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Bob Thiele

American record producer and record label founder. Married to [a1333782] (1945-1947), [a1580307] and [a=Teresa Brewer]. Father of [a=Bob Thiele Jr.], who is also a record producer. Born: July 27, 1922 in Brooklyn, New York Died: January 30, 1996 in Manhattan, New York Producer of many famous jazz recordings. Also credited as photographer (Impulse Records). Thiele began his career with a jazz radio show at age 14. In 1939, aged 17, he created the [l=Signature (4)] label, which lasted until the late 1940s in its first incarnation (it would be revived several times), recording Coleman Hawkins, Earl Hines, Erroll Garner, and Lester Young amongst others. When that wound down he was headhunted by US [l=Decca] as A&R chief of [l39155] Records in the 1950s (it was Thiele who signed [a=Buddy Holly]); in 1961, he joined ABC-Paramount Records to run the [l=Impulse!] label after its creator [a=Creed Taylor] was hired away by MGM to run Verve Records; he was A&R chief and head producer for the label from 1962 until 1968, and formed his own record label [l=Flying Dutchman] soon after. His last label was [l=Red Baron], which folded not long after his death in 1996. Thiele also was also a songwriter, bandleader, and arranger. He is credited with co-writing "What A Wonderful World." Thiele wrote a memoir about his life in music, What A Wonderful World: A Lifetime Of Recordings, published by Oxford University Press on May 4, 1995. [b]Please Note:[/b] Productions released after 1996 (unless they are reissues of either full albums or individual songs) are most likely to be those of his son, as he's occasionally credited without the [i][b]Jr.[/b][/i] suffix.

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