Died On This Date (March 19, 2008) Sam Weiss / Music Industry Veteran
themusicsover 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.
As the driving force behind the Mamas & the Papas, Papa John Phillips has been called one of the greatest pop songwriters of the last forty years. If there was one American group that could hold its on against the British Invasion, it was the Mamas & the Papas (John Phillips, Michelle Phillips, 
Fess Parker was a popular actor who is best remembered for playing Davy Crockett in a Disney television series, and later, Daniel Boone in another series. Parker flirted with a music career by releasing a handful of folk albums during the ’60s. They included Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, Abe Lincoln and Other Great American Heroes and Fess Parker Sings. Later in life, Parker devoted his time to running the award-winning Fess Parker Family Winery. Fess Parker was 85 when he died of natural causes on March 18, 2010.
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