Hugo Peretti, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Hugo Peretti

American musician

Date of Birth: 06-Dec-1916

Date of Death: 01-May-1986

Profession: record producer, songwriter, lyricist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Hugo Peretti

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  • Peretti (December 6, 1916 – May 1, 1986) was an American songwriter and record producer. Born in New York City to an Italian American family, Peretti began his music career as a teenager, playing the trumpet in the Borscht Belt in upstate New York.
  • He graduated to playing with orchestras, then in the 1950s partnered with his cousin Luigi Creatore to form the Hugo & Luigi songwriting team that evolved to producing records.
  • In 1957 they bought into Roulette Records, where they wrote songs for various artists such as Valerie Carr, and produced major hits for Jimmie Rodgers, including "Honeycomb" (Billboard #1), "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine" (Billboard #3), "Oh-Oh, I'm Falling in Love Again", and "Secretly". Two years later, Peretti and Creatore signed a contract with RCA Records, where they produced recordings for pop crooner and NBC television personally Perry Como.
  • They also produced recordings for Sam Cooke and Ray Peterson and wrote English lyrics for the South African composer Solomon Linda's song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", which became a hit for The Tokens.
  • With George David Weiss they co-wrote "Can't Help Falling in Love" for RCA's mega-star Elvis Presley.
  • Peretti and Creatore also wrote Presley's hit single Wild in the Country.
  • In 1964, Peretti and Creatore left RCA to join Weiss in writing Maggie Flynn, a 1968 Broadway musical about the American Civil War. In the 1970s, Peretti and Creatore owned part of Avco Records and then established H&L Records, which they operated until retiring at the end of the decade.
  • Among their successes were recordings by The Stylistics and The Softones.
  • They also won the 1977 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album as producers of Bubbling Brown Sugar. Peretti met and married singer June Winters in 1943.
  • They formed a children's record label, Mayfair Records, in 1946 and released a series of bestselling albums featuring Winters as the "Lady in Blue".
  • They had two daughters, Kathy and Tina Marie.
  • Winters died on March 29, 2015 at the age of 96.Peretti died in 1986 in Englewood, New Jersey, aged 69.

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