Mark Abramson: Difference between revisions

| birth_name = Mark K.Kerner Abramson

| birth_place = [[Brookline, Massachusetts]], U.S.

| death_place = [[Kingston, New York]], U.S.

| genre = [[Folk music|Folk]], [[Rock music|Rockrock]]

| years_active = circa 1958-19761958–1976

'''Mark Kerner Abramson''' (March 16, 1934 &ndash; 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 |lastauthoramp 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=yesdead }}</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, NYNew York]]. While filming his movie and unavailable as a record producer, Judy Collins took a sabbatical, waiting for her favorite producer to return. He died in May 2007.

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 70s1970s, and Ms. Young went on to teach in the drama department at [[Bennington College]] for about two decades. She is still appearing onstage in Shakesperian theatre- an early venue for her.

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