Todd Records

Paul Cohen (November 10, 1908 – April 1, 1970) was an American country music producer.
One of the men chiefly responsible for Nashville’s emergence as the country music recording capital and the Nashville Sound was Chicago-born Paul Cohen, long-time Decca Records executive. As President of the Country Music Association (CMA), Cohen was on hand when the Country Music Hall of Fame opened in 1967.
     Paul Cohen left Decca's country department early in 1958 (replaced by Owen Bradley some weeks later), first to do pop production for Decca's Coral subsidiary. Soon he launched his own company, Todd Records, and besides signing such acts as Pee Wee King and Dub Dickerson, the label enjoyed a pop hit, "Snap Your Fingers" by Joe Henderson (# 8 in 1962). In 1964 Cohen rejoined his old boss Dave Kapp, as head of Kapp Records' country division in Nashville. In four years at Kapp, Cohen signed and produced Hugh X. Lewis, Cal Smith, Billy Edd Wheeler, and Mel Tillis, among others. Cohen's last major executive position was as head of ABC-Paramount's Nashville office (1968-69), a position he left after being diagnosed with cancer.