Hal Willner RIP

Hal Willner Dead: ‘SNL’ Music Mainstay, Record Producer Had COVID-19 – Variety

 

RIP

 

Wow, I have so many great tribute-to-albums produced by him.... And that fantastic album of Gavin Friday ('Each Man Kills the Thing He Loves') which he had also produced...

A great loss.

I read here he had finished a tribute-to-album for T Rex (with acts like U2), so am very curious when this will be released.

RIP Hal Willner

 

I played this just the other day. William S. Burroughs' peerless 1990 album, Dead City Radio, produced by Hal Willner (also engineering) and Nelson Lyon. A remarkable synergy of spoken word with accompanying music and soundscapes. One of my all-time favourite albums.

 

That's horrible news. The Mingus and the first Kurt Weill record are pretty essential and his Freedom Rides show in London in 2012 was excellent - especially Bill Bragg channelling Big Bill Broonzy.

 

Hal Willner also organized the "Greetings From Tim Buckley" event at St. Ann's Church, NYC, in 1991 - which essentially became Jeff Buckley's "coming out" party as a singer.

 

Big fan of his Disney & Kurt Weill albums.
RIP, Mr. Willner.

 

RIP - I‘m a big fan of the “Lost in the stars“ album

 

Stay Awake is really good.

 

I have Lost In The Stars on vinyl and CD (more songs) and play them often.

Thanks for the music. RIP.

 

Oh man. He's up there with his collaborator and friend Lou now. RiP. Way too early.

 

RIP

 

I have thousands of records. I have been buying them since I was 12. yet ... I have nothing of Willner.
but it is never too late. if he really was so good .. recommend me something. thanks.

 

Ugh. Awful. Loved the Monk, Weill and Disney projects. Recently played the Mingus several times. (They have all been in my collection since they came out.) And then there was TV's vibrant & edgy "Night Music." A musical hero.

 

Very sad news... His production of Marianne Faithfull's "Strange Weather" was perfection...

His "various artists" albums always included an intriguing group of collaborators!

May he R.I.P.

 

Oh man RIP boo sad news.

 

Any of the recommended albums posted in the thread so far will do, but my personal favourite is Lou Reed's transcendent Berlin: Live at St. Ann's Warehouse. Double LP, with woodwinds and chorus conducted by original orchestrator Bob Ezrin, and Anhoni's jaw dropping rendition of "Candy Says" as an encore

 

The final tweet on Willner’s account was in support of another coronavirus sufferer, John Prine. “Sending love to John Prine who is in critical condition with COVID-19,” he wrote. “John is a music giant. His songs are as good as it gets and he’s a spellbinding performer. Send good thoughts his way. ‘I sound like that old guy down the street that doesn’t chase you out of his apple tree.'”
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RIP Hal. Always art before commerce. We need more like you.

 

I've only heard of the name through Stay Awake and that’s it.

 

damn.. sad to hear this.

 

His Amacord Nino Rota album is a classic in my book. My favorite concept / tribute album. Carla Bley. A very young Wynton and Branford. Then unknown Bill Frisell. Carla Bley. Jaki Byard. Chris Stein and Debbie Harry. Lots of interesting combinations of players and it all hangs together so well.

 

Weird Nightmare has been one of my very favorite albums - of any musical style or format - since its release. One of the greatest albums ever made.

 

Sad day. I read somewhere that while growing up in Philly,WDAS-FM was a source of enlightenment that the many types of music played during their hippy-dippy days played a part of his appreciation of so much that he would bring to his work. In 1971,while working overnights in an envelope factory and 'DAS was on lots. That ,and a kid who loved getting high on breaks and screwing-off(we through him into a paper baler once after he was sleeping one off in a collection bin that's what got me through that summer. So I imagined Hal & I listening to the same stuff and loving his results.
Suggestions? Just look for his name on an album and bring home. Goodbye to a guy I always wanted to meet.

 

He arranged the music for this...right?

 

He also complied THIS, too....right?