Joseph Csida; Recording Executive, Billboard Magazine Editor

Joseph Csida, 83, a music and recording executive who was a former editor of Billboard magazine. Csida began his six-decade career when he joined Billboard in 1934. After 19 years there, ending as editor-in-chief, he worked in radio and television and was vice president at Capitol Records and RCA Records and president of First Place Music Publications Inc. He established his own music publishing firm, Trinity Music, and his own talent management firm, Csida-Grean Associates, which boosted the careers of Bobby Darin, Eddie Arnold and others. He also wrote several fiction and nonfiction books, including “The Magic Ground” and, with his wife, June Bundy, “Rape, How to Avoid It.” On June 18 in Los Angeles of heart failure.