This summer, her label Lo-Flo has focused on a series of five previously unreleased collaborations between McNealy and singer Lydia Marcelle made over 50 years ago.
Years ago, Jane McNealy got some advice: Digitize her reel-to-reel archives. McNealy — who’s worked on everything from pop songs to musicals to film music – thought it was a good idea, one she’d eventually get around to doing.
McNealy, who lived there at the same time as future TV stars Sally Struthers and Farrah Fawcett, wasn’t an actress. A pianist, she had just started to get serious about songwriting. “She loved the stuff that I had been writing,” McNealy recalls on a recent video chat from her home studio in Los Angeles.
Back when McNealy was living at Hollywood Studio Club, another resident introduced her to the writer and librettist Alice Kuhns, who became her longtime collaborator on musicals. Their first collaboration to be produced, “To Be Fred,” hit the stage in the 1970s and others would follow. A few of their works appear on the Lo-Flo release “Marsha Bartenetti sings McNealy & Kuhns.”
“I decided to call it lo-flo because everybody was so laid back,” she says. “Lo-Flo Records, just go with the flow, relax, enjoy it.”
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