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Article: WHO JACK PFEIFFER WAS, JUST FOR THE RECORD; RCA Producer Manned the Controls for Some of the Greats
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- February 18, 1996
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At the turn of the century, there was a small
organization called the Victor Talking Machine Co., based in Camden,
N.J.By the late 1920s, grown prestigious and prosperous and
having moved to New York, it was acquired by David Sarnoff's Radio
Corporation of America and renamed RCA Victor. Later still, the
company became part of NBC, and then part of General Electric, and
it now belongs to the vast German corporation Bertelsmann.
For 47 years, throughout massive institutional changes, a
soft-spoken, courtly gentleman named John "Jack" Pfeiffer produced
records for this company. And yet it is possible, perhaps even
probable, that the senior officers who now run Bertelsmann in ...