Reminiscences of Milton Gabler : oral history, 1959.

Biographical Note

Author, music industry executive.

Scope and Contents

Founding Commodore Records shop in New York, N.Y.; jazz recordings; Commodore record label; jazz concerts; business side of recording industry; effect of radio on recording industry; formation of Decca Records; engineering improvements in recording; merchandizing of packaged programs; origins of rock and roll and negative adult reactions; failure of more conventional music; new types of promotion; comparison of business tactics between small and large record labels.

Subjects

• Executives--Interviews.
• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Gabler, Milton.
• Interviews.
• Jazz.
• Oral histories.
• Rock music.
• Sound recording industry.

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