Schlachter is best known for his work nurturing talent during the 1960s including Dionne Warwick, the Shirelles, Tammi Terrell, Chuck Jackson, The Kingsmen and B.J.
[9] Schlachter spent the following nine years[10] with Scepter Records as executive vice president, overseeing a key role in Scepter's early rise during their successful Bacharach-David-Warwick / Chuck Jackson / BJ Thomas period, with annual revenues within the first few years of operation totalling $3 million.
[12][13] He soon established Janus with eleven hit singles, including a gold record and several chart albums in the first year of operation.
Schlachter was made president of its operations in March 1976,[16] but the label was not a success, having only one hit, Brotherhood of Man's "Save Your Kisses for Me" peaking moderately at #27 on the Billboard Hot 100 during July.
[6] Prelude had a string of disco and dance music hits into the mid-1980s, the label's most prominent acts including France Joli and James 'D-Train' Williams.
[20][21] In 1987, Micky Garcia, a New York DJ, attended the New Music Seminar at the Marriot Marquis hotel in Times Square where he met Schlachter.
Garcia was aware of his background having had played many songs from the Prelude Records roster while performing on Kiss FM.
[5][26][27] Trudy is an author having written six books as well as a photographer, taking portraits of Prelude label artists for album covers and other notables in the music industry.