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Al Gallico
Music publisher in New York [New York], Nashville [Tennessee]
Al Gallico, 88, an influential music publisher whose firm's copyrights
included "Stand By Your Man," "Time of the Season" and "House of the
Rising Sun," died of cardiac arrest and pulmonary disease May 15
[2008] at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles [California].
In 1963, he started Al Gallico Music Corp., with offices in New York
[New York] and Nashville. He recorded a number of British imports,
including hits by the Zombies. He later signed songwriter Billy
Sherrill, who amassed scores of top song awards from Broadcast Music
Inc. Sherrill and Gallico eventually became business partners, forming
Algee Music in the early 1970s.
"He was a big driving force in country music in Nashville, even though
he was behind the scenes," Sherrill told the Nashville Tennessean.
According to the Tennessean, Gallico discovered country singer Donna
Fargo and published her big hit "The Happiest Girl (in the Whole
U.S.A.)." He also managed Joe Stampley.
Gallico started his nearly 70-year career in the publishing business
as an errand boy for G. Schirmer Publishing Co. in New York. He later
joined Lou Levy's Leeds Music in 1939 as a song plugger.
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