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Along the Cherry Lane

Tales from the Life of Music Industry Legend Milton Okun

Along the Cherry Lane( )
Author: Sparks, Richard
Okun, Milton
Read by: Sparks, Richard
Culp, Jason
Carlin, Amanda
Holdridge, Lee
Sanders, Fred
Contribution by: Okun, Milton
ISBN:979-8-200-73794-9
Publication Date:Nov 2021
Publisher:Hal Leonard Corporation
Book Format:CD-Audio
List Price:USD $29.95
Book Description:

John Denver said, "I have a producer who looks like an accountant, and an accountant who looks like a producer." Soberly dressed, unflashy, and a trained classical musician, in the golden age of the music business Milt Okun stood out by not standing out. His legacy does that for him. He discovered and launched John Denver, and mentored him throughout his career. He created arrangements for Peter, Paul and Mary that the trio performed for half a century. He brought Placido Domingo a...
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Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.3 x 7.5 Inches
Author Biography
Sparks, Richard (Author)
Milton Theodore Okun was born in Brooklyn, New York on December 23, 1923. He spent summers at a resort his parents ran in the Adirondacks, where singers like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie performed. He received a bachelor's degree in music education from New York University and a master's degree in music from Oberlin College. He worked as a junior high school music teacher for years, recorded several folk albums of his own, and worked with Harry Belafonte during a summer tour. He stopped teaching when he became a pianist, conductor, and arranger for Belafonte in the 1950s.

Okun founded Cherry Lane Music Publishing in 1960. He was a producer and arranger for Peter, Paul and Mary, John Denver, and Plácido Domingo. He also produced Laura Nyro's first album More Than a New Discovery and the Starland Vocal Band's hit Afternoon Delight, and conducted Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, and the orchestra that accompanied him, on his album Haneshama Lach. Okun he wrote a memoir entitled Along the Cherry Lane: Tales from the Life of Music Industry Legend Milton Okun with his son-in-law Richard Sparks. He died on November 15, 2016 at the age of 92.

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