Performance · Production
Perry Botkin Jr.
real name Perry Lafayette Botkin Jr.
composer, producer, arranger, and musician
New York City, United States · 1933-04-16 – 2021-01-18
Perry Botkin Jr. is credited on 737 albums across 3,334 pressings tracked on Gatefold, active 1957–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
737
Albums
3,334
Pressings
8
Decades active
222
In collections
Biography
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Perry "Bunny" Botkin, Jr. (born April 16, 1933 in New York City, New York; died January 18, 2021 in Burbank, California) was an American composer, producer, arranger, and musician. He has composed music to many 70-80's movies, often working with his partner Barry De Vorzon. Son of Perry Botkin and brother of Ted Ellis.
He's also Academy Award nominee from year 1971 and a Grammy Winner from 1977 of "Best Instrumental Arrangement" on song "Nadia's Theme".
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
737 albums · 3,334 pressings · active 1957–2024
- Performance · 4,825
- Production · 504
- Other credits · 126
Studios: RCA Victor's Music Center Of The World · RCA's Music Center Of The World · American Recording Co. · Gold Star Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.

A Song For You
1972

Baby Driver (Music From The Motion Picture)
2017

The Electric Prunes
1967

River Deep-Mountain High
1966

Yesterday Once More
1985

Stoney End
1971

Pandemonium Shadow Show
1967

Back To Mono (1958-1969)
1991

Reflections (A Retrospective)
2006

Sandman
1976

Playing Possum
1975

10 To 23
1969

No More Drama
2001

If I Were A Carpenter
1994

Super Girls
1979

Duit On Mon Dei
1975

Bongo Rock
1973

Roots
1968

You Light Up My Life
1977

Phil Spector's Greatest Hits
1977

Any Way You Like It
1976

Freedom For The Stallion
1973

Now
1972

Local Gentry
1968
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Ed Ames
- The Lettermen
- Melanie (2)
- Glenn Yarbrough
- Harpers Bizarre
- José Feliciano
- The Mike Curb Congregation
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