Performance · Production
David West
also recorded as Norman Newell
David West is credited on 501 releases across 128 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1959–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
501
Credits
128
Albums
8
Decades active
21
In collections
Biography
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B. 25 January 1919 in Plaistow, Essex (now Greater London), England.
D. 1 December 2004 in Rustington, West Sussex, England.
British record producer in the 1950s and 1960s, songwriter and record executive. Newell was particularly known for his recorded productions of West End musicals. Newell was the head of EMI's Columbia label for many of the label's most successful years. He used this alias as songwriter and lyricist.
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
501 releases · 128 albums · active 1959–2025
- Performance · 499
- Production · 5
- Engineering · 4
Studios: Olmsted Sound Studios · A&R Studios · Broadway Recording Studios · Federal Records Studio
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
25th Anniversary Album
1978
The Petula Clark Album
1972
The Best Of Floyd Cramer Volume 2
1968
The Best Of The Lettermen
1966
Portrait Of My Love
1965
Mondo Cane #2
1964
Diamonds: The Best Of Shirley Bassey
1988
Heart Breakers - 20 Golden Greats From Matt Monro
1980
The Alma Cogan Collection
1976
Bridge Over Troubled Water
1974
A Drop In The Ocean
1971
Golden Hits Of Shirley Bassey
1968
Marin
1961
The Ultimate Shirley Bassey
2005
The Second Album Of The Very Best Of
1975
It's A Happening World
1967
Shirley Bassey Favourites
1963
Shirley Bassey
1961
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Shirley Bassey
- Petula Clark
- Matt Monro
- Alma Cogan
- Danny Williams
- The Tokens
- Gene McDaniels
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