![]() ![]() The first releases were American motivational discs but Harry Miller and Graham Dent had their eyes fixed closer to home. La Gloria's office was at 12 O'Connell Street in Auckland's CBD, also the home many of Miller's other wide-ranging ventures. Initially, promoter Graham Dent was Miller’s partner in the venture, leaving in 1962. He named it La Gloria, as it sounded exotic and it was a name also used by a range of radios and record players made by Auckland company Dominion Radio and Electrical Corporation, who were happy with the association given the label's growing success. Harry M Miller was an Auckland showman, businessman and impresario who would turn his hand (not always successfully but always with great flair and gusto) to anything he thought would make money, thus in 1959, as other NZ-owned labels found success, he decided to launch his own record label.
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