Gary Klein (born September 28, 1942, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American songwriter and Grammy Award-nominated record producer.
In 1962, Gary Klein co-wrote the international pop hit song "Bobby’s Girl".
Hardin changed labels and, in 1969, his first studio release for Columbia Records, Suite for Susie Moore and Damion: We are One, One, We Are, was produced by Klein.
In his review for AllMusic, music critic Bruce Eder wrote of the reissue that included "Bird on the Wire": "There's a lot of pain in this disc, to be sure — it's hard to find a Hardin song that didn't have some — but also a level of lyrical and musical excellence that one should feel privileged to partake of.
"[2] In 1974, Mac Davis, while working on a new album wrote the song "Stop and Smell the Roses", Klein produced version of the track won out and it went to number one on the Billboard Adult Contemporary Chart, and was a Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.
Upon Campbell's crossover to the pop chart, Dolly Parton and RCA Records wondered if he could do the same for her.
They were led by CEO Charles Koppelman who oversaw all aspects of the company, with Martin Bandier as General Counsel and Klein leading the creative side of the business as record producer.