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Murray Katz of Treat Records ??

Note: Founded in 1955 and located on West 55th!

Other news of Treat Records
The March 26, 1955, issue of Billboard reported that Newton had signed Buddy Brown, dubbed "Prince of the Blues," to Treat Records, although, he is not among the artist recorded.

Addresses

 * In 1903, 236 W 55th was known as the Gosford Apartments
 * In 1905, Nellie Ellen Selby, one of 10 wives of Kid McCoy purchased the Gosford from Robert Ferguson


 * Galvin Building was 7 stories, new in 1921
 * Named for John F. Galvin? (died 1936), Chairman of the Port of New York Authority from 1928 to 1933
 * From as early as 1921 and as late as 1924, John H. Scheier (born 1878 Austria), an architect and real estate investor), was the owner of the Galvin Building, a store and office structure, 40' x 100', at 236 and 238 W 55th, and also owned the loft building at 240 W 55th, 20' x 100'. Scheier acquired both buildings March 1920 from the clients of Wechsler & Kohn.  Before his purchase, the 236 and 238 addresses, one building, was known as the Kenwood Aparment House, and the property at 240, at the time of purchase was occupied by the Tire and Rubber Company


 * 1955
 * Treat Records
 * 236 West 55th Street
 * New York, NY

Others at that address

 * 1907
 * Luisa Cappiani, opera singer
 * also there in 1906


 * 1912 — then known at the Gosford Apartments
 * Ethel Helen Lindner (aka Ethel Lorraine), divorced from Raymond Belmont (famed scandal see this)


 * 1921
 * Galvin Building leases


 * 1) Emma Crockett
 * 2) Bradley Fischer
 * 3) Harry W. Johnson
 * 4) Kramer Land and Home Sales Corp.
 * 5) Magazine Promotion Service
 * 6) Millim, Freeland & Kubman, Inc.
 * 7) Milady's Novelty Co.
 * 8) John T. Miller
 * 9) R.A. Products Co.
 * 10) Woodman of the World
 * 11) Sophia Confectionery Supply Co.
 * 12) United Distributing Company
 * 13) Jacmar Cigar Co.
 * 14) Lesser & Edwards, importers & exporters


 * 1922
 * A.A. Post
 * Galvin Building


 * 1929
 * Kolortone Kartoons
 * Kolortone Productions, Inc.
 * George S. Jeffrey
 * Leo R. Britton


 * 1925
 * Screenland
 * New York Editor: Eliot Keen
 * J. Thomas Wood
 * Ernest Adams
 * Miss Vee Dee
 * Magazine Builders, Inc., publisher


 * West, Roland, Prod. Co., motion pictures


 * 1936
 * Mission Products (perfume)


 * 1937
 * Trans-Air Record Corporation
 * 7th Floor


 * J.D. Schlessinger, Huntoon & Raffo (auto showroom)
 * began lease in 1936


 * Moto-Nu Corp.


 * 1941
 * J.J. Schott
 * (who, in 1941, became managing agents for the building)


 * 1845
 * 236 W 55th St. Corp.
 * Irving Grunfeld, President


 * 1946
 * Raymond M. Wilmotte Inc.
 * Consulting Engineers Radio & Electronics
 * 1469 Church Street, N.W., Washington 5, D.C.
 * New York Laboratories: 236 W. 55th Street, New York 19, N.Y.


 * Interstate Music Suppliers (record distributors?)


 * 1947
 * Robert Holley and Company, Inc. (advertising)
 * Took the entire 2nd floor (moved from Radio City)


 * 1950
 * Galvin Building


 * WCB Artist & Concert Management, Inc.
 * Herbert Garber
 * Joseph A. Bollew, Director
 * Sigmund Spaeth, Manager


 * Cadillac Record Company
 * (found around by Jerry Harris around 1950)


 * Vox Productions, Inc. (still there in 1959)
 * A&R-Manager: Bill Simon
 * President: George Mendelsohn
 * Included Polydor label (not sure of the connection)
 * became tenant in 1950
 * See Billboard listing


 * 1951
 * Deborah Jewish Tuberculosis Society, Inc.


 * Discophiles
 * (also 1952)


 * 1952
 * Delta Recording Corp.
 * Founder: Jim Bulleit (James Albert Bulleit; 1908–1988)
 * Proprietor: Jimmie Ammons (né James Douglas Ammons; 1919–2001)
 * Recording Studio was in Jackson, Mississippi


 * 1954
 * Vanguard Records


 * 1955
 * WCB Artist & Concert Management, Inc.
 * Herald Records (occupant in 1954, too)
 * Treat Records


 * 1957
 * Capitol Records, Inc., leased for its phonograph division and office of the national service manager
 * see NYTs


 * 1962
 * Radio Concepts, Incorporated


 * 1963
 * Entertainment Films Co.


 * 1965
 * Songwriters' Associates, Studio 10


 * Early 1970s (1970–1972)
 * Map City Records, founded by Peter Anders and Vini Poncia

Rule-outs

 * Murray Katz (died 18 December 1950), salesman and father of WMGM Program Director, Raymond Katz (see Billboard)


 * Songwriter?
 * "Philadelphi-i-a" (© 1949)
 * Percy Lewis Lethbridge (Alta, Canada?)
 * Murray Katz (born 1890)
 * Bill Bird
 * "Pops" Music Co., New York
 * EP43074

Hen Gates

 * “Hen Gates” was a pseudonym used to disguise the fact that this album is made up of retitled Freddie Mitchell sides recorded for Derby between 1949 and 1952
 * see here


 * There was never any Hen Gates and never any Gators, it was a bogus way of selling records in the late 50's: taking old R&B masters and repressing them for the new rock 'n' roll market.
 * and here


 * There actually was a real pianist nicknamed Hen Gates, who was a bebop musician of the early- and mid-40's, but there is no relation to this album. Freddie Mitchell almost always used Joe Black on the ivories at Derby. Amazingly, the Masterseal LP's have been released recently on CD, with the original album photo, but now the text has the words "with Freddie Mitchell," on the cover, though Mitchell's name does not appear on the original 1957 vinyl issue. The label that is issuing the CD's calls itself Masterseal


 * James "Hen Gates" Forman (James Forman, Jr.), pianist with Dizzy
 * more on Hen Gates
 * James Forman's stepson is James Mtume, whose biological father was Jimmy Heath


 * From Phil Schaap (March 22, 2011): Hen Gates" was Dizzy's pseudonym on Bird's November 26, 1945, session for Savoy. Dizzy was under exclusive contract with Guild/Musicraft and needed a pseudonym for what is largely piano playing by Diz on the session. How exactly Dizzy transferred the nickname to James Forman, his pianist of the late 1940s, is not well-documented but Dizzy did call Jimmy Forman "Hen Gates"


 * Note: Not sure the connection between Guild Records Incorporated and Musicraft. Guild was acquired January 19, 1946, by Jefferson-Travis Corporation, Iving Felt, President.  A few months earlier, J-T acquired Musicraft.  Musicraft, in 1947, slowed production due in part to the illness by its Chairman, Irving Felt.  Temporary artist rep at the time was the president, Jack Meyerson, and the temp Music Chief was Walter Gross.