Glenn E. Wallichs

(1910-1971) born in Grand Island, lived in Omaha. Owned largest music record store in nation in Los Angeles in 1940, co-founded with singer Johnny Mercer and executive Buddy DeSylva the recording giant of Capitol Records in 1942, a firm responsible for releasing top singers' recordings. Consult American Record Guide, October 1965, pp. 112-117, 181 and Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald Magazine, December 3, 1967, pp. 27, 29 and Business Week, April 25, 1970, pp. 146-147 and New York Times obituary, December 25, 1971, p. 20.

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