Production · Performance
Lewis Merenstein
Lewis Merenstein is credited on 854 releases across 119 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1956–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

854
Pressings credited
119
Albums
8
Decades active
349
In collections
Biography
Lewis Merenstein (October 23, 1934 – September 6, 2016) was an American record producer, most famous as the producer of the Van Morrison album Astral Weeks, and as executive producer for Moondance, Morrison's 1970 album. Astral Weeks was listed as #19 on the Rolling Stone Magazine's The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2003. In November 2006, when CNN published their list of The All-Time 100 Albums, Astral Weeks was on the list, along with Moondance.
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Credited work
854 releases · 119 albums · active 1956–2026
- Production · 871
- Performance · 32
- Engineering · 14
- Other credits · 13
Studios: Electric Lady Studios · Total Experience Studios · Sigma Sound Studios, New York · Record Plant, N.Y.C.
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Moondance
1970

Astral Weeks
1968

The Best Of Van Morrison
1990

Vintage Violence
1970

The Alternative Moondance
2018

Pata Pata
1967

Stone Blues
1968

Keep Me In Mind
1970

Cristo Redentor
1968

The Best Of Del Shannon
1967

The Essential Van Morrison

Purple Crush
1977

Waterbeds In Trinidad!
1972

Glass Harp
1970

Two Jews Blues
1969

Still On Top - The Greatest Hits
2007

Trilogy: Three Classic Albums
1992

Disco Symphony / Baby Without Your Love
1979

Phyllis Hyman
1977

Café De Paris
1975

Cass Elliot
1972

Synergy
1971

Blue Money
1971

1950s Rock & Roll Revival
1970
Frequent collaborators
- Van Morrison
- Various
- Cass Elliot
- Glass Harp
- Michael Wendroff
- Turley Richards
- Dorothy Morrison
- John Cale
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