David Kalish lives in LA and drives a big red car. He smokes alot. He is a kind of no nonsense guy with a heart of gold, who knows all about cars and the Kabala. Go figure.

David was just 21 or so when he met Rickie in Hollywood. He lived on Gower, in a little room above a garden. He had a lot of old guitars. Rickie would go over there and David would play. Woody and Dutch was written when David was playing this guitar line and Rickie said just keep playing that and wrote the lyric down. David said my fingers are getting tired and Rickie said I'm not done yet. He obliged, and played that figure for quite a long time, and Rickie wrote quite a long song, which was recorded soon after, with Steve Gadd opting to play on a tape box because Rickie thought the drums weren't quit working, it wasn't homey enough. and David played an accoustic guitar, and Mr. Chuck Rainey played the bass. They followed Rickie's lyric, and thus was Woody and Dutch on the Slow train to Peking created in the studio. Later Rickie sat with Brecker and Sanborn and worked out the horn lines note by note, since she can't write music, Michael wrote down what she sang. It was a very new kind of party song, and it was copied terribly by commericals at the time. The spirit of it, actually, is still popular in advertising, that kind of talking girl sexy half acoustic thing that comes out of this song and Chuck E. It's become a part of culture, and one might not even know it came from here if one did not know RLJ's music and it's impact.

David still plays guitar and hangs out a lot at some coffee place down on melrose and Highland or so. He left LA and went back to Philly for most of the 80's, and it was quite a surprise when he walked up to Rickie after so many years and said Hey.

Rickie did some recordings with him about four years ago, which may soon be available here as MP3's. ( Unless she decides that those are unfinished songs...)