Really good Mob+Entertainment article....

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2012/02/the-mob-the-comedians.html

This is a great website. If you scroll down you can also read an excellent article about Morris Levy the owner of Roulette Records. The character "Hesh" was based on Morris Levy. He was in heavy with Vito Genovese.

salvi62 yeah levy a new book by singer in the 60s says he was really mobbed up.

morris levy was a top hood'

Hesh was also a loan shark. Not only was he was a loan shark he was depicted in the Sopranos as the nicest Shylock on the face of the earth. I bet he never smacked an old women around for not have the money to pay a 5 dollar vig.

Come on baby, don't make Hesh smack a bitch.