Nick Venet

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Nick Venet (born Nikolas Kostantinos Venetoulis; December 3, 1936 - January 2, 1998) was a record producer who for the majority of his career worked at Capitol Records. As well as being a producer, he headed the A&R division at Capitol. Venet is primarily known for signing the Beach Boys and producing their early material, although Venet signed and produced a number of other important Capitol clients, including Lord Buckley, The Buddies, Glen Campbell, Cashman and West, Jim Croce, Karen Dalton, Bobby Darin, the Four Preps, George Gerdes, Jimmie Haskell, Hearts and Flowers, Hedge and Donna, The Hondells, King Curtis, The Leaves, The Lettermen, Lothar and the Hand People, Mad River, Maffit Davies, Ian Mathews, Les McCann, Fred Neil, Dinsmore Payne, Dory Previn, Lou Rawls, Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks, Billy Lee Riley, Murray Roman, Linda Ronstadt, Harriett Schock, Jack Scott, Maxine Sellers, Serendipity Singers,John Stewart, the Stone Poneys, Allan Taylor, Guthrie Thomas, The Vettes, Wendy Waldman, Sammy Walker, Orson Welles and Timi Yuro.

He died on 2 January 1998 of Burkitt's lymphoma. He is survived by his filmmaker son, Nik Venet III.