Jack Kapp (June 15, 1901
Chicago, Illinois – March 25, 1949
New York City) was a record company executive with
Brunswick Records who founded the American
Decca Records in 1934 along with British Decca founder
Edward Lewis and later American Decca head
Milton Rackmil. He oversaw
Bing Crosby's rise to success as a recording artist in the early 1930s; four decades later, Crosby still gave appreciation to Kapp for diversifying his song catalogue into various styles and genres, saying, "I thought he was crazy, but I just did what he told me." Kapp could not read or sing music, but to his talent he stressed the credo, "Where's the melody?"