Sony. His Red Baron label was apparently an entirely separate operation. Founded around 1991, Red Baron releases included several projects by the Bob Thiele Collective, and previously unissued recordings by Duke Ellington and Earl Hines, as well as reissues from other labels. In 1995, his memoir, What a Wonderful World, was published. Red Baron was wound up after Thiele died. Thiele remained active in the music business until the end of his life, including the co-writing of the song "You," which was recorded by Bonnie Raitt and appeared on her 1994 album, Longing in Their Hearts. Death He died of kidney failure, according to a friend, at Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan on January 30, 1996. Discography 1967: Thoroughly Modern (ABC) 1968: Light My Fire (Impulse! Records) - with Gábor Szabó 1969: Head Start (as 'Bob Thiele Emergency') (Flying Dutchman Records) 1975: I Saw Pinetop Spit Blood (Flying Dutchman Records) 1984: The Twenties Score Again (Columbia) Bibliography Bob Thiele (1995) What a Wonderful World: A Lifetime of Recordings, Oxford University Press Bob Thiele and George David Weiss; Illustrated by Tim Hopgood (2014) What a Wonderful World, Henry Holt and Company References 1922 births 1996 deaths Record producers from New York (state) Jazz record producers Businesspeople from New Rochelle, New York Burials at the Cemetery of the Evergreens Flying Dutchman Records artists Red Baron Records artists Deaths from kidney failure 20th-century American businesspeople People from Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn