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The Gazette from Montreal, Quebec, Canada • 32

Publication:
The Gazettei
Location:
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Issue Date:
Page:
32
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OBITUARIES THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 2006 IRVING GREEN Helped break colour barriers "We had no colour line. Artists like DiINFLUENTIAL POPULAR- -MUSIC PRODUCER nah Washington or the Platters or Clyde Co- founder of Mercury Records helped set up first national TV show with black and white singers LOS ANGELES Irving Green, the cofounder of Mercury Records who helped break colour barriers in popular music while turning his small independent company into one of the music industry's major labels, has died. He was 90. Green, who had a successful second career in real-estate development, died on Saturday of natural causes at Desert Regional Medical Centre in Palm Springs, said his grandson, Jonathan Ross. "This is one of the pioneers, the last of the great entrepreneurs, said Lou Dennis, who was product manager of Records, a subsidiary of Mercury Records, in the 1960s.

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