His Children of the Sun collaboration with Billy Thorpe spawned an animated laser choreography of an album in planetariums across North America.

Proffer co-produced a charitable concert and media event with Doc McGhee and Quincy Jones in 2005, for over 44,000 Marines and their families, headlined by Beyoncé Knowles, Destiny's Child and Kiss, hosted by Cedric the Entertainer.

Proffer graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from UCLA at the age of 20 and enrolled at Loyola University School of Law.

He wrote songs for the animated The Hardy Boys ABC television series and performed nights and weekends with his band, Proffer, Marmelzat and Reed (PMR).

He left CBS shortly after Davis' departure, to become National Executive Director and Head of Worldwide A+R at United Artists Records.

[6] While at UA, Proffer produced and co-produced a number of worldwide hit records ranging from Tina Turner's Acid Queen,[7] to the No.

Upon Transamerica's sale of United Artists in 1977, Proffer ventured on his own as an independent record producer, songwriter and arranger.

He launched the Pasha Music Corporation out of a studio apartment and within a year constructed a deal with David Geffen's Elektra/Asylum Records to produce and arrange the first solo album from Hollies lead singer, Allan Clarke.

Advances from a Polydor Records production arrangement along with matching funds from City National provided the capital to build the facility.

The first project recorded there was a series of tracks for the platinum-selling soundtrack to Staying Alive, on which Spencer served as an executive producer as well as a Polydor UNICEF benefit album featuring Olivia Newton-John.

[13] Proffer produced many renowned rock artists at Pasha including Cheap Trick, Heart, Little River Band, Eddie Money, Beach Boys, W.A.S.P., King Kobra, Kick Axe, Vanilla Fudge, Ian Hunter, Shooting Star, Jon Butcher and Outlaws.

Pre-production for Guns N' Roses debut Geffen release, Appetite for Destruction, and Mötley Crüe's Shout at the Devil were recorded at Pasha.

In 1994, he formed a partnership with Jerry Offsay, and The Showtime Network where Proffer served as the off campus Supervising Music Producer on all their original films and mini-series.

[22] He removed select musician performances from the live cast recording at Lincoln Center in New York City and replaced them with musical contributions from B.B.

Also in 1999, Proffer worked with CBS Television's development executive Michael Wright to create the mini-series Shake, Rattle & Roll.

The New York Times called this project “the most ambitious music-oriented miniseries to date...”[24] Proffer wrote the main song for the ending of the film, "Side By Side" with Lamont Dozier, and secured original songs from Bob Dylan, Carole King, Leiber-Stoller, and Graham Nash (co-written with Spencer).

[27] Also that year he co-wrote and produced the title song, "Behind the Mask" with Jose Feliciano for the international television series Queen of Swords.

Additionally in 2003, he was the supervising producer of the Fox Television New Years Special, America's Party, hosted by Ryan Seacrest and featured Keith Urban, Ja Rule and Hootie & The Blowfish.

On April 1, 2005, in the tradition of Bob Hope's USO military tours, a concert, Rockin' the Corps, took place on the beach of Marine Base Camp Pendleton, California.

That enterprise resulted in the band writing and recording the promotional song and video for USA's launch of TV show Psych.

[41] The band was also the Grand Prize winner of the Converse and Journeys' "Get Out of the Garage Music Contest”,[42] which was held over a three-month period and received over 5,000 entries from all over the United States.

Included were All American Rejects, the Aggrolites, Bad Religion, bLINK 182, Ice-T, NOFX, Ozomatli, Pennywise, Pete Wentz, Rise Against and Underoath.

The DVD was released by Capitol Records via a M17 as a joint venture and the concert was also exhibited on over 300 Regal, AMC and Cinemark screens across America.

It had its world premiere as a featured article and video embedded in The Wall Street Journal online and on the Fender Musical Instruments website.

[46] The performers, collectively known as Pangea,[47] consisted of Flying Machines (US), Khaled (Algeria/France), King Sunny Ade (Nigeria), Kailish Kher (India) and Cheng Lin (China).

[56] It features commentaries by Dr. Maya Angelou, Graham Nash, Brian Wilson, Joel Osteen, Vince Gill and Lee Ann Womack.

[60] Proffer worked with a local film crew to produce a documentary, TRANE TRACKS: A Musical Journey Through South Africa based on the event.

[64] Spencer and Meteor 17 entered into a long-term, exclusive agreement with Fathom Events to produce compelling content on two verticals: Music and Social Responsibility.