Jerry Brandt

Jerry Brandt is a club owner, promoter, and manager, active since the 1960s. He is known chiefly for discovering Carly Simon and serving as her first manager, as well as for his work with Lori Petty. Brandt was born in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.

Career

After serving in the army Brandt worked first as a messenger and then in the mailroom at the William Morris Agency but within a few years he moved up the ranks and became head of the pop music division. While working at William Morris, he booked acts like the Beach Boys and Sonny and Cher and he discovered Chubby Checker, and brought the Rolling Stones to the USA. He also handled Sam Cooke, Dick Clark, and Muhammed Ali, for theatrical events. In the 1970s he managed glam rock artist Jobriath Boone.^[1]

In 1968 Brandt married the actress Janet Margolin.

Contemporaneous with his management work, Brandt also opened, owned, and managed major music venues such as The Electric Circus(1967), the The Ritz, The Palladium and Spo-Dee-O-Dee ^[2] - a Blues Club. In 1970 he left the Electric Circus and moved to Los Angeles.

In the mid 1970s he opened "The French Jeans Store" with Jerry Hart on east 60th st. in New York and was among the first to introduce European designer jeans in America. Brandt also produced the Broadway show "Gotta Go Disco" at the Minskoff Theatre.

In 1992 Brandt opened the Italian restaurant "Italica" ^[3] at 220 East 46th Street with Ron Delsener, Robin Leach, and Bob Krasnow. Here they introduced "pizza by the meter".

As part of Brandt's many involvements he is said to have bought the rights to the book Stranger in a Strange Land and subsequently sold the movie rights to Warner Brothers Studios. Brandt also consulted for Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager at Studio 54.

References

1. ^ Mojo, November 1998, (pp. 69-70).
2. ^ New York Magazine, July 3, 1989
3. ^ New York Magazine, September 14, 1992

External Links

• Carly Simon for Brandtworks Records
• New York Magazine article June 25, 1979

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