• "Jerry Wexler". Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Jerry Wexler at Find a Grave "Jerry Wexler" by Alex Halberstadt at Salon (5 September 2000) Jerry Wexler Interview...
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    Burke arrived at Jerry Wexler's office unannounced. Wexler was a fan of Burke's and had long wanted to sign him so when Burke told Wexler his contract with...
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  • have that foresight." "Careless Whisper" (Jerry Wexler version) Michael was unhappy with this original Wexler recording. Problems playing this file? See...
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    day of the festival. He was invited through the efforts of promoter Jerry Wexler. Until that point, Redding was still performing mainly for black audiences...
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  • Everybody Needs Somebody to Love (category Songs written by Jerry Wexler)
    Somebody to Love" is a song written by Bert Berns, Solomon Burke, and Jerry Wexler, and originally recorded by Burke under the production of Berns at Atlantic...
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  • Dusty in Memphis (category Albums produced by Jerry Wexler)
    worked on the album with a team of musicians and producers that included Jerry Wexler, Arif Mardin, Tom Dowd, conductor Gene Orloff, backing vocalists the...
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    unfairly overlooked singer" of its golden age. Atlantic Records executive Jerry Wexler referred to Burke as "the greatest male soul singer of all time". Burke's...
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    elements of pop, soul, funk, disco, hip hop, and electronic music. Although Jerry Wexler of Billboard magazine is credited with coining the term "rhythm and blues"...
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    (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman (category Song recordings produced by Jerry Wexler)
    words were written by Gerry Goffin from an idea by Atlantic producer Jerry Wexler, and the music was composed by Carole King. Written for Franklin, the...
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  • Shotgun Willie (category Albums produced by Jerry Wexler)
    Headquarters renewed his musical style. In Nashville, Nelson met producer Jerry Wexler, vice president of Atlantic Records, who was interested in his music...
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  • After Franklin's husband Ted White started an altercation, producer Jerry Wexler decided to continue recording the LP in New York, again using the Swampers...
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    impressed Atlantic Records producer and executive Jerry Wexler when Hall played it over the phone for him. Wexler immediately bought Allman's recording contract...
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  • Communiqué (Dire Straits album) (category Albums produced by Jerry Wexler)
    at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Alabama. The album was produced by Jerry Wexler and Barry Beckett, veteran producers from Muscle Shoals Sound Studio...
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    co-starred in People I Know with Al Pacino. Schiff appeared in Ray as Jerry Wexler, shaving his beard for the role. After working on The West Wing for six...
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  • Son of a Preacher Man (category Song recordings produced by Jerry Wexler)
    for the album Dusty in Memphis. Springfield's version was produced by Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd, and Arif Mardin for her first album for the Atlantic Records...
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    record sales had not met expectations. Producer Jerry Wexler convinced her to move to Atlantic Records. Wexler decided that he wanted to take advantage of...
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  • Phases and Stages (category Albums produced by Jerry Wexler)
    first Atlantic Records release, Shotgun Willie. Nelson met producer Jerry Wexler at a party where Nelson sang songs from an album he planned to record...
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  • Respect (song) (category Song recordings produced by Jerry Wexler)
    sweetheart to treat him with 'Respect' when he comes home." Producer Jerry Wexler booked Franklin for a series of recording dates in January–February 1967...
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    Think (Aretha Franklin song) (category Song recordings produced by Jerry Wexler)
    Jackson – trumpet Jerry Jemmott – bass guitar Spooner Oldham – Hammond organ The Sweet Inspirations – background vocals Production Jerry Wexler – producer Tom...
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  • I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (category Albums produced by Jerry Wexler)
    trumpeter Ken Laxton and FAME studios owner/producer Rick Hall, producer Jerry Wexler arranged to continue recording the LP at Atlantic Studios, New York....
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    in 1968 Williams began working as a producer at Atlantic Records with Jerry Wexler and Phil Walden, on artists including Patti LaBelle & the Blue Belles...
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  • Lady Soul (category Albums produced by Jerry Wexler)
    the 29th best album of the 1960s by Pitchfork. All tracks produced by Jerry Wexler with Tom Dowd as and recording engineer. Notes Chain of Fools (Unedited...
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  • Chain of Fools (category Song recordings produced by Jerry Wexler)
    she's too weak. Yet someday, she predicts the chain will break. Asked by Jerry Wexler, producer with Atlantic Records, to create songs for Otis Redding, Covay...
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  • Slow Train Coming (category Albums produced by Jerry Wexler)
    that awaited him. Dylan also approached Jerry Wexler to produce the upcoming sessions. "What he wanted", Wexler told interviewer Ted Fox, "was more of...
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    Inklings" 2019–2020 Big Mouth Skip Glouberman (voice) 2 episodes 2021 Genius Jerry Wexler 7 episodes What We Do in the Shadows Dominykas the Dreadful Episode:...
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  • Border Song (category Song recordings produced by Jerry Wexler)
    "Border Song" is a song by Elton John with music by John and lyrics by Bernie Taupin. The song initially appeared on the 1970 album Elton John, and was...
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  • What'd I Say (category Song recordings produced by Jerry Wexler)
    Records in 1952 where producers Ahmet Ertegun and Jerry Wexler encouraged him to broaden his repertoire. Wexler would later remember that Atlantic Records'...
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  • Ain't No Way (category Song recordings produced by Jerry Wexler)
    Carolyn Franklin Additional background vocals by Cissy Houston Produced by Jerry Wexler Shirley Brown- Ain't No Way (1974)(Rare) Whitney and Cissy Houston Duet...
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  • methods, and offered the tracks recorded and their contract to Walden and Jerry Wexler of Atlantic Records, who purchased them for $10,000. Walden intended...
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    Bang-A-Bang" live on BBC1 on 31 December 1969. She recorded another Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd and Arif Mardin album in the US, Melody Fair, and scored a...
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