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| spouse = Harriet
| children = {{plainlist|* Chuck Kaye (stepson), <ref name="Greg Sill Variety"/>* Joel Sill<ref name="Yang Yang 2018"/> * Greg Sill, <ref name="Greg Sill, Variety"/> *Lonnie Sill <ref name="Lester Sill Dies at 76 Billboard"/><ref name="AllMusic Lonnie"/>}}
| awards = Prime Minister's Medal
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| website = {{URL|www.gregmarkmusicinc.com}}
| footnotes = <center>Jazz guitarist Alex Sill (grandson)<ref name="Pacent 2019">{{cite web | last=Pacent | first=Nina | title=From Carl Jung to Lady Gaga, Jazz Guitarist Alex Sill’s Music Speaks His Mind | website=BMI.com | date=2019-05-22 | url=https://www.bmi.com/news/entry/from-carl-jung-to-lady-gaga-jazz-guitarist-alex-sills-music-speaks-his-mind | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190619235020/https://www.bmi.com/news/entry/from-carl-jung-to-lady-gaga-jazz-guitarist-alex-sills-music-speaks-his-mind | archive-date=2019-06-19 | url-status=live | access-date=2019-11-07}}</ref></center>
{{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musicians -->
| name = Lester Sill
| associated_acts = [[Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller|Leiber & Stoller]], T-Bone Walker, Paris Sisters, The Coasters, The Monkeys
| website = {{URL|www.gregmarkmusicinc.com}}
}}
}}
'''Lester Sill''' (January 13, 1918 – October 31, 1994) was an [[United States|American]] [[record label]] executive who rose to become the president of Screen Gems-Columbia Music, a director at ASCAP and consulting president for Jobete Music (Motown Records publishing division).<ref name="Dec 25, 1976 Billboard p. 27"/> He is best known as the producer and music supervisor for The Monkees,<ref name="AllMusic Lester Credits"/> selling more records than the Beatles and Rolling Stones combined in 1967,<ref name="Greene Greene 2012 - Monkees Sales"/> and the cofounder of Philles records with Phil Spector in 1961?.<ref name="AllMusic Lester"/>
As an independent producer in the 1950s and 1960s, he was a moving force behind Hadda Brooks and B. B. King.<ref name="Los Angeles Times 1994"/> He formed independent labels around composers like Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, Lee Hazlewood and Phil Spector. Rostered artists included Duane Eddy, The Coasters, The Paris Sisters, and The Crystals.<ref name="AllMusic Lester"/> Sill managed the talent that went on to become The Wall of Sound, <ref name="AllMusic Lester"/> and The Wrecking Crew.<ref name="Paulson 2012"/><ref name="Feldman 2021"/>
Sill's partnership with Lee Hazlewood launched the career of Duane Eddy and many of the studio musicians supporting the act went on to be core members of The Wrecking Crew.<ref name="Paulson 2012"/><ref name="Feldman 2021"/> Sill hired Phil Spector as an apprentice to Leiber and Stoller and later partnered with Spector in the Philles label, the name being a combination of both men's informal first names. <s>In return for his support and generosity (Spector lived in Sill's home for several years),<ref name="Ribowsky 2000 p. 57 Spector in Sill's home"/> Sill was never repaid for his investment in Philles Records and The Wall of Sound.</s><ref name="AllMusic Lester"/> Following this, as a record executive, Sill worked under Don Kirshner where his responsibilities included acts like The MonkeysMonkees, The Partridge Family and Carol King.<ref name="King 2012 p. "/><ref name="Lester Sill Dies at 76 Billboard"/>
== Early life and family ==
Sill also enjoyed chart success with producer-songwriter [[Lee Hazlewood]] on 1958's "[[Rebel-'Rouser|Rebel Rouser]]", the most notable of the Top 40 instrumentals headlined by the renowned guitarist [[Duane Eddy]] and issued on the [[Dick Clark]]-owned [[Jamie Records|Jamie]] label. In late 1959, Sill and Hazlewood formed Trey Records, a Hollywood-based imprint distributed by Atlantic.
Trey Records signings included Phil Spector, fresh off the success of his group [[The Teddy Bears]]', chart-topping pop classic, "[[To Know Him Is to Love Him]]". Sill allowed Spector to live in his Sherman Oaks home, sharing a room with Joel Sill<ref name="Ribowsky 2000 p. 54">{{cite book | last=Ribowsky | first=M. | title=He's a Rebel: Phil Spector, Rock and Roll's Legendary Producer | publisher=Cooper Square Press | series=G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series | year=2000 | isbn=978-0-8154-1044-7 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jsQRwiwtlN0C&pg=PA54 | access-date=2019-11-07 | page=53-62}}</ref> Spector worked as an apprentice to Leiber and Stoller, a studio musician and studio technician.{{reference needed}}
* '''Jamie Records / Dick Clark'''<ref name="Jackson 1999 p. 128">{{cite book | last=Jackson | first=J. | title=American Bandstand: Dick Clark and the Making of a Rock 'n' Roll Empire | publisher=Oxford University Press | year=1999 | isbn=978-0-19-028490-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=29jhBwAAQBAJ&pg=PT128 | access-date=2019-12-12 | page=128}}</ref>
* '''Screen Gems-Columbia Music'''
In 1964, Sill resurfaced as a consultant to Screen Gems-Columbia Music president [[Don Kirshner]]. Although the position was temporary, he ended up staying with the company for over two decades, eventually taking over Kirshner's position. * ''Jobette Music''''In 1985, Sill was named president and CEO of Jobete Music, the publishing arm of [[Berry Gordy|Berry Gordy, Jr.]]'s [[Motown]] empire. He remained with Jobete until his death in Los Angeles on October 31, 1994.<ref name="AllMusic Lester"/>
==Family==