Robert "Bob" Thiele was an American record producer who worked on numerous classic jazz albums and record labels.
10 Facts About Bob Thiele
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Bob Thiele was born in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York, United States, on July 27,1922.
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Bob Thiele hosted a jazz radio show when he was 14.
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Bob Thiele played clarinet and led a band in the New York area.
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Signature ceased activities in the late-1940s and Thiele joined American Decca in 1952, running its Coral subsidiary.
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Bob Thiele produced BluesWay recordings by John Lee Hooker, T-Bone Walker, and others.
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Bob Thiele later formed his own record label, Flying Dutchman, which is part of Sony Music Entertainment.
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Later in his career, Bob Thiele formed the Doctor Jazz label in 1983; it appears to have ceased trading around 1989 after Columbia was bought by Sony.
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Bob Thiele remained active in the music business until the end of his life, including the co-writing of the song "You," which was recorded by Bonnie Raitt and appeared on her 1994 album, Longing in Their Hearts.
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Bob Thiele died of kidney failure, according to a friend, at Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan on January 30,1996.