Herb Abramson founded Atlantic Records but before this he started Jubilee Records in May 1946 in New York City var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push([‘_setAccount’, ‘UA-25540708-1’]); _gaq.push([‘_trackPageview’]); (function() { var ga = document.createElement(‘script’); ga.type = ‘text/javascript’; ga.async = true; ga.src = (‘https:’ == document.location.protocol ? ‘https://ssl’ : ‘http://www’) + ‘.google-analytics.com/ga.js’; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(‘script’)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); Herb Abramson

The founder of Atlantic records with Ahmet Ertegun. Herb Abramson sold the label to Jerry Blaine in September 1947. However, before Atlantic Herb owned Jubilee Records whose first success brought black artists to the white record buying public in 1953  with ‘Crying in the Chapel,’ by the Orioles –