Al Kasha (born January 22, 1937) is an American songwriter. He is best known for “The Morning After” from The Poseidon Adventure. (More from Wikipedia)
Al Kasha, who takes credit for leading Bob Dylan to Jesus, is a Messianic Jew (and that might be the best way to describe Dylan himself actually). He knew Dylan from his earliest days at Columbia Records, where he was their youngest record producer in 1960. On the blog Godreports, Kasha remarks that Dylan wrote the songs on Slow Train Coming at Kasha’s Beverly Hills home. Al Kasha also discusses Dylan’s 2012 album, Tempest (his most recent studio album): “I am absolutely thrilled that Bob has shown through this new record that he has never lost God’s calling in life. He’s never given up. I get upset when people think that he has because you don’t write all these songs just out there. It takes time to write them and they’re all about Christ, so I’ve said this in the past — the media has hurt rather than helped him.”
(August 2014)
