Paul Zaza, 1977

Hoping to spend some isolating time hiding away from corona by ripping requests I was instead disappointed to find the international postal system slowed down with delays and cancellations with dozens of records that have been stuck for weeks in some warehouse limbo.  Now I have to go back to some old stuff that's been kickin' around for a while.  This is an artist who is well known career wise but whose earlier works are not.  From discogs:

Canadian musician, producer, engineer and film music composer
Began his career as a classically trained pianist.
Played bass with the hit musical "Hair" and toured with the The Fifth Dimension in the 1970s. Founded Toronto studio Zaza Sound Productions in the early 1970s, and his label : Zaza Records (2).
After establishing himself in the world of film and television scoring, Zaza has over 175 feature films, television series and specials to date to his credit, including "Porky's", "Meatballs III", "A Christmas Story", "Prom Night", "Derby", "Baby Geniuses", "Murder By Decree", "The Fourth Angel" and "Grizzly Falls".
He is the recipient of many Film and Television Awards including Canada's prestigious Genie Award as well as fourteen SOCAN awards.

Information here.  You can see he made a lot of different stuff, including library records, soul, disco, and this pop-fusion opus in 1977 which is quite listenable and enjoyable.  Ridin High has such a nice Trower sound to it:

Completely different is his orchestral stuff.  I added a nice Parry Sound library record which featured some compositions by Zaza, called Bright and Breezy.  His Flight to the Sun is classic 70s chord changes and patterns: