- For other people of the same name, see Thomas Wilson.
Thomas Blanchard Wilson, Jr. is one of the forgotten greats of the music business. Wilson was born in 1931 and grew up in Waco, Texas, where he attended Moore High School. Wilson was invited to Harvard where he became involved with the Harvard New Jazz Society and radio station WHRB: the latter to which he later credited all of his success in the music business.
He was a black record producer, most productive in the 1960s. He first produced Sun Ra's first album, Sun Song, and then worked for Columbia Records and went to Verve Records. He produced records for Simon and Garfunkel, Bob Dylan and The Velvet Underground. He signed the Mothers of Invention to Verve records in 1966, and was credited as producer on the group's seminal debut album Freak Out! although it is widely believed that Frank Zappa, the leader of the group, did most of the real production work. He produced all of Dylan's Bringing It All Back Home album. Wilson is credited as one of the producers of Highway 61 Revisited, even though he only produced one song, "Like A Rolling Stone."
He died of a heart attack at 47 at his home in Los Angeles, California on September 6, 1978.
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