Herbert Berliner

Herbert Samuel Berliner (born September 13, 1882 in Cambridge / Massachusetts ; † August 9, 1966 in Montreal ) was a Canadian music producer and inventor.

Berliner began his professional career in the Berlin Gramophone Company founded by his father Emil Berliner . In 1906 he became vice president and general manager of the family company. Under the label His Master's Voice , he published an anglophone and a francophone series of recordings from 1916, in the latter of which he published Canadian artists.

In 1921 he left the Berlin Gramophone Company and became president of the Canadian label Compo , which he had founded in 1918. At this first independent Canadian label, he experimented with sound recording with electric microphones as early as the early 1920s, from 1924 with plastic materials instead of fragile shellac and from 1929 with "33" records.

The economic success allowed him to establish labels like Sun and Apex under the umbrella of Compo . Canadian musicians who recorded with him included Rex Battle , JR Dubois , Paul Dufault and Ruthven H. McDonald (with Compo) as well as Willie Eckstein , Vera Guilaroff , Léo Le Sieur , Don Messer and His Islanders and the Andy Tripaldi Orchestra (at Apex).

Berliner sold Compo to Decca Records in 1951 , but remained President of Compo within Decca until his death. The Apex label survived until the 1970s.

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SURNAME	Berliner, Herbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Berliner, Herbert Samuel; Berliner, Herbert S.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian music producer and inventor
DATE OF BIRTH	September 13, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cambridge, Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH	August 9, 1966
Place of death	Montreal