Lou Adler inducted in 2013 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Lou Adler (record executive and producer; born December 13, 1933) Lou Adler has had a long and successful career that has extended from the music business to the film industry. He founded two record labels, Dunhill Records and Ode Records, and he managed several artists, including Jan and Dean, Carole King and the Mamas and the Papas. He produced The Rocky Horror Picture Show and the Cheech and Chong films, and has also been a songwriter and record producer. Lou Adler was born on December 13, 1933, in Chicago. He was then raised in the Boyle Heights district of East Los Angeles, where he had a hard and impoverished childhood. He began his career as co-manager, with Herb Alpert, of the California surf group Jan and Dean. He and Alpert then formed a songwriting partnership, and, under the name “Barbara Campbell,” they wrote the song “Only Sixteen,” which became a hit for Sam Cooke in 1959. The duo also wrote the song “River Rock” for Bob “Froggy” Landers and the Cough Drops.