In 2002, he and Sally Stevens contracted the backing vocals for Perry La Marca’s Hopelessly Romantic album. He served as Vocal Contractor on the soundtracks of Apollo 13, Casper, and The Hunt For Red October, and Vocal Recording Supervisor on the soundtrack of Man Trouble. It did not keep him out of the recording studios, however. In the 1980s and 1990s, he ran an advertisement-jingle outfit known as Killer Music. He even did a few stints as a Chipmunk on Chipmunk Punk, Club Chipmunk: The Dance Mixes, and A Very Merry Chipmunk, on which he voiced Alvin. Ron served as the director of The O.K Chorale on a pair of Carpenters albums, Made in America and Voice of the Heart. He would continue to do movie work in the ‘80s on soundtracks such as Lady in White and The Mosquito Coast. He also acted as Choir Contractor on the soundtrack of 1979’s Apocalypse Now. In 1978, he sang on Neil Diamond’s You Don’t Bring Me Flowers and the soundtrack of Grease. The same year saw him re-uniting with Micky Dolenz and Davy Jones on Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart, as well as performing on Donovan’s Slow Down World, Linda Ronstadt’s Hasten Down the Wind, and The Tubes’ Young and Rich. He scored a #5 hit with the Happy Days theme song in 1976. Cash, Elton John’s Blue Moves, Keith Moon’s Two Sides of the Moon, Gram Parsons’ Grievous Angel, and The Tubes’ White Punks on Dope. In the mid-‘70s, Ron added his second tenor to a wide variety of albums, including Elkie Brooks’ Rich Man’s Woman, Johnny Cash’s John R. These singers were sometimes billed as The Ron Hicklin Singers and The Jackie Ward Singers. A pair of early albums on which he appears are A Partridge Family Christmas Card and The Partridge Family Shopping Bag. The turn of the decade found him joining The Ray Conniff Singers, and teaming up with John Bahler, Tom Bahler and Jackie Ward to provide some vocal muscle to The Partridge Family. He also collaborated with Hugh Montenegro on 1969’s Moog Power. Around the same time, Ron, along with Tom Bahler, Glen Campbell, and Davy Jones, sang backing vocals on the Jan Berry album, Carnival of Sound. In 1967, he was a member of the California Dreamers, who backed Gabor Szabo on Wind, Sky and Diamonds. Ron would be a ghost singer for a couple of high-profile, made-for-TV groups, including The Monkees and The Partridge Family. Gary had his vocal limitations, however, and it was actually Ron who laid down the primary vocals, then Gary was dubbed and overdubbed, the other Playboys were recorded on top of that, and then finally Ron again. “The Playboys” comprised Al Capps, Stan Farber, Ron Hicklin, and Jim Keltner. Vee was offered and turned down the song “This Diamond Ring” so it went to Jerry Lewis’s son Gary and his group, The Playboys. They contributed backing vocals to a pair of Bobby Vee albums, Bobby Vee Sings the New Sound from England and I Remember Buddy Holly. Vocalist who graduated from Renton High School in Renton, Washington in 1956 and went on to join a local singing group known as The Eligibles.
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