"Roberts for NewsMusician,
personality and business owner Bobby Robinson
owned Happy House Records for more than 60 years.
BOBBY ROBINSON, whose tiny record shop on Harlem's 125th St. spawned No.
1 national hits and made him an uptown patriarch for six decades, died yesterday.
He was 93 and had been ill for several years - though he regularly went to work
at his shop until it was forced to close in January 2008.
Impeccably dressed, well-spoken and ambitious to make his mark in the
entertainment business, Robinson opened Bobby's Happy House in 1946.
His shop was the first black-owned business on 125th St., and within five years
he used it to launch a series of record labels. Sometimes working with his brother
Danny, who also had an office on 125th St., Robinson recorded hundreds of artists
from Gladys Knight and the Pips to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five."
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