Ep. 46 Dan Navarro (Westwood)
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Dan Navarro has had a long & fruitful career in the recording industry. He released 13 albums as part of the duo Lowen & Navarro and was frequently featured on Adult Alternative radio. He recently released his solo album “Horizon Line” featuring a who’s who of LA studio talent. As a bilingual singer and voice actor he’s sang in Oscar winners “Encanto”, “Coco” and “Happy Feet”. He co-wrote Pat Benatar’s hit song “We Belong”, in an era when people actually bought albums and 45 rpm singles. And he’s currently out on tour about to make a major East Coast trek from April 14th to May 6th (https://dannavarro.com/shows)

And while that’s all well and good, we wanted to know about Dan’s work at Tower Records Westwood in the 1970’s. Dan takes us back to a time when it really was all about music. He was the 2nd employee hired and started working in the Classical Department at Westwood under General Manager Chris Hopson. He eventually handled Country, Folk and Blues. Dan talks about Westwood's opening with the “Sacramento Mafia”, or the A Team.

Dan likewise confirms Dave Coker’s story about being offered a job with BMG Distribution and Coker’s method of persuading Dan out of taking the job. He also talks about another epic night they spent together at The Roxy. Dan further talks about Lowen & Navarro playing at the Tower Annual Conference (TAC) in the 1990’s.

Dan reminisces about the people he met during his short Tower career, both customers and fellow staff members. He also tells us about his wide and varied music and film career. This includes extensive voice work in TVs & Movies, Videogame character voices, TV & Radio commercial work. 

Most recently, Dan started up “Songs From The Corona Zone" a daily web-based series he produced during the Covidlockdown and his Nomad Dan tour. He traveled the US in an 18-foot camper van.

Join us for an in depth conversation with recording artist and former Tower employee, Dan Navarro.