Lewis Merenstein

Who is Lewis Merenstein?

Lewis Merenstein is most famous as the record producer for the Van Morrison album Astral Weeks, and as executive producer for Moondance, Morrison's 1970 album.Astral Weeks is listed as #19 on the Rolling Stone Magazine's The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2003. and in November 2006, when CNN published their list of The All-Time 100 Albums, Astral Weeks was on the list, along with Moondance.

Additionally, he produced albums for Biff Rose, Charlie Musselwhite, The Spencer Davis Group, Cass Elliot, The Mamas & the Papas, Miriam Makeba, Gladys Knight and the Pips, John Cale, Curtis Mayfield, Charlie Daniels, The Association, Turley Richards, Alexander Harvey, Les Variations, George Burns 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.