Stan Cornyn

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Stan Cornyn
Born(1933-07-08)July 8, 1933
Warner Bros. Records, Reprise Records, Warner Music Group

Carl Stanley Cornyn (July 8, 1933 – May 11, 2015) was an American record label executive and the author of Exploding: The Highs, Hits, Hype, Heroes, and Hustlers of the Warner Music Group (

ISBN 978-0380978526
). He also wrote three privately published family genealogy books (all in the Library of Congress).

Career

Cornyn began working for

Time-Warner.[1] He is widely remembered for his years heading up Warner-Reprise's Creative Services department, writing innovative ads, and other marketing approaches, including the storied Warner/Reprise Loss Leaders
series.

He was awarded the

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim recordings, beaten both times by Johnny Cash. His work gained one additional nomination in 1974 for Sinatra's Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back
.

The literary qualities of his liner notes are discussed in A Storied Singer: Frank Sinatra as Literary Conceit in a chapter titled "The Composition of Celebrity: Sinatra as Text in the Liner Notes of Stan Cornyn."[2]

He also co-authored the screenplay for Warner Bros.' 1970 film The Phynx.[3]

In 1989, while heading Warner New Media, Cornyn introduced a new multimedia format called

Time Warner’s DVD work. WNM also published several interactive multimedia compact discs,[10]
such as “How Computers Work” and “Desert Storm.”

In 1991 he was asked to lead the short-lived computer games division of Media Vision, Inc., and was named executive vice-president and co-head of Media Vision Multimedia Publishing, heading its Westlake Village offices.[11]

Education

Cornyn was a graduate of

University of California at Los Angeles
in 1962.

Family

Cornyn was twice married. First, in 1965, to Gail MacCrystall, by whom he fathered son Christopher Cornyn; then again, in 1971, to Theadora Davitt, by whom he had son Tom Cornyn.

Cornyn was nephew to

John Cornyn III
(R. TX).

Cornyn lived in Carpinteria, California, with longtime companion Meg Barbour. He died on May 11, 2015, at his home in Carpinteria at the age of 81.[12]

References

  1. ^ "Entertainment and Media". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
  2. ^ "free book search by isbn title author publisher". Wikireadia.org. 2002-06-30. Archived from the original on November 2, 2013. Retrieved 2013-10-31.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. ^ "The Phynx (1970)". IMDb. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
  4. ^ Atkinson, Terry. "hey're Betting That Graphics Will Be a Plus for CD's". The Los Angeles Times.
  5. ^ "'Future Tense': The New Link Between Arts and Technology". The Los Angeles Times. 29 January 1991. pp. F8.
  6. ^ Caruso, Denise. "INTERACTIVE FOR TV NOTHING NEW".
  7. ^ "Warner New Media Label | Releases | Discogs". Discogs.
  8. ^ Caruso, Denise. "WHAT IS INTERACTIVE TELEVISION?". Warner New Media's Megillah project a couple of years back (see Vol. 2, No. 6, p. 16)
  9. ^ "Branching table for interactive video display".
  10. ^ "Signs of Time Warner's Interactivity". Billboard. 12 June 1998. p. 85.
  11. ^ Paige, Earil (12 June 1993). Beating the Heat of Recession. Home Video: Billboard's Video Newsweekly. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
  12. ^ "Stan Cornyn, Legendary Warner Bros. Records Creative Head, Dies At 81". All Access. May 12, 2015.

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