James Albert Bowen (born November 30, 1937)[2] is an American record producer and former rockabilly singer.

Bowen's version sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold record.

[2] In the early 1960s, in Los Angeles, California, he bucked the decade's rock phenomenon when Frank Sinatra hired him as a record producer for Reprise Records, and Bowen showed a strong knack for production, generating chart hits for Sinatra, Dean Martin, Bert Kaempfert and Sammy Davis Jr., regarded as too old-fashioned for the market at the time.

Leaving Los Angeles for Nashville, Tennessee, Bowen became president of a series of record labels, and took each one to country music preeminence.

His success stories during the second half of the 1970s and 1980s involved Glen Campbell, Kenny Rogers, Hank Williams Jr., The Oak Ridge Boys, Reba McEntire, George Strait, Suzy Bogguss, Kim Carnes and Garth Brooks.

That soundtrack contains three songs which he composed, as well as music from the band Mountain and from Big Mama Thornton.