PEER, RALPH
(1892–1960)
PEER, RALPH (b. R. Sylvester P., Kansas City, Mo., May 22, 1892–January 19, 1960) Peer was one of the first great producers of country music as well as the founder of Peer-Southern Music, among the first publishers of country songs. Peer was born to the music business; his father sold phonographs and had a link with the Columbia Company, for which Peer worked in his native Kansas City from 1911 to 1919. He was hired by a rival firm, the General Phonograph Company, in 1920 to run their Okeh…