Calvin Lawrence Harris was an American sound engineer and the head of the recording department at Motown.

[1] [2] [3] [4] He worked on projects such as Marvin Gaye's hit album What's Going On, The Beach Boys' single “Good Vibrations”,[5] and Lionel Richie's Grammy award-winning album Can't Slow Down.

He began his musical career at Gold Star Studios in Los Angeles, as an intern for The Beach Boys.

His work for at Gold Star gained him the recognition to get hired by Motown Records in the late 1960s.

With Lionel Richie, Cal Harris recorded Can't Slow Down, which went on to win the Grammy award for album of the year 1984.