Albert Green (also known as A. B. Green) was an American record industry executive, and founder and president of National Records.
Green was born in Chicago where he worked as a union organizer for the Painters Union.[1] He moved to Phillipsburg, New Jersey where he owned a plastic pressing plant.[2] During World War II, his factory switched from producing toilet seat covers to producing plastic records - which had previously been made from shellac.[2] Seeing that the real money was in producing records and not knowing anything about the business, he hired Sylvia Langler (later his wife), who had experience in the industry.[2] In 1944, he founded National Records[2] and hired Herb Abramson, a friend of his wife, as his A&R man. As the business grew, he brought in more A&R men including Lee Magid, Bob Shad, and Jesse Stone.
He married his secretary, Sylvia Langler.[1] His son is Irving Green.[3] He was of Jewish descent.[1]
Magid's description also makes clear that for tough, enterprising Jews like Green, label ownership capped the difficult climb out of the ghetto...
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