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Willie Mitchell RIP
Henry Irving
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Willie Mitchell, who has died aged 81, was an icon of Memphis music. As producer, arranger and sometimes co-writer, he moulded the careers of the soul singers OV Wright, Otis Clay, Ann Peebles and, especially, Al Green.
Out of his shabby studio at 1320 South Lauderdale came Wright's A Nickel and a Nail, Peebles's I Can't Stand the Rain and I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down, Syl Johnson's Take Me to the River, and Green's Let's Stay Together – recordings now regarded as imperishable classics of soul music.
Out of his shabby studio at 1320 South Lauderdale came Wright's A Nickel and a Nail, Peebles's I Can't Stand the Rain and I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down, Syl Johnson's Take Me to the River, and Green's Let's Stay Together – recordings now regarded as imperishable classics of soul music.
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RIP Willie.
You've been taken to the river....0 -
Was he Phil and Grant Mitchell's grandad in East Enders?0
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[cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]Willie Mitchell, who has died aged 81, was an icon of Memphis music. As producer, arranger and sometimes co-writer, he moulded the careers of the soul singers OV Wright, Otis Clay, Ann Peebles and, especially, Al Green.
Out of his shabby studio at 1320 South Lauderdale came Wright's A Nickel and a Nail, Peebles's I Can't Stand the Rain and I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down, Syl Johnson's Take Me to the River, and Green's Let's Stay Together – recordings now regarded as imperishable classics of soul music.
and he's called Willie (fnar fnar)0
