Florence Greenberg was an American record label owner, music executive, and record producer.
16 Facts About Florence Greenberg
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Florence Greenberg was the founder and owner of Tiara Records, Scepter Records, Hob Records, and Wand Records.
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In 1956, a 43-year-old Greenberg was desperately searching for an escape from her suburban lifestyle with not much to do.
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Florence Greenberg often hung out at the Turf restaurant in New York City as she was enamored with the atmosphere surrounding the Brill Building.
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Florence Greenberg was a natural and immediately began exploring her options of career paths in the music industry.
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Florence Greenberg had a son with blindness and in 1947 she founded Camp Marcella, a sleepaway camp for the blind and visually impaired that still runs to this day in Rockaway New Jersey.
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In 1958, Florence Greenberg started her own record label, called Tiara Records.
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Florence Greenberg signed the group, The Shirelles, to Tiara after they auditioned for Greenberg in her living room.
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Just as the record began to break locally, Florence Greenberg sold the company with the Shirelles' contract to Decca Records for $4,000.
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However, Florence Greenberg started a new label in 1959, called Scepter Records, which became one of the leading independent record labels in the 1960s.
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In 1965, Florence Greenberg received an offer of $6 million for Scepter from Gulf+Western; she rejected it later regretting not accepting the deal.
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Florence Greenberg retired in 1976 and sold all of her labels to Springboard International.
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Florence Greenberg was married to an accountant with whom she had two children, Mary Jane Goff and Stanley Florence Greenberg.
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Florence Greenberg's son-in-law, Sam Goff, is a managing partner in Essex Entertainment.
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Florence Greenberg died on November 2,1995, of heart failure at Hackensack University Medical Center in Hackensack, New Jersey.
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Florence Greenberg was 82 and was living in Teaneck, New Jersey.