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Bob Thiele (July 27, 1922 – January 30, 1996) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 record producer
Record producer

In the music industry, a record producer has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, Audio mixing and audio mastering processes....
. His wife was the singer Teresa Brewer
Teresa Brewer

Teresa Brewer was an United States pop and jazz singer who was one of the most popular female singers of the 1950s. Born Theresa Breuer in Toledo, Ohio, Brewer died of a neuromuscular disease at her home in New Rochelle at the age of 76....
.

He hosted a jazz radio show when he was 14. He also played clarinet and led a band in the New York area. At 17 he founded the Signature Records
Signature Records

Signature Records was a mid-20th century United States based record label. Noted Signature recording artists included Anita O'Day, Coleman Hawkins, Eddie Lawrence, Ray Anthony, Barbara McNair, Monica Lewis, Dickie Thompson, and Alan Dale ....
 label and recorded many jazz greats, including Lester Young
Lester Young

Lester Willis Young , nicknamed 'Prez', was an United States jazz tenor saxophonist and clarinetist. He was also known to play the trumpet, violin, and drums....
, Errol Garner and, in 1943, Coleman Hawkins
Coleman Hawkins

Coleman Randolph Hawkins , nicknamed "Hawk" and sometimes "Bean", was a prominent jazz Tenor saxophone.He is commonly regarded as the first important and influential jazz musician to use the instrument: Joachim E....
. Signature folded in 1948 and he joined Decca Records
Decca Records

Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 in music by Edward Lewis . Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; later the link with the British company was broken for several decades....
 in 1952, running its Coral Records
Coral Records

For the label that owned Coral Records, see Decca Records.Coral Records was a Decca Records subsidiary formed in 1949. It recorded pop artists McGuire Sisters and Teresa Brewer as well as rock 'n' roller Buddy Holly....
 subsidiary.

He took over as head of Impulse! Records
Impulse! Records

Impulse! Records was an American based jazz record label, originally launched in 1960 in music by Creed Taylor as a subsidiary of ABC-Paramount Records in New York City....
 from 1961-69 after founder Creed Taylor
Creed Taylor

Creed Taylor is an United States record producer. He is the founder of two jazz record labels, Impulse! Records and CTI Records. He was also a producer of note at Verve Records and is widely acknowledged for bringing major bossa nova talent from Brazil to record in the U.S....
 went to run Verve Records
Verve Records

Verve Records is an United States Jazz record label now owned by the Universal Music Group. It was founded by Norman Granz in 1956, absorbing the catalogues of his earlier labels: Norgran Records and Clef Records and material which had been licensed to Mercury Records previously....
 and signed, and recorded such artists as John Coltrane
John Coltrane

John William Coltrane was an United States jazz saxophonist and composer.Starting in bebop and hard bop, Coltrane later pioneered free jazz. He influenced generations of other musicians, and remains one of the most significant tenor saxophonists in jazz history....
, Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus was an United States jazz bassist, composer, bandleader, and occasional pianist. He was also known for his activism against racism....
, Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie [/g?'l?spi/] was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, singer, and composer. He was born in Cheraw, South Carolina, the youngest of nine children....
, Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins

Theodore Walter "Sonny" Rollins is an United States jazz tenor saxophonist. Rollins' long, prolific career began at the age of 11, and he was playing with piano legend Thelonious Monk before reaching the age of 20....
, Archie Shepp
Archie Shepp

Archie Shepp is a prominent American jazz saxophonist. Shepp is best known for his passionately Afrocentrism music of the late 1960s which focused on highlighting the injustices faced by the African Race , as well as for his work with the New York Contemporary Five, Horace Parlan, and his collaborations with his "New Thing" contemporaries,...
, Albert Ayler
Albert Ayler

Albert Ayler was an American avant-garde jazz Saxophone, singer and composer.Ayler was among the most primal of the free jazz musicians of the 1960s; critic John Litweiler wrote that "never before or since has there been such naked aggression in jazz" He possessed a deep blistering tone—achieved by using the stiff plastic Fibrecane...
 and others.






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Bob Thiele (July 27, 1922 – January 30, 1996) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 record producer
Record producer

In the music industry, a record producer has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, Audio mixing and audio mastering processes....
. His wife was the singer Teresa Brewer
Teresa Brewer

Teresa Brewer was an United States pop and jazz singer who was one of the most popular female singers of the 1950s. Born Theresa Breuer in Toledo, Ohio, Brewer died of a neuromuscular disease at her home in New Rochelle at the age of 76....
.

He hosted a jazz radio show when he was 14. He also played clarinet and led a band in the New York area. At 17 he founded the Signature Records
Signature Records

Signature Records was a mid-20th century United States based record label. Noted Signature recording artists included Anita O'Day, Coleman Hawkins, Eddie Lawrence, Ray Anthony, Barbara McNair, Monica Lewis, Dickie Thompson, and Alan Dale ....
 label and recorded many jazz greats, including Lester Young
Lester Young

Lester Willis Young , nicknamed 'Prez', was an United States jazz tenor saxophonist and clarinetist. He was also known to play the trumpet, violin, and drums....
, Errol Garner and, in 1943, Coleman Hawkins
Coleman Hawkins

Coleman Randolph Hawkins , nicknamed "Hawk" and sometimes "Bean", was a prominent jazz Tenor saxophone.He is commonly regarded as the first important and influential jazz musician to use the instrument: Joachim E....
. Signature folded in 1948 and he joined Decca Records
Decca Records

Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 in music by Edward Lewis . Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; later the link with the British company was broken for several decades....
 in 1952, running its Coral Records
Coral Records

For the label that owned Coral Records, see Decca Records.Coral Records was a Decca Records subsidiary formed in 1949. It recorded pop artists McGuire Sisters and Teresa Brewer as well as rock 'n' roller Buddy Holly....
 subsidiary.

He took over as head of Impulse! Records
Impulse! Records

Impulse! Records was an American based jazz record label, originally launched in 1960 in music by Creed Taylor as a subsidiary of ABC-Paramount Records in New York City....
 from 1961-69 after founder Creed Taylor
Creed Taylor

Creed Taylor is an United States record producer. He is the founder of two jazz record labels, Impulse! Records and CTI Records. He was also a producer of note at Verve Records and is widely acknowledged for bringing major bossa nova talent from Brazil to record in the U.S....
 went to run Verve Records
Verve Records

Verve Records is an United States Jazz record label now owned by the Universal Music Group. It was founded by Norman Granz in 1956, absorbing the catalogues of his earlier labels: Norgran Records and Clef Records and material which had been licensed to Mercury Records previously....
 and signed, and recorded such artists as John Coltrane
John Coltrane

John William Coltrane was an United States jazz saxophonist and composer.Starting in bebop and hard bop, Coltrane later pioneered free jazz. He influenced generations of other musicians, and remains one of the most significant tenor saxophonists in jazz history....
, Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus was an United States jazz bassist, composer, bandleader, and occasional pianist. He was also known for his activism against racism....
, Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie [/g?'l?spi/] was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, singer, and composer. He was born in Cheraw, South Carolina, the youngest of nine children....
, Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins

Theodore Walter "Sonny" Rollins is an United States jazz tenor saxophonist. Rollins' long, prolific career began at the age of 11, and he was playing with piano legend Thelonious Monk before reaching the age of 20....
, Archie Shepp
Archie Shepp

Archie Shepp is a prominent American jazz saxophonist. Shepp is best known for his passionately Afrocentrism music of the late 1960s which focused on highlighting the injustices faced by the African Race , as well as for his work with the New York Contemporary Five, Horace Parlan, and his collaborations with his "New Thing" contemporaries,...
, Albert Ayler
Albert Ayler

Albert Ayler was an American avant-garde jazz Saxophone, singer and composer.Ayler was among the most primal of the free jazz musicians of the 1960s; critic John Litweiler wrote that "never before or since has there been such naked aggression in jazz" He possessed a deep blistering tone—achieved by using the stiff plastic Fibrecane...
 and others. Thiele's most successful hit song was with Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong

Louis Daniel Armstrong , nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer.Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an innovative cornet and trumpet player, Armstrong was a foundational influence on jazz, shifting the music's focus from collective improvisation to solo performers....
's "What a Wonderful World
What a Wonderful World

"What a Wonderful World" is a song by Bob Thiele and George David Weiss. It was first recorded by Louis Armstrong and released as a single in 1968, and was inducted in the List of Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients Q-Z in 1999....
", which he co-wrote with George David Weiss
George David Weiss

George David Weiss is an United States songwriter and President of the Songwriters Guild of America....
.

When Impulse! became part of the ABC Records
ABC Records

ABC Records started in 1955 in music as ABC-Paramount Records, the record label of Am-Par Record Corporation , formed in New York City in 1955. In addition to producing records directly, ABC licensed finished masters from independent record producer and purchased regionally- released records for national distribution....
 group, Thiele was often brought in to produce some of the artists on the company's BluesWay label. He produced the albums that graduated blues giant B.B. King toward the mainstream, including Lucille (1967), Live and Well (1968), and Completely Well (1969), the last biggest seller of King's career to that point. He also produced BluesWay recordings by John Lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker was an influential United States post-war blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter born in Coahoma County, Mississippi near Clarksdale, Mississippi....
, T-Bone Walker
T-Bone Walker

Aaron Thibeaux Walker or T-Bone Walker or Oak Cliff T-Bone was an United States blues guitarist, singer, pianist and songwriter who was one of the most important pioneers of the electric guitar....
, and others.

Thiele later formed his own record label, Flying Dutchman Records, which is now part of BMG
BMG

Bertelsmann Music Group, , was a division of Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Sony Corporation of America on October 1, 2008....
 or Sony BMG. In 1995 he released a memoir titled What a Wonderful World.

Some of the songs Thiele wrote are credited to George Douglas or Stanley Clayton. These are pseudonyms Thiele used, made from the names of his uncles, Stanley, Clayton, George, and Douglas.

Discography


Do The Love (abc records, abc-615)

LP album
LP album

Long play record albums are 33? rpm Polyvinyl chloride Gramophone records , generally either 10 or 12 inches in diameter. They were first introduced in 1948, and served as a primary release format for Sound recording and reproduction until the compact disc began to significantly displace them by 1988, and eventually leaving the mainstr...
 by Bob Thiele & his New Happy Times Orchestra feat. The Sunflower Singers & Steve Allen

Tracklist:
  • Do The Love
  • All You Need Is Love
    All You Need Is Love

    "All You Need Is Love" is a song written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon/McCartney. It was first performed by The Beatles on Our World, the first live global television link....
  • My Blue Heaven
  • I Just Don't Know What To Say
  • Here Comes Sgt. Pepper
  • Jet Me To Frisco
  • When Day Is Done
  • Green
  • The Sunshine Of Love
  • Goodnight Sweetheart


Bibliography

  • Bob Thiele (1995) What a Wonderful World: A Lifetime of Recordings, Oxford University Press