Best 60s Record Producer?

[elperromagico]

Poll question: Best 60s Record Producer?

This is mainly a pop/R&B list, I admit. I'm sure I'm going to leave out a dozen choices, but that's life, isn't it? I'll include an Other option all the same.

[Wat_Tyler]

1. Tom Dowd.

[elperromagico]

4. Like I said, I knew I'd leave about a dozen people out.

There were too many great producers in the 60s to name all of them in a ten choice poll.

[Wat_Tyler]

5. Tom Dowd.

:D

[elperromagico]

7. Say it all you like. It won't help you any.

:D

[Wat_Tyler]

10. That's OK.

Tom Dowd. :evilgrin:

[Character Assassin]

19. Tom Dowd.

[elperromagico]

22. All right. All right. I'll replace someone without any votes with Dowd.

Happy now?

[Wat_Tyler]

24. Dude.

You cave too easily. :evilfrown:

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25. Dude, I hate being called dude.

:D

Man, I don't even know what the fuck Tom Dowd produced. :shrug:

[Wat_Tyler]

26. Dude. Edumicate yourself.

http://www.aes.org/sections/pnw/dowd.htm

[elperromagico]

28. Oh, he produced the Rascals?

Shit, he does belong on the list! *bangs head against wall*

[HEyHEY]

2. We all know it was that murdering bastard Phil Spector

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

14. Hear, hear!!!

Yes, he has spent most of his life as mad as a March Hare(I have met him briefly. Crazy and really creepy.). That said, he invented shit that Martin tried, and failed, to copy. Spector was both seminal and pivotal in the production of modern music.

There are few REAL originals in rock music. Jeff Beck is one. Phil Spector is a real, stand-alone original.

[Richardo]

3. I'm torn between Martin and Wilson

...but Martin pushed a LOT of envelopes.

[Wat_Tyler]

6. What? Was he a mailman too?

What a workaholic!

[Richardo]

17. Bwahaha! Yes: He got the idea recording the cover of "Please Mr. Postman"

:D

[Surf Cowboy]

8. Ever heard of Barry Gordy and Smokey Robinson?

They were really only responsible for about 60% of Motown's hits.

[elperromagico]

15. Holland and Dozier produced all of the Supremes hits,

which were the biggest Motown hits. And yes, I'll add Smokey. It's only fair.

[Magrittes Pipe]

9. JOE MEEK!!!

:O

[Wat_Tyler]

13. You're just a Meek geek.

[Squeech]

11. I voted for Tom Wilson

In addition to Dylan, he produced the debut albums by the Velvet Underground and the Mothers of Invention.

[bobthedrummer]

12. I voted for The Fifth Beatle, Sir George Martin, in this poll.

:thumbsup:

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

16. The Zombies - The Care of Cell 44

[calico1]

18. Berry Gordy.

Motown was big in the 60's.

[elperromagico]

20. Gordy did not produce many of the big 60s hits.

He was mainly a record exec by that point.

I've included Smokey, Holland/Dozier, and Whitfield, who produced many of the biggest Motown hits.

[calico1]

21. I stand corrected. n/t

[Tom Kitten]

23. I voted for George Martin

But have to mention George "Shadow" Morton, who produced the Shangri-Las, Janis Ian, Vanilla Fudge, the Blues Project, Laura Nyro, Mott the Hoople and the New York Dolls, among others.

[XNASA]

27. Shel Talmy

The Who, The Kinks, The Creation, Small Faces.....

Even Chad & Jeremy's 'A Summer Song'.

His story is a great one. He basically BS'd his way into the London recording scene. And..........he's from Chicago.