Arthur Allen

"Taught by Experts" is the 4th studio album by Peter Allen, released in 1976. It spawned the hit "I Go to Rio". The album featured such musicians as Thom Rotella, Jerome Richardson, Lesley Gore and Dusty Springfield.

"Not the Boy Next Door" is a studio album released in 1983 by Australian singer and songwriter Peter Allen. This was his first release under Arista Records. The album produced four singles: "Not the Boy Next Door", "You Haven't Heard the Last of Me", "Once Before I Go" and "You and Me (We Wanted It All)". All four experienced moderate success on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. The album peaked at #36 on the Australian Kent Music Report and #170 on the American Billboard 200.

Peter Allen became interested in the trend toward introspective singer-songwriters in the early 1970s, and in writing more commercial music. Employed as a staff writer at Metromedia Records, he co-wrote “Jennifer” with Carole Bayer Sager. The song was sung in the TV movie Getting Together by Bobby Sherman, who recorded it for Metromedia, and it became a Top 40 hit in the fall of 1971. Metromedia Records then commissioned Allen to record his own album, and he released "Peter Allen" in 1971.

Tyler Mitchell was a member of the Sun Ra Arkestra with Marshall in 1985 with Sun Ra, then much later when Marshall became musical director. On this recording Tyler has the opportunity to perform Marshall Allen's and Sun Ra's compositions with a small ensemble. They used different ideas and concepts from two of Tyler’s former band leaders: Arthur Taylor and the Sun Ra Arkestra.