Editing Norrie Paramor (section)

==Producer ==
The term "music producer"/record producer" was not in circulation at the time Paramor started producing records. The usual term was Artiste and Repertoire Manager, or [[A&R]] man). He effectively began this role in 1952 when he became Recording Director for [[EMI]]'s [[Columbia Graphophone Company|Columbia Records]].<ref name="Larkin">{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]|editor=Colin Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|publisher=[[Virgin Books]]|date=1997|edition=Concise|isbn=1-85227-745-9|page=930}}</ref> As well as being producer for Cliff Richard and the Shadows, he produced records for [[Ruby Murray]], [[Eddie Calvert]], [[Michael Holliday]], [[Helen Shapiro]], [[Frank Ifield]], [[Frankie Vaughan]], [[the Mudlarks]], [[the Avons]], and [[Ricky Valance]], among others.{{citation needed|date=August 2014}} Per ''[[The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles]]'', Paramor and [[George Martin]]{{snd}} his opposite number at EMI sister label [[Parlophone]]{{snd}} jointly held the record for having produced the most [[United Kingdom|UK]] Number 1 hit singles until Martin produced "[[Candle in the Wind 97]]" for Sir [[Elton John]], 18 years after Paramor died.<ref name=mw>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Music Week]]|title=From Rivals Chart To Popstars Rivals|page=5|edition=Celebrating 50 Years of the Singles Chart|date=16 November 2002|last=Williams|first=Paul}}</ref> This ignores [[The Beatles]]' second single "[[Please Please Me (song)|Please Please Me]]", produced by Martin, which was recognized as a number one hit by every other publicly available chart of the time, but not by ''[[Record Retailer]]'' and therefore not by ''British Hit Singles'', which uses that chart as its source from 1960.<ref name=mw/>

In the late 1960s he left EMI to form his own production company.<ref name=varobit>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=September 12, 1979|page=114|title=Obituaries}}</ref>  Kenneth Womack has written about the sometimes intense rivalry between Paramor and George Martin.<ref>Kenneth Womack. ''Maximum Volume: The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin, The Early Years, 1926-1966'' (2017)</ref>