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Pollstar | Universal Attractions Agency: Celebrating 75 Years At The Forefront Of Music History


By: Deborah Speer
cover of Pollstar 12/21/20 issue
Ben Bart might have seemed like another unremarkable music fan as a young man from Knoxville, Tenn., in the 1930s, other than a penchant for traveling between Memphis and Nashville to see the orchestras and bands of the day perform live. The main object of his affection was “race music” – the euphemism of the time for what evolved into R&B and soul music, and the (segregated) domain of Black musicians. 
He’d gotten a job at the Gale Agency booking the artists he loved and, by 1945, was ready to break out on his own – taking some of the era’s biggest acts with him. The agency he created, Universal Attractions Agency, celebrated its 75th anniversary on May 15. ....

United States , New York , Beacon Theater , Santa Monica Civic Auditorium , Santa Monica , Miami Gardens , San Francisco , Western Australia , Beverly Hills , Boston Garden , Dinah Washington , Herb Murrell , Smokey Robinson , Berry Gordy , Dick Clark , Little Willie John , Al Sharpton , Sandy Alexander , Jeff Allen , Jack Bart , Getty Images , John Regna , Eban Brown , Marshall Thompson , Debbie Gibson , Jeff Epstein ,

Pollstar | Universal Attractions Agency: Celebrating 75 Years At Forefront Of Music History


By: Deborah Speer
cover of Pollstar 12/21/20 issue
Ben Bart might have seemed like another unremarkable music fan as a young man from Knoxville, Tenn., in the 1930s, other than a penchant for traveling between Memphis and Nashville to see the orchestras and bands of the day perform live. The main object of his affection was “race music” – the euphemism of the time for what evolved into R&B and soul music, and the (segregated) domain of Black musicians. 
He’d gotten a job at the Gale Agency booking the artists he loved and, by 1945, was ready to break out on his own – taking some of the era’s biggest acts with him. The agency he created, Universal Attractions Agency, celebrated its 75th anniversary on May 15. ....

United States , New York , Beacon Theater , Santa Monica Civic Auditorium , Santa Monica , Miami Gardens , San Francisco , Western Australia , Beverly Hills , Boston Garden , Dinah Washington , Herb Murrell , Smokey Robinson , Berry Gordy , Dick Clark , Little Willie John , Al Sharpton , Sandy Alexander , Jeff Allen , Jack Bart , Getty Images , John Regna , Eban Brown , Marshall Thompson , Debbie Gibson , Jeff Epstein ,