- Founder of The Norman Luboff Choir.
- With his choir, he recorded many record albums which are still in print (on CD) today.
- Awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording, at 1620 Vine St.
- He studied piano as a child and participated in his high school chorus.
- With a call from Hollywood to be choral director of The Railroad Hour, a radio weekly starring Gordon MacRae, Luboff began a successful career scoring many television programs and more than 80 motion pictures.
- His choir's version of Dixie was used on numerous tv & radio station sign-on & sign-offs in Southern USA including WRAL-TV, WBBR, WQOK, & WALT.
- History was made in 1956 when Luboff and his choir recorded with Harry Belafonte on "Calypso", the first album to sell one million copies.
- Luboff was also a guest conductor at many choirs in the United States and abroad.
- Luboff was the founder and conductor of the Norman Luboff Choir, one of the leading choral groups of the 1950s, 60s and 70s. They came to prominence through their participation in the very successful Christmas broadcasts with Bing Crosby which ran from 1955 to 1962.
- Luboff and his choir won the 1961 Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Chorus.
- Luboff studied at the University of Chicago and Central College in Chicago. Following this, he did graduate work with the composer Leo Sowerby while singing and writing for radio programs in Chicago.
- Luboff provided a vehicle for composers in Sweden to have their works available in the United States, including Waldemar Åhlén, and Egil Hovland from Norway.
- In 1950, he established Walton Music Corporation, to publish his music. Walton Music exists today as a major choral music publisher under the guidance of Luboff's widow, Gunilla Marcus-Luboff, a former Swedish television producer.
- He recorded with artists such as Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Jo Stafford, Frankie Laine and Doris Day.
- As an educator,Noran Luboff was in much demand, guest conducting all-state, clinic, and festival choirs of every description in the United States and abroad.
- The Luboff choral group toured yearly from 1963 to 1987, and recorded more than 75 albums. The holiday albums Songs of Christmas (1956) and Christmas with the Norman Luboff Choir (1964) were perennial bestsellers for years.
- He was an American music arranger, music publisher, and choir director.
- The Norman Luboff Collection was donated to the Music Division of the United States Library of Congress in 1993 by his widow.
- Although a true professional in the choral world, Norman Luboff never lost his empathy for the musical layman. Two generations of choral directors have been profoundly influenced by his work.
- Luboff served in the U.S. Army's Signal Corps.
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