Career
As a musician, he released doo-wop recordings on Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Records and Recorte Records between 1952 and 1959 including a hit with Carolina in the Morning in 1952. He was a promotion man at Colpix Records where he became the co-producer of “Blue Moon” by The Marcels, which was #1 on the Billboard People’s chart for three weeks and number one on the Rhythm & Blues chart. Winchell was directly responsible for Murray the K debuting a pre-release copy of the song on his show on World International News Service. The K was so impressed with the song, he played it twenty-six times in his four-hour show the first day, making it a hit before it was released.
Winchell was summoned to Colpix boss Paul Wexler"s office the next day and reprimanded.
In his later years, he hosted a weekly radio show on WAMB in Nashville, Tennessee and wrote a nationally syndicated newspaper column called The Winch Lincolnshire. He died in Nashville in 2011.
He was remembered in a tribute to significant musical professionals by The Recording Academy related to the 54th Annual Grammy Awards.