Lenny Waronker
 | Born |
| October 3, 1941 | |
| Active Decades | |
As a producer Lenny Waronker has worked with such acts as Arlo Guthrie, Rickie Lee Jones, Randy Newman and the Doobie Brothers. As a label executive, Waronker helped build the Warner/Reprise label into one of the strongest and talented rosters in the music industry, including Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and Jimi Hendrix at various points in time.
As a boy growing up in Hollywood Waronker led a life that was out of the ordinary to say the least. His father Sy worked for one of the studios and the Waronkers were friends with another Hollywood family, the Newmans, which included Waronker's young playmate Randy. Lenny's father Sy left the studios in the mid '50s to form his own label, Liberty. After releasing an instrumental composition by Randy Newman's uncle the label began to gain momentum by signing acts such as Eddie Cochran, Bobby Vee and the surf group Jan & Dean. At the same time the younger Waronker and Newman were taking piano lessons and soaking up the atmosphere around Liberty Records.
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As a boy growing up in Hollywood Waronker led a life that was out of the ordinary to say the least. His father Sy worked for one of the studios and the Waronkers were friends with another Hollywood family, the Newmans, which included Waronker's young playmate Randy. Lenny's father Sy left the studios in the mid '50s to form his own label, Liberty. After releasing an instrumental composition by Randy Newman's uncle the label began to gain momentum by signing acts such as Eddie Cochran, Bobby Vee and the surf group Jan & Dean. At the same time the younger Waronker and Newman were taking piano lessons and soaking up the atmosphere around Liberty Records.
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