Music Producers.
 

who would you say was the greatest producer of music? my choice would be Phil Spector, who produced the unsurpassed "Wall of Sound" starting with the Teddy Bears, ronettes,crystals,bobbsox n blue jeans, ike n tina turner.the list is endless, also the man would only use Mono, refused to use sterio cos he said it made music sound better that it really was. i know of no-one else who created anything near as good,he was/is a musical genius, a complete nutcase but an all time great.:) :theband:

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And we all know what happened to Phil Spector!!! But I agree with you Cashy he was very good at his job.

Mine would have to be a bit more upto date, and be Timbaland. Who has worked with the likes of Aaliyah, Jay Z, Justin Timberlake, Missy Elliott, Nelly Furtado & The Pussycat Dolls.

He along with the likes of Phil Spector, Brian Eno and Norman Whitfield redefined the sound of an entire music genre with his production style.

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Yep, ole Phil is certainly the business, but I wouldn't like to meet him on a dark night!

Others that spring to mind include Johnny Vincent, Dave Bartholemew, Frank Guida, Art Rupe, Willie Dixon, and, as you say, Lolly, Norman Whitfield.

However, purely on a personal basis, I'd have to go for Sam Phillips. When he opened his Memphis Recording Service and Sun records label in the early 50's, he always said that if he found "a white man who could sing like a negro, he'd make a million dollars". One day a young truck driver called Elvis Presley walked through the door and Sam had found his man. What he created with Elvis was a totally unique sound - a synthesis of rhythm & blues, gospel and country that would totally transform popular music forever. And he shaped that sound in a humble little studio on Union Avenue, Memphis, utilising his own revolutionary techniques like delayed echo to give this music an infectiously exciting feel. Of course, he soon lost Elvis to a major record company, but he went on to create lots more fantastic records by the likes of Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison and literally hundreds of brilliant one-off rockablly, rock 'n' roll and blues records.

In my eyes, a true genius!

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yep sam phillips is one of the greats, the sun studios on the corner of union n marshall is unchanged from 1956, ya gotta go wyn. its something else,with the original equipment. what amazed me when we was there, apparently U2 recorded The Joshua Tree album there using that 56 equipment,i was gobsmacked, cos thats a great album,and says it all about the recording gear.