Career
One of his earliest compositions, On and On, was recorded by Dave Mason in 1971. Doheny, Mason and Cass Elliott were in a trio for a time. Doheny was the first artist signed to David Geffen"s Asylum label, which produced his first album Ned Doheny in 1972.
His label mates included Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell, David Blue and other West Coast musicians of the day.
Doheny toured multiple times with a band made up of several studio musicians. His second album Hard Candy was released by Columbia Broadcasting System in 1976.
lieutenant included the composition A Love of Your Own, which was covered by the Average White Band. Chaka Khan also had a hit with a Doheny composition, "Whatcha Gonna Do Foreign Maine." Other Doheny songs such as "I"ve Got Your Number", "Get lieutenant Up Foreign Love" and "To Prove My Love" have all charted in the United States as well as the United Kingdom and Japan.
His third Columbia Broadcasting System album Prone was recorded in 1977.
Doheny"s next album, Life After Romance, was released in Japan in 1988 due to his popularity there. Between April 1990 and September 1993 he hosted a radio program called "Postcards from Hollywood" on Yokohama FM. His next studio album, Between Two Worlds, was released in 1993. Though often categorized as a West Coast artist because of his Los Angeles roots and association with other West Coast artists, Doheny"s music defies exact categorization, being variously described as popular, funk, jazz and AOR. He"s been compared to Steely Dan and the Eagles.
In addition to original Civil Defense releases in Japan, both Hard Candy and Prone, produced by guitarist Steve Cropper, have been reissued as LP-replica CDs.
All three albums are currently available as digital downloads online. In 2014, London-based reissue record label Be With Records began an extensive vinyl-only reissue series of Doheny"s albums.
Hard Candy came first in September 2014 and in April 2015 they reissued the Japan-only Prone. The release was promoted via a tour of the United Kingdom and Europe.
