Music Industry Professionals

First published 16 July 2020 Rufus Thomas was born in Mississippi in 1917 but his family moved to Memphis around 1920. As a teenager still at school, Rufus was...

First published 20 July, 2020 American Sound Studio was set up in 1964 at 827 Thomas Street, North Memphis, by producer Chips Moman and Don Crews. Moman had helped owner...

First published 19 July 2020 David Porter was born in 1941 in Memphis. While he was still a student at high school, Porter began to develop an interest...

First published - 14 July 2020 Mr Prater and Mr Moore met in 1961 in Florida. They were both singers who liked gospel and who also used to...

First published 11th July 2020 The creative team of Holland-Dozier-Holland became the dominant and most influential songwriting and music production team of the 1960s. They were responsible for...

First Published 11 July 2020 The genesis of Motown Records dates from January 12, 1959, when Berry Gordy Jr. set up a company called Tamla Records. Gordy’s interest in...

First Published 10 July, 2010. The contribution of arrangers to popular music is often ignored, George Martin and Quincy Jones being the exception to the rule. Gene Page,...

First published 10 July 2020 In the late Sixties, Gene Page met the young singer Barry White, who was doing odd jobs to make ends meet between recording...

The late Billy Davis was born on July 11th 1932 in Detroit. He started his career in the entertainment industry as a songwriter with Berry Gordy in Detroit during the mid 1950s, creating successful songs for...

First Published 4 July 2020 The analysis of the Sound of Detroit was made more complicated in 1970 by the first major successes for Invictus Records, which had...