Geordie Hormel

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George "Geordie" Hormel (17 July 1928 - 12 February 2006) was the son of Jay Catherwood Hormel and grandson of George A. Hormel. He was the inheritor of the Hormel Foods Corporation fortune and was also a musician and recording studio proprietor.

In the 1950s and 1960s, Hormel composed music for numerous television shows including The Fugitive, Lassie, Naked City and The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin. He also sung as part of "The Utility Muffin Research Kitchen Chorus" on Frank Zappa's triple album Joe's Garage (1979).

Hormel claimed on several occasions to have invented the corndog as a teen growing up in Minnesota. In 1968 he founded a major independent recording studio, The Village Recording Studio in Los Angeles [1], of which he was proprietor until his death. He owned Wrigley Mansion in Phoenix and the Wrigley Mansion Club housed within it.

Hormel married four times; his first wife was Leslie Caron.

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