Harold Leventhal RIP | Dylan, Guthrie promoter

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Posted in music on October 10, 2005

"Harold Leventhal appeared in a television documentary only a week before his death. In No Direction Home, Martin Scorsese's acclaimed documentary about Bob Dylan, he reminisced about his part in the singer's early career.

And Dylan was only one of his many famous clients. For several generations - from the era of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger to the 1960s folk revival that made stars of Joan Baez and Peter, Paul and Mary - as a promoter, publisher, manager and all-purpose folk entrepreneur, the soft-spoken, cigar-smoking Leventhal helped to guide the careers of almost everyone who was anyone in American folk music.

Born into a Jewish family in New York, he grew up on the Lower East Side and in the Bronx, and landed his first job in music in his late teens, as a song plugger for Irving Berlin...." [The Australian]

More
* Woody Guthrie lists all the people Harold's worked with
* CNN tastelessly posts just Dylan's picture
* The NY Times Obituary
* Harold presents Arlo Guthrie @ Carnegie Hall Nov 26, 2005

posted at 11:44 AM on October 10, 2005 in music | Comments (1)

Comments (1)

so tasteless and offensive that CNN posted Dylan's pic instead of Leventhal's. everyone should write in to complain. think about Leventhal's family and friends.

Posted by Anonymous | October 10, 2005 12:16 PM