David Reo

David Reo is an American country-blues musician and record producer. He has released four solo albums to date. Reo also produced albums for other artists entitled The Preachers - Yeah Baby and Michelle Corbin's - Miss Michelle. Reo is a published songwriter and television writer. He currently has three episodes in syndication. He has written for sitcoms, including Happy Days, Blossom, Double Trouble and The Laroquette Show. He also appeared on Blossom. - Happy Days Page 263.

History
David Reo was born in Providence, RI. He attended Cranston High School West, Rhode Island Community College and Berklee College of Music. He worked as a production assistant on a television series called McNamara's Band. Reo began writing speculation television scripts and caught the eye of literary agents at Creative Artists Agency. Reo was signed with Creative Artists Agency and was sent over to Happy Days at Paramount Studios. He was hired by to work on the apprentice writers program. He worked on season six of Happy Days. He worked for his brother, television producer Don Reo, on television series, A Rock And A Hard Place, Double Trouble, Blossom and The Laroquette Show. His songs Mississippi Greyhound Blues and Bus Station Blues were written for theme song consideration on The Laroquette Show. Reo began recording and producing music in 1984. He worked at Renaissance Recording studio in North Hollywood, CA with engineer/producer Donny Poierier, where he recorded his first album. Reo recorded his second album at Sir Reel Studios in Burbank, CA with recording engineer,David Cragin. Reo wrote and produced The Preachers, Yeah Baby album with Co-writer Brian Batchley. Yeah Baby was recorded at Goldmine Recording Studio in Ventura, CA with master engineer/producer, Jeff Cowan. Reo recorded his Life Is Good album at Goldmine Recording Studio in 2012. He also produced the Miss Michelle album there with singer/songwriter, Michelle Corbin. Reo has also worked and recorded with New England Blues Artist,Ken Lyon.

Achievements
Reo's song "I’ve Got My Ticket", taken from David Reo's Greatest Hits Volume II was featured on NBC's Blossom on 25 October 1993, an episode Reo also wrote and appeared in.

Reo was included in the list of Slide Guitar Masters.

He was an apprentice writer for Happy Days television series on season 6. He wrote the "Potsie Quits School" episode teleplay. He also has sold a script for a Quinn Martin Productions pilot, A Rock & A Hard Place episode entitled, "The Treasure". Reo wrote a one half-hour situation comedy for the television show Double Trouble. He wrote a one half-hour situation comedy for the television show Blossom. (episode #63 "Paris")directed by the late Bill Bixby. Reo wrote a one half-hour situation comedy for the television show Blossom (episode #71, "38 Special")directed by Ted Wass. His 38 Special episode had a network sponsored national campaign associated with it for the prevention of guns in school. , He also wrote a one half-hour situation comedy for the television show, The Laroquette Show. He wrote and published music for the situation comedy Blossom entitled, "I've Got My Ticket" which was featured in his 38 Special episdode where performed the song on the show. Visual Television credit references and music samples can be found on Youtube. In 1993 Reo started his own indie record label/publishing company through Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI) called David Reo Music.

Reo is currently charting at #1 on the reverbnation country charts for Ventura, CA.

Reo released his album Life Is Good in November 2012. He also produced The Preachers Blues Band's Yeah Baby, and Michelle Corbin's, Miss Michelle. Both of which are distributed through CD baby and David Reo Music. He is releasing an album in 2013, entitled David Reo's County Classics and plans to release an album in the spring of 2014, entitled The Chocolate Ice Cream Album Both albums are currently being recorded and produced at Goldmine Recording Studio in Ventura, CA. Two songs are co-written with, Don Reo. Reo has played in live performances in Los Angeles and Ventura weekly for many years.

Radio
Reo's first radio appearance was on KLOS radio's Uncle Joe Benson's "Local Licks". He was also featured a second time and is now featured on many online radio stations and blogs.

Other
Reo has played lead guitar live for over twenty years with The Preachers Blues Band. He and his partner in The Preachers, Brian Batchley, have performed over two thousand shows in Los Angeles, Ventura, Ojai and Santa Barbara. They released an album in 2007 entitled, Yeah Baby which Reo produced. Reo has worked, produced and recorded with many accomplished musicians and talented songwriters

Discography
All Music distributed by CD Baby Through David Reo Music BMI. Refer to external links.

David Reo’s Greatest Hits Volume 1
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