He is best known for his business associations with the Beach Boys during the production of the band's unfinished album Smile and the formation of the group's company Brother Records.

Anderle also worked for MGM, Elektra, and A&M Records, and later acted as music supervisor on films including The Breakfast Club (1985), Pretty in Pink (1986), Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), and Scrooged (1988).

[1] He graduated in June 1955 from Fairfax High School in Los Angeles, where his schoolmates included Herb Alpert, Jerry Moss, and producer Shel Talmy.

[6] Music historian Keith Badman characterized Anderle as "an artist who ... skipped back and forth between painting and the record business, with mixed results in both.

A lot of the contacts I had made here in the so-called underground started paying attention ..."[7] Gaines credits Anderle as the primary conduit between Wilson and the "hip" associates that surrounded him in this period.

[10] In biographer Peter Ames Carlin's description, Painting from memory, Anderle had produced a dark, moody vision of Brian, his skin the color of alabaster, his mouth bent in a curious smile, his blazing eyes peering out of a blackness that bristled with icons and figures.

His production credits included albums for Rita Coolidge, Amy Grant, Delaney and Bonnie, Kris Kristofferson, Aaron Neville, Chris De Burgh, Rhinoceros, Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Doc Holliday and the Circle Jerks.