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'''Lester Sill''' (January 13, 1918 – October 31, 1994) was a United States 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"/> <s>and the cofounder of Philles records with Phil Spector in 1961?.<ref name="AllMusic Lester"/></s>
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 produced 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"/>
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<ref name="King 2012 p. ">{{cite book | last=King | first=C. | title=A Natural Woman: A Memoir | publisher=Grand Central Publishing | year=2012 | isbn=978-1-4555-1259-1 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T6O9Onmu9_cC | language=fr | access-date=2019-11-07 | page=}}</ref>
<ref name="AllMusic Lester Credits">{{cite web | title=Lester Sill - Credits | website=AllMusic | url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/lester-sill-mn0000273082/credits | access-date=2021-12-05}}</ref>
<ref name="nyt Spector Dead">{{cite web | title=Phil Spector, Famed Music Producer and Convicted Murderer, Dies at 81 | website=The New York Times | date=2021-01-17 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/arts/music/phil-spector-dead.html | access-date=2021-12-08 | archive-date=2021-12-03| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211203222225/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/arts/music/phil-spector-dead.html}}</ref>