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CD! Coelacanth (09/25/2001) CD! The Producers/You Make The Heat (11/21/2000) The Producers (1981) You Make the Heat (1982) Run for Your Life (1985)

Book the Producers for a show in your area!! (2001/2002)

Here is the booking agent's contact info:
  Charlie Offer
  The Climax Entertainment Agency
  (414)302-4048
  or (414)351-0111 evenings and weekends
  e-mail: coffercfs@mail.Nconnect.net

Please call your local radio stations and request Producers tunes.

Ask your 80's stations to play She Sheila or What's He Got or your favorite tune.

See if your local pop stations will play something off of Coelacanth. May I suggest Primitive Man or Right Man for the Job.

Coelacanth CD hits store shelves September 25, 2001!

Don't miss out. This disc is full of never before released material the Producers recorded under a contract with MCA. MCA canned the project and sealed the masters for 14 years till One Way records had MCA dig them out.

Get this, the Producers originally planned to call the album Coelacanth in 1987/1988. This was just 3 years after their previous Run For Your Life release. Of course, they had to do RFYL on their own and maybe the name was a comment on the record industry's view of the band (since You Make The Heat - on Portrait - was released 6 years prior.)

Producers CD Reissue hits store shelves Thanksgiving weekend 2000!!

'The Producers' and 'You Make The Heat' were reissued on CD as a single 2 LPs on 1 CD! This makes it very affordable so buy 2 and give one to a friend.

This disc was to be on store shelves November 21, 2000. Unfortunately there was a glitch in the artwork that delayed the delivery to stores (on-line and off) till the weekend after Thanksgiving. It is currently available for sale at Checkout.com, CDNow and probably all other on-line shops. Lets make this the #1 seller in November. We can rock the Billboard charts!!!

You may also want to buy from long-time Producers supporter Criminal Records in Atlanta. They will stock plenty of the CDs for the release day.

Make sure everyone knows this is coming out. Forward this to other fans and friends.

Keep your eye on www.theproducers.org for further details.

If you haven't heard, this is being put out on One Way Records - which has been doing a bunch of reissues lately and is distributing them through all major record stores. When they hit the shelves, make sure your record store has it displayed prominently in the 'P' section out in front.

When I published this site in January 1997, I had only the debut album. Now I have all 3 albums. The first time I listened through You Make the Heat (which I found locally in February 1997) I thought side one was nothing like The Producers. Since then, I now count Sheila, Breakaway, YMTH, Merrygoround, and Chinatown among my favorite Producers tunes. Run for your Life (which I just got before Christmas 1997) is taking longer to grow on me. At this point I only like RFYL and Tightrope. 

The first 2 albums are all about dating and dreaming. It seemed like they were reading my mind and putting it to music. They are so great! The tunes are heavy on guitar with excellent drum riffs and lyrics. RFYL departs from their typical style leaning more on keyboards. Although Wayne made for a great show his keyboards played a lesser role in the hot first 2 LPs. On the third, the keyboards are good, but not what I'm looking for from the Producers. I wonder what the unreleased fourth album is like? (For some time I believed it was released in 1984 - because of the way the audities article was written. I have since been convinced that it was recorded in early 1989.) 

I'm a fan! 

My brother turned me on to The Producers during the summer of 1982 (I spent most of this year thinking it was 1981) in New Orleans while I was visiting him for the summer. We liked them so much that we went to see them play when they came to New Orleans on tour that summer. It was a small gig (somewhere on the West Bank) since they really only had one hit and I don't think it was getting airplay nationally. They were excellent live. Their stage performance was as energetic as their album, which made them a blast to see. The keyboardist, Wayne, was playing a keyboard that hung around his neck like a guitar (this was the first time I had seen one.) 

It is difficult to pick a favorite song from a band that I thoroughly love. I used to listen to the entire album (The Producers) every day or two for a couple months. I like Life of Crime because of the crime theme. I like What's He Got and I Love Lucy because I can identify with them. There have been too many women I wanted to go out with that just looked right through me like Sheila. Mostly I like the Producers because of the guitar riffs and the fact they have so much energy in their music - there is not a single slow song on the album. 

These were my thoughts right after I got YMTH: "She Sheila is the best on the album. The style and energy isn't the same as their debut. (I don't think they said 'HEY!' the entire album. It was a trademark on their first.)" 

Discography 

Singles 

I am not sure of all the singles the Producers released. If anyone has the singles below (or others) I would like to know what songs they are and what the labels say. 

What She Does To Me / Here's to You (6/13/81 debut: Reached #61 on Billboard hot 100. Spent 6 weeks on the chart.) Portrait #12-02092 

What's He Got / Boys Say When/Girls Say Why (1981) Portrait #24-02445 

She Sheila (1982) Portrait #37-03255 

Depending on You (12") (1985) Marathon #? 

Videos 

I understand that the Producers were very popular on MTV in the early years (1981/1982). They even did the MTV New Year's eve party on December 31,1982. Fans have given me descriptions of each of these videos (some descriptions conflict). Thanks to Clive Young, I have a copy of the What's He Got video! 

What's He Got 

Certain Kinda Girl 

She Sheila 

The Second annual MTV New Year's Eve Rock and Roll Ball on December 31,1982. They did 9 songs plus, big bonus, Auld Lang Sine! (don't hold me to that spelling!) There were 3 other bands on the show: A Flock of Seaguls, Duran Duran, and Jack Mack and The Heart Attack. (Jack Mack and the Heart Attack!!?? - I don't have a clue what they did.) The New Year's Eve Balls were 4 hour shows where each band had one hour. They did them by time zone with the each band starting on the half-hour (I suppose). This way each band was able to ring in the new year for a different time zone. The Producers did the Mountain time zone - which would have put them on from 1:30 to 2:30 am on 1/1/83. The show was broadcast from New York City. 

Here's the set list: 

1. You Make The Heat (Kyle on lead vox wearing what looks like the checked shirt Wayne was wearing in the photos I have on the 'Shows' page - with a big bow tie.) 
2. Merry Go Round (Van on lead vox) 
3. Back to Basics (Kyle) 
4. She Sheila (Van) They said Sheila was a friend of theirs. Shot similar to the MTV video only Wayne was sweating heavily - they got a workout. 
5. Auld Lang Sine (don't hold me to that spelling) 
6. Breakaway (Van) 
7. Dear John (Kyle now wearing a straw fedora) 
8. I Love Lucy (Van) Finally they get to the debut album material. This is where Wayne shows off his dancing maneuvers. 
9. What's He Got (Kyle and Van) 
10. Who Do You Think You Are (Kyle) 

Producers on CD 

One Way Records is releasing the first 2 Producers albums on a single CD. It will be available on 11/21/00 and should be in most record stores across the USA. This should end the campaign to get Sony to reissue them. They don't have rights to the Run for Your Life nor Coelacanth. Maybe if this first reissue sells well, they will reissue RFYL - or even Coelacanth?

The Producers are on also on 3 separate Sony compilations! 

• Don't Touch My 45's includes the single "What's He Got" (released in 1994). 
• Go For The Greed includes the single "What She Does to Me" (released in 1996). 
• A new comp Fizz Pop Modern Rock Volume 1 includes the single "What's He Got" also. It was released 10/21/97 on Sony's Epic/Legacy label #652542. You should be able to order the Fizz Pop Vol 2. Fizz Pop also has Adam Ant, Romantics, Joan Jett, and Rockpile among others. (Thanks to Luis P. for pointing out this compilation.)

I recently learned that the first 2 comps were released in the mid 90's, so I decided to look through the 'various' bins at the local book/cd shop and I found Don't Touch My 45's! You may get lucky, too. 

Other 

The Producers have done at least 2 other projects which some of you fans may have heard at one time or another. One is a promotion for Miller Beer in the early 80s. One of their songs (the drum riffs from Chinatown, I'm told) was used for the music in a Miller ad. In addition, Miller made an album called 'Miller Music' (a compilation) which had the Producers doing a new song: 'Run Back'. The album was on the RCA Special Products label number DPL 1-0726. 

The Band 

Visit the band page for more detail. 

• Wayne Famous - Keyboards, Vocals 
• Van Temple - Guitar, Vocals 
• Kyle Henderson - Lead Vocal, Bass (Joined the band in Jan. 1980, left in 1984, returned in 1991) 
• Bryan Holmes - Drums, Vocal 
• Tim Smith - Bass (Joined the band in 1984, left in 1991.) 

Visit the Producers Links page for more juicy info and interviews.