Joe Bihari

American producer, music entrepreneur and one of the four Bihari Brothers (with [a1025372], [a1740420] and [a631832]), who co-founded [l92737] in Los Angeles, and its subsidiaries such as Meteor Records based in Memphis. Like his brothers, he used a pseudonym and split writing credits with the original artists on their labels in order to get a part of the royalties, but didn't actually write any of those songs. Famous for "discovering" and first recording [a37729] in Memphis in 1950. ([u]BORN[/u]: May 30, 1925, Memphis, Tennessee, USA; [u]DIED[/u]: November 28, 2013, Los, Angeles, California, USA at age 88.)