Jimmy Scalia is a record producer

Record producer

A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

, the official archivist

Archivist

An archivist is a professional who assesses, collects, organizes, preserves, maintains control over, and provides access to information determined to have long-term value. The information maintained by an archivist can be any form of media...

 for the singer Bobby Darin

Bobby Darin

Bobby Darin , born Walden Robert Cassotto, was an American singer, actor and musician.Darin performed in a range of music genres, including pop, rock, jazz, folk and country...

's estate, a disc jockey

Disc jockey

A disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, "disc" referred to phonograph records, not the later Compact Discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.There are several types of disc jockeys...

, writer

Writer

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, and documentarian of American popular

American popular music

American popular music had a profound effect on music across the world. The country has seen the rise of popular styles that have had a significant influence on global culture, including ragtime, blues, jazz, swing, rock, R&B, doo wop, gospel, soul, funk, heavy metal, punk, disco, house, techno,...

 and rock music

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

. He currently serves as an adviser and consultant to Darin's former manager Stephen Blauner

Stephen Blauner

Jules Stephen "Boom Boom" Blauner was Bobby Darin's manager and very close friend, producer, and member of BBS Productions.-Early life:...

 and The Bobby Darin Estate, as well as to Joel Dorn

Joel Dorn

Joel Dorn was an American jazz and R&B music producer and record label entrepreneur. He worked at Atlantic Records, and later founded the 32 Jazz, Label M, and Hyena Records labels...

, Buddy Greco

Buddy Greco

-Biography:He was born Armando Greco in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Greco began playing piano at the age of four. His first professional work was playing with Benny Goodman's band. Most of Greco's work has been in the jazz and pop genres...

 and publicist Harriet Wasser. He was the archivist for Kevin Spacey

Kevin Spacey

Kevin Spacey, CBE is an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and crooner. He grew up in California, and began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s, before being cast in supporting roles in film and television...

's film, Beyond the Sea

Beyond the Sea (film)

Beyond the Sea is a 2004 biographical film based on the life of singer/actor Bobby Darin. Kevin Spacey, who stars in the lead role and used his own singing voice for the musical numbers, co-wrote, directed, and co-produced the film, which takes its title from the Darin song of the same name...

, and provided major footage for the film.

He has been archivist of Bobby Darin's estate.

Music

Scalia was the writer, producer, and disc jockey for the syndicated 30-show radio series entitled The Magic of Bobby Darin. He also served as a consultant for two previous Darin albums, Swinging the Standards and The Best of Bobby Darin. He has produced a new Darin DVD titled Seeing Is Believing.

He was also consultant and adviser for A&E's Biography

Biography (TV series)

Biography is a documentary television series. It was originally a half-hour filmed series produced for CBS by David Wolper from 1961 to 1964 and hosted by Mike Wallace. The A&E Network later re-ran it and has produced new episodes since 1987...

 portrait of Darin, and on David Evanier's biography of Darin, Roman Candle: The Life of Bobby Darin. He also recently guested on WNET

WNET

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's documentary on Darin, Mack Is Back and on the BBC2 radio special on Darin.

Writing

Scalia has written extensively for the publication In-Tune International, including articles in 2002 on Darin in Digital, Keely Smith: Better Than Ever, and on Bobby Darin and Johnny Mercer: The Dynamic Duo.

He has also been an adviser to Jack Behrens

Jack Behrens

Jack Behrens is a Canadian composer, music educator, and writer of American birth. A member of the Canadian League of Composers and an associate of the Canadian Music Centre, his music has been performed throughout North America and on CBC Radio and radio stations in he United States...

 for his book, The Big Band Days: A Memoir and Sourcebook and contributed to Images of America The Copacabana by Kristin Baggelaar.

Scalia is a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame

Songwriters Hall of Fame

The Songwriters Hall of Fame is an arm of the National Academy of Popular Music. It was founded in 1969 by songwriter Johnny Mercer and music publishers Abe Olman and Howie Richmond. The goal is to create a museum but as of April, 2008, the means do not yet exist and so instead it is an online...

 and the Society of Singers

Society of Singers

Society of Singers, known appropriately as "SOS" is the only nonprofit 5013 charitable organization devoted exclusively to helping professional singers.-Foundation:...

.

Jimmy currently lives in New Jersey with his wife, Dina Scalia, and his two sons, Anthony and Jim Scalia.

Discography

Scalia has been a producer of two Darin CDs: Bobby Darin, Aces Back to Back (a CD-DVD

DVD

A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....

 combo from Hyena Records) and Songs from Big Sur (Varese-Saraband), for which he wrote the liner notes

Liner notes

Liner notes are the writings found in booklets which come inserted into the compact disc jewel case or the equivalent packaging for vinyl records and cassettes.-Origin:...

.

Following upon the events of 9/11, Scalia produced and compiled the Darin CD, Songs for America, honoring the rescue workers who lost their lives on that day.

Scalia is compiling another Darin CD which will include many unreleased songs. He is also producing a live Buddy Greco CD from The Sands, as well as working on a Buddy Greco DVD showcasing Buddy's musicianship and style.

External links

• Bobby Darin's website
• Jimmy Scalia's website
• North Jersey - a newspaper article featuring Jimmy Scalia (not available as of April 2010)