Artie butler biography

American arranger and composer

For the baseball player, see Art Butler.

Musical artist

Arthur Butler (born December 2, 1942) is an American arranger, composer, songwriter, and session musician.

Artie Butler was born in Brooklyn, NY, and as a teenager was discovered by the legendary songwriting and producing team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.

Artie Butler was born in Brooklyn, NY, and as a teenager was discovered by the legendary songwriting and producing team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.

Arthur Butler is an American arranger, composer, songwriter, and session musician.

Arthur Butler (born December 2, ) is an.

The hitmaking career of arranger and composer Artie Butler embraces the breadth of American popular music from the girl group sound to the disco era.

Artie Butler was born on 2 December in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He is a composer and actor, known for Annie Hall (), Grease 2 () and What's Up.

In a long career, he has been involved in numerous hit records and other recordings, and has been awarded over 60 gold and platinum albums.

Life and career

Butler was born in Brooklyn, New York,^[1] and learned to play various instruments including piano, clarinet and drums as a child.

He attended Erasmus Hall High School.^[2] At the age of 13, he auditioned for Henry Glover of King Records, who offered him a contract as a result. His single, "Lock, Stock and Barrel", credited to Arthur Butler, was issued on the DeLuxe label in 1957, but was not successful.^[1][3][4]

By the early 1960s he was working as an assistant at Bell Sound Studios in New York City, where he met songwriters and record producers Jerry Leiber and Mi