Albhy Galuten

Albhy Galuten

Background information
Birth name	Alan Bruce Galuten
Born	(1947-12-27)December 27, 1947 Hartsdale, NY
Occupation(s)	Record producer, composer, musician, orchestrator, songwriter, technology executive
Instruments	Piano, Guitar
Associated acts	Bee Gees, Andy Gibb, Gibb-Galuten-Richardson, Jellyfish, Olivia Newton-John, Barbra Streisand, Dionne Warwick, Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton, Samantha Sang, Diana Ross, Eric Clapton, Titanic Love Affair, Wishbone Ash, Bill Wyman, Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart, Aretha Franklin, Eagles, Kenny Loggins, Petula Clark, No Doubt

Albhy Galuten is an American technology executive and futurist, Grammy Award-winning record producer, composer, musician, orchestrator and conductor. He has numerous inventions and has produced 18 number 1 singles with songs and albums selling over 100,000,000 copies. He has won two Grammy Awards, a Dramalogue award and a BMI award. He also teamed up with Barry Gibb and Karl Richardson under the name Gibb-Galuten-Richardson.

Singles include 13 number ones in the US:

Other hit singles include Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door (Eric Clapton), Love So Right (Bee Gees), Guilty (Barbra Streisand), What Kind of Fool (Barbra Streisand), Emotion (Samantha Sang), I Can’t Help It (Olivia Newton-John & Andy Gibb), Heartbreaker (Dionne Warwick), Chain Reaction (Diana Ross), Eaten Alive (Diana Ross), Eyes That See In the Dark (Kenny Rogers)

Career

Record Producer

Galuten's record productions include the soundtracks Saturday Night Fever, the theme song "Grease" and albums for Jellyfish, Olivia Newton-John, Barbra Streisand (Guilty), Dionne Warwick (Heartbreaker), Andy Gibb, Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton, Samantha Sang, Diana Ross, Eric Clapton, Titanic Love Affair and the Bee Gees.

Musician/Arranger

Galuten also contributed playing or orchestration skills to recording artists Wishbone Ash, Bill Wyman, Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart, Aretha Franklin, Eagles, Kenny Loggins, Petula Clark and No Doubt (director of paradigm). He is also credited with playing the first synthsizer in reggae.^[1]

Technology Executive

He is currently a technology executive at Sony and has been an executive at Universal Music Group (Senior Vice President, Advanced Technology) and Ion (Vice President, New Technology). In his various roles as a technology executive Galuten has filed patents, developed corporate technology strategy, negotiated technology deals and worked in the development of standards including the Content Reference Forum (Chairman) and the Coral Consortium (Vice President).

Inventor

As an inventor, Galuten is noted for having created the first commercial drum loop ("Stayin' Alive", Bee Gees),^[1] the enhanced CD and has numerous patents issued or pending on content distribution and resolution, customer care, User Interface design and next generation epidemiology using large scale networked data.

Issued Patents

7,574,434 – Method and system for navigating and selecting media from large data sets

7,624,046 – Electronic music/media distribution system

8,626,732 – Method and system for navigating and selecting media from large data sets

6,918,059 – Method and system for handling errors in a distributed computer system

Published Patents

20020123956 – Method and system for creating and verifying derivative contract terms using party relationships

20080181080 – Distributing media using a portable digital device compatible with optical drive devices

20090112657 – Repository infrastructure to store transaction information for providing customer service

20090119784 – Out of band license acquisition including content identification

20090300767 – Method for out of band license acquisition associated with content redistributed using link protection

20110307393 – Distributed customer support credits

20130332195 – System and methods for epidemiological data collection, management and display

References

↑ "Caribbean News - First Synthesizer in Reggae".

External links

Berklee
Brothers Gibb - Interview
Song list
Albhy Galuten at the All Music Guide
Playboy Article – The Rise and Fall and Rise of the Brothers Gibb

Grammy Award for Album of the Year

1959–1975	The Music from Peter Gunn – Henry Mancini (1959) Come Dance with Me! – Frank Sinatra (1960) The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart – Bob Newhart (1961) Judy at Carnegie Hall – Judy Garland (1962) The First Family – Vaughn Meader (1963) The Barbra Streisand Album – Barbra Streisand (1964) Getz/Gilberto – Stan Getz, João Gilberto (1965) September of My Years – Frank Sinatra (1966) A Man and His Music – Frank Sinatra (1967) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band – The Beatles (1968) By the Time I Get to Phoenix – Glen Campbell (1969) Blood, Sweat & Tears – Blood, Sweat & Tears (1970) Bridge over Troubled Water – Simon & Garfunkel (1971) Tapestry – Carole King (1972) The Concert for Bangladesh (album) – Various (1973) Innervisions – Stevie Wonder (1974) Fulfillingness' First Finale – Stevie Wonder (1975)

1976–2000	Still Crazy After All These Years – Paul Simon (1976) Songs in the Key of Life – Stevie Wonder (1977) Rumours – Fleetwood Mac (1978) Saturday Night Fever – Various (1979) 52nd Street – Billy Joel (1980) Christopher Cross – Christopher Cross (1981) Double Fantasy – John Lennon and Yoko Ono (1982) Toto IV – Toto (1983) Thriller – Michael Jackson (1984) Can't Slow Down – Lionel Richie (1985) No Jacket Required – Phil Collins (1986) Graceland – Paul Simon (1987) The Joshua Tree – U2 (1988) Faith – George Michael (1989) Nick of Time – Bonnie Raitt (1990) Back on the Block – Quincy Jones and various artists (1991) Unforgettable... with Love– Natalie Cole (1992) Unplugged – Eric Clapton (1993) The Bodyguard – Whitney Houston (1994) MTV Unplugged – Tony Bennett (1995) Jagged Little Pill – Alanis Morissette (1996) Falling into You – Celine Dion (1997) Time Out of Mind – Bob Dylan (1998) The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill – Lauryn Hill (1999) Supernatural – Santana (2000)

2001–present	Two Against Nature – Steely Dan (2001) O Brother, Where Art Thou? Soundtrack (2002) Come Away with Me – Norah Jones (2003) Speakerboxxx/The Love Below – Outkast (2004) Genius Loves Company – Ray Charles and various artists (2005) How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb – U2 (2006) Taking the Long Way – Dixie Chicks (2007) River: The Joni Letters – Herbie Hancock (2008) Raising Sand – Robert Plant & Alison Krauss (2009) Fearless – Taylor Swift (2010) The Suburbs – Arcade Fire (2011) 21 – Adele (2012) Babel – Mumford & Sons (2013) Random Access Memories – Daft Punk (2014) Morning Phase – Beck (2015)