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{{Short description|American record producer and artist}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Mark Abramson
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| background = non_performing_personnel
| birth_name = Mark Kerner Abramson
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1934|03|16}}
| birth_place = [[Brookline, Massachusetts]], U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|2007|05|20|1934|03|16}}
| death_place = [[Kingston, New York]], U.S.
| origin =
| genre = [[Folk music|Folk]], [[Rock music|rock]]
| occupation = [[Record producer]], [[Film director]], [[Visual artist]], [[Therapist]]
| years_active = circa 1958–1976
| label = [[Elektra Records]]
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'''Mark Kerner Abramson''' (March 16, 1934 – May 20, 2007) was an American [[record producer]] and artist. He produced recordings of [[Judy Collins]], [[Paul Butterfield|The Paul Butterfield Blues Band]], [[Bob Gibson (musician)|Bob Gibson]], [[Love (band)|Love]], [[Phil Ochs]], [[Tom Rush]], Judy Henske, [[Josh White]], [[The Wackers]] and many other artists.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/mark-abramson-mn0000830470 | title=Mark Abramson credits on AllMusic.com | website=[[AllMusic]] | accessdate=February 17, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.discogs.com/artist/Mark+Abramson | title=Discogs.com artist page for Mark Abramson | website=[[Discogs]] | accessdate=February 17, 2013}}</ref>
==Career==
Starting out as one of [[Elektra Records]]' earliest producers in 1958, he learned audio engineering working closely with label founder [[Jac Holzman]]. In Holzman's history of Elektra ''Follow the Music'', he recalls Abramson's production work: "He had a natural musical and dramatic sense and absorbed the practical aspects of engineering rapidly. He was an artist himself, with an even temperament, able to get along very well with the artists, and he became a hybrid recording engineer/producer—our first."<ref>{{cite book | url=http://www.followthemusic.com/chapter-3 | title=Follow the Music: The Life and High Times of Elektra Records in the Great Years of American Pop Culture | publisher=FirstMedia Books | year=1998 | accessdate=February 17, 2013 | author1=Holzman, Jac | author2=Daws, Gavan | name-list-style=amp | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121121034817/http://www.followthemusic.com/chapter-3 | archive-date=November 21, 2012 | url-status=dead }}</ref>
In addition to music production, Abramson directed art films and promotional music shorts of [[Love (band)|Love]] and [[The Doors]]. Notably, the films made for The Doors' "Break on Through" and "The Unknown Soldier" were early forerunners of the music video era and were shown at live concerts.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://mildequator.com/filmhistory/pfilm.html | title=The Doors Promotional & Publicity Films | publisher=Mild Equator.com | accessdate=February 17, 2013}}</ref>
After leaving Elektra, Abramson became more involved in the visual arts, and his photography, paintings and sculpture have been exhibited in numerous galleries. In his later years, he was Program Director for Family of Woodstock in [[Woodstock, New York]]. While filming his movie and unavailable as a record producer, Judy Collins took a sabbatical, waiting for her favorite producer to return.
==Personal life and death==
Abramson was married in 1967 to Janet (Janis) Young in a small country church near Philadelphia. Together they had two sons, Ethan and Jared. His wife was a stage, movie and television actress, appearing in ''The Boston Strangler'' with Tony Curtis- as the only potential victim to survive, and in ''Loving'', with George Segal, as his "adulterer partner". She was a regular on the NBC soap operas, ''Our Five Daughters'' and ''Another World''. They separated in the late 1970s, and Young went on to teach in the drama department at [[Bennington College]] for about two decades.
Mark Abramson died in May 2007.
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