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Dec 22, 2017 · NEW YORK (WCBS 880) -- New York City radio legend Lou Adler died Friday morning in Connecticut. He was 88. He started as a news anchor for WCBS-AM in 1967 when they turned all news in...
Dec 24, 2017 · Lou Adler, a longtime New York City radio news anchor and director whose exacting standards influenced a generation of broadcasters, died on Friday in Meriden, Conn. He was 88. His death, at...
Sep 19, 2023 · Roxy Co-Founder Lou Adler’s Life As a Sunset Strip Legend Spotlighted In New Grammy Museum Exhibit. The exhibit includes a short documentary focusing on Adler and his seven sons.
Adler was born in Jamestown, New York. A longtime morning news anchor on WCBS in New York, Adler was credited with popularizing the "talk news radio" format on WCBS during the late 1960s. From 1969 to 1980, Adler also served as WCBS' general manager and/or news director, (sometimes concurrently.)
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In the exhibit film, Jimmy Jam tells several stories about working with — and learning from — Prince. He recalls how he and Terry Lewis watched Prince work and record everything "in the red," so they set up their Minneapolis studio to follow his lead. A sound engineer told them it was too loud, but that ended up being the sound that artists like Ja...
In his 50 year-career, Irving Berlin wrote over 1000 songs, many of which defined American popular music for the better part of the 20th century. Along with penning "God Bless America," "White Christmas," "Puttin' on the Ritz," and "There's No Business Like Show Business" (among many other classics), he wrote 17 full Broadway musical scores and con...
Smokey Robinson was an important part of Motown's hit-making factory as a singer, songwriter and producer. In the exhibit film, he discusses "My Girl," one of his classic tunes, which he wrote and produced for the Temptations in 1965. "I had no idea it would become what it would become," he said. He says that people often ask him why he didn't reco...
Prior to World War II, American music operated as a singular mainstream market, and New York's Tin Pan Alley songwriters competed to make the next pop or Broadway hit. In a post-World War II America, especially when the early Baby Boomer generation became teenagers and young adults in the '60s and '70s, tastes changed and new styles of pop and pop ...
Lou Adler: It was nothing compared to what it would have been today. It was a bargain. That’s probably a couple of million dollar shoot today, with what you would have to do with your unions, security, lights and everything else.
Lou Adler. Lester Louis Adler (born December 13, 1933) is an American record and film producer and the co-owner of the Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood, California. [1] . Adler has produced and developed a number of high-profile musical artists, including The Grass Roots, Jan & Dean, The Mamas & the Papas, and Carole King.
