# Howard Gable

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{{Short description|New Zealand-born Australian record producer}}
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'''Howard Gable''' is a New Zealand-born Australian record producer who is best known for his work as an A&R manager and house producer for [EMI's](/source/EMI) Columbia pop label in Australia in the late 1960s and early 1970. He was also for some years married to New Zealand born pop/country singer and former Australian 'Queen of Pop' [Allison Durbin](/source/Allison_Durbin).<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theage.com.au/national/fears-for-durbins-well-being-20070603-ge51jo.html|title=Fears for Durbin's well-being|first=John|last=Elder|date=3 June 2007|newspaper=[The Age](/source/The_Age)|access-date=21 May 2021}}</ref>

Gable began his career with EMI's [His Master's Voice](/source/Universal_Music_New_Zealand) label in New Zealand before relocating to Australia ca. 1968. He worked with Durbin from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s and produced most of her successful recordings of the early 1970s. He is best known for his work with [John Farnham](/source/John_Farnham), producing five studio albums with the Australian singer as well as the ''[Charlie Girl](/source/Charlie_Girl)'' soundtrack of which Farnham was the lead.<ref>{{cite book|author=Jane Gazzo|date=2015|title=John Farnham: The Untold Story"|publisher=Penguin Random House, Australia|page=114|isbn=978-0-85798-657-3}}</ref> Other notable productions for EMI Australia in this period include the hit singles "5:10 Man" and "Turn Up Your Radio" by [The Masters Apprentices](/source/The_Masters_Apprentices); and "[I'll Be Gone](/source/I'll_Be_Gone_(Spectrum_song))", the debut single by progressive rock group [Spectrum](/source/Spectrum_(band)), which was a number one hit in Australia in 1970.

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