Died On This Date (March 19, 2008) Sam Weiss / Music Industry Veteran

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.