It's Been (and Contues to be) Fun

 
Hank and Dean
(Hank Jones and Dean Kay)
Featured entertainers on the 
Tennessee Ernie Ford
Daytime TV Show,
RCA Victor Recording Artists,
College Students (1962)
 
 

Hank and Dean shots courtesy of Hank Jones 
who, bless his pea pickin' little heart, 
saved everything
!
Hank and Dean hangin' with Dizzy Gillespie and Joe Williams on the Marty Faye show.  Chicago, 1962
!

Hank and Dean with Nick Adams 
and Dean Jones...

...and with Connie Stevens

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Sheet music editions of Dean's song, That's Life.
(To read the lyric, click here)
!!

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Dean 2 Dean
Publisher Dean presents Songwriter Dean with a platinum album (you remember those) award
for David Lee Roth's triple platinum album Eat 'em and Smile which featured "That's Life".(1988)
!
That's Life Bono-fied

Bono
In addition to the Frank Sinatra classic, That's Life has been recorded some of the greatest artists of all time
including the stunning 2003 version by U2's, Bono
Pictured at right, above, Michelle Kay, Bono and Dean

 


Lawrence Welk's Best Kept Secret

For 18 years Dean was the COO of Lawrence Welk's music publishing companies during which time he built Welk's copyright holdings into one of the largest, most respected and highly successful independent music publishing companies of all time.  So successful was the firm in every genre of popular music that one year it received the top publisher award at every major music industry event that recognized such endeavors.















Dean signed 11 year old Janet Jackson to her first music publishing agreement - with the approval of father Joe, of course.
 


Dean was a "Markett" on the top 10 single "The Batman Theme"
!

Evel Knievel was lowered into his Skycycle for his attempt to jump the
Snake River to the strains of Dean's "The Ballad of Evel Kneivel."


Webnoize99's - Creator's Panel
Sponsored by ASCAP and Constellation Ventures
Subject: Music On The Internet From The Creator's Perspective
Pictured L-R in master shot:  Jimmy Jam, Jonatha Brooke, Ice T, Michael Franti,
Patrick Leonard, Reeves Gabrels and panel moderator, Dean Kay
(1999)

Pictures courtesy of ASCAP

Webnoize2000's - Creator's Panel
Creators Embracing Change  Sponsored by ASCAP,Moderated by Dean, with the amazing insights into the creator's world by a panel including - left to right: John Rzeznik, Mark Isham, Kathy Fisher, Dean, Matthew Wilder, Jimmy Jam, Alf Clausen
(Click pic 4 whole shtick)
 
 








Future of Music Policy Summit Georgetown University - 2003
ASCAP Party Hosted by Dean L-R Jonatha Brooke, Stan Meisner, Eric Bazilian, Dean, and Vernon Reid
 
 
 

Dean Re-Elected to the Board Of Directors,
National Music Publishers' Association - 2005

Front Row: Peter Felcher, NMPA Outside Counsel
Board Members: Mary Jo Mennella,SVP/General Manager, Fox Music
Arnold Broido, Chairman, Theodore Presser Co.
Irwin Z Robinson, Chairman/CEO Famous Music
Beebe Bourne, CEO, Bourne & Co
Stanley Mills, President, September Music
Back Row: Gary L. Churgin, President & CEO, The Harry Fox Agency
Dean Kay, President/CEO, Demi Music Corp.
Nicholas Firth, Chairman, BMG Music Publishing
Ralph Peer, Chairman/CEO, peermusic
Jay Morgenstern, EVP/GM, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
Evan Medow, President, Windswept Holdings, LLC
Maxyne Berman Lang, President, Williamson Music
Freddy Bienstock, President, Bienstock Publishing Co.
David M. Israelite, President and CEO of the NMPA
 


ASCAP I Create Music EXPO - 2006
(l-r) Indie911 President Justin Goldberg,  Senior VP, ASCAP Enterprises Group Chris Amenita, Mediaguide's Paul Wright,
CEO's of Allhiphop.com Chuck Creekmur & Greg Watkins,
Dean (panel moderator) and manager of Independent Labels for Rhapsody and RealNetworks' Ted Kartzman

ASCAP I Create Music EXPO - 2006
Dean, Jay Morgenstern, EVP/GM, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc,
Bruce Broughton, Emmy Award-winning TV and film composer,
Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-CA), US House of Representatives

6'3" and  6' 5" espectively,
Dean and Stanley Ralph Ross, 
billed themselves as the
Dean Kay and Mr. Ross
"Biggest Act In Show Business" (1965)

Jammin' with Olympic decathlon 
silver and gold medal champion
Rafer Johnson
(1967)


 
 
 

With the London Quireboys at the Roxy in Los Angeles.
(1989)
 


 
 

Mikhail Baryshnikov

interpreted That's Life in Twyla Tharp's critically acclaimed, "Nine Sinatra Songs" (Sinatra Suite)which had its American Ballet Theater premiere at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts,Washington, D.C., 12/6/83.  Baryshnikov's performance was reprised on video as he was honored during the Kennedy Center Honors 2000.
 
 




Should Frank Sinatra be inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame?
The L.A. Times, Robert Hilburn, thinks so. (Click Picture)
 
 


Farewell O.C. and Thank You
(Click Picture)






As then music publisher of the entire creative output of legendary composer Jerome Kern, in 1985 Dean orchestrated the charge through Congress that resulted in the issuance of a postage stamp commemorating the 100th anniversary of Kern's birth.
 
 

Washington, D.C.


Rep.Howard Berman (D-CA), Todd Brabec, EVP Membership Group ASCAP, Johnny Mandel, Composer-Arranger,
Leeds Levy, President Leeds Music,  Jay Morgenstern, EVP/GM Warner Chappell Music Inc., Paul Williams, Songwriter,
Bruce Broughton, Composer,  Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (D - MI), Alan Bergman, Lyricist, Roger Faxon, Joint CEO EMI Music Publishing, Dean, Kathy Spanberger, Prt/COO Anglo-American Region - peer music.
!

  
Dean, Senator Patrick Leahy, 
lyricist Hal David 
  
Senator Orrin Hatch, 
Dean's Wife, Michelle, Dean
!


Michelle Kay with Senator Ted Kennedy
With Vice President Al Gore

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Dean Kay's testimony on behalf of ASCAP before the
HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE ON COURTS AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
June 15, 2000
(Click House Seal Above)


Dean at an ASCAP Board meeting after makng a motion that ASCAP invade Peru.
(ASCAP Boardroom, NYC)
!
With Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber 
 In London (1985) 
 With Michelle and Dudley Moore
 (1985)
!
 
                   With songwriter Tom Snow
                    and Sergio Mendez (1985)
With Cy Coleman, George Michael
and Johnny Mandel (1998)
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With the legondary Harry Belafonte (2000)
!
 

 
The Playboy Mansion (2002) was fun, even though the girls kept cramping Dean's style.
Michelle, was off hustling Hef!


The Masters
Many of the world's most renowned composers and authors gathered at
ASCAP's first West Coast Writer's Advisory Committee meeting (circa 1969)
Back Row:  Joe Greene, Marcia Waldorf, Nachio Herb Brown, Jr., Harry Sukman, George Duning, Bert Shefter,
Fred Karlin, Danny Shapiro, Herb Magidson, Luchi DeJesus, Sammy Cahn, Ray Evans, Jerry Livingston, Vic Mizzy,
Arthur Hamilton, Jay Livingston, Al Kasha, Sammy Lerner, Tommy Wolf
Center Row (Seated):  Unidentified, John Cacavas, Paul Francis Webster, Sammy Fain, Harry Warren
Front Row: Dean Kay, Doug Goodwin, Don Wolf, Gene DePaul, Stu Phillips
 


 
 

Benny Carter's Induction Into ASCAP's Jazz Wall of Fame

(l-r) John McKellen, Johnny Mandel, Mrs. Benny Carter (Hilma), Benny, Marilyn Bergman, Alan Bergman, Dean
Posthumously inducted: Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Roy Eldridge, Duke Ellington, Benny  Goodman, Coleman Hawkins, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Buddy Rich and Art Tatum. (1997)









Milt Hinton and Artie Shaw
Inducted into ASCAP's Jazz Wall of Fame 2000
Back row (left to right): Alan and Marilyn Bergman, bassist Ron Carter, ASCAP Board MemberJohnny Mandel, Dean, clarinetist Ken Peplowski; Front row:  Inductee Milt Hinton and wife Mona. Ron Carter performed in honor of Milt Hinton and Peplowski in honor of Artie Shaw.
 
 

And, it doesn't get any better than this...


Dean and Michelle

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                     Daughter Lisa _______ __________Dad (Stuart), Mom (Lisa)__________________Grandson Michael
 

                      ______Michael (2002)__________________Michael (2002)__________________Michael (2005)________