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Robbins Music Corporation is an American music publisher headquartered in Manhattan, New York. It was founded in the early 1920s as Richmond-Robbins Music by Maurice Richmond (born 1880) and his nephew, Jack Robbins, a song plugger, originally from Worcester, Massachusetts. Richmond-Robbins evolved into Robbins-Engle and, in 1924, Jack Robbins established Robbins Music Corporation.[1]

History

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Acquisitions of publishers and interests in catalogs

In 1934, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquired a controlling interest in its capital stock of Miller Music, Leo Feist, Inc., and Robbins Music Corporation, and subsequently merged the three. In 1935, the new company was named Robbins, Feist, Miller Music Publishing Companies, but was widely known as The Big Three.[3]

Addresses

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1944: 799 Seventh Avenue, New York, New York


Selected employees and associates

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  • Sid Silvers (1901–1976), had been working after school for Robbins as a plugger and, after graduating, joined the firm full-time

References

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Notes

Copyright citations

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 3, Musical Compositions, New Series, Library of Congress, Copyright Office

Inline citations

  1. ^ "The Big 3 – Robbins-Feist-Miller: 1897–1967 ... From," September 2, 1967, Billboard, September 2, 1967, pps. RFM 1 – RFM 24
  2. ^ "Jack Robbins Dies; Music Publisher" (obituary), New York Times, December 17, 1959
  3. ^ Tin Pan Alley: An Encyclopedia of the Golden Age of American Song, by David A. Jasen, Routledge (2003), pg. 127; OCLC 51631299


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