Their recording history as a duo dates back to when they performed as Fantasy on their own Ear Candy label. While Fantasy was a good fit for their dreamy, often surreal sound, Randell & Schippers stuck as the official name of their artistic partnership. Past hits include “Let’s Go For It”, which broke out of the dance clubs on Ear Candy and quickly led to a deal with a CBS label that re-released it nationally. Then came “Love Jam”, called, “Quite simply, a modern masterpiece” by the U.K.’s Blues & Soul Magazine.

After selling Ear Candy in the early ‘90s to a group including BMG Records, Denny and Biddy launched Music Avenue Records/DRC Entertainment, which has been home since then to Randell & Schippers and their other distinctive productions.

Denny and Biddy originally connected in L.A. through a mutual music publishing contact. Schippers was then a newcomer to the business—after graduating from Stanford (with additional studies at Oxford), she gave up plans for a law career to pursue her dream of a life in music. She’d evolved from a classical piano background to pop-oriented composing, already having written several songs that were hits in Europe and Japan, when she met Denny two years into her L.A. experience.

At that time, Denny Randell was a 20+ year veteran on the pop music scene, having already amassed major success as a composer of top hits such as “A Lover’s Concerto,” now a worldwide standard, and numerous smashes for Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons including “Let’s Hang On (To What We’ve Got),” “Opus 17” and “Working My Way Back To You” (also a hit for the Spinners). These 3 songs are now featured on Broadway in the Tony award winning show “Jersey Boys” and its Grammy award winning album. Other Randell-penned classics include “Swearin’ To God”, “Native New Yorker”, “Pass the Courvoisier” (co-written with P. Diddy and others) and the Smash Mouth hit “Can’t Get Enough Of You Baby”. Randell has also produced and arranged many hits and has been an A & R/producer for several major labels.

As composers who write both music and lyrics, Denny and Biddy forged a simpatico creative collaboration, both ahead of the curve on using synthesizers. While Denny was a seasoned performer, Biddy had solely focused on writing, but that changed as well. “Denny loved my voice,” she remembers. “He said, ‘I think you have a hit sound. I think we should make a record and put it out.’” Denny’s prediction proved correct as the R&S sound triumphed on both sides of the Atlantic.

Over time, Denny and Biddy have diversified and grown with DRC Entertainment/Music Avenue Records. They write and produce for a collective of artists. Other projects notwithstanding—including a theatrical musical they are writing— they are currently working on new Randell & Schippers recordings and rehearsing their live show to debut in June of ’07.