{"id":2800,"date":"2021-02-15T02:43:08","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T02:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/?p=2800"},"modified":"2021-02-15T03:25:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T03:25:24","slug":"russ-thyret-board-chairman-and-ceo-warner-bros-records-july-1-1945-february-12-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/15\/russ-thyret-board-chairman-and-ceo-warner-bros-records-july-1-1945-february-12-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Russ Thyret Board Chairman and CEO Warner Bros. Records July 1, 1945 \u2013 February 12, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

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HOLLYWOOD (Perfect Music Today) 2\/14\/21\/—Russ Thyret who, over the course of a thirty-year tenure, rose through the ranks at Warner Bros. Records culminating in his serving as the Burbank-based label\u2019s Board Chairman and CEO from 1995 to 2001, died this past Friday, February 12, at his home in the Valley Village neighborhood of Los Angeles.\u00a0 He was 76 and had been ill for some time. \u00a0He is survived by his wife Rebecca, a son, Russ Thyret Jr., and a sister. \u00a0Prior to his being named Chairman, Thyret was widely regarding throughout the music industry as one of the true legends of \u00a0promotion.\u00a0 He was accorded an unprecedented level of respect and loyalty from both his staff and the other executives at the company as well as from the artists signed to the label. \u00a0His approach was the embodiment of the company\u2019s artists first philosophy that had been a hall mark of the company under Mo Ostin, his predecessor and mentor.<\/p>\n

Thyret, the son of a Glendale CA policeman, began his career in the music industry managing an independent retail store on the Sunset Strip.\u00a0 He was recruited to join the fledgling WEA Corporation as a field sales rep in Los Angeles at a time when the company had only one a singles sales branch. He joined Warner Bros. Records shortly thereafter alighting at the company\u2019s Burbank home office in a national sales position during the time that WEA Corporation opened branch operations in the rest of the country.\u00a0\u00a0 In the mid-70s he was tapped to serve as Vice President and Director of National Promotion during a period when Warner Bros. dominated the charts and became the preeminent record company on the west coast. \u00a0He had been brought to Warner Bros. from WEA by Ed Rosenblatt who headed promotion and sales for the company.\u00a0 He recalled, \u201cRuss was a different kind of guy and his roles at Warner Bros. fit him like a coat.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was named Board Chairman at Warner Bros. after a period of instability following the departure of long time Warner Bros Chairman Mo Ostin and several others who helmed the company immediately thereafter.\u00a0 Ostin was moved to comment at the time, \u201cRuss is a total record man \u2014 brilliant, experienced and well-rounded in every aspect. He is eminently qualified\u2026 I love the guy.\u201d In point of fact, Thyret was able to maintain the success as well as the family feel of the company after the tumult that followed Ostin\u2019s departure.<\/p>\n

For his part, Thyret remarked, \u201cYou\u2019d have to be dead not to get excited about running a company with the high caliber of artists and employees we have here at Warner Bros. This is my home.; it\u2019s the only record label I\u2019ve ever worked at. To call this opportunity a dream come true would be a drastic understatement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thyret was on hand in 1976 when the company moved from the converted machine shop on the Warner Bros. movie lot it had occupied since its inception nine years earlier to a new office structure lauded for its acclaimed architecture\u00a0 Management subtly suggested that the employees might consider dressing a bit less casually than they did in the old building where t-shirts and flip-flops were the order of the day. Thyret\u2019s response was to show up the next day wearing a suit and tie.. with board shorts and flip flops.<\/p>\n

During his years heading the company\u2019s promotion department he commanded a small army of local, regional and national promotion people whose primary focus was getting the label\u2019s records played. Thyret and his staff came through with hit after hit from, among others, \u00a0Fleetwood Mac, the Doobie Brothers, Randy Newman, James Taylor, Alice Cooper, Chaka Khan, R.E,M., ZZ Top, Depeche Mode, k.d. lang, \u00a0John Fogerty, Madonna and Prince.\u00a0 He was the executive primarily responsible for facilitating Prince\u2019s signing to the label in 1977 when the artist was barely 18 years old.\u00a0 Owen Husney, Prince\u2019s original manger, noted, \u201cWarner Bros. was at the top of the list for us as a home for Prince. After Prince and I met Russ and hung out with him there was no doubt where we\u2019d wind up. Russ was a man of great instinct and heart. When other labels were taking us to fabulous restaurants to get us to sign, Russ drove us to his house, where we\u2019d sit on the floor, listen to music and he\u2019d explain the business to us. He gave of himself 1000% and that meant the world from two neophytes from Minneapolis.\u201d<\/p>\n

When he left Warner Bros. in 2001 in the wake of the AOL Time Warner merger, he summed up his remarkable tenure with the company “My strongest ambition has always been to serve the artists well, and I leave Warner Bros. hoping I’ve accomplished that. I was in awe of Warner Bros. Records the first day I walked in the door, and in so many ways, I leave even more in awe. It will forever be a magical memory.”<\/p>\n

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