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Don Ienner

Don Ienner

American music executive

Jul 31, 2026

1:58
But tell us about the – you played a Raspberries record? What's the story, you guys?
2:05
So when I was the male boy, I became very friendly with the A&R people at Capitol.
2:15
And – The A&R guys just didn't listen to tapes, and that's what would come in, acetates or actual reel-to-reel tapes.
2:26
So at night, I would stay there from, I don't know, 6 to maybe 11 o'clock at night, and I would listen to tapes because I just loved it.
2:35
And then the guys didn't go to half the shows.
2:38
I went to see every band show, band, band, the Robbie Robertson band or – I went to all those – we had traffic because we distributed Island at the time, and it was Low Sparker, High Heel Boys.
2:53
I mean, all those amazing things that were going – plus we had the Beatles catalog, obviously, which I still have every Beatle record unopened in my office – But I was listening to these tapes, and somebody sent in a tape of the Raspberries.

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25:31
Right.

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