American producer, music entrepreneur and one of the four Bihari Brothers (with
Jules Bihari,
Les Bihari and
Saul Bihari), who co-founded [l92737] in Los Angeles, and its subsidiaries such as Meteor Records based in Memphis. Like his brothers, he used a pseudonym and split writing credits with the original artists on their labels in order to get a part of the royalties, but didn’t actually write any of those songs. Famous for discovering and first recording
B.B. King in Memphis in 1950.
(
BORN: May 30, 1925, Memphis, Tennessee, USA;
DIED: November 28, 2013, Los, Angeles, California, USA at age 88.)