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Obituaries: Mercury Records' Irving Green, co-founder, and Art Talmadge, first vice president

John Broven, Now Dig This, August 2006

BY PURE COINCIDENCE, two founding members of the first management team of Mercury Records have died within weeks of each other: Irving Green, co-founder and president, at age 90; and Art Talmadge, vice president, at age 92.

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