True House Stories interview podcast hosted by Lenny Fontana

TRUE HOUSE STORIES™ W/ DJ PAULETTE # 054 - PART 1 Dj Paulette story begins with her mom being a singer and club owner. While she was pregnant carrying Paulette she went into labour on stage and finished her whole set with the band and delivered Paulette and her Identical twin sister Paula. Born into a family of eight siblings and parents who were music lovers which played a huge influence on Paule...

TRUE HOUSE STORIES™ W/ DJ PAULETTE # 054 - PART 2 Dj Paulette begins to work at Piccadilly Radio, and became Record librarian. While at Piccadilly she studied and work towards a degree in English. Paulette hung out at the Hacienda and funded her education through DJing. She wound up becoming a presenter on a 2 series of Juice between the Years of 1992-94, which helped paid for her decks. Paulette...

TRUE HOUSE STORIES™ W/ ALISON LIMERICK # 053 - PART 1 Alison Limerick known for being very honest, totally open and with her extremely dry sense of humor makes this show so incredible. Hear about how Covid has affected Alison and the potential effects this pandemic could have on Alison’s vocal talent. Alison Limerick was born into a live music family and jazz was the mainstay! The love of contempo...

TRUE HOUSE STORIES™ W/ ALISON LIMERICK # 053 - PART 2 Alison Limerick appeared at ICA for a vocal live where music producer from the band Brooklyn Funk Essentials Lati Kronland witnesses her musical abilities and made it his business to find out her personal details, makes contact and asks to work with her. They go into the studio and work together on a few tracks and because of his of understandi...

TRUE HOUSE STORIES™ W/ MARK RILEY # 052 - PART 1 Mark Riley is an American journalist, come watch and listen on how he shares with us his humble beginnings finding a whole new life in the New York City night club scene from the very early days as a young man. He explains in this episode his day-to-day responsibilities as a radio journalist at WLIB. Mark is introduced to David Mancuso’s The Loft fr...

TRUE HOUSE STORIES™ W/ MARK RILEY # 052 - PART 2 Mark Riley in this episode explains the formation of David Mancuso’s New York Record Pool and his duties working with David and The Loft. From there he becomes good friends with Judy Weinstein and together they help form For the Record Pool in February 1978. During his tenure in New York as a journalist he shares different stories, and one the most...

TRUE HOUSE STORIES™ W/ MAURICE JOSHUA # 051 - PART 1 Maurice Joshua Grammy Award Winner for best remixer sits down about his life in the music industry. Starting from learning how to play Woodwind Instruments during his school days to becoming a Club DJ and forming a partnership with Hula Mahone . He takes us on his journey from the start of producing records for Trax Records Chicago, to writing h...

TRUE HOUSE STORIES™ W/ MAURICE JOSHUA # 051 - PART 2 Maurice Joshua shares how he decided to leave ID Records and starts his new venture called Vibe Records with recording artist and partner Georgie Porgie . From there he moves on and creates other sub labels. His remix career flourishes and he sets up his new management company with his manager Connie V, and from there Beyonce and Destiny's Child...

TRUE HOUSE STORIES™ W/ BILLIE RAY MARTIN [ELECTRIBE 101] # 050 - PART 1 Billie Ray Martin born in Hamburg from a working-class family, from the young age of two Billie had already started to begin singing. Growing up in an area of Berlin, Billie’s mother worked as a bartender and met The Beatles at the bar she was working and was living the red-light district music lifestyle. At age 5 she knew she...

TRUE HOUSE STORIES™ W/ BILLIE RAY MARTIN [ELECTRIBE 101] # 050 - PART 2 Billie Ray Martin shares her experience working with Electribe 101 and because of her success with both S-Express and Electribe 101 with scoring chart hits she appeared numerous times on the UK Show Top of The Pops. Hear about how Manager Tom Watkins tried to break up Electribe 101 and then the group was dropped from there rec...

TRUE HOUSE STORIES™ W/ ULTRA NATÉ # 049 - PART 1 Ultra Naté - ultra savvy. Hear Ultra’s take on the covid pandemic from a medical perspective- probably the best outlook on such a troublesome time which has severely impacted the music industry and arts. Ultra Naté lays out how she has evolved to keep in tune with how the future land lies. Hear about the pitfalls of signing contracts in the music in...

TRUE HOUSE STORIES™ W/ ULTRA NATÉ # 049 - PART 2 Ultra Naté explains of how one of her biggest singles called “ Free " on Strictly Rhythm was made and her signing her deal with the hottest dance music record label of that time. She shares with us how hard it can be when a major label basically says to you are on the wrong side of 25, making out that you are too old to be in the game. Well, she too...

TRUE HOUSE STORIES™ W/ CERRONE # 048 - PART 1 On this episode of True House Stories we are joined by legendary  French Drummer, Producer, DJ Marc Cerrone. Cerrone shares with us his humble beginnings with the start of receiving his first drum set from his mother to working with his first group in the early part of the 1970's called The Kongas. He also gives us the inside story of how he made...

TRUE HOUSE STORIES™ W/ CERRONE # 048 - PART 2 Cerrone wraps up the interview by sharing his memory of being introduced to Dick Clark on American Bandstand and how that changed his life in such a huge way. He also talks about when he stepped into producing theatre shows and writing for many superstar artists. He truly is in essence a huge success and he talks about his role as now the DJ more than...

TRUE HOUSE STORIES™ W/ LINDA CLIFFORD # 047 - PART 1 Linda Clifford is an American R&B, disco and house music singer and actress, who scored hits from the 1970s to the 1980s, most notably " If My Friends Could See Me Now ", "Bridge over Troubled Water", " Runaway Love " and " Red Light ". In this segment she shares with us growing up in Park Slope Brooklyn New York, and all her beginnings with...

TRUE HOUSE STORIES™ W/ LINDA CLIFFORD # 047 - PART 2 Linda Clifford shares with us how she was able to achieve her recording contract with Curtom Records based out of Chicago and the start of her recording career. She goes into detail what it was truly like working alongside singer / songwriter Curtis Mayfield and his staff. The first album release is of cover tunes of the era and this was truly t...

TRUE HOUSE STORIES™ W/ FRANKIE FONCETT # 046 - PART 1 We are joined by the legendary London UK Dj Frankie Foncett . His Caribbean roots come from the island of Trinidad. His start in music was in the 1970s being introduced to groups such as Commanded, James Brown and the JB's, Bob Marley and Marvin Gaye . His cousin Tony had a huge hand in helping Frankie learn about disco, bringing mix tapes back...

TRUE HOUSE STORIES™ W/ FRANKIE FONCETT # 046 - PART 2 Frankie Foncett shares about how he is becoming a tastemaker in London. Record promoters would bring Frankie there new tracks because of his power as the DJ/Selector and the sheer force of being able to sell records at a high rate in the shop. He discovers the Danny Rampling Shoom party and as the drug culture is beginning in the clubs and Hous...

TRUE HOUSE STORIES™ W/ BRUCE FOREST # 045 - PART 1 DJ Bruce Forest who was destined to work in medicine winds up quitting and pushes forward to work in the music industry. He was always one step ahead of the game and became the resident DJ at The Better Days Disco replacing the legendary DJ Tee Scott . He shares with us in this part his beginnings of playing music in the late 1970’s in Syracuse Ne...

TRUE HOUSE STORIES™ W/ BRUCE FOREST # 045 - PART 2 Bruce Forest apart from the other DJ’s of that time. He was very scientific in how he approached everything that he used multiple sound sources such as Keyboards, samplers, drum machines and effect units to remix records live in the club. At Better Days Disco this is were he meets David Cole who regularly played the keyboards live alongside Bruce...

TRUE HOUSE STORIES™ W/ HIPPIE TORRALES # 044 - PART 1 Hippie Torrales joins True House Stories to share with us the behind the scenes of making his way into the dj world. He starts from buying a Marvin Gaye Record and from there makes his way through grade and middle school and becomes in charge of the audio and video projectors. The journey starts with him being able to go to his first disco in N...

TRUE HOUSE STORIES™ W/ HIPPIE TORRALES # 044 - PART 2 Hippie Torrales becomes one of the most sought after DJ's in the New Jersey area because of Club Dock's in the late 1970's. His famous trick was to let two records mix for long periods without touching them. He is brought in to open the Famous Club Zanzibar in 1979 that was formerly known as Abe's Disco in Newark New Jersey. As his career spans...

TRUE HOUSE STORIES W/ MICHAEL PROCTER FRIENDS SPECIAL SHOW 2021 # 005 We celebrate the life of one of the most recognizable voices in soulful house music, Michael Procter . Babou who runs her group page called Babou's House shares her life experience with him as the entertainer, the father of their daughter and his best friend. She was also responsible for his management. Babou shares this spe...

TRUE HOUSE STORIES™ W/ RICHARD EARNSHAW # 043 - PART 1 This first part listen to the producer remixer dj and owner of Duffnote Records Richard Earnshaw talk about his humble beginnings from Piano instruction to getting his first production signed. He also shares his life at the present moment dealing with covid and the struggle of trying to keep everything together. He shares with us his first key...

TRUE HOUSE STORIES™ W/ RICHARD EARNSHAW # 043 - PART 2 Richard Earnshaw explain the process of production and how he goes about making new tracks. You will catch the story behind his first signed production to Soulfuric Records called " People Are People ” and the difference of running a record label in the streaming age versus the golden era of vinyl. His production plans for the future and the p...