Lincoln Mayorga
| Lincoln Mayorga | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Lincoln Mayorga |
| Also known as | Brooke Pemberton Al "Spider" Dugan |
| Born |
March 28, 1937 Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Genres |
Pop music Film score Classical music Ragtime |
| Occupation(s) | Pianist, arranger, composer |
| Years active | 1957-present |
| Associated acts |
The Four Preps The Piltdown Men The Link Eddy Combo Ketty Lester Phil Ochs others |
Lincoln Mayorga (born 28 March 1937) is an American pianist, arranger, conductor and composer who has worked in rock and roll, pop, jazz and classical music.
Mayorga was born in Los Angeles, California, attended Hollywood High School, and trained as a classical pianist. He began working as arranger and accompanist to his high-school friends in the Four Preps, contributing one of the two piano parts on their 1958 hit "Big Man" and being known as "the fifth Prep". The group's producer, Lou Busch, helped Mayorga get a ragtime album issued in 1958, which was released under the pseudonym "Brooke Pemberton".
With Ed Cobb of the Four Preps, Mayorga also branched out into instrumental rock and roll, forming the Piltdown Men, a studio group whose "Brontosaurus Stomp" made the Billboard Hot 100 in 1960 and whose other records had greater success in the UK charts. At the same time, he and Cobb formed the Link Eddy Combo (the name taken from their names Lincoln and Ed), with musicians Al Garcia, Fred Mendoza, Vince Bumatay and Art Rodriguez. Their instrumental, "Big Mr. C", was the first single released on Frank Sinatra's Reprise label in 1961, and reached # 28 on the US R&B charts.
Mayorga and Cobb also arranged and produced the first recordings by singer Ketty Lester, including the 1962 international hit "Love Letters" which featured Mayorga's sparse piano arrangement, copied note-for-note 25 years later by Alison Moyet on her 1987 UK hit version. He was also credited with arranging the Standells' 1966 hit single, "Dirty Water", written by Cobb.
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