Howie Richmond

Howard Spencer "Howie" Richmond (born January 18, 1918 in Queens , † May 20, 2012 in Rancho Mirage , California ) was an American music publisher .

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Richmond, whose father Maurice was a music publisher, began working as a press agent in the mid-1930s after studying at the University of Pennsylvania in New York; his clients included Glenn Miller , Woody Herman , Gene Krupa , Frank Sinatra , Georgie Auld and The Andrews Sisters . After completing military service in the US Air Force, he founded his own music publishing company in 1949, which was located on West 57th Street. With his business partners Al Brackman and Abe Olman , he specialized in novelty songs and sent them directly to the disc jockeys . The first song marketed by Richmond was Hop-Scotch Polka , which Guy Lombardo recorded for Decca Records . In his first year, Richmond had six hits using this method. One of his successes was the songs Music! Music! Music! , with which Teresa Brewer hit # 1 on the pop charts, and The Thing , which Phil Harris recorded.

His company's catalog also included Woody Guthrie's So Long, It's Been Good to Know You , who later influenced Bob Dylan . His greatest achievements contributed The Weavers in the lead Bellys Title Goodnight, Irene in the arrangement of Gordon Jenkins interpreted. It became a number 1 hit in the US. Richmond has also worked with artists such as Bart Howard ( Fly Me to the Moon ), Bill Evans ( Waltz for Debby ) and Kurt Weill , The Who , Black Sabbath and Pink Floyd ( The Dark Side of the Moon ) throughout his career ; also with Shel Silverstein , whose blues song A Boy Named Sue became known in the version of Johnny Cash in 1969.

In 1969, Richmond was one of the founders of the Songwriters Hall of Fame . In 1983 he received the Songwriters Hall of Fame's first Music Publisher of the Year Award .

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1. ^ ^{A b c} Howie Richmond, Music Publisher, Dies at 94 - Obituary in The New York Times
2. ↑ Among other things, he published the song The Sidewalks of New York .
3. ↑ Songwriters hall of fame ( Memento of the original from May 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Music industry titan, philanthropist Howie Richmond dies