Later Years
He retired from the front line of business activity when MCA consolidated Decca with its other labels and moved the merged MCA Records to Universal City, California in 1971, but continued to produce reissues and to collect recognition from the recording industry he helped shape. He was asked to return to MCA Records in 1973 to supervise the reissue of MCA's massive back catalogue. He received the coveted Trustees Award for his lifetime achievements at the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences’ 1991 Grammy Awards ceremony. In 1993, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by his nephew, the comedian and actor Billy Crystal. Gabler died in 2001. In 2005, Crystal produced a documentary and CD release, both entitled The Milt Gabler Story, in tribute.
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“After years of vain familiarity, some distant gesture or unconscious behavior, which we remember, speaks to us with more emphasis than the wisest or kindest words. We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our Friends’ thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed; when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be.”
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