screwed. He was bad about that. Most of those songs were written by other people. Don would give them 25 or 50 bucks and they'd let him have their songs.” Gatemouth Brown said of him: “He pulled off something in America that no one else ever pulled off. We had the only world-renowned black recording company.” Later life and death Robey sold his record labels to ABC Dunhill Records in 1973, while remaining as a consultant. He died of a heart attack at St. Luke's Hospital in Houston in June 1975. References External links Greg Burgess, "Don Robey and Duke-Peacock Records" Don Robey's Labels (Both Sides Now Publications) 1903 births 1975 deaths Songwriters from Texas Record producers from Texas People from Houston African-American businesspeople African-American record producers American chief executives 20th-century American businesspeople 20th-century African-American people