Norman Weiss

Norman Weiss was an executive at General Artists Corp., a talent agency, which booked musical groups in the 1960s. Weiss was responsible for arranging The Beatles first American tour, with Brian Epstein, The Beatles manager, and which included The Beatles famous appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show.[1] Other pop music personalities of the 1960s represented by Weiss included The Turtles (in which Weiss's agency is noted as "a despicable record company that sued them for millions of dollars') and Tom Jones,[2] where his influence on Jones's success in America is generally ignored entirely. Nevertheless, Weiss was a force in popular music in the 1960s while at General Artists Corp, although his influence is not generally well understood by the public, it is still remembered by industry insiders, even today.

References

Davies, Hunter (1996). The Beatles. W. W. Norton & Company p. 203. ISBN 978-0-3933-1571-4.
McLellan, Dennis (August 25, 2007). "Roy Gerber, 82; talent agent was model for 'Odd Couple' character". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 20, 2020.

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[Davies-1] Davies, Hunter (1996). The Beatles. W. W. Norton & Company p. 203. ISBN 978-0-3933-1571-4.

[Gerber-2] McLellan, Dennis (August 25, 2007). "Roy Gerber, 82; talent agent was model for 'Odd Couple' character". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 20, 2020.