Reservoir acquires producer catalog of Grammy winner Jack Douglas

11 October 2024 - Press release

Reservoir Media, Inc. (NASDAQ: RSVR), an award-winning independent music company, today announced the acquisition of the producer royalties to the catalog of Grammy-winning American record producer Jack Douglas. The acquisition includes hits by Aerosmith and Cheap Trick.

Douglas’ catalog is a cornerstone of rock music history, with numerous multi-Platinum-selling records to his name. He has been recognized with several lifetime achievement awards, including for the LA Music Hall of Fame, the Sarasota Film Festival, and the Institute of Audio Research. Born in the Bronx, New York City, Douglas began his music career at the Institute of Audio Research before engineering and/or producing on projects by Miles Davis, Alice Cooper, Cheap Trick, Patti Smith, Supertramp, and Montrose, among others. In 1971, Douglas helped engineer The Who’s Who’s Next, a multi-Platinum Grammy Hall of Fame inducted album, and was one of the engineers on John Lennon’s second solo album, Imagine, featuring one of the most renowned songs in popular culture, the title track “Imagine.” Douglas also worked with the other three Beatles over his storied career.

Douglas spent the majority of the 1970s focused on production, particularly playing a crucial role in many of Aerosmith's most successful albums. He notably produced 3x-Platinum Get Your Wings (1974), 9x-Platinum Toys in the Attic (1975), 4x-Platinum Rocks (1976), and 2x-Platinum Draw the Line (1977). Both Toys in the Attic and Rocks rank on Rolling Stone’s list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. In the 1980s, Douglas also collaborated with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, producing the duo’s Grammy Award-winning Album of the Year Double Fantasy and Grammy-nominated (Record Of The Year) nominated single off the album “(Just Like) Starting Over,” as well as Yoko Ono’s Grammy-nominated (Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female) “Walking on Thin Ice.”

In the mid-2000s, Douglas reunited with Aerosmith to work on additional projects with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band, including 2004’s Gold-selling Honkin’ on Bobo and 2012’s Music from Another Dimension!. Today, he is busy scoring films and running his own label.

Reservoir President and Chief Operating Officer Rell Lafargue commented, "Jack Douglas is a legendary producer who crafted some of the most iconic and sonically powerful rock records over the past 50 years. We are honored to now represent titles from his extraordinary body of work, which will continue to be played and revered for the next 50 and beyond.” He added, "With Jack’s music now joining Reservoir, we’re further solidifying our representation in iconic rock.”