Harvey Glatt was born on March 28,1934 and is a Canadian music promoter, manager, broadcaster, record and instrument retailer, and record label owner.
17 Facts About Harvey Glatt
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Harvey Glatt was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, graduating from Glebe Collegiate Institute in 1951.
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Harvey Glatt thereafter obtained a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in 1956 from the Clarkson College of Technology in Potsdam, New York.
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Harvey Glatt became a regular reader of Billboard Magazine as of the age of thirteen.
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Harvey Glatt began his professional association with music in the early 1950s, as a broadcaster, both at Clarkson College and for CFRA Radio in Ottawa.
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In 1957, initially with partner Arnold Gosewich, who later became the President of Capitol Records of Canada and subsequently Chairman of CBS Records of Canada, Harvey Glatt opened his first retail music store, The Treble Clef, in Ottawa, which grew to a chain of fifteen stores.
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Harvey Glatt's first Ottawa concert promotion was a 1957 co-production, with Gil Levine and Max Sternthal, assisted by Montreal promoter Sam Gesser, of a concert by Pete Seeger.
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Harvey Glatt thereafter formed a loose association with Gesser and Toronto-based Vivienne Stenson, who owned two theatre businesses, to produce a number of concerts, including performances by Theodore Bikel, Tom Lehrer, The Weavers, Odetta, Andre Segovia, Josh White and The Kingston Trio.
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Harvey Glatt later expanded into large concert promotion, music distribution and music publishing.
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Harvey Glatt was an investor in Le Hibou Coffee House, which promoted many international artists as well as local bands, such as The Children.
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For example, it was Harvey Glatt who brought Jimi Hendrix to Ottawa, for an historic concert in March 1968, when Hendrix met Joni Mitchell.
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Mitchell was playing at the Harvey Glatt-financed Le Hibou Coffee House that same evening.
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Harvey Glatt produced concerts by Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin, Gordon Lightfoot, Anne Murray and The Toronto Symphony Orchestra, among others.
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In 1977, Harvey Glatt founded CHEZ-FM, an Ottawa-based rock radio station which promoted Canadian as well as international artists.
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In 1999, Harvey Glatt sold his radio interests to Rogers Media and served with Rogers as a board member and director of Canadian music development.
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In 2007, Harvey Glatt was honoured through his induction by the Canadian Association of Broadcasters into the Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame.
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In 2014, Harvey Glatt was the recipient of the Estelle Klein Award, sponsored by Folk Music Ontario.