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T.B. Harms & Francis, Day, & Hunter, Inc., based in the Tin Pan Alley area of New York City, was, in 1920, one of the seven largest publishers of popular music in the world. As evidence of size of the firm, T.B. Harms & Francis, Day & Hunter, Inc. was one of seven defendants named in a 1920 in a Sherman antitrust suit brought by the US Justice Department for controlling 80% of the music publishing business.〔''Music Publishers Sued Here As Trust'', The New York Times, Aug. 4, 1920〕 The seven defendants were: * Consolidated Music Corporation – 144 W. 37th St., New York, NY * Irving Berlin, Inc. – 1567 Broadway, New York, NY * Leo Feist, Inc. – 231 W 40th St, New York, NY * T.B. Harms & Francis, Day & Hunter, Inc. – 62 W. 45th St., New York, NY * Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., Inc. – 218 W. 47th St., New York, NY * Watterson, Berlin & Snyder, Inc. – 1571 Broadway, New York, NY (sold in bankruptcy to Mills Music in 1929) * M. Witmark & Sons, Inc. – 144 W. 37th St, New York, NY Founded in 1881 as the Thomas B. Harms Music Publishing Company,〔Cockrell, Dale and Andrew M. Zinck, ''Popular Music of the Parlor and Stage'', pgs. 179–201, in the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music〕 T.B. Harms & Francis, Day & Hunter, Inc., was eventually incorporated in the State of New York and changed its name to Harms, Inc. in 1921.〔''New Incorporations,'' The New York Times, March 31, 1921〕 == Owners & executives == * Thomas B. Harms (1860-1906) * Max Dreyfus (1874-1964) (owned 25% in 1901) — The Harms empire owned or backed by Dreyfus, included Harms, Inc., Chappell-Harms (its "repository for non-production music"), De Sylva, Brown, and Henderson, Remick Music, Green and Stept, Famous Music, T. B. Harms, "and George Gershwin's New World Music, publisher of all Gershwin's music" (109). * Jerome Kern (1885-1945) — Kern plugged sheet music at a local department store then took a job with T.B. Harms, Inc., and eventually became vice president. * Alexander T. Harms (1855-1901) * Frederick Day (1878-1975) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「T. B. Harms & Francis, Day & Hunter, Inc.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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