The Aberbach brothers established their younger cousin, Freddy Bienstock, as head of Elvis Presley Music - in effect, a subsidiary of Hill & Range.
This arrangement effectively precluded Presley from recording material not licensed to Hill & Range from the mid-1950s through to the early 1970s.
[3][4][5] 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 Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman, and Phil Spector, as well as Leiber and Stoller.
[7] In 1973, Julian Aberbach suffered an incapacitating heart attack, and in 1975 his brother Jean sold much of the business to Chappell Music, then a subsidiary of the PolyGram organization, although it retained control of the companies connected to Presley.