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'''Alan Eichler''' (born July 17, 1944) is an American theatrical producer, talent manager and press agent<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-10-02-ca-5152-story.html |title=Alan Eichler Is Bringing Vintage Cabaret Stars Back to Limelight |work=Los Angeles Times |date=October 2, 1988 |access-date=January 26, 2012 |first=David |last=Wharton}}</ref> who has represented several stage productions, produced Grammy-winning record albums and managed singers including Anita O'Day,<ref>autobiography of Anita O'Day: "High Times, Hard Times" (New York NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1981) p.294</ref> Hadda Brooks,<ref name="Doo Woop Cafe">{{cite web|first=Jack |last=Mizzer |url=http://www.doowopcafe.net/MissHaddaBrooks.html |title=The Doo Wop Cafe and Doo Wop Cafe Radio site |publisher=Doowopcafe.net |access-date=January 26, 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120220165318/http://www.doowopcafe.net/MissHaddaBrooks.html |archivedate=February 20, 2012 |df=mdy }}</ref> Nellie Lutcher,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-03-29-ca-830-story.html |title=Nellie Lutcher: This Real Gone Gal Is Back |work=Los Angeles Times |date=March 29, 1987 |access-date=January 26, 2012 |first=Leonard |last=Feather}}</ref> Ruth Brown,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allbusiness.com/services/motion-pictures/4855523-1.html |title=The Great Life |work=The Hollywood Reporter |publisher=AllBusiness.com |date=October 21, 1999 |access-date=January 26, 2012}}</ref> Johnnie Ray<ref>Biography of Johnnie Ray: "Cry" by Jonny Whiteside (New York, NY, Barricade Books, 1994) p.403</ref> and Yma Sumac.<ref>"Incredibly Strange Music, Vol. 2" by V. Vale and Andrea Juno (San Francisco, CA, Re/Search Publications, 1994) p. 168.</ref> He is a cousin of California architect Joseph Eichler and nephew of writer Lillian Eichler Watson and advertising executive/novelist Alfred Eichler.
==Early life and career== Born in Elmhurst, Queens, New York, United States, Eichler began his career in the mailroom as an apprentice to publicist Lee Solters in 1963, and worked his way up to account executive at Solters' firm Solters, O'Rourke and Sabinson.<ref name="callondolly.com">{{Cite web|url=https://www.callondolly.com/alan-eichler/|title = Alan Eichler}}</ref> Following admission to the Association of Theatrical Press Agents and Managers union in 1969, he worked as publicist on the original productions of ''Hello, Dolly!'',<ref name="callondolly.com" /> ''George M!'' and ''Hair''.<ref>{{cite web|author=The Broadway League |url=http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=90662 |title=The official source for Broadway Information |publisher=IBDb.com |access-date=January 26, 2012}}</ref> He also promoted several major off-Broadway hits including Paul Zindel's Pulitzer Prize-winning ''The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds'', the Elaine May-Terrence McNally double-bill "Adaptation/Next" with James Coco, Harold Pinter's ''The Tea Party'' and ''The Basement'', the long-running rock musical ''Your Own Thing'', Andre Gregory's experimental adaptation of ''Alice in Wonderland'', and Tom Stoppard's ''The Real Inspector Hound''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lortel.org/lla_archive/index.cfm?search_by=people&first=Alan&middle=&last=Eichler |title=Lortel Archives-The Internet Off-Broadway Database |publisher=Lortel.org |access-date=January 26, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120813144129/http://www.lortel.org/LLA_archive/index.cfm?search_by=people&first=Alan&middle=&last=Eichler |archive-date=August 13, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref> Eichler also represented several noteworthy "flops" during this period including Shelley Winters' only attempt at playwriting, ''One Night Stands of a Noisy Passenger'' with Robert De Niro, Sally Kirkland and Diane Ladd; Tina Howe's ''The Nest'' with Jill Clayburgh; Leland Hayward's last production ''The Mother Lover'' with Eileen Heckart; ''The Dozens'' with Morgan Freeman, Al Freeman Jr., and Paula Kelly (actress); and Larry Kramer's ''Four Friends'' with Brad Davis.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lortel.org/lla_archive/index.cfm?search_by=show&title=Four%20Friends |title=Lortel Archives--The Internet Off-Broadway Database |website=www.lortel.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921060526/http://www.lortel.org/lla_archive/index.cfm?search_by=show&title=Four%20Friends |archive-date=2013-09-21}}</ref>
==Later theatrical work and productions== In 1970, he began a long association with playwright Tom Eyen,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-classic-hollywood-gloria-grahame-20171223-story.html|title = Classic Hollywood: Remembering Gloria Grahame before 'Film Stars Don't die in Liverpool'|website = Los Angeles Times|date = December 23, 2017}}</ref> starting with ''The Dirtiest Show in Town'' and continuing with the prison comedy ''Women Behind Bars'' (which Eichler also co-produced),<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=atRf4zBaqzQC&q=%22Alan+Eichler%22+%22Tom+Eyen%22&pg=PA4 |title=Women behind bars: a new play – Tom Eyen |date=November 2, 2007 |access-date=January 26, 2012|isbn=9780573618130 |last1=Eyen |first1=Tom |publisher=Samuel French }}</ref> ''The Neon Woman'' starring Divine, ''Why Hanna's Skirt Won't Stay Down'' with Helen Hanft,<ref>{{cite news| url=http://theater.nytimes.com/2013/06/06/theater/helen-hanft-master-of-camp-way-off-broadway-dies-at-79.html?_r=0 | work=The New York Times | first=Paul | last=Vitello | title=Helen Hanft, Master of Camp Way Off Broadway, Dies at 79 | date=June 5, 2013}}</ref> ''The White Whore and the Bit Player'', and the Tony Award-winning musical ''Dreamgirls''. He also worked with actor-director-playwright Charles Ludlam and helped establish Ludlam's Ridiculous Theatrical Company as one of the major forces of New York's avant-garde theatre, with such cult hits as ''Camille'' (performed by Ludlam in drag), ''Bluebeard'', ''Stage Blood'', ''Hot Ice'', and the cabaret play ''The Ventriloquist's Wife''. In 1974, he became co-producer with Geraldine Fitzgerald of her one-woman musical show ''Streetsongs'', which had three separate extended theatrical runs over the next several years both on and off-Broadway, a TV version on PBS and an original cast record album.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/24/Geraldine-Fitzgerald.html |title=Geraldine Fitzgerald Biography (1914–) |publisher=Filmreference.com |date=November 24, 1914 |access-date=January 26, 2012}}</ref> He also represented Fitzgerald for all of her other ventures for the rest of her stage and film career. He helped steer the course of an unusual 1975 rock opera entitled ''The Lieutenant'', based on the My Lai Massacre, which began as a small workshop production at the Queens Theatre in the Park, before traveling to Broadway. It only managed to run for nine performances, but was nominated for four Tony Awards including Best Musical and Best Actor in a Musical (Eddie Mekka).<ref>{{cite web|author=The Broadway League |url=http://www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=3731 |title=The Lieutenant |website=IBDb.com|access-date=January 26, 2012}}</ref>
He promoted the 1976 Jerry Rubin self-help book ''Growing Up at Thirty-Seven.'' In 1978, he was associate producer of the Broadway musical ''Timbuktu!'', an African-American adaptation of the Chet Forrest-Robert Wright musical ''Kismet'', starring Eartha Kitt, Melba Moore and Gilbert Price.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://broadwayworld.com/people/Alan_Eichler/ |title=Alan Eichler Theatre Credits |publisher=Broadwayworld.com |access-date=January 26, 2012}}</ref> He also toured with the show for two years as press agent and continued to have a long association with Kitt. He next publicized the Broadway production of Martin Sherman's play ''Bent'' with Richard Gere.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5w3zdloy8YwC&q=%22Bent%22+%22Alan+Eichler%22&pg=PA523 |title=Forbidden acts: pioneering gay & lesbian plays of the twentieth century |first=Benjamin A. |last=Hodges |access-date=January 26, 2012|isbn=9781557835871 |year=2003 |publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation }}</ref> In 1980, he began a year-long tour as press agent with the first national company of ''The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas'' starring Alexis Smith, following which he settled in Los Angeles. He arranged the first AIDS benefit for APLA Health in 1983, which was a midnight performance of ''Women Behind Bars'' at the Roxy Theatre (West Hollywood).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hivplusmag.com/print-issue/2022/2/14/when-group-silver-screen-vixens-dared-stand-hiv-stigma?fbclid=IwAR1mWipT5AJNCck_ichmMzOxIe--DHEqoe8zzCc4fP9FhEPDaTwfagI2MNg|title = When a Group of Silver Screen Vixens Dared to Stand up to HIV Stigma|date = February 14, 2022}}</ref><ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211210/kYlZAQqoTpk Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20200309125400/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYlZAQqoTpk&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite AV media| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYlZAQqoTpk| title = Very First L.A. AIDS Benefit--Women Behind Bars, 1983, Jean Simmons, Mamie Van Doren | website=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref> In 1994, he produced an original musical, ''Swanson on Sunset,'' about the attempts of Gloria Swanson to create a musical version of her film hit ''Sunset Boulevard'', with writer Dickson Hughes and actor Richard Stapley. It played an extended engagement at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel Cinegrill.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-12-05-ca-64008-story.html |title=How 'Sunset Boulevard' Got the Whiz-Bang Musical Treatment : The spooky and pathetic Norma Desmond. The creepy mansion on Sunset. The cynical, busted screenwriter. Andrew Lloyd Webber's vision of the classic film about Hollywood makes its U.S. debut in the town that spawned the original |page=6 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=October 27, 1993 |access-date=January 26, 2012 |first=Barbara |last=Isenberg}}</ref>
==Music and management== Eichler shifted his focus to music and helped establish several jazz clubs and cabarets including the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel's Cinegrill,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-10-02-ca-5152-story.html |title=Alan Eichler | Rediscoveries : Alan Eichler Is Bringing Vintage Cabaret Stars Back to Limelight |work=Los Angeles Times |date=October 2, 1988 |access-date=January 26, 2012 |first=David |last=Wharton}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=January 1989|title=89 FOR 1989 : Meet Southern California's Rising Stars|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-01-01-tm-31-story.html|website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref> the Oak Room at Perino's, the Westwood Marquis<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-05-27-ca-129-story.html |title=Westwood Marquis | An Evening at the Westwood Marquis Can Feel Like Autumn in New York : Lounge features mixture of jazz, cabaret and show tunes |work=Los Angeles Times |date=May 27, 1990 |access-date=January 26, 2012 |first=David |last=Wharton}}</ref> and the Vine St. Bar and Grill, where he also helped produce a series of live albums featuring Nina Simone, Joe Williams, Marlena Shaw, Etta James, Maxine Sullivan, Annie Ross, and LaVern Baker.<ref>"Blue Rhythms" by Chip Deffaa (Urbana, IL, University of Illinois Press,1996)p.179</ref> In 1986, he produced all-star benefit shows at the Vine Street Bar and Grill that raised money to obtain a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Billie Holiday.<ref>{{cite web|author=Alan Eichler says |url=http://www.walkoffame.com/billie-holiday |title=Billie Holiday | Hollywood Walk of Fame |publisher=Walkoffame.com |access-date=January 26, 2012}}</ref>
He helped restore the careers of Anita O'Day<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.buddybregman.com/stories.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081220201008/http://www.buddybregman.com/stories.html|archive-date=December 20, 2008|title=Official Buddy Bregman Website - Stories (1)}}</ref> (who he managed for 25 years),<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/04/arts/l-anita-o-day-agent-maligned-435236.html?scp=6&sq=Anita+O%27Day&st=cse&pagewanted=print |title=Anita O'Day – Agent Maligned |work=The New York Times |date=July 4, 1999 |access-date=January 26, 2012}}</ref> Yma Sumac (who he managed for more than 20 years<ref>{{cite web|last=Hutchings |first=David |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20095841,00.html |title=Watch the Crystal Chandeliers! Incan Yma Sumac, the Five-Octave Phenom of the '50s, Is Back in Camp |work=People |date=March 16, 1987 |access-date=January 26, 2012}}</ref> and launched on a new international career),<ref>biography of Yma Sumac: ''The Art Behind the Legend'' by Nicholas E. Limansky (New York, NY, YBK Publishers, 2008), p.185</ref> Ruth Brown (who won a Tony, a Grammy Award and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame),<ref>autobiography of Ruth Brown: "Miss Rhythm" (New York, NY, Donald I. Fine Publishers,1996)</ref> Johnnie Ray,<ref>biography of Johnnie Ray: "Beyond the Marquee" by Tad Mann (Bloomington, IN, Authorhouse, 2006)p.208</ref> Helen Forrest,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jul-13-mn-55510-story.html |title=Helen Forrest; Vocalist Sang With Shaw, Goodman, James Big Bands |work=Los Angeles Times |date=July 13, 1999 |access-date=January 26, 2012 |first=Myrna |last=Oliver}}</ref> Ella Mae Morse,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/18/arts/ella-mae-morse-75-vocalist-who-transcended-pop-genres.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm |title=Ella Mae Morse, 75, Vocalist Who Transcended Pop Genres |work=The New York Times |date=October 18, 1999 |access-date=January 26, 2012 |first=Stephen |last=Holden}}</ref> Thelma Carpenter<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sepiarecords.com/sepia1080.html |title=Thelma Carpenter – Seems Like Old Times (Sepia 1080) |publisher=Sepiarecords.com |date=November 6, 2006 |access-date=January 26, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080102180002/http://www.sepiarecords.com/sepia1080.html |archive-date=January 2, 2008 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref> (including her Broadway run in ''Hello, Dolly!'' and her movie debut in ''The Wiz''), Monica Lewis,<ref>autobiography of Monica Lewis: ''Hollywood Through My Eyes'' (Brule, WI, Cable Publishing, 2011) p.247</ref><ref>{{cite news| url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/monica-lewis-singer-actress-known-as-voice-of-chiquita-bananas-dies-at-93/2015/06/13/8b11cad4-11e4-11e5-adec-e82f8395c032_story.html| title = Monica Lewis, singer-actress known as voice of Chiquita bananas, dies at 93 - The Washington Post| newspaper = The Washington Post}}</ref> Roberta Sherwood,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/release/introducing-roberta-sherwood-mr0001442961/credits|title = Introducing Roberta Sherwood - Roberta Sherwood | Release Credits|website = AllMusic}}</ref> Maxine Sullivan,<ref>''A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers'' by Will Friedwald (New York, NY, Pantheon Books, 2010) p. 463</ref> Jimmy Scott,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/18/arts/review-pop-jimmy-scott-wails-blues-at-ballroom.html|title = Review/Pop; Jimmy Scott Wails Blues at Ballroom|newspaper = The New York Times|date = July 18, 1989|last1 = Holden|first1 = Stephen}}</ref> Dolly Dawn,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-dec-20-me-dawn20-story.html|title = Archives|website = Los Angeles Times| date=December 20, 2002 }}</ref> and Maxene Andrews of the Andrews Sisters (who he launched on a successful solo career in 1979).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-08-14-ca-2926-story.html |title=48 Years After 'Bmbds,' Maxene Andrews Is A Solo |work=Los Angeles Times |date=August 14, 1985 |access-date=January 26, 2012 |first=Jack |last=Hawn}}</ref> He brought Hadda Brooks out of a 16-year retirement,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/26/arts/with-boogie-woogie-hadda-brooks-is-back.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm |title=With Boogie-Woogie, Hadda Brooks Is Back |work=The New York Times |date=July 26, 1989 |access-date=January 26, 2012 |first=Peter |last=Watrous}}</ref> and signed her to DRG Records and Virgin Records.<ref name="Doo Woop Cafe" />
In 1983, Eichler created original cabaret acts for veteran film stars Vivian Blaine and Virginia O'Brien.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=1025364 |title=Salutes The Great MGM Musicals Soundtrack CD Album |publisher=Cduniverse.com |date=August 23, 2005 |access-date=January 26, 2012}}</ref> Also in 1983, he launched Mamie Van Doren<ref>{{cite web|first=Alan |last=Mercer |url=https://amprofile.blogspot.com/2010_09_01_archive.html |title=Alan Mercer's PROFILE: September 2010 |publisher=Amprofile.blogspot.com |date=January 20, 1953 |access-date=January 26, 2012}}</ref> on a new career as a disco recording star.<ref>autobiography of Mamie Van Doren: "Playing the Field" (New York, NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1987) p.273</ref> He helped ''Knots Landing'' co-star Larry Riley launch a singing career in 1988, and produced the actor's tribute-show to Louis Jordan, ''Let the Good Times Roll''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-11-03-ca-738-story.html |title=Cabaret Review: Riley's Tribute to Louis Jordan |work=Los Angeles Times |date=November 3, 1988 |access-date=January 26, 2012 |first=Don |last=Heckman}}</ref> Eichler promoted the 50th anniversary concert by client Patti Page<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-05-14-ca-300-story.html |title=Short Takes: Singer Patti Page Gets Married |work=Los Angeles Times |date=May 14, 1990 |access-date=January 26, 2012}}</ref> at Carnegie Hall in 1997 and arranged the release of the live recording, which earned Page her first Grammy.<ref>autobiography of Patti Page: "This Is My Song" (Bath, NH, Kathdan Books, 2009)</ref> He co-produced Ruth Brown's Grammy Award-winning album ''Blues on Broadway''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artistdirect.com/artist/alan-eichler/545512 |title=Alan Eichler @ ARTISTdirect.com – Free Alan Eichler Music Videos, Downloads, News, Biography, MP3, Lyrics and More |publisher=Artistdirect.com |access-date=January 26, 2012}}</ref> He helped O'Day recover from a long illness in 1999, and arranged for her comeback concert at New York's Avery Fisher Hall.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jul-18-tm-57102-story.html |title=They Said She'd Never Sing Again |work=Los Angeles Times |date=July 18, 1999 |access-date=January 26, 2012 |first=Ed |last=Leibowitz}}</ref>
Eichler was instrumental in arranging LaVern Baker's return to the US after a 20-year absence, and obtained two new album deals for her with Rhino Records and DRG Records.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-08-26-ca-38992-story.html |title=Hall of Famer Returns to the Spotlight : Pop Beat: After a roller-coaster career and losing both legs to diabetes, singer LaVern Baker prepares for a Cinegrill gig and plans a life beyond concerts. |work=Los Angeles Times |date=August 26, 1995 |access-date=January 26, 2012 |first=Elysa |last=Gardner}}</ref> He also promoted comeback concerts for Joni James,<ref>{{cite web| url = http://articles.philly.com/1996-09-27/entertainment/25635136_1_joni-james-mgm-records-tony-acquaviva| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150611232421/http://articles.philly.com/1996-09-27/entertainment/25635136_1_joni-james-mgm-records-tony-acquaviva| url-status = dead| archive-date = June 11, 2015| title = Inquirer.com: Philadelphia local news, sports, jobs, cars, homes}}</ref> at New York's Town Hall, Avery Fisher Hall and Carnegie Hall, as well as the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Theatre in Los Angeles and the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, where she was backed by the Count Basie Orchestra. He created and produced the show ''Voices—Hollywood's Secret Singing Stars,''<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-08-16-ca-582-story.html |title='Voices' Revue to Open Aug. 27 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=August 16, 1991 |access-date=January 26, 2012}}</ref> featuring four vocalists (Annette Warren, India Adams, Betty Wand and Jo Ann Greer).
He managed jazz singer Jane Harvey and in 2010 produced a five-CD retrospective collection of recordings from her six-decade career, including unreleased titles she had recorded with Duke Ellington, Les Paul and Les Elgart.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://jazztimes.com/features/profiles/jane-harvey-no-regrets/| title = Jane Harvey: No Regrets |website=Jazztimes.com| date = April 26, 2019 }}</ref>
==Later activity== In 2020, he co-produced a stage revival of ''Women Behind Bars'' at the Ricardo Montalban Theatre in Hollywood,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.themontalban.com/womenbehindbars|title = Women Behind Bars|website=Themontalban.com}}</ref> which was also filmed and streamed on Broadway HD.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.broadwayworld.com/off-broadway/article/World-Premiere-of-WOMEN-BEHIND-BARS-Hosted-by-Kathy-Griffin-to-Star-Eureka-OHara-and-Ginger-Minj-20210819| title = World Premiere of Women Behind Bars, Hosted by Kathy Griffin, to Star Eureka O'Hara and Ginger Minj |website=Broadwayworld.com}}</ref> He is executive producer of a documentary film, ''Boulevard!'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8437164/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_1|title = Boulevard! A Hollywood Story (2021)|website = IMDb}}</ref> about Gloria Swanson's failed attempt to turn ''Sunset Boulevard'' into a musical. In addition, he is executor producer of the documentary film ''Studio One Forever,'' about the famous Hollywood dance club of the 1970s and 1980s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11735158/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_1|title=Studio One Forever|date=July 18, 2023|access-date=October 10, 2023|website=IMDb.com}}</ref> As of 2026, he was completing a documentary on actress Mamie Van Doren.<ref>https://variety.com/2025/film/columns/mamie-van-doren-documentary-1236374439/</ref> He also executive produced the documentary ''Mineshsaft: The Cruising Murders'' and the forthcoming Philippine film ''Love and Lockdown''.<ref>https://pro.imdb.com/name/nm0251543/credits/?ref_=nmovr_cdt</ref> He has also compiled and annotated several CDs for Fresh Sound Records, Sepia Records, Real Gone Music, and Jasmine Records, by such artists as Sophie Tucker, Patti Page, Jill Corey, Peggy King, Roberta Sherwood, Louis Prima, Lily Ann Carol, Ketty Lester, Joanie Sommers, Lola Dee, De Castro Sisters, Margie Rayburn, Betty Johnson, Ann Miller, Blossom Seeley, Freddy Cole, Maria Cole, Ike Cole, Eddie Cole, Thelma Carpenter, Kitty White, June Richmond, Janette Davis, the Mary Kaye Trio, Harold Nicholas, Dorothy Dandridge, Tony Perkins, Mimi Martel, Ella Logan, and Judy Canova.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.allmusic.com/artist/alan-eichler-mn0000625043| title = Alan Eichler Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More |website = AllMusic}}</ref> He executive produced two new albums by singer-pianist Betty Bryant, ''Lotta Livin'' and ''Nothin' Better to Do'',<ref>https://www.allaboutjazz.com/nothin-better-to-do-betty-bryant-bry-mar-music</ref> and the album ''Strange Meadowlark'' by Mark Christian Miller.
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==External links== *{{IBDB name|90662}} *{{IMDb name|0251543}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20110718062513/http://www.yma-sumac.com/PERU/peru06.htm Yma-sumac.com] *[https://sunvirgin.com/ SunVirgin.com]
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