On the age of 13 he gained a scholarship to the College of Southern California for Musical composition, however dropped out after six months, uninterested in the standard routine. 4 years later, a scholarship to Chouinard went the identical approach, and Nolan determined to ship songs in to any artist he thought could be appropriate. It introduced him to the eye of each veteran songwriter Crewe and entrepreneur Wes Farrell, each of whom harnessed the then teen’s expertise.
As home producer at Farrell’s Chelsea label, Nolan wrote and/or produced a string of profitable singles for the label, together with Jim Gilstrap’s “Swing Your Daddy” and “Take Your Daddy for a Experience,” Dee Clark’s “Experience a Wild Horse,” and Linda Carr’s “Excessive Wire.” With Crewe, in the meantime, he co-wrote among the period’s greatest successes.
These included Disco Tex & The Intercourse-O-Lette’s “Get Dancing,” LaBelle’s “Girl Marmalade,” and Frankie Valli’s “My Eyes Adored You.” He wrote the tune Flirtin’ for the 1971 (The Donny Osmond Album),” in addition to the ultimate Prime 40 hit for Tavares in 1982, entitled “A Penny For Your Ideas.”
Nolan additionally had ambition to carry out – it was he who provided the falsetto that dominated “Get Dancing” – and, after a brief tenure with Firefly, he moved onto the studio group The Eleventh Hour. Produced by Crewe, the band scored two minor hits within the U.S. with “So Good” (1974) and “Hollywood Sizzling”, the next yr; and the minor hit album, Hollywood Sizzling (1976).
In 1976, Nolan determined to document his personal model of a tune he had been commissioned to put in writing by one other. “I Like Dreamin’” was launched by the Eleventh Hour’s label, twentieth Century, and in early November it lastly entered the U.S. chart, to start a three-month crawl to its peak at quantity three.
Nolan adopted it the next spring with the Prime 20 hit “Love’s Grown Deep”, taken from his self-titled album, and was named Quantity One New Pop Singles Artist of 1977 by Billboard journal. “My Eyes Get Blurry” adopted, plus Nolan’s subsequent album, 1978’s A Tune Between Us.
Night time Miracles adopted two years later, bringing a brand new single, “Us and Love (We Go Collectively)”, to the mid-reaches of the chart in early 1980, however failing to offer Nolan any additional, main success. He continued to document, nonetheless, signing to MCA and releasing Head to Toe in 1982.
That album produced two singles, “Love Tune” and “Comfortable Rock Arduous Love,” however additional industrial success as a recording artist eluded him. Nevertheless, he continued to put in writing songs that turned hits for different artists, together with “Shoot ‘Em Up Motion pictures”, which turned a prime ten R&B hit for soul/boogie band The Deele in 1988.
Within the Nineteen Nineties he wrote “Masterpiece” which turned a crossover hit for one more soul band, Atlantic Starr.
