Archie Bleyer
Archie Bleyer ( born June 12, 1909 in Corona, Queens, New York City; † March 20, 1989 in Sheboygan, Wisconsin) was an American bandleader, record producer and owner of the record label Cadence Records.
Biography
With seven years Bleyer began to play the piano. In 1927 he went to Columbia College (Columbia University) and wanted to be an electrical engineer. In the second year he changed his profession and took music, but did not complete the training and became an arranger.
In 1934 he founded his own orchestra in Hollywood. Bleyers Bigband released on Brunswick Records; one of the singers of the band was Johnny Mercer, who later became a songwriter and co-founder of Capitol Records.
Bleyer in 1946 musical director at Arthur Godfrey for his radio and television shows, he had held this position until 1953. In 1952, he founded the record label, Cadence Records, the first artist Godfrey's protégé Julius La Rosa was. In addition to the instrumental recordings of his band were also plates of other artists hits on the label. A number -one hit in 1954 having supplied the singing group The Chordettes with " Mister Sandman " on the Archie Bleyer is heard. In the same year, he married Janet Ertel, one of the singers of the Chordettes.
After the initial success with Julius La Rosa's hits Bleyer was able to place in the charts and records of artists like Andy Williams from 1956 and the Everly Brothers. Hits of the Everly Brothers as "Bye Bye Love" and "Wake Up Little Susie " Bleyer produced in Nashville with country session musicians, primarily with Chet Atkins.
As the musical landscape changed with the rise of the Beatles and the British Invasion, Bleyer could not accept that the business was changing. He sold Cadence Records in 1964, including all master tapes to Andy Williams. Today, the Cadence catalog Sony BMG Music belongs.
Archie Bleyer and his Cadence Records were modeled for Phil Spector and his Philles record label.
Archie Bleyer died in 1989, a few months after the death of his wife in their home town of Sheboygan from the effects of Parkinson 's disease.