Songwriter Michael Masser unedited interview (early 1986)

This is an unedited interview that I did with composer Michael Masser (1941–2015) that was done for an evening TV magazine show called "PM Magazine" that was never aired because the show was cancelled before there was time to edit it and schedule it for airing.

Masser composed the music for such hit songs as 'Touch Me in the Morning," "Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)," "It's My Turn," "Saving All My Love for You," "The Greatest Love of All," "Hold Me," "Tonight, I Celebrate My Love," "If Ever You're in My Arms Again," "Didn't We Almost Have It All," etc.

He worked with some of the biggest pop music artists of the 1970's and 1980's including Diana Ross, Whitney Houston, George Benson, Barbra Streisand, Robert Flack, Peabo Bryson, Teddy Pendergrass, and Jeffrey Osborne.

After the Masser interview, there is a short interview with Jeffrey Osborne (who wrote the lyrics to the Masser song "All at Once") discussing what it was like working with Michael Masser. Jeffrey also recorded a Michael Masser/Dan Hill song called, "In Your Eyes":    • Jeffrey Osborne - In Your Eyes - 1987 [HD]  

A few people have commented on the "Comments" thread that it appears that I am being rude to Michael because I don't let him finish his answers. Although that is an understandable assumption, let me explain what that was all about. Michael and I decided that we wanted to get as much information out as possible because there would be limited air time (i.e., five to ten minutes). So in the first part of this unedited interview, while it appears that I'm being "rude" because I am always cutting in, I wasn't. You will notice that as the taping progressed, I let him do longer and longer responses because we had gotten the information we wanted at the beginning of the taping.