Jerry Moss, A&M Records Co-Founder, Dead at 88
etonline.com, the record exec — who along with his business partner, Herb Alpert, turned A&M into one of America’s leading independent record labels — died Wednesday at his home in Bel Air.«They truly don't make them like him anymore and we will miss conversations with him about everything under the sun.
The twinkle in his eyes as he approached every moment ready for the next adventure,» his family said in a statement to the Associated Press.In a statement to ET, Alpert said, «I never met a nicer, honest, sensitive, smart and talented man than my partner Jerry Moss.»Dionne Warwick, who wasn't an A&M artist, but had been close to Moss ever since he helped promote her music in the early 1960s also released a statement, calling him one of the «kindest gentlemen» and her «dear friend.»«Another of my dear friends has made his transition.
Jerry Moss was and will always be remembered as one that was always one of the kindest gentlemen I had the pleasure of calling my friend,» Warwick's statement reads. «He cared about my wellbeing and while working as my promotion man at Scepter Records seemed to go the extra yard for me.
I like so many others will definitely miss this Champion of a Man. Rest in Peace my Dear Friend.»Born Jerome Sheldon Moss, he grew up in the Bronx and graduated from Brooklyn College.
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