Barbra Streisand celebrated Richard Perry's "uncanny ability to pick the hits" in a tribute to the late producer, who died this week at the age of 82. Streisand worked with Perry on two albums, Stoney End and Barbra Joan Streisand,

Perry, who started out as a drummer, was behind hits by Carly Simon, Barbra Streisand, Tiny Tim and scores of other singing stars.

Richard Perry, a record producer who helped craft hits in the 1970s and '80s, such as Carly Simon's "You're So Vain," died Tuesday in Los Angeles.

The recent death of music legend Richard Perry, best known for producing hit songs like Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain,” has sent shockwaves across the music world. Accordingly, fans have become curious about the circumstances surrounding his death with many fans wondering what the cause was.

Perry, who died on Christmas Eve, left behind a body of work with artists like Carly Simon and Rod Stewart that can be seen as a roadmap of Sixties, Seventies, and Eighties pop

Famed Jewish record producer Richard Perry died on Tuesday at age 82 of cardiac arrest. With a lush, clear production style that separated itself from the more rock, guitar-oriented music of the 70s,

Perry got his start in the music biz doing novelty songs like “Safe as Milk” by Captain Beefheart and Tiny Tim’s immortal “Tiptoe Through the Tulips.” He worked extensively with Harry Nilsson, producing his most critically-acclaimed work Nilsson Schmilsson,