The Tangential Birth of the Horn Dogs + Marlene's "Summer Nights" (1982) (AKA The Hawaii Episode)
Anyone familiar with the Beyond Yacht Rock podcast (and its successor series, the nascent Yacht or Nyacht Podcast ) might recall the collective term those guys coined for the horn sections that appear in various configurations across a number of bona fide yacht rock: the Horn Dogs. These guys — or a good chunk of them, rather —actually began as the Seawind Horns, a horn section that formed the nucleus of the Hawaii-based jazz fusion band Seawind. The band that would later become Seawind formed in 1974 under the name Ox; Jerry Hey (trumpet), Kim Hutchcroft (sax and flute), and Larry Williams (also sax and flute) joined up with Ken Wild (bass), Bud Nuanez (guitar), Bob Wilson (drums), and Pauline Wilson (vocals) and quickly made a name for themselves in Hawaii . By 1976, this local fame brought them to the attention to noted session drummer and producer Harvey Mason, who facilitated their move to Los Angeles ; the band, now renamed Seawind as a nod to their Hawaiian origins, enjoye...