13 Facts About Lenny Waronker

Lenny Waronker was born on October 3,1941 and is an American record producer and music industry executive.

Lenny Waronker was born in 1941 in Los Angeles, California and grew up in Pacific Palisades, California.

When Lenny Waronker was 13, his father founded Liberty Records.

Lenny Waronker had little interest in becoming a musician, and gravitated instead towards production.

Notably, in addition to serving as a gofer, Lenny Waronker worked with staff producer Snuff Garrett.

Lenny Waronker was additionally exposed to songwriters including Burt Bacharach, Mort Shuman, Carole King, Gerry Goffin, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, and Doc Pomus.

At Metric, Lenny Waronker produced song demos; out of a fear that the producers would "mess up the song or the arrangement", Lenny Waronker learned how to make the demos sound like fully produced records with limited funds, and how to take advantage of "moments within a song".

Lenny Waronker produced Harpers Bizarre's "The 59th Street Bridge Song," which he hired Leon Russell to arrange.

Rickie Lee Jones, who Lenny Waronker signed on the strength of a four-song demo, was an example of the success of the Warner Bros.

Jones won the Grammy for Best New Artist in 1979 and Lenny Waronker was nominated for a Grammy in the Record of the Year category for his work as the record's producer.

Lenny Waronker rejected Morgado's offer to succeed Ostin as the chairman of Warner Bros.

In 2010, at the invitation of then-Chairman Tom Whalley, Lenny Waronker returned to Warner Bros.

Lenny Waronker serves on the board of directors of the USC Thornton School of Music.