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Buddy Morris, born Edwin H. Morris in Pittsburgh in 1906, began his music publishing career in the far-away haunts of Hollywood, when, at age 21, he was assigned the task of forming a music publishing division of Warner Bros.Pictures.
Apr 8, 1996 · Edwin H. “Buddy” Morris, 89, music publisher who owned the rights to such classics as “Autumn Leaves” and “Stormy Weather.”
The founder's grandson, also named Charles A. White, became the company president in August 1919 on the death of Daniel White, his father. [1] [4] According to historian H. E. Johnson, in 1944 the firm "sold its catalogue to Edwin H. Morris & Co. of New York ... but continued in the business of music printing as White, Smith Printing Co. at 40 ...
In 1976 MPL bought the North American rights to the Edwin H. Morris & Co. catalogue from Morris himself, and most of Buddy Holly's compositions, and in 2003 the rights to Carl Perkins' works. The Holly acquisition was followed by McCartney's launch of 'Buddy Holly Day' with a concert presented annually from 1976 to 1999.
Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. (1861–1875) was a furnishings and decorative arts manufacturer and retailer founded by the artist and designer William Morris with friends from the Pre-Raphaelites.
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American publisher of sheet music. This page was last edited on 15 February 2024, at 11:47. All structured data from the main, Property, Lexeme, and EntitySchema namespaces is available under the Creative Commons CC0 License; text in the other namespaces is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.
