Henry Lewy

Maker and engineer Henry Lewy remains to be inextricably from the vocalist/songwriter renaissance from the past due ’60s and early ’70s, helming vintage folk-rock LPs for performers including Joni Mitchell, Neil Adolescent, and Crosby, Stills & Nash. Created in Magdeburg, Germany, in 1926, Lewy immigrated to the U.S. at age group 16 to flee the horrors from the Nazi program. After starting his career like a radio announcer in the NORTH PARK, LA, and NEVADA markets, he analyzed executive and in 1959 came back to L.A. to simply accept a posture with Electrovoxx Studios. Lewy quickly graduated to an employee executive gig with Liberty Information, where he in the beginning done Ross Bagdasarian’s Alvin & the Chipmunks classes. After a stint in the renowned Platinum Celebrity Studios, where he slice demos on legends-in-waiting like Jackie DeShannon and Leon Russell, Lewy tenured under executive guru Bone fragments Howe at United & European Studios, focusing on classes headlined from the Mamas & the Papas aswell as Johnny Streams. In 1967, he became a member of A&M Information, where he experienced his very best commercial achievement to date, executive strikes by Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 (the very best Ten smash “Fool within the Hill”) and Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart (the 1968 bubblegum traditional “I Question What She’s Doing Tonite”). While focusing on Crosby, Stills & Nash’s landmark self-titled debut, Lewy fulfilled Joni Mitchell, and with her 1969 sophomore work, Clouds, inaugurated a cooperation that prolonged across greater than a dozen LPs. With Mitchell’s third record, 1970’s Ladies from the Canyon, Lewy gained his first creation credit, but it’s his abilities as an engineer that even so command one of the most interest — tasks like Mitchell’s 1974 masterpiece Courtroom and Spark and Neil Young’s 1972 watershed Harvest boast a sonic clearness and comfort that remain unparalleled despite following advances in documenting technology. After focusing on following tasks for Leonard Cohen (1979’s Latest Songs), Truck Morrison (1980’s Common One) and Jennifer Warnes (the 1986 Cohen addresses disk Famous Blue Raincoat), Lewy silently eased into pension. He died Apr 8, 2006, in Prescott, AZ, at age 79.