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Ethel deNagy Gabriel (born November 16, 1921) is an American record producer with a four-decade career at RCA Victor.

Gabriel grew up in the Philadelphia area, learning the music business as a trombone player and bandleader of her own dance band in the 1930s. She later found employment at the RCA Victor plant in Camden, New Jersey to earn a living in support of her music studies at Temple University. She began by pressing and packing records at RCA Victor,^[1] eventually achieving notoriety as the first woman to become a producer for a major record label.^[2] Gabriel headed the RCA Camden reissue label and was the producer of the popular RCA "Pure Gold" and "A Legendary Performer" reissue series of albums during the 1970s. She was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1967 and earned a Grammy win in 1982 for Best Historical Album, The Tommy Dorsey/Frank Sinatra Sessions - Vols. 1 ,2 & 3.^[3] She produced fifteen Gold records out of over twenty-five hundred releases to her credit. Gold records include hits by Elvis Presley, Perry Como, Al Hirt, Henry Mancini and Roger Whitaker among others.^[4]

At RCA Victor, she initiated the company's famous Nashville studios and was a leader in the experiments and methods of electronically improving and influencing the sound of music, such as simulating the first stereo sounds by shifting sound between speakers. She was first to release a disco record and the first digital album.

Gabriel served as the A&R representative for several popular RCA recording artists such as Perry Como, Cleo Laine and Roger Whitaker. Under her direction, RCA issued recordings by Dolly Parton, Jim Reeves, Henry Mancini, Perry Como, Harry Belafonte, Perez Prado, the Ames Brothers, Eddie Fisher, Jaye P. Morgan, Hugo Winterhalter, Henri René, The Three Suns, Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra, Peter Nero, Neil Sedaka, Paul Anka and other artists, achieving top record sales for several of these artists.

In 1959, Gabriel created the RCA Camden "Living Strings" series of albums, which were easy listening instrumental string versions of popular tunes,^[5] earning a Grammy Award in 1968.^[6] They spawned other "Living" ventures, such as the Living Jazz. She was also involved with the sound and direction of George Melachrino's "Music for Moods" movement that yielded the titles Music for Dining, Music for Daydreaming, Music for Faith and Inner Calm, and Music to Stop Smoking By.^[7] Gabriel was involved in the Mambo craze in the United States by her work with Perez Prado on his records including "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White," a big hit for RCA Victor for 10 weeks in 1955.^[8]

She won a 1982 Grammy Award in the Best Historical Album category for The Tommy Dorsey/Frank Sinatra Sessions - Vols. 1, 2 & 3.^[9]

Gabriel left RCA in 1984 and formed her own record label, JazzMania Records.{{citation needed|date=December 2013}}

In 2007, having lost her life savings in the 1980s to an investment scheme engineered by former Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson,^[10] Gabriel's career memorabilia were put up for auction in Pennsylvania.^[4]

Gabriel is a graduate of Temple University and Columbia University and spent most of her career in New York City. She is the wife of the late Gus Gabriel, President of Dunhill Publishing Company (New York City).^[10] She previously resided in the Poconos region of Pennsylvania before moving to Rochester, New York to be closer to family, as she has no children.^[11]

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1. ^{{cite book | last = Whiteley | first = Sheila | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Women and Popular Music: Sexuality, Identity and Subjectivity | publisher = Routledge | date = August 31, 2000 | location = | page = 3 | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = 978-0-415-21190-1 }}
2. ^{{cite book | last = Billboard | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Group Honors Five Women | publisher = Billboard Magazine | date = Feb 1, 1997 | location = | page = 62 | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = }}
3. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/ethel-gabriel|title=Ethel Gabriel|date=2014-03-17|website=GRAMMY.com|language=en|access-date=2019-01-30}}
4. ^¹Elvis Gold Record, Grammy Awards of Legendary Record Producer Ethel Gabriel to Be Sold at Auction{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.percyfaithpages.org/images/Listening%20To%20Popular%20Music.pdf |title=Listening To Popular Music |accessdate=2010-01-21 |last=Faith |first=Percy |publisher=PercyFaith.org }}
6. ^Grammy Awards 1968
7. ^{{cite book | last = Lanza | first = Joseph | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Elevator Music: A Surreal History of Muzak, Easy-Listening, and Other Moodsong | publisher = University of Michigan Press; Rev Exp edition | date = 2004-01-06 | location = | pages = 88–91 | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = 978-0-472-08942-0 }}
8. ^Elvis Gold Record, Grammy Awards of Legendary Record Producer Ethel Gabriel to be Sold at Auction ElitesTV.com
9. ^Grammy Award Winners {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101110014430/http://www2.grammy.com/GRAMMY_Awards/Winners/ |date=November 10, 2010 }} GRAMMY.com
10. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.taxi.com/faq/ar/bader.html |title=Interview with Suzan Bader, President DSM/All-American Music Library |accessdate=2010-01-21 |last=Laskow |first=Michael |publisher=TAXI A&R }}
11. ^¹{{cite news |last=Spevak |first=Jeff |title=Happy days here again for record producer |url=http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/lifestyle/2013/11/30/happy-days-here-again-for-record-producer/4005681/ |accessdate=December 13, 2013 |newspaper=Democrat and Chronicle |date=December 13, 2013 |agency=Gannett Company |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6LqWmDtGx?url=http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/lifestyle/2013/11/30/happy-days-here-again-for-record-producer/4005681/ |archivedate=December 13, 2013 |location=Rochester, New York |pages=1A,9A |deadurl=yes |df= }}

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