Judy Lamppu
- Art Department
Judy Lamppu, 7-4-2015 Producer, Screenwriter, Lyricist, Singer, VP
of Beem Records USA, VP of Coalition of Songwriter & Music
Organizations
Born Judith Sonia Wolf to David Wolf and Evelyn Gross Wolf on June 5, 1942 in Los Angeles, California in French Hospital.
Judy attended 14 schools before graduating from Fairfax High School in Los Angeles. She attended Los Angeles City College for a semester and Los Angeles Valley College for a semester. She also attended KiiS Broadcasting Radio classes and obtained an FCC Broadcast Endorsement. She attended numerous seminars for the Music and Film industries and became a member of WGAw in 1990.
Judy had a varied career that included dancing, singing, writing, acting, and in 1969 secretary to George Giroux and David Lawrence of the Hollywood office of Procter & Gamble Productions. After 3 years of working with and being mentored by these two strong, charismatic leaders in the entertainment industry, Judy's newfound expertise led to her next wonderful opportunity. (note: George and David each served a term as President of the TV Academy, and she was invited as a guest to the TV Academy's ball for 3 years to see honorees such as Lucille Ball, Johnny Carson, Carol Burnett and others)
P&G sponsored the Doris Day Show at CBS Studio Center and Judy interacted with the personnel there almost daily. The day came when she was informed that Ms. Day needed a secretary. This job taught Judy so many new and valuable production skills, that her future was assured as an executive assistant to many luminaries and high profile executives in Hollywood. As an aside, the very first day on her new job at Doris Day's Arwin Productions, was filled with turmoil. As she began to try to adjust to her new duties, there was a disconcerting bustle of plain clothes detectives throughout the hallways of the production company. It turned out that the infamous Manson killings had occurred the night before and Ms Day's son, Terry Melcher, had been a target. Thankfully, he had not been present for the horrific activities.
After marrying Peter Lamppu, a famous Finnish motocross racing star, Judy left Arwin Productions to travel the racing circuit with her new husband. During their travels across the country, Judy wrote a number of stories for racing publications including a featured series of articles for Cycle News. When Peter retired from racing, Judy reached out to Abby Singer, the Production manager she knew from the Doris Day Show, who helped Peter obtain employment as a propmaker for TV and films, which led him to a long, successful career. Among the multitude of films Peter constructed sets for was "Other People's Money." Judy also worked in the Art Department on that film. Judy continued to work in the industry for the likes of director Herb Ross, producers Robert Lawrence, Scott Rudin and Steven Spielberg's early company the A-Team. Judy also worked as secretary and assistant to, Dustin Hoffman and Vikki Carr and for producer-studio executives Frank Price, Sherry Lansing and many others, mostly on the lot at Columbia Pictures. After the untimely death of Peter at age 52, Judy eventually remarried and she and husband Rulon Stephen (Steve) Scott III served on the board of Los Angeles Women in Music from 2001 to 2008; for 4 of those years, Steve served as President (the first man to ever hold the title since LAWIM's inception in 1986 as a 501c3) and Judy was their secretary and events coordinator. They helped rebuild the organization which serves the community with outreach, education, performance opportunities, scholarships, and many and varied special events of importance to all the emerging and established songwriters, performers and music related professions.
After completing their final terms in December 2008, Judy and Steve worked with other grass roots organizations to form COSMO, the Coalition of Songwriter & Music Organizations for the purpose of uniting, working together and assuring more successful events for them all. In 2013 and 2014, they were in process of becoming a 501c3 non profit entity.
Since 2012 Judy has been writing a one-woman musical/CD/book project dealing with the loss of loved ones entitled "Grief Rhymes with Thief." The project was inspired after the loss of her husband, Peter Lamppu and her father David, both of whom passed away on the 20th of December, 1995.
Working with a Finnish-European Jazz star, Bianca Morales and her business partner, Merja Partanen (introduced through her late husband Peter) and Bianca's label, Beem Records International, Judy wrote all the English lyrics for her two most recent CD's. Three of the 13 songs on the 2010 released homage to "Roman Holiday" entitled "When in Rome," became finalists in two major international music competitions. The project can best be described as swinging, rhythmic, romantic and whimsical original compositions. This CD is considered to be a tribute to the great jazz classics of the fifties and sixties, with wonderful arrangements by Sven Nygard." (New string arrangements have since been recorded by composer/arranger Jonathan David Neal.) "Lullaby of Love," co-written by Judy and collaborator Mike Barone, was adapted and recorded as a Christmas song by Bianca. Judy also completed an English version (already recorded in Finnish and Swedish) of 2 songs for Bianca's planned Christmas CD and an original holiday song co-written with composer Bonnie Janofsky.
In the area of script writing, Judy and her partner, Patricia Ford had the good fortune of getting one of their scripts to Peter Falk, who, upon reading it, didn't care that they were unknown writers, and "Caution, Murder can be Hazardous to your Health" became the 2-hour '91 season opening "Columbo."
Judy is working on a science fiction pop/rock opera entitled "Real," as well as a Broadway-style musical entitled "You Again" with Merja Partanen and Bianca Morales for their Beem Production company in Finland.
Judy has written title songs for films and television and has many projects in the works. Among her song credits are "Situation" for Jobete/Motown, released on London Records by artists Hodges, James & Smith, "Lulu" by the Jackson Five (available on the collection "SoulSation"), "Nobody," a Capitol Records release by Nancy Wilson, and "I Haven't Got the Heart to Say Goodbye" and "Here I Am" (title song of the album), a special project for James Brown's label Starday King, by the Mayor of Macon, GA, Ronnie Thompson and also recorded by both Dian Hart for Amaret Records and "The Group" for the Pete Records label. Both artists also recorded "If's A Mighty Big Word" co-written by Shelby Singleton's Ben Peters and "If You Don't Love Me" co-written by Ben Wiseman (published by Melon Music/Shelby Singleton Music). She also co-wrote a song entitled "A Miracle" with CBS's Morton Stevens for a TV special, "Antonio & the Mayor."
Judy's performing career began while still at Fairfax High along with Charlotte Brasch (Weddle) and Elaine Aultman (Williford) with the trio The TreasureTones; her most recent (1989)group association was as a member of the girl trio "Code 3," which recorded a title song for the film "Bouncin' Back," for Chako Film Productions which was distributed worldwide by Toho of Japan. "Code 3" made many club and event appearances, notably at Carlos and Charlie's on the Sunset Strip, and they were booked for a USO tour. She also recorded as a member of a duo Bob and Judy on "We Got Somethin' Goin'" for Ramshorn Records.
Early in her career, she was featured soloist on "Surfin' with Jimmy" from "The Beach Party Album" on Gary Paxton's Garpax label, which landed her in a new book entitled: "Bikinis, Black Denim and Bitchen Sounds, a Musical Appreciation of Female Surf, Hot-Rod and Related Recordings 1961-1967" by Australian author Stephen McParland. (her picture in her go-go costume is on the cover).
Judy has performed at the Catalina Jazz Club, The M Bar and other Hollywood landmarks, The Blah Blah Café in Studio City, the Los Angeles County Fair and for 20th Century Fox Studios, several country songs she co-wrote with her then partner, Chad Garrett, for the pilot of the "Minnie Pearl Show."
As a matter of style, Judy is known for writing to the music or independently of the music. In the past, she has often written "by Email and fax" when only a scratch track and dummy words were provided. She loves Broadway type musicals and has written several songs with two or three-part counterpoint lyrics and harmonies. She was a one-time Go-go Dancer at such establishments as Gazzari's on the Sunset Strip, The Direct Line on LaBrea and other Hollywood clubs. She was the dancer/model for the go-go dancer "Betty" for Filmation's "The Archie's." At the age of 15, she recorded with the trio The Royal Galaxies for Capitol Records and appeared on TV shows including "The Wink Martindale Show" at Pacific Ocean Park, "The Al Jarvis Show" and others.
Judy suffered yet another personal loss as her husband, Steve, passed away from cancer on October 4th, 2013, one day short of their 14th anniversary.
Judy continued to participate in the activities of the Cameo Club which supports the Ms Senior California and Ms Senior America pageants. She represented Indiana in the Ms Senior America Pageant in 2010 and competed again in the Ms Senior California Pageant in August, 2014.
Judy is a member of WGAw (Writers Guild of America, West), CCC (California Copyright Conference), Los Angeles Women in Music, ASCAP, TEOSTO and NCB (Finnish and Danish Performing Rights Organizations).
Judy is preparing to publish her e-book "Grief Rhymes with Thief" to be followed by her autobiography "Bitch on Wheels."
Born Judith Sonia Wolf to David Wolf and Evelyn Gross Wolf on June 5, 1942 in Los Angeles, California in French Hospital.
Judy attended 14 schools before graduating from Fairfax High School in Los Angeles. She attended Los Angeles City College for a semester and Los Angeles Valley College for a semester. She also attended KiiS Broadcasting Radio classes and obtained an FCC Broadcast Endorsement. She attended numerous seminars for the Music and Film industries and became a member of WGAw in 1990.
Judy had a varied career that included dancing, singing, writing, acting, and in 1969 secretary to George Giroux and David Lawrence of the Hollywood office of Procter & Gamble Productions. After 3 years of working with and being mentored by these two strong, charismatic leaders in the entertainment industry, Judy's newfound expertise led to her next wonderful opportunity. (note: George and David each served a term as President of the TV Academy, and she was invited as a guest to the TV Academy's ball for 3 years to see honorees such as Lucille Ball, Johnny Carson, Carol Burnett and others)
P&G sponsored the Doris Day Show at CBS Studio Center and Judy interacted with the personnel there almost daily. The day came when she was informed that Ms. Day needed a secretary. This job taught Judy so many new and valuable production skills, that her future was assured as an executive assistant to many luminaries and high profile executives in Hollywood. As an aside, the very first day on her new job at Doris Day's Arwin Productions, was filled with turmoil. As she began to try to adjust to her new duties, there was a disconcerting bustle of plain clothes detectives throughout the hallways of the production company. It turned out that the infamous Manson killings had occurred the night before and Ms Day's son, Terry Melcher, had been a target. Thankfully, he had not been present for the horrific activities.
After marrying Peter Lamppu, a famous Finnish motocross racing star, Judy left Arwin Productions to travel the racing circuit with her new husband. During their travels across the country, Judy wrote a number of stories for racing publications including a featured series of articles for Cycle News. When Peter retired from racing, Judy reached out to Abby Singer, the Production manager she knew from the Doris Day Show, who helped Peter obtain employment as a propmaker for TV and films, which led him to a long, successful career. Among the multitude of films Peter constructed sets for was "Other People's Money." Judy also worked in the Art Department on that film. Judy continued to work in the industry for the likes of director Herb Ross, producers Robert Lawrence, Scott Rudin and Steven Spielberg's early company the A-Team. Judy also worked as secretary and assistant to, Dustin Hoffman and Vikki Carr and for producer-studio executives Frank Price, Sherry Lansing and many others, mostly on the lot at Columbia Pictures. After the untimely death of Peter at age 52, Judy eventually remarried and she and husband Rulon Stephen (Steve) Scott III served on the board of Los Angeles Women in Music from 2001 to 2008; for 4 of those years, Steve served as President (the first man to ever hold the title since LAWIM's inception in 1986 as a 501c3) and Judy was their secretary and events coordinator. They helped rebuild the organization which serves the community with outreach, education, performance opportunities, scholarships, and many and varied special events of importance to all the emerging and established songwriters, performers and music related professions.
After completing their final terms in December 2008, Judy and Steve worked with other grass roots organizations to form COSMO, the Coalition of Songwriter & Music Organizations for the purpose of uniting, working together and assuring more successful events for them all. In 2013 and 2014, they were in process of becoming a 501c3 non profit entity.
Since 2012 Judy has been writing a one-woman musical/CD/book project dealing with the loss of loved ones entitled "Grief Rhymes with Thief." The project was inspired after the loss of her husband, Peter Lamppu and her father David, both of whom passed away on the 20th of December, 1995.
Working with a Finnish-European Jazz star, Bianca Morales and her business partner, Merja Partanen (introduced through her late husband Peter) and Bianca's label, Beem Records International, Judy wrote all the English lyrics for her two most recent CD's. Three of the 13 songs on the 2010 released homage to "Roman Holiday" entitled "When in Rome," became finalists in two major international music competitions. The project can best be described as swinging, rhythmic, romantic and whimsical original compositions. This CD is considered to be a tribute to the great jazz classics of the fifties and sixties, with wonderful arrangements by Sven Nygard." (New string arrangements have since been recorded by composer/arranger Jonathan David Neal.) "Lullaby of Love," co-written by Judy and collaborator Mike Barone, was adapted and recorded as a Christmas song by Bianca. Judy also completed an English version (already recorded in Finnish and Swedish) of 2 songs for Bianca's planned Christmas CD and an original holiday song co-written with composer Bonnie Janofsky.
In the area of script writing, Judy and her partner, Patricia Ford had the good fortune of getting one of their scripts to Peter Falk, who, upon reading it, didn't care that they were unknown writers, and "Caution, Murder can be Hazardous to your Health" became the 2-hour '91 season opening "Columbo."
Judy is working on a science fiction pop/rock opera entitled "Real," as well as a Broadway-style musical entitled "You Again" with Merja Partanen and Bianca Morales for their Beem Production company in Finland.
Judy has written title songs for films and television and has many projects in the works. Among her song credits are "Situation" for Jobete/Motown, released on London Records by artists Hodges, James & Smith, "Lulu" by the Jackson Five (available on the collection "SoulSation"), "Nobody," a Capitol Records release by Nancy Wilson, and "I Haven't Got the Heart to Say Goodbye" and "Here I Am" (title song of the album), a special project for James Brown's label Starday King, by the Mayor of Macon, GA, Ronnie Thompson and also recorded by both Dian Hart for Amaret Records and "The Group" for the Pete Records label. Both artists also recorded "If's A Mighty Big Word" co-written by Shelby Singleton's Ben Peters and "If You Don't Love Me" co-written by Ben Wiseman (published by Melon Music/Shelby Singleton Music). She also co-wrote a song entitled "A Miracle" with CBS's Morton Stevens for a TV special, "Antonio & the Mayor."
Judy's performing career began while still at Fairfax High along with Charlotte Brasch (Weddle) and Elaine Aultman (Williford) with the trio The TreasureTones; her most recent (1989)group association was as a member of the girl trio "Code 3," which recorded a title song for the film "Bouncin' Back," for Chako Film Productions which was distributed worldwide by Toho of Japan. "Code 3" made many club and event appearances, notably at Carlos and Charlie's on the Sunset Strip, and they were booked for a USO tour. She also recorded as a member of a duo Bob and Judy on "We Got Somethin' Goin'" for Ramshorn Records.
Early in her career, she was featured soloist on "Surfin' with Jimmy" from "The Beach Party Album" on Gary Paxton's Garpax label, which landed her in a new book entitled: "Bikinis, Black Denim and Bitchen Sounds, a Musical Appreciation of Female Surf, Hot-Rod and Related Recordings 1961-1967" by Australian author Stephen McParland. (her picture in her go-go costume is on the cover).
Judy has performed at the Catalina Jazz Club, The M Bar and other Hollywood landmarks, The Blah Blah Café in Studio City, the Los Angeles County Fair and for 20th Century Fox Studios, several country songs she co-wrote with her then partner, Chad Garrett, for the pilot of the "Minnie Pearl Show."
As a matter of style, Judy is known for writing to the music or independently of the music. In the past, she has often written "by Email and fax" when only a scratch track and dummy words were provided. She loves Broadway type musicals and has written several songs with two or three-part counterpoint lyrics and harmonies. She was a one-time Go-go Dancer at such establishments as Gazzari's on the Sunset Strip, The Direct Line on LaBrea and other Hollywood clubs. She was the dancer/model for the go-go dancer "Betty" for Filmation's "The Archie's." At the age of 15, she recorded with the trio The Royal Galaxies for Capitol Records and appeared on TV shows including "The Wink Martindale Show" at Pacific Ocean Park, "The Al Jarvis Show" and others.
Judy suffered yet another personal loss as her husband, Steve, passed away from cancer on October 4th, 2013, one day short of their 14th anniversary.
Judy continued to participate in the activities of the Cameo Club which supports the Ms Senior California and Ms Senior America pageants. She represented Indiana in the Ms Senior America Pageant in 2010 and competed again in the Ms Senior California Pageant in August, 2014.
Judy is a member of WGAw (Writers Guild of America, West), CCC (California Copyright Conference), Los Angeles Women in Music, ASCAP, TEOSTO and NCB (Finnish and Danish Performing Rights Organizations).
Judy is preparing to publish her e-book "Grief Rhymes with Thief" to be followed by her autobiography "Bitch on Wheels."