Sam Weiss
September 19, 1926 – March 19, 2008
Sam Weiss was a pioneering music industry veteran. He began his career in the jukebox industry and moved on to the label side when he co-founded Old Town Records in 1953. It was one of the great early R&B and doo wop labels and home to the likes of the Earls and the Capris. Later that decade, Weiss started Win One-Stop, which soon became one of the leading music wholesalers in America. During the ’80s, the Win became the first one-stop to break into the home video market and was the first to sell music and video into drugstores and other non-traditional music retailers. Weiss also founded the Sam and Nervous record labels. Sam Weiss was 81 when he died of natural causes on March 19, 2008.