Ernie Leaner

CTL-E-0560 · Person · 1960–1970

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Ernie Leaner co-ran One-derful! Records and the United Record Distributors warehouse; a 1968 visitor described him as 'a more aggressive music business executive' than his brother George.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from MUSIC-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-MUSIC-001:music-001-infra-039; source research type(s): person. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass.

Sources

'Chicago – Soul Music Odyssey USA 1968' (pressbooks.library.yorku.ca)

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