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Herbert Samuel Berliner

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Herbert Samuel Berliner

Birth
Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
9 Aug 1966 (aged 83)
Montreal, Montreal Region, Quebec, Canada
Burial
Outremont, Montreal Region, Quebec, Canada Add to Map
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Founder of Canada's first independent record label - The Compo Company. It was founded in 1918 in Lachine, Quebec. Labels associated with the company lasted into the 1970s. Herbert Berliner was almost 70 years old when he sold Compo to Decca in 1951. He remained President of the Compo Company under the Decca label until his death in 1966.
Founder of Canada's first independent record label - The Compo Company. It was founded in 1918 in Lachine, Quebec. Labels associated with the company lasted into the 1970s. Herbert Berliner was almost 70 years old when he sold Compo to Decca in 1951. He remained President of the Compo Company under the Decca label until his death in 1966.

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Death date maybe burial date. Cemetery maybe Hawthorn-Dale. For Information



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