Gary Klein (producer)
American songwriter and record producer
Gary Klein (born September 28, 1942, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American songwriter and Grammy Award-nominated record producer. He graduated from Long Island University with a Bachelor of Arts in music.
In the era which included classic rock, country, punk, disco, and pop, record producer Gary Klein was well known for working across genres and often crossing over genres. He worked with country musicians Glen Campbell and Dolly Parton on "Southern Nights" and "Here You Come Again", which some consider the beginning of country music being accepted by mainstream pop audiences.
Career
In 1962, Gary Klein co-wrote the international pop hit song "Bobby's Girl". He continued songwriting for a short time including "Guess Who?" (Kornfeld/Klein), which was included on Dusty Springfield's Dusty album.
In 1968, Klein produced Tim Hardin's Live in Concert 3. Hardin changed labels and, in 1969, his first studio release for Columbia Records, Suite for Susie Moore and Damion: We are One, One, We Are, was produced by Klein. It reached number 129 on the Billboard 200.
In his review for AllMusic, music critic Bruce Eder wrote of the reissue that included "Bird on the Wire": "There's a lot of pain in this disc, to be sure — it's hard to find a Hardin song that didn't have some — but also a level of lyrical and musical excellence that one should feel privileged to partake of."
In 1974, Mac Davis, while working on a new album wrote the song "Stop and Smell the Roses", Klein produced version of the track won out and it went to number one on the Billboard Adult Contemporary Chart, and was a Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.
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