John J. Williams

Canadian record company executive and producer. He started his career at Quality Records Limited in 1956 and in 1958 moved to Columbia Records of Canada, Ltd.. He left Columbia to establish and manage Les Disques Barclay Ltée in 1965 but returned to Columbia in 1967 as national Director of Merchandising in Toronto. In 1969 he was made A&R Director then in 1975 he returned to Montréal as Director of Columbia's Québec division, CBS Disques (2). At the end of 1976, shortly after CBS Disques was rolled into CBS Records Canada Ltd., he left to establish Les Disques Direction Records (and its publishing subsidiaries One Way Music (2) and No Turns Music) which he owned and managed until it folded in 1978. He then joined Inter Global Music as Executive Vice President. After IGM folded in late 1979 he joined Grand Entertainment Corporation in 1980.