Lewis Merenstein

Lewis Merenstein is most famous as the record producer for the legendary Van Morrison album, "Astral Weeks", and as executive producer for "Moondance", Morrison's 1970 album. [Turner, Too Late To Stop Now, p. 98,] "Astral Weeks" is listed as #19 on the Rolling Stone Magazine's The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2003. [cite web | url= http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6598003/19_astral_weeks | title=(19)Astral Weeks |publisher=Rolling Stone Magazine online | accessdate=2007-03-30] and in November 2006, when CNN published their list of "The All-Time 100 Albums", [cite web | url= http://www.time.com/time/2006/100albums/index.html| title= The All-Time 100 Albums| publisher= Time/CNN | accessdate=2007-03-31] "Astral Weeks" was on the list, along with "Moondance".

Additionally, he produced albums for Charlie Musselwhite, The Spencer Davis Group, Mama Cass Elliot, The Mamas & the Papas, Miriam Makeba, Gladys Knight and the Pips, John Cale, Curtis Mayfield and Phyllis Hyman. Merenstein also produced the three studio albums recorded by Glass Harp in the early '70's, featuring guitarist Phil Keaggy.

Lewis began as a recording engineer and still lives and works in New York City.

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*Turner, Steve (1993). Too Late to Stop Now, Viking Penguin, ISBN 0-670-85147-7