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Roger Williams
real name Louis Jacob Weertz
Roger Williams is credited on 562 releases across 110 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1955–2017 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
562
Credits
110
Albums
7
Decades active
18
In collections
Biography
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He was born Louis Jacob Weertz October 1, 1924, the son of a Lutheran minister Rev. Frederick J. Weertz) and a music teacher (Dorothea Bang Weertz), in Omaha, Nebraska, but before his first birthday the family moved to Des Moines, Iowa. He first played the piano at age three.
His first wife,, bore him three children. After divorcing her, he married again in 1985,. Father.
In 1955 Williams recorded "Autumn Leaves", the only piano instrumental to reach #1 on Billboard magazine's popular music charts.
Until his death on October 8, 2011 from complications of pancreatic cancer, Williams resided in Encino, California and had recently bought the rights to his Kapp masters from the Universal Music Group.
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
562 releases · 110 albums · active 1955–2017
- Performance · 832
- Other credits · 36
- Mastering · 1
- Production · 1
Studios: United Recording Producers Inc. · Sciascia Sound Studios · United Western Studios · M&I Recording Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Jack Jones
- The Romantic Strings Orchestra
- Easy Street (2)
- John Barry
- Billy May And His Orchestra
- Aguaturbia
- Studio 88
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