Lewis Merenstein
Biography
Lewis Merenstein (October 23, 1934 – September 6, 2016) was an American record producer, most famous as the producer of the Van Morrison album Astral Weeks, and as executive producer for Moondance, Morrison's 1970 album. Astral Weeks was listed as #19 on the Rolling Stone Magazine's The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2003. In November 2006, when CNN published their list of The All-Time 100 Albums, Astral Weeks was on the list, along with Moondance.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Moondance
1970
Astral Weeks
1968
The Best Of Van Morrison
1990
Vintage Violence
1970
The Alternative Moondance
2018
Stone Blues
1968
Keep Me In Mind
1970
Cristo Redentor
1968
Pata Pata
1967
Purple Crush
1977
Glass Harp
1970
Two Jews Blues
1969
The Best Of Del Shannon
1967
Disco Symphony / Baby Without Your Love
1979
Synergy
1971
Credited work
1,035 releases · 119 albums · active 1956–2026
- Production · 1,086
- Performance · 35
- Other credits · 18
- Engineering · 14
Studios: Electric Lady Studios · RCA's Music Center Of The World · Total Experience Studios · Sigma Sound Studios, New York
Frequent collaborators
- Van Morrison
- Various
- Cass Elliot
- Glass Harp
- Turley Richards
- Michael Wendroff
- Dorothy Morrison
- Phyllis Hyman