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174 C A R M E L M A G A Z I N E • W I N T E R 2 0 1 7 Kapp recalls, "and my dad said, 'You're not going to just sit around,' so I took a job at the Decca Records factory, working on a record press." He has no sour grapes about ending his college career early. "Actually, it was the best thing that happened to me," Kapp avers. "I learned about the real world, and knew I didn't want to do that kind of factory work." That was probably the last oppor tunity Kapp missed in life. He eventually joined the Navy, where he worked at Armed Forces Radio. There, by manipulating two tape machines, he and a colleague invented the seven-second delay, a technique still used in live radio broadcasts. From there, he followed in his dad's footsteps, racking up producer credits for ar tists such as Les Brown and His Band of Renown, Bill Dana and Jack Jones before his ship came in with his production of Louis Armstrong's "Hello Dolly." That song hit Number One on May 9, 1964, ending a three- song streak by the Beatles. Later, Kapp pioneered the use of television in Trumpeter Louis Armstrong's iconic recording of "Hello, Dolly!" was produced by Michael Kapp, won two Grammy awards in 1965 and in 2001 was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.