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ARC-0319

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Martin "Red" Schwartz Collection

1973-1976, undated

0.21 (Linear feet)

Martin "Red" Schwartz (d. December 13, 2000) was employed by several record labels for 35 years, spanning the 1940s through the 1970s, including Vee-Jay Records, Roulette, Sony, RCA, Polydor, and Farr, among others. Based in Southern California, his work as a record label promotions manager led to both business and personal relationships with artists like Curtis Mayfield, Tito Puente, Kool and the Gang, and Tommy James and the Shondells, as well as on-air personalities around the United States, including Gary Owens and Dick Clark, with whom he was friends since the 1950s.

The Martin "Red" Schwartz Collection spans the years from 1973 to 1976 and includes undated materials. The collection consists of Schwartz's business papers, including notes on radio station promotion from around the country as they relate to the record labels that employed Schwartz; contact lists and addresses for radio station liaisons; correspondence with radio stations and local organizations; lists of radio stations that played singles from Schwartz's record label employers and other sales analysis documents; a Polydor promotion manager's manual and Billboard programming guide to progressive rock radio stations. The files are organized chronologically.

: Processed by Justin Seidler, Intern. Completed June 14, 2012. Descriptive sources and standards used to create this inventory: DACS and local processing manual.

: [Identification of Item], Martin "Red" Schwartz Collection, Library and Archives, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.

: English

: The Martin "Red" Schwartz Collection was received by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc., as a gift from son Ken Schwartz on June 13, 2012.

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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc. owns right, title, and interest in the works of authorship embodied in the materials in this collection. The transfer of Donor's literary and other property rights does not include works of other individuals and organizations contained in the gift. For more information, please consult the staff of the Library and Archives.