Don DeVito dies at 72

A&R professional and producer Don DeVito, most widely known for his '70s use Bob Dylan, died November. 25 in a hospice within the Bronx following a lengthy fight with cancer of the prostate. He was 72. DeVito, who offered as senior Vice president of the&R at Columbia Records for several years, started his connection to Dylan around the 1976 album "Desire," among only four albums through the singer-songwriter to achieve No. 1 around the U.S. album chart. Exactly the same year, younger crowd created "Hard Rain," an active collection attracted from the date on Dylan's Moving Thunder Revue tour. Producer continued to helm Dylan's 1978 studio album "Street Legal" (1978) and "Bob Dylan at Budokan," an active collection recorded in Japan and released within the U.S. in 1979. Younger crowd done the 1985 boxed set "Biograph" and created the live seem for Dylan's all-star "30th Anniversary Concert Celebration," launched on Compact disc in 1993. Besides creating the boxed Dylan collection "The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3," DeVito done catalog projects for Sony's Legacy division by Tony Bennett, Carole King, the Byrds, Journey, Janis Joplin and Shaun Buckley, amongst others. Younger crowd created albums by Billy Joel and Aerosmith and actor Joe Pesci's 1998 vocal set "Vincent Laguardia Gambini Sings Only for You." Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com