Richard Perry, a hitmaking record producer with a flair for both standards and contemporary sounds, died Tuesday. He was 82.
Richard Perry, a hitmaking record producer with a flair for both standards and contemporary sounds whose many successes included Carly Simon's "You're So Vain," Rod Stewart's "The Great American Songbook" series and a Ringo Starr album featuring all four Beatles, died Tuesday. He was 82.
Perry was a onetime drummer, oboist and doo-wop singer who proved at home with a wide variety of musical styles, the rare producer to have No. 1 hits on the pop, R&B, dance and country charts. He was on hand for Harry Nilsson's "Without You" and The Pointer Sisters' "I'm So Excited," Tiny Tim's novelty smash "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" and the Willie Nelson-Julio Iglesias lounge standard "To All the Girls I've Loved Before.
In Stewart's autobiography, "Rod," he would remember Perry's home in West Hollywood as "the scene of much late-night skulduggery through the 1970s and beyond, and a place you knew you could always fall into at the end of an evening for a full-blown knees-up with drink and music and dancing."He had produced a track on Starr's first solo album, "Sentimental Journey," and grown closer to him through Nilsson and other mutual friends.
Perry had helped make pop history the year before as producer of "You're So Vain," which he would call the nearest he came to a perfect record. Simon's scathing ballad about an unnamed lover, with Voormann's bass runs kicking off the song and Jagger joining on the chorus, hit No. 1 in 1972 and began a long-term debate over Simon's intended target. Perry's answer would echo Simon's own belated response.
"We were at a back table in our favorite restaurant as we exchanged ideas and wrote them down on a napkin," Perry wrote in his memoir. Stewart softly sang the options. "As I sat there and listened to him sing, it was clear that we both sensed we were on to something," Perry added.
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