Entertainment
Arthur Rupe, record producer who helped popularize R&B, has died at 104
Rupe was born Arthur N. Goldberg to a Jewish working-class household in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, his basis stated.
He would later change his title to “Rupe” after he moved to California and realized from his paternal grandfather that the household title Goldberg was adopted at Ellis Island, in response to his basis.
After working with an engineering crew testing Liberty ships throughout World Struggle II, Rupe determined to develop into a document producer, his basis stated.
He ultimately began his personal document label, Specialty Information, which might go on to characteristic many artists, together with Roy Milton, Percy Mayfield, Joe and Jimmy Liggins, Lloyd Value, Little Richard, and Sam Cooke.
Rupe is survived by his daughter Beverly and her husband Leo Schwarz in addition to his granddaughter Madeline Kahan and her husband Kyle Kahan, his basis stated.