Roberts also managed performers such as The Mamas & the Papas, Richard Pryor, Mort Sahl, Cass Elliot, Paul Anka, Ann-Margret, Johnny Rivers and many others.
[2] The label, which was distributed by Columbia Records, had several notable releases, including Albert Hammond's hit single "It Never Rains in Southern California", and the album Slow Flux by Steppenwolf.
[3] Early Life Born in Brooklyn, New York to Sam Rosenberg, a clothing salesman in the theatre district and Anne (née Melshanker,) a housewife.
After an audition which took place in the hallway of a local dance studio, due to not being able to book a room, Roberts was hired on the spot and left to join the Danny Kaye tour two weeks later.
The dance trio was featured in the Betty Grable film, Call Me Mister, with Dale Robertson, Dan Daly and Danny Thomas in 1951.
They also perform all along the iconic Las Vegas Strip, as well as touring with Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Dean Martin, Perry Como to name a few.
He also managed many actors, including Ann-Margaret, Victor Borge, Lee Jay Cobb, George Hamilton and tap dancer John Bubbles.
Mid 1960s Along with Lou Adler, Jay Lasker, Hal Landers and Pierre Cossette, Roberts founded Dunhill Records in 1964, overseeing and managing such acts as Three Dog Night, Grass Roots, Jan and Dean, Steppenwolf, The Mommas and The Papas, Johnny Rivers, Barry McQuire, Richard Harris, Richard Pryor, Yul Brian along with Cass Elliot as a solo act.
In 1967, Roberts and Hal Landers established Landers/Roberts Production, producing The Gypsy Moths, based on the novel of the same name by James Drought, directed by John Frankenheimer, and featuring the last teaming of Burt Lancaster and Debra Kerr.
“Mums the Word!”, producing the likes of PF Sloanes, Albert Hammond and Michael Hazelwood as writers, (99 Miles from LA, To All the Girls I Loved Before, It Never Rains in Southern California, The Air That I Breathe).
Death Wish Produced in association with Dino DeLaurentiis, and greenlit by Robert Evans, Death Wish was part of the second golden Age of Hollywood, and staring Charles Bronson, William Redfield, Hope Lange, Vincent Gardena, and was in part responsible for contributing to the early careers of Laurence Hilton Jacobs, Jeff Goldbloom and Christopher Guest, who played a young police patrolman.
Bank Shot Directed by Gower Champion and written by Wendell Mayes, based on the Donald Westlake book by the same name, and starring George C Scott, Joanna Cassidy, Frank McCry and Sorrell Brooke.
Damnation Alley Based on the novel written by Roger Zelezny and directed by Jack Smight, music by Jerry Goldsmith and staring Jan-Michael Vincent, George Peppard, Dominque Sanda, Paul Winfield and Jackie Earl Haley.
Joyride 1977 Co-written and Directed by Joseph Ruben, the film starred Desi Arnez, Jr., Robert Carradine, Joan Lockart and the young Melanie Griffiths.
Remasters of acts such as Judy Garland Tony Bennet, Sam Cook, The Beatles by the London Symphony Ochestra, Ray Charles, and others.
Additionally, Roberts was the Entertainment Director for Indian Wells Tennis Garden and repeated his success by booking acts such as Los Lobos, Pavarotti, Striper and Mana.
On Saturday nights in Brooklyn, he would often listen to the radio broadcasts of the matches with his father, and became a long time fan of Joe Lewis, the Bronx Bomber.
They were introduced after Greene attended a performance of the Dunhills, and, upon seeing Roberts, declared that “he's the cuteist thing she had ever seen.” They were married in Las Vegas in December 1959, and had a formal ceremony in early 1960.