Information AboutHy Weiss |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT HY WEISS | |
| 1923 births | |
| 2007 deaths | |
| american record producers | |
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An immigrant to the USA when young, he was brought up in the Bronx . He started in the record business in 1949, setting up Parody Records with his brother Sam. His Old Town Records was active in the period from 1953 for over a decade. He was a producer of Doo Wop groups. Old Town had its first hit with the 1958 '' We Belong Together ''. Weiss was a practioner of Payola to get air play. Reissues for Arthur Prysock extended the life of the label. Subsequently he worked for Stax Records . EXTERNAL LINK |
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