Carlin Music founder and music industry legend, Freddy Bienstock has died at his Manhattan home on Sunday 20 September after a long illness. He was aged 86.
Bienstock founded Carlin Music in 1966 and built it into a catalogue with more than 100,000 songs.
In a long career, Bienstock worked with artists such as Elvis Presley, Bacharach and David, Cliff Richard, The Kinks, The Animals, The Move, Pentangle and Genisis.
Carlin’s catalogue included music from every conceivable style – jazz, country, R&B, soul, pop, rock and dance with work from such distinguished writers as Leiber and Stoller, Pomus and Shuman, Phil Spector, Kander and Ebb, Ray Davies, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Aretha Franklin and Jim Steinman.