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Lenny Waronker (born October 3, 1941) [1] is an American record producer and music industry executive. As the president of Warner Bros. Records, and later, as the co-founder and co-chair of DreamWorks Records, Waronker was noted for his commitment to artists and his belief that "music, not money, was still number one."
Jun 11, 1989 · Those song demos led directly to a job in the Warner Bros. A&R; department. Soon, Waronker produced a pair of hit singles: the Mojo Men’s “Sit Down, I Think I Love You” and Harpers Bizarre ...
Rickie Lee Jones, who Waronker signed on the strength of a four-song demo, was an example of the success of the Warner Bros. artist-centric philosophy; her debut album, which Waronker co-produced with Titelman, went multi-platinum, and was considered by many to be one of the best debut albums of all time.
At Metric, Waronker produced song demos; out of a fear that the producers would "mess up the song or the arrangement", Waronker learned how to make the demos sound like fully produced records with limited funds, and how to take advantage of "moments within a song". [9] At Metric, Waronker pitched songs to Dick Glasser at Warner Bros. and Jimmy ...
LENNY WARONKER: I had a meeting with Prince and [his manager] Owen Husney. I got to hear some of the songs that were on his demo tape — except when you listened to it it was far from a demo.
Happy birthday to record company executive and producer Lenny Waronker who was born on this date October 3, 1941 in Los Angeles, CA. He grew up in Pacific Palisades, California. His father, Simon Waronker , a classical violinist, performed with the 20th Century Fox Orchestra from 1936 through 1939, and served as the orchestra's contractor at ...
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Warner Music Group Corp., [7] commonly abbreviated as WMG, is an American multinational entertainment and record label conglomerate headquartered in New York City.It is one of the "big three" recording companies and the third-largest in the global music industry, after Universal Music Group (UMG) and Sony Music Entertainment (SME).
