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Robbins Music Corporation is an American music publisher headquartered in Manhattan, New York. It was founded in the early 1920s as Richmond-Robbins Music by Maurice Richmond (born 1880) and his nephew, Jack Robbins, a song plugger, originally from Worcester, Massachusetts. Richmond-Robbins evolved into Robbins-Engle and, in 1924, Jack Robbins established Robbins Music Corporation.

History

 * Jack Robbins (né John Jacob Robbins; 15 September 1894 Boston – 15 December 1959 Manhattan, New York), a native of Worcester, Massachusetts, moved to New York City when he was 17 (around 1911).


 * Maurice Richmond (1885 Russia – 8 June 1965 Manhasset, New York); Howie Richmond (1918–2012), also a music publisher, was his son


 * Acquisitions of publishers and interests in catalogs
 * Sherman Clay
 * Neil Moray
 * Vincent Youmans

In 1934, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquired a controlling interest in its capital stock of Miller Music, Leo Feist, Inc., and Robbins Music Corporation, and subsequently merged the three. In 1935, the new company was named Robbins, Feist, Miller Music Publishing Companies, but was widely known as The Big Three.

Addresses

 * 1944: 799 Seventh Avenue, New York, New York

Selected employees and associates

 * Sid Silvers (1901–1976), had been working after school for Robbins as a plugger and, after graduating, joined the firm full-time