Stan Lewis

{[Infobox person |name=Stanley Joseph "Stan" Lewis (Louisiana record promoter) |birth_date=July 5, 1927 |birth_place=Shreveport, Louisiana |death_place=Shreveport, Louisiana
Resting place: Forest Park East Cemetery in Shreveport |death_date=July 14, 2018 (aged 91) |spouse=Pauline Taglavore Lewis (died 2007)
Children:
Leonard Joseph Lewis
Susan Marie Lewis Garriga |party=Republican |religion=Roman Catholic

}} Stanley Joseph Lewis, known as Stan "The Record Man" Lewis (July 5, 1927 – July 14, 2018), established in 1948 in his native Shreveport, Louisiana, a small record shop. He also owned two record labels, Jewel and Cobra, and was active in the promotion of the early career of Elvis Presley.

The small record shop was located downtown at the intersection of Texas Avenue and Common Street across from the large First United Methodist Church. He became regionally know for his work in the music industry and was considered a "local legend" in Shreveport. With Dale Hawkins (1936-2010), he co-authored the popular song "Susie Q", based on Lewis' daughter, Susan Marie Lewis Garriga (born September 15, 1955).

Other record stores purchased merchandise from Lewis, who became a distributor of independent record labels: Atlantic, Chess, Modern, Specialty, and Imperial. He started a mail-order operation, advertising on WLAC-AM in Nashville, Tennessee, whose powerful signal could be heard at night in much of the country. In 1963, Lewis founded the Jewel label and thereafter the Paula and Ronn imprints. The roster included Ike & Tina Turner, the Five Blind Boys of Mississippi, and Memphis Slim. Jewel also recorded for African-American singers Aretha Franklin, Fats Domino, Redd Foxx, and B. B. King. In the late 1960s, Lewis purchased Cobra Records from Eli Toscano. The Cobra roster included Harold Burrage and Magic Slim.

In the 1990s, Lewis worked with southern soul singers Carl Sims and Vickie Baker. Because of the difficulty of operating a competitive independent record label in a major-label dominated industry, Lewis offered Jewel Records for sale while retaining control of his music publishing companies and the Susie Q and Gospel Jubilee labels, which recorded Doug Kershaw and Ace Cannon. In 1999, EMusic.com purchased from Lewis the recording rights of the Jewel label. Lewis in his later years was a consultant for an Internet music business based in Redwood, California.

KEEL Radio said that Lewis "did it all. Shreveport's rich musical history probably wouldn't be what it is without Stan and his work." In 2009, Lewis was inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame.

Lewis died in Shreveport nine days after his 91st birthday. Lewis was married to the former Pauline Taglavore (1927-2007), a daughter of Alfonso Tagliavore (1889-1952) ad the former Rosalie Carbone (1907-1989). In addition to daughter Susan, the couple had a son, Leonard Joseph "Lenny" Lewis (born July 4, 1951). The Roman Catholic couple is interred at Forest Park East Cemetery in Shreveport.

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