Performance · Production
Jim Kale
real name Michael James Kale
Winnipeg, Canada
Jim Kale is credited on 521 releases across 142 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1962–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
521
Credits
142
Albums
7
Decades active
221
In collections
Biography
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Canadian bass player and one of the founding members of the Guess Who. Kale was born on August 11, 1943 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
521 releases · 142 albums · active 1962–2025
- Performance · 683
- Production · 8
Studios: Battery Studios, London · A&R Studios · Ghetto Lounge Studios · Compass Point Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.

The Best Of The Guess Who
1971

Greatest Hits
2000

American Woman
1970

5
1998

Austin Powers - The Spy Who Shagged Me (Music From The Motion Picture)
1999

Superstars Of The 70's
1973

Share The Land
1970

Wheatfield Soul
1969

Canned Wheat
1969

The Greatest Of The Guess Who
1977

Live At The Paramount
1972

One Vice At A Time
1982

American Woman / No Sugar Tonight
1970

Rembrandt Pussyhorse / Cream Corn From The Socket Of Davis
1986

Rockin'
1972

Greatest Hits
2002

Now That's What I Call Music! 3
1999

Stayed Awake All Night / The Best Of Krokus
1989

The Way They Were
1976

Classic Rock Gold
2005

All This For A Song
1979

Wild One!
1972

Shakin' All Over
1972

So Long, Bannatyne
1971
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- The Guess Who
- Lenny Kravitz
- Krokus
- Valeria Mongardini
- The Guess Who?
- Butthole Surfers
- Birds 'N Brass
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