On the age of 13 he received a scholarship to the College of Southern California for Musical composition, however dropped out after six months, uninterested in the traditional routine. 4 years later, a scholarship to Chouinard went the identical manner, and Nolan determined to ship songs in to any artist he thought is perhaps appropriate. It introduced him to the eye of each veteran songwriter Crewe and entrepreneur Wes Farrell, each of whom harnessed the then teenager’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 Trip,” Dee Clark’s “Trip a Wild Horse,” and Linda Carr’s “Excessive Wire.” With Crewe, in the meantime, he co-wrote a number of the period’s greatest successes.
These included Disco Tex & The Intercourse-O-Lette’s “Get Dancing,” LaBelle’s “Woman Marmalade,” and Frankie Valli’s “My Eyes Adored You.” He wrote the music Flirtin’ for the 1971 (The Donny Osmond Album),” in addition to the ultimate High 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 Scorching”, the next 12 months; and the minor hit album, Hollywood Scorching (1976).
In 1976, Nolan determined to document his personal model of a music 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 High 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 Track Between Us.
Evening 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, nevertheless, signing to MCA and releasing Head to Toe in 1982.
That album produced two singles, “Love Track” and “Tender Rock Laborious Love,” however additional business success as a recording artist eluded him. Nonetheless, he continued to put in writing songs that grew to become hits for different artists, together with “Shoot ‘Em Up Films”, which grew to become a high ten R&B hit for soul/boogie band The Deele in 1988.
Within the Nineties he wrote “Masterpiece” which grew to become a crossover hit for an additional soul band, Atlantic Starr.
