Robert Scherman

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Robert "Bob" Scherman (born June 14, 1915 in Brazil, Indiana ; † November 2, 2000 in Sun City , California ) was an American songwriter and record producer .

Scherman studied at UCLA and first tried a career as a concert pianist before working in the music industry as a producer for King and Federal Records . As a songwriter / composer, talent scout and producer, he promoted Nat King Cole's career by taking him on with his trio with Oscar Moore and Johnny Miller in 1943 and then initiating the contract with Capitol Records ; he was also involved in the discovery of Plas Johnson 's. For Nat Cole he wrote All for You (Cole's first successful title in the Billboard charts in 1943), Got a Penny Benny and My Lips Remember Your Kisses , for Frankie Laine Maureen , as well as Sam the Boogie Woogie Man , Shufflin 'the Boogie (interprets a.o. by Albert Ammons and Johnny Alston ) and Chicken Little .

Atlas- 78er by Oscar Moore with The Three Blazers - Fugue in C Major / Melancholy Madeline (1944)

In the mid-1940s, Scherman founded his first record label, Atlas Records, with Art Rupe in Los Angeles. The short-lived Los Angeles-based label recorded recordings of R&B singer Johnny Moore (Tell Me You'll Wait for Me / Melancholy Madeline) , jazz guitarist Oscar Moore (Fugue in C Major) , singer Helen Andrews ( with Red Mack ) and singer Frankie Laine ( You've Changed , 1947), as well as R&B recordings by Luke Jones , Johnny Alston and Red Murrell .

After the short-lived label Webster Records (1949) and the rhythm and blues label Skylark Records, which existed in the early 1950s, he started the jazz label Tampa Records with Irving Shorten in 1955 , which existed until the mid-1960s. In 1960 he founded the company SuJay Productions, Inc., in the following years he worked as a producer for smaller pop labels such as Jet, Besche, Gemini and Interlude. In the early 1970s he worked as a producer for Snuff Garrett, in the 1980s he discovered the gospel singer Sandi Patti . Scherman last lived in St. Augustine , Florida .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Encyclopedia of the Blues , edited by Edward Komara, 2005, p. 36
  2. ↑ http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n2003124601/
  3. ^ Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound , edited by Frank Hoffmann, 2004, p. 2054
  4. ^ Atlas Records at Discogs
  5. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed April 1, 2015)
  6. ^ Billboard Oct. 15, 1949
  7. ^ Billboard Nov. 2, 1968
  8. ^ Billboard Sept. 22, 1973
  9. ↑ http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Robert-Scherman/926503947
personal data
SURNAME Scherman, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scherman, Bob (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American songwriter and record producer
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Brazil (Indiana)
DATE OF DEATH November 2, 2000
Place of death Sun City , California