TORONTO – Media reports say Sam Sniderman, the founder of the legendary Sam the Record Man music store, has died.
He was 92.
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Sniderman opened his flagship store on Toronto’s Yonge Street in 1959.
The iconic store with its huge flashing neon record signs closed in 2007, seven years after he retired.
A major promoter of Canadian music, Sniderman received the Order of Canada in 1976.
He was also inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 1997.
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