Stan Cornyn
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Stan Cornyn (born July 8, 1933) is the author of Exploding: The Highs, Hits, Hype, Heroes, and Hustlers of the Warner Music Group (ISBN 978-0380978526). He also has written three privately-published family genealogy books (all in the Library of Congress).
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[edit] Career
Cornyn began working for Warner Bros. Records in 1958. He left the Warner Music Group in 1990 to live an office-free life. During his Warner years, he'd advanced to Executive VP of Warner Bros. Records; then to Senior VP of the Warner Music Group; and finally Founder and CEO of Warner New Media within Time-Warner. He is widely remembered for his years heading up Warner-Reprise's Creative Services department, writing innovative ads and other marketing approaches.
He was awarded the Grammy Award for Best Album Notes in 1966 for Frank Sinatra's Strangers in the Night and again in 1967 for Sinatra at the Sands. He was nominated in all for five Grammy Awards.
He co-authored the screenplay for Warner Bros.' 1970 film The Phynx.
In 1991 he was asked to lead the short-lived computer games division of Media Vision, Inc.
[edit] Education
Cornyn is a graduate of Monrovia High School, Pomona College, attended Yale Graduate School, and received a Masters in Theatre from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1962.
[edit] Family
Cornyn was twice married:
• To the late Gail MacCrystall, by whom Cornyn has son Christopher Cornyn (m. Robyn Freedman, with daughter Kate and son Shay Cornyn); residents of Woodside, CA. • To Theadora Davitt-Cornyn, by whom son Thomas Guy Cornyn II, Chief Information Technology officer at Santa Monica's Angeles Clinic.
Stan Cornyn currently resides in Carpinteria, California with longtime companion Meg Barbour, where Cornyn continues to write.
[edit] External links
- "Exploding!" official website, which includes examples of Cornyn's ads and a roster of Warner Music alumni.
- Brad Bigelow, "King of Liner Notes," Space Age Pop.
- Interview with Cornyn on dabelly.com.
