Jim Foglesong
Country music executive
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, James Staton Foglesong was an American country music producer and executive from the 1950s until the 1990s, based in Nashville, Tennessee. Biography Foglesong was born in Lundale, West Virginia. As a teenager, he sang on a local radio show and in quartets and trios into his young adult years. He began his career in the music industry at Columbia Records' label in 1951, transferring 78 RPM records into LP formats. Over the next 20 years, he worked for RCA-Victor until moving to Nashville in 1970 to head the A&R division at Dot Records. He was named president of Dot in 1973 — the only president of a major Nashville label at the time, where he changed the company's vision from pop to country.
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