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He was a producer and songwriter who worked with Columbia
records and United Artists and was the founder of Jack Gold records Inc. In the early 1960s began producing
artists such as Bobby Goldsboro and Lou Christie for United Artists and
would become their Executive Producer and Director of Singles Activities. He later moved to produce and become
Head of A&R with Columbia
records where he produced numerous albums for many artists from the 1960s
up to the 2000s including Percy Faith, Ray Conniff, Barbra Streisand, Tony
Bennett, Gladys Knight and Frankie Avalon. He worked with Johnny Mathis on many
of his successful singles and albums and even after he began to suffer with
Parkinson Disease, Johnny Mathis insisted on working with him. He died in Tujunga,
California , aged 71.
Johnny
Mathis recordings
The Best Days
of My Life (Jack Gold/Arnold Goland/Carsten
Christiansen)
Sources:
- http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/appears/0,,436473,00.html
- http://www.themathischronicles.net/producers.html
- http://nfo.net/calendar/dec26.htm
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