US-based publishing company, d to BMI. Operating under this name from 9 December 1944 to 24 May 1976.
Full legal entity name: Hill And Range Songs, Inc.
NY company number: 55632
Incorporated: 9 December 1944
Name change: 24 May 1976 to Aberbach Enterprises Ltd.
A number of companies were merged into this one, including:
23 June 1972 - Valley Publishers, Inc.
29 July 1975 - Dolfi Music Inc.
Please consider Hill & Range Songs (London) Ltd., if so credited.
Hill & Range (originally "Hill and Range Songs, Inc.") is a music publishing company which was particularly responsible for much of the country music produced in the 1950s and 1960s, and had control over the material recorded by Elvis Presley over that period.
The company was founded in Los Angeles by Austrian-born Leiber & Stoller) to provide songs for Presley's films and albums. This arrangement effectively precluded Presley from recording material not licensed to Hill & Range, from the mid-1950s through to the early 1970s.
Hill & Range gradually expanded to become the largest independent music publishing company, with worldwide interests. The company employed many of the top pop songwriters of the day, including PolyGram organization, although it retained control of the companies connected to Presley.
(Quoted from wikipedia)
