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His music industry career began in the mid-1960s when he was appointed as Vice President of Business Affairs for the CBS (now Sony Music) group of record labels, which included the Columbia and Epic Records labels.
2 days ago · Asher briefly went on to Capitol Records, then returned to CBS in 1971 to work with Clive Davis at Columbia Records. In the late 1970s, Asher was named deputy president of the label. Asher left ...
1 day ago · After a brief stint at Capitol Records, Asher returned to CBS in 1971 to work with Clive Davis at Columbia Records and was soon sent to London to turn around the company’s flagging U.K. division ...
2 days ago · DICK ASHER, 1932-2024. Dick Asher, the longtime record executive who held top posts at CBS and PolyGram and who, at CBS, played a key role in curtailing payments to the informal alliance of independent record promoters known as the Network, as chronicled in the book Hit Men, died on 7/23 at age 92. Variety reported that Asher died at his home ...
Feb 7, 1976 · CBS Intl. Posts Best Year Ever NEW YORK - M. Richard Asher, president of CBS Records International, has reported that 1975 marked the best year in the division's 10 year history. Asher attributed the success to the continued development of major new local recording artists in many countries, to the accept-
Nov 3, 1985 · Mr. Asher, a native New Yorker who bears a slight resemblance to Alexander Haig, rubbed a lot of people the wrong way at CBS. Walter Yetnikoff, the record group's powerful president, fired him in...
Oct 18, 1985 · Polygram Records Inc., the closely held American subsidiary of N.V. Philips, the Dutch electronics giant, said yesterday that M. Richard Asher, a senior vice president at Warner...
Richard Asher is an attorney and has over 30 years' experience as an attorney and an executive in the record, video and music publishing business. He has served in the capacity of both deputy president and CEO of CBS Records Group and president and CEO of PolyGram Records.
CBS Records. In 1961, CBS ended its arrangement with Philips Records and formed its own international organization, CBS Records, in 1962, which released Columbia recordings outside the US and Canada on the CBS label.
Aug 10, 2021 · CBS Records executive Dick Asher, left, George Clinton and Walter Yetnikoff. (Echoes/Redferns) Yetnikoff reigned in an era before synergy- and accounting-driven business decisions, when...
