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NAMM Announces Wanna Play Celebrity Jam as Finale of 2010 Summer NAMM Featuring Gov. Mike Huckabee and Country Music Stars
- Press Release
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Buddy Harman Jr.
- Oral History
Buddy Harman Jr. followed in the footsteps of his legendary father, Buddy Harman, one of the most influential studio drummers in Nashville histor
Brian Holland
- Oral History
Brian Holland and his brother Eddie are among the most popular songwriting teams in the history of popular music!
Eddie Holland
- Oral History
Eddie Holland gained worldwide fame as a Motown Record’s songwriter and music publisher along with his brother Brian.
Mike Stoller
- Oral History
Mike Stoller always had musical ideas as a kid but never felt complete as a songwriter until he met Jerry Leiber.
Jerry Leiber
- Oral History
Jerry Leiber was one half of Leiber and Stoller, one of the most influential and successful songwriting teams of the 1950s R&B movement.
Nina Rockley
- Oral History
Nina Rockley has been a strong force in the success of Rockley Music in Denver, Colorado.
Robert Rockley
- Oral History
Robert Rockley took over the music store that his parents had started in Denver, Colorado.
Jane Traum
- Oral History
Jane Traum and her husband Happy, are the founders of Homespun Music, which for decades has offered a growing collection of musical instrument tr
Happy Traum
- Oral History
Happy Traum began his musical career in the 1960s, greatly influenced by the folk movement that had gripped the culture in America.
Patricia Bartolini
- Oral History
Patricia Bartolini and her husband William formed the Bartolini Pickup and Electronics Company in 1973 largely based on the acoustic research bot
NAMM and the Music Products Industry Lend a Hand to Nashville for Flood Relief
- Press Release
In the wake of the recent Nashville flood and ongoing recovery efforts, NAMM, the 109-year-old trade association of the international music products industry,...
Danlee Mitchell
- Oral History
Danlee Mitchell was destined to live a life of music.
Maury Rhodes
- Oral History
Maury Rhodes enjoyed a long career in the music industry with a focus on the music publishing side of the business.
John K.C. Lee
- Oral History
John Lee is the eldest son of Tom, the founder of the successful stores in Hong Kong and Canada.
Henry Lee
- Oral History
Henry Lee is the youngest son of Tom, the founder of the successful stores in Hong Kong and Canada.
Vito Pascucci
- Oral History
Vito Pascucci was assigned to band instrument repair during World War II for Glenn Miller’s Army Air Force Band.
Lillian Siegh
- Oral History
Lillian Siegh played a vital role in the inner workings of NAMM for over 35 years!
Ryoji Okamoto
- Oral History
Ryoji Okamoto was the chairman for Kiwaya Corporation in Japan, which was established in 1919 and has since become one of the most important manu
Bobby Wood
- Oral History
Bobby Wood enjoyed playing the organ as a child growing up in church in northern Mississippi.
Babe Simoni
- Oral History
Babe Simoni began working for the Fender Guitar Company in 1953. He was a teenager when George Fullerton hired him to work on the factory floor.
Dorothy Schwartz
- Oral History
Dorothy Schwartz was one of the original members of a girls Barber Shop style group that was brainchild of a girlfriend from high school in her h
Dick Schory
- Oral History
Dick Schory had a very successful career as a composer and arranger of percussive music.
Fred Salvador
- Oral History
Fred Salvador grew up in the music business. His grandfather opened a small music store for which Fred remembers working in as a small boy.
Paul McGuire
- Oral History
Paul McGuire served as president of the Electro-Voice microphone and Speaker Company, having worked his way up through the organization.
Jim Long
- Oral History
Jim Long first joined Electro-Voice as a summer engineering intern in the 1960s and later returned, soon transferring into marketing, where he he
Roger Linn
- Oral History
Roger Linn forever changed the way people dance!
Craig Knudsen
- Oral History
Craig Knudsen cut his teeth on the industry as many people who have come to service in leadership positions.
Ed Harris
- Oral History
Ed Harris purchased the Teller music wholesaler in Chicago during the 1960s.
DeDe Guth
- Oral History
DeDe Guth joined the customer service team at Yamaha’s band instrument factory in Michigan in 1980.