Tribute to David LaFlamme, featuring Sheldon Zoldan

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David LaFlamme was a concert violinist for the Utah Symphony Orchestra before moving to San Francisco, where he formed It's a Beautiful Day with his first wife. LaFlamme played electric violin with the group.
His tribute is one of 44 short yet illuminating episodes about significant figures in the music industry who passed away in 2023. My guest Sheldon Zoldan, a longtime writer and newspaper editor, wrote these tributes and recorded them.

To hear "White Bird" from the group's first album, you can go to this video. The picture in the chapters is the cover of one of the CDs by It's a Beautiful Day. The song ran just over 6 minutes, making it too long to play on AM stations, but it managed to reach 118 on Billboard’s Bubbling Under the Hot 100.
Also in the chapters, you can go right to the tribute by skipping my intro; feel free to skip my closing remarks too. Both are there to provide context for those who haven't listened to the other tributes.
Along with these tributes, Sheldon writes Song of the Day, a music-related story sent daily to an email list of subscribers. To get on his subscriber list, email [e-mail] with the subject line ADD ME TO SOTD.

Audio engineer/musician Mike Villegas edited all the audio for this series. Hope you enjoy these intriguing glimpses into the lives of the people who made some of the music we love.

This is Kate Jones. Thank you for listening to my show, available on YouTube and in various podcast directories including Apple, Spotify and Audible.

Chapters

1. Tribute to David LaFlamme, featuring Sheldon Zoldan (00:00:00)

2. Tribute begins (00:00:36)