Artie Kaplan

Artie Kaplan
Born	US
Genres	Jazz, pop
Occupation(s)	Musician, composer
Instruments	Saxophone, flute
Years active	1960s–present
Associated acts	Artie Kornfeld

Artie Kaplan is an American recording artist, songwriter and a session musician. He has also been a music contractor where he was hired to musicians for sessions. In the 1960s he was casting musicians for sessions for Aldon Music. When musician Joe Delia was asked about the best advice he had ever had, he said it was from Artie Kaplan who said "Always show up on time and bring a pencil."

Kaplan is a singer-songwriter, producer and composer and the instruments he plays are saxophone, Clarinet, flute and piccolo. His saxophone playing and sax solos can be heard on over 150 songs that made it to the top 10. The songs he has played on are "1-2-3" by Len Barry, "The Locomotion" by Little Eva, "Mandy" by Barry Manilow, "Breaking Up is Hard to Do" by Neil Sedaka and "Sunday Will Never Be the Same" by Spanky & Our Gang.

In 1972 he released an album with the title Confessions of a Male Chauvinist Pig. In a review, Billboard Magazine's Sam Sutherland referred to it as an eyebrow raising project that Chris Dedrick and Mort Ross were working on. His remark, possibly due to the name of the album was "no comment".

He cowrote the song Harmony with Norman Simon which appeared on his 1972 album Confessions of a Male Chauvanist Pig. It has been covered by Ray Conniff and the Singers and appeared on their album of the same title. Along with Artie Kornfeld, he co-wrote "Bensonhurst Blues" which was a hit for Dutch singer Oscar Benton. Other songs he has written are "My First And Only Lover" which was recorded by Nat "King" Cole and "It's Been A Long Time" which has been recorded by Eric Faulkner.

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