Adrian Pride

Adrian Pride was the pseudonym for <a href="spotify:artist:1bAAiEmA8Z1Dq6eeEM3an8">Bernie Schwartz</a> (not to be confused with the actor Tony Curtis, who was born <a href="spotify:artist:1bAAiEmA8Z1Dq6eeEM3an8">Bernie Schwartz</a>), a veteran songwriter whose associations included Sharon Sheely and <a href="spotify:artist:4ACplpEqD6JIVgKrafauzs">the Everly Brothers</a>, and was also an occasional recording artist as well. "Adrian Pride" was the name he chose to use on his second Warner Bros. single, a recording of "Her Name Is Melody," a trippy piece of sunshine pop from late 1966. This raga-influenced ballad, with superb drumming and several layers of virtuoso playing on guitar, marked the sole appearance of <a href="spotify:artist:1bAAiEmA8Z1Dq6eeEM3an8">Schwartz</a> in this guise of Adrian Pride -- he would resurface in 1968 under his own name as a member of <a href="spotify:artist:7vZK8HYQiNmwWqQkHURsJN">the Comfortable Chair</a>. Sad to say, "Her Name Is Melody" somehow missed the charts and had to wait until 2004, upon the release of Rhino Handmade's Hallucinations: Psychedelic Pop Nuggets from the WEA Vaults, to get a hearing before an appreciative audience. ~ Bruce Eder, Rovi