This Billboard article from 1997 captures a bit of the transition from the 70s to the 80s to the 90s, focusing on producer Michael Omartian:
- Steely Dan session player and arranger for Aja, Pretzel Logic
- Warner producer
- Christopher Cross discoverer
- Peter Cetera and Amy Grant producer (The Next I Time I Fall In Love)
- “We Are The World” coproducer
- Moved from LA to Nashville in the nineties