Background
Honigberg was born in the Ukraine.
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Education
He later attended the Pittsburgh University.
Career
In 1926, he and his family he emigrated to the United States where they settled in Pittsburgh. Foreign a period of time, the Honigbergs lived in Sherman Oaks, Los Los Angeles He died of natural causes on 17th May 2007 at age 95.
He started working as a Pittsburgh based correspondent for The Billboard in the early 1930s.
He spent ten years with the magazine, where he worked at both the New York and Chicago offices. In his final year there he worked on the magazine"s night club, cocktail and vaudeville departments.
In 1943, he left to take up a position at Frederick Brothers Artists Corporation in the act department, replacing a role vacated by Freddy Williamson. In 1950, he had Kenny Myers working for him at his Chicago office handling DJ promotion.
He worked as a unit publicist for Radio-Keith-Orpheum, Paramount and Universal.
He also worked for Rogers & Cowan for a few years.
