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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Milt Gabler
		Gabler is best known for producing the 1954 Bill Haley classic, "Rock Around the Clock".
		Gabler was not a musician, but years of listening had taught him the difference between hot and hokum,” wrote the jazz critic and Commodore habitué Nat Hentoff.
		Gabler’s enterprising spirit led him to the most obvious solution: He began to produce original recordings for his Commodore label, drawing on the musicians who were regulars at the store and the weekly jams.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Milt-Gabler (769 words)

	Milt Gabler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Milt Gabler (20 May 1911 - 20 July 2001) was a noted American record producer.
		Gabler soon became a record producer for Decca Records, managing Ella Fitzgerald for many years.
		However Gabler's career stretched far beyond this one classic, as he produced artists ranging from Louis Jordan to Billie Holliday to Mae West over the years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Milt_Gabler (221 words)

	Milt Gabler
		Milt Gabler was born in Harlem, May 20, 1911, the eldest of six children.
		However, Gabler did sponsor the post-war edition in the U.S. in 1946, and it is true that he was the first to print band personnels on record labels.
		At the age of 90, Milt Gabler died July 20, 2001, survived by his wife Estelle, a son, two daughters, two sisters, a brother, five grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, and a grateful world of jazz fans and musicians.
	www.delmark.com /rhythm.gabler.htm (1184 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News
		Milt Gabler (May 20, 1911 - July 20, 2001) was a noted American record producer, responsible for many innovations in the recording industry of the 20th century.
		In 1933 Gabler began buying up unwanted copies of recordings from the record companies and resold them, making him the first person to deal in reissues, the first to sell records by mail order, and also the first to credit all the musicians on the recordings.
		Gabler was soon working with many of the biggest stars of the 1940s, producing a series of hits including Lionel Hampton's 'Flying Home', Billie Holiday's 'Lover Man' and The Andrews Sisters' 'Rum and Coca-Cola', as well as being the first to bring Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald together on record.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Milt_Gabler (692 words)

	Milt Gabler - Verve Records
		One of the top record producers of the 1940s and 50s, Milt Gabler will always be associated with his Commodore label.
		In addition to Commodore, Milt Gabler was quite active as a producer for Decca up until the late '60s, working with both jazz and pop artists including Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Jordan.
		Gabler was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.
	www.vervemusicgroup.com /artist.aspx?ob=per&src=prd&aid=3270 (332 words)

	RECORDINGS; Many Shades of Jazz in a Relevatory Trove - New York Times
		Gabler, in the late 20's, slowly transformed a family radio store on 42d Street into a record store and a hangout for students, jazz musicians and reporters and editors from the nearby offices of Time magazine.
		Gabler start a special label for the reissues, United Hot Clubs of America, but he put, also for the first time, the personnel on the labels of the records.
		Gabler is a beneficiary of his own inventions: the Commodore material has been reissued all over the world, many times.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE4DE113CF93BA1575BC0A96E948260 (617 words)

	Milt Gabler: 1911-2001
		Milt Gabler could neither read nor play music, but he succeeded in making an indelible impression on the development of jazz in the two decades between 1934 and 1954, and added a significant contribution to the birth of rock and roll to that roster of achievements.
		Gabler bought up unwanted copies of recordings from the record companies and resold them, making him the first person to deal in reissues.
		Gabler contributed to another slice of history when he signed Bill Haley and the Comets to Decca Records in 1941.
	www.jazzhouse.org /gone/lastpost2.php3?edit=996507703 (713 words)

	Billy Crystal Presents The Milt Gabler Story
		Gabler got his start in the record business with Commodore records, recording some of the finest hot jazz of the thirties, like Eddie Condon and the Kansas City Six, both of which are included here (Freddie Green gets a rare vocal on âThem There Eyesâ?).
		Although Gablerâs instincts were spot-on at the time, not everything here has aged well, particularly the Bing Crosby recordings and the way out-of-date Andrew Sisters and The Weavers.
		The Milt Gabler Story is an excellent collection of hits that salute the man who was behind them, unbeknownst to the record buying public.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=16592 (664 words)

	Jazz Alley \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Milt Gabler was the original music lover who put up his own money to record musicians he admired.
		Gabler had ears, and so does Crystal, who handpicked each selection, beginning with early Commodore sides (Eddie Condon and His Windy City Seven from 1938) through Gabler's Decca tracks (Bill Haley and his Comets from 1954.
		Gabler recorded Holiday for both Commodore and Decca, and these tracks took Lady Day out of small-group jazz settings of her Columbia days and into more of a pop environment.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050224/news_lz1w24jazz.html (320 words)

	COMMODORE : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Jazz record label formed '38 by Milt Gabler (d 20 July 2001, NYC, aged 90); the first label formed exclusively for jazz in the USA, preceded in the world only by Swing in France the year before.
		Gabler began selling records in his father's radio shop in NYC '26; the Commodore Music Shop soon became a hangout for musicians, and Gabler was an innovator long before he made a record: his was the first shop to have browsing bins arranged by artist, and he was the first to reissue classic sides.
		In November '41 Gabler also went to work for USA Decca, having warned them that everybody else was reissuing classics from their vaults and offering to oversee Brunswick and Vocalion reissues.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /encyclopaedia/c/C208.HTM (475 words)

	Salute the Commodore - reissues of Commodore Jazz Recordings - column National Review - Find Articles
		Dedicated to what he called the "righteous" jazz, Milt Gabler, whose Commodore Music Shop on 52nd Street had become the mecca of jazz buffs and jazz musicians, had brought together a number of the finest practitioners of what was then called Chicago-style jazz.
		Milt Gabler's prescience and ear for the real music gave this writer his one flickering moment of glory.
		A friend had remarked on the amount of time her younger brother devoted to listening to and recreating the piano music of the old jazz records and asked me to listen to him and tell her if he was wasting his time.
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		Gabler continued to work with Billie Holiday while at Decca ("Lover Man [Oh, Where Can You Be?"]), as well as Ella Fitzgerald ("Oh, Lady, Be Good!"), Louis Armstrong ("Blueberry Hill" and "Dream a Little Dream of Me" with Fitzgerald), The Andrews Sisters ("Rum and Coca-Cola"), and Bing Crosby and the Jesters ("MacNamara's Band").
		During his time with Decca, Gabler also had his hand in the time-tested classics heard here: "The Glow-Worm" by The Mills Brothers, "Little Things Mean a Lot" by Kitty Kallen, and "Three Coins in the Fountain" by The Four Aces.
		Billy Crystal Presents: The Milt Gabler Story also includes a DVD portion featuring home videos from the Gabler/Crystal family, and a new interview with Crystal speaking both about his uncle and his own involvement in the creation of this release.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=9218873&postID=110272070741934782 (840 words)

	Various Artists - Billy Crystal Presents: The Milt Gabler Story (CD/DVD Combo) - Verve Records
		Gabler’s ears were first drawn to the early sounds of blues-based, improvised music by the dance bands he heard while swimming near Throgs Neck in
		To a generation of record men who became legends in their own right, he was the original collector-turned-producer: a music-biz maven who rode the ever-changing waves of musical fashion — from jazz and Hit Parade pop to country, folk, and rock and roll — while keeping to a steady, discriminating course.
		Gabler’s keen ear and enthusiasm had earned the confidence — and increased the earnings — of an appreciative community.
	www.vervemusicgroup.com /product.aspx?pid=11129&ob=bf&src=vlt (2919 words)

	Billy Remembers Billie - Billie Holiday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Gabler was born in 1911 and bred in New York; Holiday, born four years later, came up in Baltimore.
		Milton Gabler, a retailer by trade and stock, had taken his fathers electronics store on East 42nd Street and, pursuing his passion for jazz, had spent ten years growing it into a record collectors paradise.
		As Gabler saw it, her enduring appeal lay in her ability to connect with anyone, on a basic human level: I always claimed that if you went and listened to her sing and you looked around the room, there were all sorts of people there, all with heartbreak in them.
	www.venerablemusic.com /catalog/TitleDetails.asp?TitleID=8828 (1375 words)

	Various Artists: Billy Crystal Presents the Milt Gabler Story - PopMatters Music Review
		Gabler's Austrian relatives were being subjected to nothing less at the time, and the perky roly-poly man has to be commended for even more than what he did for music and musicians.
		Gabler was an ace producer of saleable but not musically negligible stuff of the sort, and it might be an interesting cultural experience to give the audio CD a listen through.
		Milt Gabler and Jack Crystal deserve all the praise they are here accorded.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/various/various-miltgablerstory.shtml (982 words)

	Jazz \| JazzTimes Magazine > Columns and Features > News
		Milt Gabler may not be the most recognizable name, despite his Lifetime Achievement Award honoree from the Recording Academy and membership in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but who knew that actor and comedian Billy Crystal is the nephew of this music businessman?
		Gabler was the founder of both the Commodore Music Shop in New York and its namesake label and was an executive at Decca Records.
		Gabler’s work at Decca is reflected in the diversity of the album’s tracks, which range from “Flying Home” by Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra to “Lover” by Peggy Lee.
	www.jazztimes.com /columns_and_features/news/detail.cfm?printme=true&article=10257 (508 words)

	Cartoon Brew: Leading the Animation Conversation » Neal Gabler on Disney at LAT Book Fest
		Milt Gray, Eddie Fitzgerald, Miles Kruger, and award-winning author Amid Amidi were also there to cheer Mike on.
		One subject that Gabler goes in to in the book is whether or not the rumor was true that Walt was anti-semitic.
		Gabler leans toward saying that he was not anti-semtic and in doing so, points out a lot of mistakes in “Hollywood’s Dark Prince” which I also read and which suggests that he was not only anti-semitic but racist against fls too.
	www.cartoonbrew.com /disney/neal-gabler-on-disney-at-lat-book-fest (905 words)

	CalendarHome.com - Rock Around the Clock - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		In a 2005 retrospective on his uncle Milt Gabler's work (The Milt Gabler Story) Billy Crystal identifies Haley's 1954 recording of "Rock Around the Clock" as the single most important song Gabler ever produced.
		Gabler had previously been responsible for the highly successful string of RandB and jump blues recordings by Louis Jordan in the late 1940s, which were characterised by their strong beat, clearly enunciated lyrics and high production values, all features which Gabler sought to repeat in Haley's recordings.
		As Gabler intended, "Rock Around the Clock" was first issued in the spring of 1954 as a B-side to "Thirteen Women (and Only One Man in Town)." While the song did make the American Billboard music charts (contrary to popular opinion that it was a flop), it was considered a commercial disappointment.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Rock_Around_the_Clock (2661 words)

	Riverwalk Jazz: Milt Gabler and the Commodore Records Story
		Commodore Records, founded in 1938 as an offshoot of the legendary mid-Manhattan Jazz Records store, was one of the first record companies whose principal motivation was a deep love for the music and whose main goal was to celebrate jazz and its players.
		Gabler, born in 1911 in Harlem, got his start in the record business through working at his family's radio store.
		This week, Riverwalk Jazz salutes Milt Gabler and Commodore Records with performances by The Jim Cullum Jazz Band in the style of the famous Eddie Condon Commodore sides.
	www.riverwalkjazz.org /site/PageServer?pagename=jazznotes_commodore (475 words)

	Commodore Records - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Commodore Records was founded in the spring of 1938 by Milt Gabler, owner of the Commodore Music Shop in Manhattan, New York City.
		The bulk of Commodore's issues were of Dixieland jazz, though other styles also sometimes appeared on the label.
		After World War II Gabler went to work for Decca Records, and his Commodore label was later used by Decca for reissuing earlier jazz recordings on LP.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Commodore_Records (188 words)

	Billy Crystal
		While impossible to fully capture all of Gabler's contributions and experiences on one CD, Billy Crystal Presents: The Milt Gabler Story easily proves the importance of Gabler's work and the incredible range of his creations.
		Gabler continued to work with Billie Holiday while at Decca ("Lover Man [Oh, Where Can You Be?"]), as well as Ella Fitzgerald ("Oh, Lady, Be Good!"), Louis Armstrong ("Blueberry Hill" and "Dream a Little Dream of Me" with Fitzgerald), The Andrews Sisters ("Rum and Coca-Cola"), and Bing Crosby and the Jesters ("MacNamara's Band").
		Billy Crystal Presents: The Milt Gabler Story also includes a DVD portion featuring home videos from the Gabler/Crystal family, and a new interview with Crystal speaking both about his uncle and his own involvement in the creation of this release.
	www.emol.org /~emol/film/archives/crystal/index.html (751 words)

	Article by Steven Lasker
		Among those who knew Billie really could sing was Milt Gabler, who recorded her for his own Commodore label in 1939, and again in the spring of 1944.
		Gabler was about to be shifted to head Decca's subsidiary Coral, where he would no longer be in a position to work with Billie.
		In the 1940's, with her stardom attained, the relationship between Billie and the sidemen changed; she would be the most important focus of attention, while the instrumentalists would play a supporting role in arrangements designed to complement her voice like a velvet background that draws the eye to a gem placed upon it.
	www.ladyday.net /life/decca.html (5305 words)

	Milt Gabler
		"Not only was Milt Gabler present at the birth of rock and roll, but in a sense he also helped deliver it by virtue of having produced such founding fathers as Louis Jordan and Bill Haley.
		Gabler successfully branched out into jazz reissues on his Commodore label and by the late Thirties was overseeing historic sessions of his own for such artists as Billie Holiday (whose classic “Strange Fruit” he produced).
		Gabler was hired by the Decca label as an AandR man in 1941, and it was here he began working with performers across the spectrum of popular music.
	www.rockhall.com /inductee/milt-gabler (369 words)

	MILT GABLER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Milt Gabler’s musical contributions spanned many genres—most notably, jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock ‘n’ roll—and three distinct occupations: record retailing, ownership of a record company, and studio production.
		At a time when activities within the record industry were not as clearly demarcated and specialized as in the present day, he literally did it all, market analysis, contractual negotiations, talent scouting, promotional details, consulting, artist and repertoire work, and writing liner notes.
		Holiday approached Gabler, a longtime friend, when her label, Vocalion, expressed reservations over recording "Strange Fruit," a song which addressed lynching in the South in unflinching terms.
	www.shsu.edu /~lis_fwh/book/other_notable_genres/support/Gabler2.htm (364 words)

	Suchmaschine
		Gabler was soon working with many of the biggest stars of the 1940s, producing a series of hits including Lionel Hampton-s -Flying Home-, Billie Holiday-s -Lover Man- and The Andrews Sisters- -Rum and Coca-Cola-, as well as being the first to bring Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald together on record.
		Gabler later commented : "All the tricks I used with Louis Jordan, I used with Bill Haley.
		However, through the late 1950s and 1960s, Gabler continued to guide the direction of Decca, writing songs and producing hit singles including Brenda Lee-s I“m Sorry- and albums including Jesus Christ Superstar.
	www.dmoz.ch /lexikon.cgi?sprache=en&q=Milt_Gabler (725 words)

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