What is Hal Willner?
[[File:Hal Willner.jpg|thumb|200px|Hal Willner]] '''Hal Willner''' (April 5, 1956 – April 6, 2020) was an American [[music producer]]. His works focused on movies, TV and live events.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/08/nyregion/hal-willners-vanishing-weird-new-york.html | title = Hal Willner's Vanishing, Weird New York | date= September 8, 2017 | access-date = September 13, 2017 | newspaper = New York Times | author = John Leland }}</ref> He was best known for creating [[tribute album]]s and events featuring a wide variety of artists and musical styles. His first tribute album was ''[[Amarcord Nino Rota]]'' in 1981.<ref>[http://issueprojectroom.org/2009/03/ ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100117044450/http://issueprojectroom.org/2009/03/ |date=January 17, 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/friday_review/story/0,,349989,00.html#article_continue | work=The Guardian | location=London | title=Nino Rota: Godfather of Italian music | access-date=May 4, 2010}}</ref> In the late 1970s he worked under record producer [[Joel Dorn]]. He was an Associate Producer on [[Leon Redbone]]'s albums ''[[Double Time (Leon Redbone album)|Double Time]]'' and ''[[Champagne Charlie (album)|Champagne Charlie]]'',<ref>{{cite web|author=Hal Willner |url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/hal-willner-p138713/credits |title=Hal Willner - Credits |website=AllMusic |access-date=November 29, 2012}}</ref> and [[The Neville Brothers]]' ''[[Fiyo on the Bayou]]''. Willner was the sketch music producer of ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'', beginning in 1981. He was also a producer of the TV program ''[[Sunday Night (American TV program)|Sunday Night]]'' hosted by [[David Sanborn]]. Willner died from problems of [[Coronavirus disease 2019|COVID-19]] in New York City on April 6, 2020, at age 64.<ref name = RS>{{cite magazine|url = https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/hal-willner-obituary-979949/|title = Hal Willner, Music Producer and Longtime 'SNL' Music Supervisor, Dead at 64|m