Irving Green

...Sisters in the 1940s. In 1945, Mr. Adams, Irving Green, and Arthur Talmadge founded Mercury Records, whose early artists included Erroll Garner, Dinah Washington, Tony Martin, Frankie Laine, and Vic Damone. In 1950, MCA president Lew...

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...the Jukebox" he helped build. In 1945, Adams, Irving Green and Arthur Talmadge founded Mercury Records, whose early artists included Erroll Garner, Dinah Washington, Tony Martin, Frankie Laine and Vic Damone. His job was to recruit the...

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...you stronger. ... I learned a lot." After Jones returned to the U.S., Mercury Records president Irving Green helped him get back on his feet with a personal loan and a job as the label's music director. "He said, `Quincy, it's called the...

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...with Ahmet Ertegun. In 1951 National ceased recording and Mercury bought the label. Running Mercury at that time was Irving Green, Albert's son. National's masters ended up in the possession of Savoy , which later reissued many of them.

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...co-founder and president of Mercury Records. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he was instrumental in promoting African-American artists such as Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington and the Platters. In 1945, he founded Mercury Records, in Chicago,...

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