Harold Leventhal(1919-2005)
- Producer
As a teenager, in the 1930s at the height of the Depression, Harold
Leventhal was active in left-wing political causes before joining the
Irving Berlin Music Co. at 20 years of age where he started as an
office boy and rose to the position of music plugger. He served in the
Signal Corps during World War II and in 1948 worked on the Henry
Wallace Presidential Campaign. During the 1950s he became a key figure
in the American Folk Movement becoming the manager for Pete Seeger and
the Weavers and later played a major role in the career of Bob
Dylan.
