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| Â | Jerry Wexler |
 | | Wexler joined Atlantic Records and with Ahmet and Nesuhi Ertegun built the label into one of the giants of the music industry. | | | Beginning as a music journalist with Billboard magazine, Wexler coined the term Rhythm and Blues to replace the "Race Records" charts. | | | In 1969, Wexler committed the label to record with the fledgling Muscle Shoals Sound Rhythm Section, enabling the ensemble to borrow funds to begin their first studio. |
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http://www.alamhof.org/wexlerj.htm
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| Â | Top News Article Reuters.com |
| | Wexler learned the music business ropes during a 42-month stint as a reporter at Billboard, starting in 1949, when the magazine was a mere 55 years old. | | | Wexler helped create Atlantic's "second generation" legacy -- the music he refers to as "immaculate funk" -- with great gospel/blues-influenced tunes, tour de force vocals, killer grooves and meticulously crafted arrangements. | | | Now 86 and long retired, Wexler is still applauded as an insightful producer, crafty deal-maker and promoter, divining rod of hit songs and occasional writer of songs and liner notes. |
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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=6874941
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| Â | Jerry Wexler - An Article by David Knopfler |
| | What a thrill to recently see Jerry Wexler, co-founder of Atlantic records and Godfather of Soul still alive and well and talking on British Television with such animation about MUSIC. | | | Jerry Wexler - An Article by David Knopfler |
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http://www.knopfler.com/Wexler.htm
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| Â | A Tribute to departed musical friends of The Pat Murphy Band - 'Sippiana Soul and Rhythm and Blues |
| | I think that perhaps a most fitting tribute was spoken for Doug Sahm years ago by legendary record producer and Atlantic Records founder, | | | From Western Swing to Lightning Hopkins’s Houston Blues, from Tex/Mex ditties to polkas, Doug integrated it all and came out with something singular: his own sound on guitar, his own voice, his own songs. | | | In Wexler’s book "Rhythm and The Blues" he said " What Mac (Dr. John) is to New Orleans, Doug is to Texas. |
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| Â | The Best Records of R&B |
| | What´d I Say (parts 1 and 2) - Ray Charles | | | Whole Lotta Shakin´ Going On - Jerry Lee Lewis | | | Rhythm and the Blues : Jerry Wexler and David Ritz (US 1993) |
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http://www.angelfire.com/mn/coasters/best.html
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