Colony Music Record Store In NYC Closing After 64 Years

Call it “the day the music died.”

Colony Music, one of New York’s last historic music stores, will close its doors next month, according to the website Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York.

The store at 1619 Broadway had served as a central meeting place for lovers of sheet music, vinyl, theatrical songs and all forms of music memorabilia for 64 years.

Originally opened by Harold S. “Nappy” Grossbardt and Sidney Turk in 1948, Colony music still holds one of the nation’s largest collections of sheet music.

Michael Jackson was a customer during his days in The Jackson 5 in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s.

The store was first located at Broadway and W. 52nd St., but in 1970 it moved to its current location, where it has remained for the last 32 years.

It’s the same site as the historic Brill Building, where such teams as Carole King and Gerry Goffin, Mike Leiber and Jerry Stoller and Barry Mann and Cynthia Weill wrote some of the undying hits of the ‘60s.

Colony’s current owner, Mike Turk (son of one of the founders), did not return calls for a comment.

The website Gothamist has reported that a film group has been raising funds through Kickstarter to make a documentary about the music mecca. The title? “Manhattan Lullaby.”