Sixty Years of Hits: Straight From the Horse's Mouth

by Jean Bennett, Gayle Schreiber (Compiler)

Overview

What happened when Buck Ram, a successful middle-aged songwriter, met Jean Bennett, a hopeful girl singer from Missouri, by chance? He turned her career toward the promotion of other singers, and when four young guys from WATTS in Los Angeles entered the picture, they created the #1 group of the 50s - The Platters! On their journey, fueled by hit song after hit song, they represented dozens of talented performers including: The Flares with "Footstomping," The Colts with "Adorable," The Blockbusters in "Rock All Night," and many more. Here, in the words of the Personality Plugger, herself are the press releases, correspondence, photos and office notes that made it happen. So step into the offices of Personality Promotions and Personality Productions beginning in 1952 and see where it began in the words that made it happen.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940148543039
Publisher:	Griffith Street Press
Publication date:	09/11/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Jean Bennett was determined to be a singer. She made the rounds of agents without anyone listening to her until - by chance - she happened upon songwriter turned talent manager Buck Ram's office. They immediately formed a bond based on their love of music, and her career as a singer was put aside as she and Ram worked successfully to promote dozens of new, up and coming artists for the next 38 years. As one of the first, if not the first, women executives in the budding music industry of the 1950s, Bennett was a Pioneer. When Art Talmadge of Mercury Records attempted to get her to leave her own company to work for Mercury, he made the mistake of asking her if she took shorthand. Jean looked at him in surprise, hesitated and then said, "No, Art. In my office I give shorthand." And she continued to be the one doing the dictating until 2004, when she sold her company.