ABOUT CHARLES WALLERT

Charles Wallert is known in industry circles as the “Singer’s Producer.” He has produced for many of the major labels including Polydor, Warner Bros., and RSO Records, at the height of their success with the “Saturday Night Fever” soundtrack. From 1975 Charles has continued to produce and compose nationally charted recordings on O.C. Smith, Chuck Jackson, Dionne Warwick, Cuba Gooding and The Main Ingredient and George Benson. Charles’ production of George Benson’s hit, “Love Of My Life”, propelled the album, “Love Remembers” to over 500,000 unit sales worldwide. Charles Wallert has achieved recognition as a producer and composer of the popular genre of East Coast Beach Music, winning six awards at the 1990 Beach Music Awards. From 1995 through the present Charles has enjoyed seven (7) top #35 recordings on the highly competitive Gavin Adult Contemporary Charts, including 2 by O.C. Smith, George Benson and Cuba Gooding and The Main Ingredient. In 1998 – 2000 in his capacity with Wave entertainment Charles achieved 3 records on the same chart including the Chuck Jackson – Dionne Warwick duet, “If I Let Myself Go” #19, Chuck Jackson, “What Goes Around Comes Around” #13 and Lisa Molina, “I Would Walk Though Fire” #12. In addition to working on motion picture soundtracks, Charles’ production of O.C. Smith’s “Save The Last Dance For Me” reached the number one position on the Rhythm n’ Beach Top 40 Charts. Charles was co-founder and creative head of Bluewater Recordings and has composed and produced “Beach Music, Super Collaboration Album” for Bluewater Recordings featuring The Embers, George Benson, O.C. Smith, Cuba Gooding, Darryl Tookes, Ronnie Limar, LaTanya Hall and Coral. Throughout his career, Charles Wallert has been involved in numerous community, philanthropic and educational activities. In 2006 Charles was elected President of the Society of Singers (the only non-profit organization dedicated solely to benefit the health and welfare of professional singers worldwide) Chapter East, until September 2008. Chapter East increased its membership over 50% under Mr. Wallert’s leadership and brought increased visibility to Chapter East with high profile events with stars such as George Benson, Neil Sedaka and Chaka Kahn to name a few. Mr. Wallert also arranged affiliations with The NY Yankees, Capital One Bank and other prominent sponsors in the greater NY area. Charles’ production of Cuba Gooding’s rendition of “Never Give Up” debuted at the 2009 Presidential Inauguration. In addition to working on motion picture soundtracks, Charles produced & composed for the Embers new album, “The Show Must Go On” and has produced & composed for Darryl Tookes’ 4 cut EP, “My Daughter”. Continuing his philanthropic work in 2011, Charles was named chairman of fundraising for Camphill Special School’s Diversity Fund. In 2012 Charles produced “My World Revolves Around You” for Amanda Holley. Projects in 2012-13 also included the production of George Benson’s new single release “The One For Me” which debuted the most added FMQB Adult Contemporary recording two weeks in a row and charted nationally at #3. Also the Cuba Gooding/Richard Kincaid Christmas duet of “Mistletoe” which charted at #13 amongst the world’s biggest stars on the 2012 MediaBase Christmas Chart. Future projects slated are the motion picture soundtrack & book /movie for “We Made Them Dance – The O. C. Smith Story, and albums on George Benson,, Cuba Gooding & more. In 2015 the Charles Wallert production of “The One For Me”added to The Ultimate Collection – George Benson as the only new cut to promote Mr. Benson’s multi-Grammy, 100 million sales, recordings. Charles was responsible for George Benson performing at the Sinatra 100 Celebration In Los Angeles with the Sinatra family. In 2019 Charles was a contributing TV producer for “Celebrity Tastemakers” – the Joe Namath episode.

Currently Charles wrote & produced “A Special Kind of Love” the new single for Philly legend, Benny Marsella which recently debuted in the top 3 national AC radio charts. Current projects in the works include new material on Darryl Tookes & George Benson as well as his book & screenplay – “We Made Them Dance.”

Charles was recently featured in articles:

JerseyMan/PhillyMan – https://jerseymanmagazine.com/a-passion-for-success/

New York Lifestyles Magazine – http://newyorklifestylesmagazine.com/articles/2017/03/94.html

ESPN Interview – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsNUlqoraS0&t=5s