Rick Marotta

Richard Thomas Marotta is an American drummer and percussionist. He has appeared on recordings by leading artists such as Aretha Franklin, Carly Simon, Steely Dan, James Taylor, Paul Simon, John Lennon, Hall & Oates, Stevie Nicks, Wynonna, Roy Orbison, Todd Rundgren, Roberta Flack, Peter Frampton, Quincy Jones, Jackson Browne, Al Kooper, Waylon Jennings, Randy Newman, Kenny G, The Jacksons, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Boz Scaggs, Warren Zevon, and Linda Ronstadt. He is also a composer who created music for the popular television shows Everybody Loves Raymond and Yes, Dear.

Biography

Marotta was born in New York City and taught himself to play drums at the age of nineteen. He was in a band called The Riverboat Soul Band; it released an album called Mess-up in 1968.
Marotta was the drummer for his own group in the early 1970s, the short-lived Brethren. Tom Cosgrove sang and played lead, Stu Woods played bass, and Mike Garson played keyboards. They released two albums; the first was the eponymous Brethren, which was mildly successful. The second, released as the band was crumbling, is nearly impossible to find. The band had a unique sound, a mixture of rock and country, with traces of jazz and influences from Dr. John, who wrote the album notes and the song "Loop Garoo" for them. Marotta has composed music for the television sitcoms Everybody Loves Raymond and Yes, Dear. He made a guest appearance in the episode "Johnny and the Pace Makers" of the situation comedy Double Rush in 1995.
Marotta's brother, Jerry, is also a noted drummer and percussionist who has recorded and toured with Peter Gabriel.

Selected discography

With Peter Allen

I Could Have Been a Sailor

With Ashford & Simpson

So So Satisfied

With Marty Balin

Lucky

With Karla Bonoff

Restless Nights

With Jackson Browne

Hold Out

With Felix Cavaliere

Destiny

With Toni Childs

Union
House of Hope

With Gene Clark

Firebyrd

With Linda Clifford

I'll Keep on Loving You

With Shawn Colvin

Steady On

With Randy Crawford

Everything Must Change
Raw Silk

With Jim Croce

I Got a Name

With Crosby, Stills & Nash

After the Storm

With Yvonne Elliman

Yvonne Elliman

With Skip Ewing

The Coast of Colorado
The Will to Love

With Bryan Ferry

The Bride Stripped Bare

With Dan Fogelberg

Exiles

With Aretha Franklin

Let Me in Your Life

With Michael Franks

Tiger in the Rain
One Bad Habit

With Dean Friedman

Dean Friedman

With Art Garfunkel

Scissors Cut

With Ellie Greenwich

Let It Be Written, Let it Be Sung

With Nanci Griffith

Little Love Affairs

With Henry Gross

Show Me to the Stage
Love Is the Stuff

With Andrew Gold

All This and Heaven Too
Whirlwind

With Hall & Oates

Abandoned Luncheonette

With Beth Hart

Fire on the Floor

With Donny Hathaway

Extension of a Man

With Cissy Houston

Cissy Houston

With The Jacksons

Destiny

With Garland Jeffreys

Ghost Writer

With Rickie Lee Jones

It's Like This

With Wynonna Judd

Wynonna

With Robin Kenyatta

Gypsy Man

With Chaka Khan

Chaka

With Al Kooper

Easy Does It

With Labelle

Moon Shadow

With John Lennon

Mind Games

With Ralph MacDonald

Sound of a Drum

With Herbie Mann

Surprises
Brazil: Once Again

With Eric Martin

Eric Martin

With Don McLean

Playin' Favorites

With Van McCoy

Love Is the Answer
Disco Baby
The Disco Kid

With Melanie

Madrugada

With Bette Midler

Bette Midler
Bathhouse Betty

With Roxy Music

Avalon

With Randy Newman

Little Criminals

With Juice Newton

Dirty Looks

With Laura Nyro

Smile

With The Oak Ridge Boys

Monongahela

With Yoko Ono

A Story

With Dolly Parton

Burlap & Satin

With Annette Peacock

I'm the One
X-Dreams

With Bonnie Raitt

The Glow

With Ray Repp

Hear the Cryin

With Linda Ronstadt

Simple Dreams
Get Closer

With Diana Ross

Silk Electric

With Boz Scaggs

Middle Man

With Janis Siegel

At Home

With Carly Simon

Hotcakes
Spy
Come Upstairs
Torch
Hello Big Man
Letters Never Sent
This Kind of Love

With Lucy Simon

Lucy Simon

With Paul Simon

There Goes Rhymin' Simon

With Phoebe Snow

Against the Grain

With JD Souther

You're Only Lonely

With Steely Dan

The Royal Scam
Aja
Gaucho

With Howard Tate

Howard Tate

With James Taylor

Walking Man
Dad Loves His Work

With Livingston Taylor

Over the Rainbow

With John Tropea

Tropea
Short Trip to Space
Touch You Again

With Frankie Valli

Closeup

With Joe Walsh

The Confessor

With Larry Weiss

Black & Blue Suite

With Paul Williams

Just an Old Fashioned Love Song

With Edgar Winter

Jasmine Nightdreams

With Warren Zevon

Excitable Boy
Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School
''The Envoy''