LOS ANGELES — When he was 32, it was a very good year.
That’s when a writer named Stan Cornyn – who later came to be known as “king of the liner notes” – won his first Grammy.
It was for the 1965 Frank Sinatra album, “September of My Years.”
Cornyn, a Warner Bros. recording executive who wrote with sophisticated wit and later developed promotions that were alternately tongue-in-cheek and over-the-top for the Grateful Dead, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Petula Clark, Bob Newhart, Dean Martin and many other recording stars, died Monday at his home in Carpinteria, near Santa Barbara. He was 81.
Cornyn had lung cancer, said Meg Barbour, his partner of 18 years.
He started at Warner Bros. Records shortly after it was founded in 1958, rising to senior vice president of the Warner Music Group and retiring in 1992 as founder and CEO of Warner New Media, where he campaigned for more aggressive use of interactive, digital media.
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