- Served in the US Signal Corps in India during World War II, where he met Jawaharlal Nehru and Mohandas K. Gandhi.
- Manager and concert producer who worked with The Weavers, Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Arlo Guthrie, 'Lightnin' Hopkins', Mahalia Jackson, Tommy Makem and the Clancy Brothers, Johnny Cash, Phil Ochs, Joni Mitchell, Jacques Brel, and Miriam Makeba, among many many others.
- Was the inspiration for "Irving Steinbloom", the folk impresario whose death inspired the tribute concert in A Mighty Wind (2003).
- 1940s: Worked for the Irving Berlin Music Company, first as an office boy, later as a song plugger - pitching Irving Berlin's songs to the likes of Tommy Dorsey and Benny Goodman. Later worked for Goodman's Regent Music Company.
- Parents were Orthodox Jewish immigrants from Ukraine and Lithuania. His father died when Harold was 8 weeks old.
- He was the model for Irving Steinbloom, the impresario immortalized in the 2003 movie comedy A Mighty Wind.
- An internationally known folk music promoter. In 1963 he introduced an unkempt 21 year old Bob Dylan in his first major concert appearance.
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