Jesse Kaye

Label executive and producer. Former talent booking manager for all the Fox Theaters in the US, he was in-house producer/engineer for MGM Records since 1947. He worked on soundtracks ranging from Singin' In The Rain (1952) to 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and with many names from movies and music, including Frank Zappa, Shirley Bassey, Rosemary Clooney, Billy Eckstine, Connie Francis, Harry James, Michel Legrand, Sam the Sham, Lalo Schifrin and Hank Williams. He was one of the founding committee members of National Academy Of Recording Arts & Sciences. He retired from the recording industry in the late seventies, and passed away in February 1990.