Levy, Louis Lou
(1910–1995)
Levy, Louis “Lou” 29 November 1910 New York City, NY – 31 October 1995 New York City, NY Music publisher and founder of Leeds Music in 1939. His early career was as a dancer or “hoofer,” even performing in blackface at the Apollo Theater in New York City. After establishing the Leeds Music office on Broadway, he acquired rights to many classic blues songs, including most of the songs of Leroy Carr and of Clarence Williams. Later he published the boogie-woogie masters Albert Ammons, Meade Lux…