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Welch told People Magazine, in his 1979 interview, that the two years in Paris between 19 were spent 'living on rice and beans and sleeping on the floor.' During his time in Paris, Bob became friends with future CBS correspondent Ed Bradley, years later Ed came to Sunset Sound to hang out during the making of French Kiss. Welch moved back to Paris and started a trio, Head West, which was not a success. 'I Still Love You' was co-written by Henry Moore and Bill Deiz. However, the B-side 'I Still Love You' has become a Northern Soul anthem over the past 30 years with original copies on OKeh (or French CBS / Italian Epic) changing hands for anything up to £400. The Seven Souls' 1967 release 'I'm No Stranger / I Still Love You' (OKeh 7289) made no impact at the time of its release, despite subsequent issue in France and Italy. (Later band members Bobby Watson and Tony Maiden subsequently formed the funk group Rufus with Chaka Khan.) The original line-up included lead singer Ivory Hudson, saxophonist and singer Henry Moore, drummer Ron Edge and bassist Bill Deiz, who later became a television news anchorman and reporter in Los Angeles. The Seven Souls lost a battle of the bands competition whose prize was a recording contract with Epic Records, to Sly and the Family Stone. ĭropping out of UCLA before graduation, Welch joined the Los Angeles-based interracial vocal group, The Seven Souls, as a guitarist in 1964, replacing band member Ray Tusken, a guitarist who went on to become vice-president in charge of A&R for Capitol Records. Welch told People Magazine in a 1979 interview that, in Paris, 'I mostly smoked hash with bearded guys five years older.' He spent time 'sitting in the Deux Magots café' rather than attending to his studies, and eventually returned to Southern California, where he studied French at UCLA. After graduating from high school, Welch eschewed attending Georgetown University, where he had been accepted, to move to Paris, professedly to attend the Sorbonne. The young Welch developed an interest in jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock music. He had received his first guitar at the age of eight.

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Bob's mother, Templeton Fox, had been a singer and actress who worked with Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre in Chicago, Illinois and appeared on TV and in movies from 1962 to 1979.Īs a youngster, Welch learned clarinet, switching to guitar in his early teens.

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He also worked as a TV producer, responsible for the 25th Annual Academy Awards TV special in 1953 and The Thin Man TV series in 1958–59. Welch, who worked at Paramount Pictures in the 1940s and 1950s, producing films starring Paramount's top box office stars, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby (solo, not as a duo).

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Raised in Beverly Hills, his father was movie producer and screenwriter Robert L. Welch was born in Los Angeles, California, into a show business family. 2.3 Fake Mac and the move to Los Angeles.