Topic: Wilson Pickett

Rudolph, We Love You Boy

So apparently Fantasia's married boo was separated when they started their dangerous liaison. Paul Wall is half the man he used to be. No, really...

Works

In the Midnight Hour (1965) The Exciting Wilson Pickett (1966) The Wicked Pickett (1966) The Sound of Wilson Pickett (1967) I'm in Love (1968) The Midnight Mover (1968) Hey Jude (1969) Right On (1969) Wilson Pickett in Philadelphia (1970) I Want ...

Ahmet Ertegun

Ahmet Ertegun was the co-founder of Atlantic Records and chairman of the Rolling Stone:

Muscle Shoals Studios Land of 1000 Dances

Muscle Shoals, Alabama, was the last place anyone wanted to go to make a record: But the determination of one man and the musicianship of several others drew customers from near and far and kept the three adjacent towns of Muscle Shoals ...

AlAbAmA music performing Arts

The state's musical history is second to none, and the Alabama Music Hall of Fame in Tuscumbia pays tribute to all those who made their mark in blues, jazz, bluegrass, country and rock 'n' roll. Memorabilia from legends like Wilson Pickett ...

Cropper Steve

Aspects of the topic Cropper, Steve are discussed in the following places at Britannica. Assorted References association with Pickett (in Wilson Pickett (American singer)) . "Pickett was a pistol," said Wexler, who nicknamed him "the Wicked Pickett" and sent him to Memphis, Tennessee ...

Kenny Gamble

Aspects of the topic Kenny Gamble are discussed in the following places at Britannica. Assorted References Philadelphia International Records (in Philadelphia International Records: The founding fathers were Philadelphian Kenny Gamble and New Jersey-born Leon Huff, writer-producers who had made their way through ...

Jerry Wexler

Few of the pioneers of the postwar pop music industry more effectively exploited the art of connoisseurship than Jerry Wexler, the American record producer and music industry executive who has died of congestive heart failure aged 91. By supervising the recordings of ...

Jerry Wexler: pioneer of postwar pop

Few of the pioneers of the postwar pop music industry more effectively exploited the art of connoisseurship than Jerry Wexler, the American record producer and music industry executive, who has died of congestive heart failure aged 91. By supervising the recordings of ...

Dance Party Hour

It's subjective, of course, but it covers the 50s and especially 60s in search of what your Guide considers the classic Oldies dance hits. To the uninitiated, it sort of sounds like Gary "U.S." Bonds meets (surprise) Hank Ballard - fun ...