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Rick Wilkins

Rick Wilkins is credited on 498 releases across 129 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1962–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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498

Pressings credited

129

Albums

7

Decades active

34

In collections

Biography

Rick Herbert Richard Wilkins (born 1 February 1937) is a Canadian composer, conductor, and tenor saxophonist. He is primarily known for his work as an arranger. He has worked extensively for CBC and CTV arranging, rehearsing, and often conducting music for television and radio programs of pop-music and variety entertainments. He has arranged music for television specials featuring Julie Amato, Tommy Ambrose, Guido Basso, the Canadian Brass, Burton Cummings, Anne Murray, and Wayne and Shuster among others. In 1976-1977 he worked as a music director for CBS in Los Angeles, where among his projects was directing music for a number of specials starring the Jackson Five.

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Credited work

498 releases · 129 albums · active 1962–2025

  • Performance · 739
  • Other credits · 49
  • Production · 6
  • Engineering · 1

Studios: Eastern Sound · Soundstage, Toronto · MPS-Studio, Villingen · National Arts Centre / Centre National Des Arts

Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Frequent collaborators

  • Anne Murray
  • Rob McConnell & The Boss Brass
  • Peter Appleyard
  • Rob McConnell And The Boss Brass
  • Moe Koffman
  • Vic Franklyn
  • Oscar Peterson
  • The Singers Unlimited

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