Henry "Hank" Cicalo (June 25, 1932 – January 31, 2024) was an American recording engineer whose career spanned over fifty years.
Among the artists recorded by Cicalo were The Monkees, Carole King, Barbra Streisand, and George Harrison.
[citation needed] He worked on albums for such Capitol artists as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Nat King Cole, and moved up to engineer, working with such notables as Cannonball Adderley, Peggy Lee, Ed Ames, and Lou Rawls.
Their projects included The Mills Brothers, The Lennon Sisters, Jimmie Rodgers, Glen Campbell, Ernie Andrews, Frankie Carle, and Harry James.
Their biggest project together was Lalo Schifrin's Mission Impossible, the theme for the 1966 television series of the same name, for which Cicalo was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical.
Cicalo toured with the band in 1967 and recalled that the most frightening experience he ever had was being attacked by a mob of teenage girls while in a limousine with The Monkees.
The late 1980s and 1990s saw Cicalo back in the studio, recording and mixing albums: Dreams & Themes by Patrick Williams, Body and Soul and The Groove Shop by Clayton Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, Once More…With Feeling by Doc Severinsen & The Tonight Show Band.
He engineered Isn’t It Romantic, That’s Entertainment, Hugh Martin Songbook, as well as Such Sweet Sorrow, and Nice Work If You Can Get It – which he also co-produced.