Herb Rooney


Herbert Louis Rooney was an American record producer who was responsible for writing, producing and singing bass on songs by the Exciters and for writing and producing the sample staple Synthetic Substitution by Melvin Bliss.
Between 1964 and the mid-1980s at time of death Herb Rooney was married to Barbara Rooney. They married in 1959 had. 3 children... He also had 4 children by lead singer Brenda Reid one son,Cory Rooney, who played keyboard for Herb and Brenda when touring and 3 daughters and has produced for the likes of Mariah Carey, Mary J. Blige, Jessica Simpson, Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony, Thalia, Destiny's Child, and many more.
Post-The Exciters saw Rooney running his own cosmetics firm. He died in the early 1991s.