Mickey Goldsen dies at 99

Michael "Mickey" Goldsen, a long term music writer who founded Qualifying criterion Music Corp. and offered since it's Boss for more than fifty years, died Wednesday in Encino, Calif. He was 99.Goldsen released such tunes as Lee Hazlewood's "Due To The Fact Are Created for Walkin'" and Don Ho's "Small Bubbles," in addition to hits from Nancy Sinatra, Jackson Browne and Johnny Mercer.Goldsen was instrumental in running among the first record label-possessed posting companies with Capitol Records within the nineteen forties before investing the huge most of his career steering the independent Qualifying criterion. He offered because the first leader from the Assn. of Independent Music Marketers within the '70s.The Brooklyn-born Goldsen began off like a accountant for lyrics magazine Song Hits in 1934 and then labored for writer Lou Levy's Leeds Music. He started his executive career with Capitol within the nineteen forties, heading up posting division Capitol Tunes, by which he was handed a 25% share. In 1950, Golden left the organization and bought out existing shares of Capitol Tunes from Mercer and Buddy DeSylva, relaunching as Qualifying criterion Music.Additionally to the catalog of standards from Mercer, Peggy Lee yet others, Qualifying criterion acquired the Charlie Parker catalog within the nineteen fifties, together with many other jazz works from Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Barnett. Within the '60s, Goldsen labored extensively with Hazlewood, posting hits for Nancy Sinatra, most particularly "Due To The Fact Are Created for Walkin'," which hit No. one in 1966. Also within the '60s, Qualifying criterion broadened into Hawaiian music, posting Ho's "Small Bubbles" and "Pearly Shells," among other standards.Goldsen was later awarded with a Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame for his work.Within the '70s the writer were built with a top ten hit with Browne's "Physician My Eyes," and then broadened into new bands by opening a Nashville office, signing Roseanne Money in the '70s and Lyle Lovett within the 1980s.Goldsen is made it by boy Bo, presently leader of Qualifying criterion, and kids Eileen, who is the owner of writer French Fried Music, and Nancy seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com