, Sal, Sandra, Gail, Joe, Steve from the 1960s. Up In Maine is COPYRIGHT (C)12/8/2020 Var Music Publishing, BMI Photo image and music is Copyright (C)2020
8)Friend featuring Peter Calo https://open.spotify.com/album/6xID0JmCFuoErP89TkCC8L
9)The Story of Friend https://open.spotify.com/album/3XdDKIlUOwtzmwIOxMYdeu
10)The Salt Water Summers 2022 Fraboni Master https://open.spotify.com/track/0gOqrAMqh1eIYHluInUemk
11)Very Good at Love
https://open.spotify.com/album/7HLyRHPc10lK7zWPnRpG5K
2nd Mix VERY GOOD AT LOVE 12/14/20
https://open.spotify.com/album/5o0UzFWftQsy3eiBaPbSoq
12)The Salt Water Summers (slow version) https://open.spotify.com/album/1zkjrQpLtl7AyjxJUCOn0t
Lejandami very rough vocal 10/14/21 Wellspring Sound
https://open.spotify.com/album/2s6NbVU64P50sVHQJ36nxy
LINER NOTES: In a world of post disco clutter with tinny no-bass speakers in your favorite fast food restaurant the team of Viglione/Calo/Lessard/Fraboni have crafted a Pop instructional manual with instrumentals, multiple mixes and the basic sound of a find-tuned rock single as we heard in the sixties and seventies.
This is an album chock full of hooks, composed entirely by Joe Viglione except * Up In Maine, written by my dad in the early 1960s and completed by me, “Matter of Time” by Diane Stewart of Girls Night Out in 1983 and “Mack the Knife” from my upcoming film documentary 70 is the New 30: Wisdom of the Young at Heart.
“Up In Maine,” “Wave Descends” and “Very Good at Love” were tracked at Wellspring Studios in Acton, MA with Matt Hayes as engineer, also “The Story of Friend.” The title track, “Can’t Wait To See You Smile” is an edit of my song “Transporter” minus the intro that Jimmy Miller helped me arrange on August 18, 1987. It is me on vocals, guitar and songwriting, Phil Greene on engineering and electronic drums, and later the amazing psychedelic guitar of Rich Doherty (bassist in Macey’s Parade) at Barking Spider Studios sometime in the 1990s. Peter Calo is on every track except for the title track, “Can’t Wait to See You Smile.”
Finally I called upon the man who did superb demos for us in 1983, Larry Lessard, and he is the perfect fit for the music our team is now making. It’s the first time I haven\t been “hands on” producing a record (other than, of course, being produced by legendary Jimmy Miller.) Nowadays I write the demos on the piano three doors down from my apartment (I have keys for 24/7 access) where I performed for two years for senior citizens, on acoustic piano. I send those demos to Peter in NY who flies them to Larry via WeTransfer, I record at one of Larry’s studios, and then we send them to Rob Fraboni for mastering. An amazing formula, and you can hear the results here.
13)Lejandami (Instrumental fast version) no lead melody solo https://open.spotify.com/album/2KWwb032nHvQlkQPcsbRvE
14)Lejandami (Slow version) “Lejandami (feat. Peter Calo) [Slow Solo Instrumental ]” @Spotify: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/countviglione/lejandami-feat-peter-calo-slow-solo-instrumental- @distrokid #JoeViglioneMedia #MusicSupervisors #CountViglione @PeterCalo1 @CarlySimonHQ @robfraboni @rollingstone @USASongcatcher @AmerSongwriter @BBCR1 @CliveDavis @clivedavis @tdawn1 #pop https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/countviglione/lejandami-feat-peter-calo-slow-solo-instrumental-
15)Reflect Love 10 / 14 / 21 Wellspring sound
https://open.spotify.com/album/5jBshRwVmTLn7IqhMeYjbx
16)Instrumental Salt Water Summers https://open.spotify.com/album/3y4VOUFbHIcWLYTEnmT5Ze
17)Instrumental Reflect Love (Peter Calo) https://open.spotify.com/album/0hRgVbNgI2bJU0d2A2UqYS
REFLECT LOVE WITH LEAD SOLO FOR MELODY https://open.spotify.com/album/7eazrH7lSB89TJyCijiHTr
18)Instrumental Lots of You in My Life https://open.spotify.com/album/2LKenD77gNjPO7YnhVMvsC
19)Instrumental Wave Descends https://youtu.be/KarBcDAMyDI
Peter Calo’s instrumental of Wave Descends attached to Jimmy Miller’s 1983 production of the song, decades before.
20)Instrumental Very Good at Love https://open.spotify.com/album/3z9YAs9fdsu3hUpuD1HgRH
21)Lejandami Instrumental with lead guitar melody https://open.spotify.com/album/4BTH5Vciclm9V6T92CRyx1
Boomplay
https://www.boomplay.com/albums/78407450
22)Friend (Instrumental by Peter Calo) https://open.spotify.com/album/411hjt9jj6bIyKJeZLMn3z
23)Mack the Knife Bonus Track from the documentary film 70 is the New 30: Wisdom of the Young at Heart https://open.spotify.com/album/1DU5sZbBs9radzP2JpPrnN
24)Reflect Love Peter Calo lead guitar https://open.spotify.com/album/5Ru8KeuLLeJpqCpTozvahV?referral=labelaffiliate&utm_source=1011lzTGN9ok&utm_medium=Indie_Distrokid&utm_campaign=labelaffiliate
25)The Salt Water Summers Instrumental of Standard Version 3/9/21 https://open.spotify.com/album/033f2WpEpcRrfWCO86FoQT
26)Very Good At Love Peter Calo Instrumenal 2-14-20
https://open.spotify.com/album/3z9YAs9fdsu3hUpuD1HgRH
27)Transporter (Can’t Wait to See You Smile”) Original folk version August 18 1987 https://open.spotify.com/album/32ZMuBBxcM4jWJk28I9Z5U
28)Instrumental Up In Maine featuring Mike Dooner on piano, Peter Calo on drums https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/countviglione/up-in-maine-instrumental-mix/
https://open.spotify.com/album/45JLAnLYHjWFMnXkCg13D1
https://youtu.be/BuhOO4ggB_c