Robert L. Yorke; Ex-Head of Recording Arts Academy

Robert L. Yorke, 68, president from 1962 to 1963 of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and a former manager of West Coast operations who helped oversee the recording of Henry Mancini’s “The Music From Peter Gunn,” which won Mancini his first Grammy in 1958. Yorke also was a trustee and national treasurer of NARAS, founded in 1957, and after leaving the entertainment industry had a successful career in real estate in Orange County. In Laguna Beach on Tuesday of cancer.