Lorin J. Whitney (September 11, 1914 – August 29, 2007) was an American organist and recording artist who played on Christian radio programs such as the Haven of Rest in the 1930s–1950s.

He began taking piano lessons at age 14 and advanced rapidly, soon studying organ under prominent theater organist Jesse Crawford.

[1] As a 20-year-old college student in 1934, Whitney became organist on the Haven of Rest radio program, heard by millions on the coast-to-coast broadcast until 1958.

[3][7] Whitney played organ on a nightly half-hour radio program on a Los Angeles station, KHOF-FM, in the late 1950s–1960s.

In its earlier years, the Lorin Whitney Recording Studio was predominately used to record Christian albums and radio broadcasts, such as Haven of Rest, World Vision, and The Quiet Time, a 15-minute program of sung hymns and organ played by Whitney, along with a spoken meditation by Albert Salter.

[1][9] Whitney promoted the use of his studio by other radio ministries based in the Los Angeles area to produce records on his Angelus label for their listening audiences, such as the duet of John and Linnie Olson on the Trans World Missions broadcast.

[7] Actor Tom Bosley used the studio early in his career to produce an audition tape for announcing and voice acting roles, before his casting as the familiar Howard Cunningham character on the Happy Days television series in the 1970s–1980s.

[9] The studio's array of tape duplicating machines and multi-channel recording capabilities resulted in increasing use by rock music performers.