Stevie's voice doctor

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Seems like we can blame the vocal coach on this guy--

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/gal...oseph-sugerman

There are 3 slides with photos about him and his clients (slide 3 in the set shows the framed cover of TISL on his office wall)



Back in Hollywood’s Golden Era, when Frank Sinatra or Judy Garland sought a voice doctor, only Dr. Ed Kantor would do. During the late 1970s, Kantor added a protege to his practice named Dr. Joe Sugerman. It quickly became clear that Sugerman, a brilliant physician with an easy bedside manner who could coax even the most inconsolably hoarse diva off a ledge, was the right choice. Sugerman went on to inherit Kantor’s practice, and among his first wave of rock-star patients was Kiss co-frontman Paul Stanley.

Patient Care Worthy of Gold Records
“We immediately hit it off,” recalls Stanley, 62. It was Stanley who first gave Sugerman a framed gold Kiss record to hang in his office. Says Sugerman: “When other singers came in and saw it on the wall, they said, ‘Hey, what about me?’ ” Now his Beverly Hills medical suite could be confused with a record producer’s office, with albums from Michael Jackson, Stevie Nicks, The Rolling Stones and Madonna.

Doctor's Advice
Sugerman says the past few years have seen the biggest change in three decades of treating super-stars as concerts have become the industry’s main revenue generators. “People are on tour for a year at a time, singing six or seven nights a week,” he says. “And they just get into trouble.” Sugerman advises that patients find a vocal coach, skip the pizza before bedtime (the acid can wreak havoc) and hold off on aspirin (which can lead to hemorrhages).