Marty Feldman died yesterday. He had been fighting cancer for more than a
year. Services will be held Monday, 12 'noon, at the chapel at Memorial
Park Cemetery, 9900 Gross Point Rd., Skokie, IL.

Marty founded Paragon Recording, which began as one of the first boutique
recording studios in the Midwest. Among his competition at that time were
RCA, Universal Recording, and Chess Recording. Against this entrenched
competition he grew his studio to become an 18 to 24 hour a day music
machine. Jingle producers were in and out by the hour all day, and jazz,
rock, or R&B artists began arriving in late afternoon to work through the
night. Ed Cherney and Gary Geppert of Gepco International, Inc.are just two
of the many mixers and interns that cut their teeth at Paragon. Styx, The
Ohio Players, Willie Dixon, Oscar Peterson, Corky Siegel, Wings, Howlin'
Wolf, and dozens of others lugged their instruments up three flights of
stairs in the old brownstone at 9 E. Huron to catch some of the magic that
often occurred in Studio A. It was a 20 odd by almost 30 foot low ceilinged
room that Marty and Malcolm Chisholm made work in spite of itself.

Steve King