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The Age (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
... Archies, The New Adventures of Tarzan, Star Trek and Fat Albert.Ellis also worked with producer Jerry Wexler at Atlantic Records, where he arranged a number of R&B classics, including Ben E. King's Spanish Harlem, Brook Benton's There Goes My Heart and the Drifters' Under the Boardwalk."He's one of the greats that ever lived," said television host and singer Peter Marshall. "He was...
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
She later teamed up with producer Jerry Wexler, and her rendition of Otis Redding's Respect, released in 1967, was hailed as a social and political anthem.
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Blogcritics: Music (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
... that you won’t get near in any other interviews.His subjects and guests run the gamut, too, from Jerry Wexler to Joe Bussard; Bobby Rush and Sonny Landreth share another show; another guest is Fats Domino, and to somewhat round out the New Orleans coverage, Nick also talks with a Voodoo queen, an anthropologist, and a Creole artist. [Note: These guests are not on this CD-set.]Also...
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Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
... The Drifters while working as a producer at Atlantic Records alongside the late Ahmet Ertegun and Jerry Wexler.An in-demand collaborator throughout his career, Ellis also worked with Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli, Judy Garland, Maurice Chevalier and Frankie Laine, among others.He also created themes for hit cartoon TV series like Spider-Man and Fat Albert.Ellis was still working...
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Musical Stew Daily (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
... world was immediate: “‘Cold Sweat’ deeply affested the musicians I knew,” legendary soul producer Jerry Wexler said. “It just freaked them out. No one could get a handle on what to do next.” Brown liked “Cold Sweat” so much thta he used it as a blueprint for future songs, and other performers-notably Sly and the Family Stone and George Clinton- did, too. Soon, funk became it’s own...
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Popdose (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
... a western-styled shirt, driving around the American south, waving to locals, and engaging producer Jerry Wexler, session singer Regina McCrary, Dylan keyboardist Spooner Oldham, music writer Joel Selvin and others in long, rambling interviews. It’s great hearing the late Jerry Wexler talk at length about the recording of Dylan’s gospel-inflected late ’70s output, but...
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Washington Post (Free subscription) | 25/10/2008
... never had a Christmas album. And I have mentioned it to the chieftans -- you know, Clive Davis, Jerry Wexler, John Hammond. I did do one or two things at Columbia. But they always said, "Oh, well, Christmas albums really don't sell." That was their attitude. And I always thought that Christmas albums, and having a Christmas offering, was very important because it's such a special...
