Albhy Galuten

• Name — Albhy Galuten • Landscape — yes • Birth Name — Alan Bruce Galuten • Born — 27 December 1947 • Birthplace — Hartsdale, New York, U.S. • Occupation — * Record producer • composer • musician • orchestrator • songwriter • technology executive • Associated Acts — * Bee Gees • Andy Gibb • Gibb-Galuten-Richardson • Jellyfish • Olivia Newton-John • Barbra Streisand • Dionne Warwick • Kenny Rogers • Dolly Parton • Samantha Sang • Diana Ross • Eric Clapton • Titanic Love Affair • Wishbone Ash • Bill Wyman • Rod Stewart • Aretha Franklin • Eagles • Kenny Loggins • Petula Clark • No Doubt • Instrument — * Piano • keyboards • synthesizer • guitar

Galuten attended Berklee College of Music. Galuten's record productions include the soundtrack Saturday Night Fever, the theme song "Grease," the Eric Clapton recording of "Knockin on Heaven's Door" and albums for Jellyfish, Olivia Newton-John, Barbra Streisand (Guilty), Dionne Warwick (Heartbreaker), Andy Gibb, Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton, Samantha Sang, Diana Ross, Eric Clapton, Jesse Ed Davis, Titanic Love Affair and the Bee Gees. He also formed a production team with Barry Gibb and Karl Richardson under the name Gibb-Galuten-Richardson. Galuten also contributed playing or orchestration skills to recording artists Wishbone Ash, Bill Wyman, Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart, Aretha Franklin, Eagles, Kenny Loggins, Petula Clark and No Doubt. He is also credited with playing the first synthesizer in reggae. His U.S. number one singles include "You Should Be Dancing," "How Deep Is Your Love," "Stayin' Alive," "Night Fever," "Too Much Heaven," "Tragedy," and "Love You Inside Out" by the Bee Gees; "I Just Want to Be Your Everything," "(Love Is) Thicker Than Water," and "Shadow Dancing" by Andy Gibb; "Grease" by Frankie Valli; "Woman in Love" by Barbra Streisand; and "Islands in the Stream" by Kenny Rogers with Dolly Parton. Other hit singles include "Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door" (Eric Clapton), "Love So Right" (Bee Gees), Guilty (Barbra Streisand), "What Kind of Fool" (Barbra Streisand), "Emotion" (Samantha Sang), "I Can't Help It" (Olivia Newton-John & Andy Gibb), "Heartbreaker" (Dionne Warwick), "Chain Reaction" (Diana Ross), "Eaten Alive" (Diana Ross), "Eyes That See In the Dark" (Kenny Rogers)

He is a founder at Agora Media and a senior fellow, technology initiatives at Intertrust Technologies. He is a vice president at Sony and a Senior Vice President at Universal Music Group and a vice president at Ion. Galuten filed patents, developed corporate technology strategy, negotiated technology deals and worked in the development of standards including the Content Reference Forum (chairman) and the Coral Consortium (Vice President).

As an inventor, Galuten is noted for having created the first commercial drum loop ("Stayin' Alive", Bee Gees), the Enhanced CD, and has numerous patents in the areas of content distribution and resolution, customer care, user interface design, emotion-based algorithmic music generation, and media aggregation and optimization. His issued patents cover innovations in error handling, media navigation, customer support, and algorithmic music generation.

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On origins, the institutional record states the following. Recorded at birth as Alan Bruce Galuten. The same evidence establishes that albhy Galuten was born in 1947 at Hartsdale.