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Stan Cornyn: It's A Warner-Ful Life

Todd Everett, Hits, 10 April 2002

FOR MORE THAN 30 years, Stan Cornyn was the "voice" of Warner Bros. and Reprise Records. The company's image-setting print advertisements – offering free Topanga Canyon dirt in conjunction with a Neil Young album; lamenting that the company had "lost $35,509.60 on 'The Album of the Year'" (by Van Dyke Parks) – were created either by him or under his supervision.

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