Jerry Moss, A&m Records Co-Founder, Dead At 88
Jerry Moss, co-founder of A&m Records, has died.
He was 88.According to Variety, the record exec — who along with his business partner, Herb Alpert, turned A&m into one of America’s leading independent record labels — died Wednesday at his home in Bel Air.“They truly don’t make them like him anymore and we will miss conversations with him about everything under the sun.
The twinkle in his eyes as he approached every moment ready for the next adventure,” his family said in a statement to the Associated Press.Dionne Warwick, who wasn’t an A&m artist, but had been close to Moss ever since he helped promote her music in the early 1960s also released a statement, calling him one of the “kindest gentlemen” and her “dear friend.”“Another of my dear friends has made his transition.
Jerry Moss was and will always be remembered as one that...
