His mother retired as the manager of records for the United States Trust Company, a financial data storage company in Iron Mountain, N.Y.
In 1957, Mr. Sholes, who had become head of artists and repertoire for RCA Victor in New York, appointed Mr. Atkins the manager of recording operations in Nashville.
Professor Mohr (above, left) teaches philosophy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Mr. Switzer is the manager of records in the chancellor's office there.
"There's a tendency among people here to over-glamorize stars from elsewhere, and that works to the detriment of local talent trying to come up in the industry," says Song Ke, deputy general manager of recording company Taihe Rye Music in Beijing.
1977 - Punk hits Britain Punk record is a load of legal trouble "The manager of a record shop in Nottingham who displayed in his window the new best-selling LP record by the Sex Pistols, which displays on its sleeve the title 'Never mind the Bollocks, here's the Sex Pistols' has been charged with offences under the 1889 Indecent Advertisement Act".
Among those who have contributed financially to his campaign are James Brown, Johnny Cash, Charlie Daniels, Ron Delsener (New York promoter), Bill Graham (San Francisco impresario), Jerry Moss (the "M" of A&M Records), Jonny Podell (NY agent and manager of Lou Reed, Jerry Wexlerrecordord producer) and Ashley Pandel (rock club owner in New York).
"There was a point last year when nobody wanted to book him," explains Nadia Khan, manager of his record label.
Bev Nipps, a 20-year veteran manager of Reading record stores, thinks the majors' agenda is more predictable: "Unfortunately, as record companies saw CD sales diminishing, their logical tactic was to squeeze the people who were buying vinyl who are so loyal – and push to see how far they could go.
