#willie mitchell

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Al Green - Here I Am

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Willie Clayton - Too Much Of Nothin' (Pawn)

prod. Willie Mitchell, 1975.

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Otis Clay - Trying to Live My Life Without You (1972)

Classic soul produced by Willie Mitchell for Hi Records.  You do have to wonder how Otis was still alive after smoking 5 packs a day and drinking four or five bottles a wine.

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 Willie Mitchell † January 5, 2010

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▶️ Willie Mitchell - Sunrise Serenade (1962)

Source: Internet Archive

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Breaking Point - Willie Mitchell ‎(The Many Moods Of Willie Mitchell, 1969)

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81. Soul Serenade by Willie Mitchell debuted Mar 68 and peaked at number 23, scoring 938 points and charting for a lengthy 15 weeks.

Willie was born in Ashland, Mississippi, and had nine chart entries 1964-69. Two made the top 40. As a record producer, Willie produced all of Al Green's 1970s hits, and recorded Al on his Hi Records label.

[filosofablogger]

♫ Let's Stay Together ♫ (Redux)

I was just strolling through the vast fields of YouTube, looking for the song that fit my mood tonight like that last piece of a jigsaw puzzle, when … BAM!!!  There was one of my favourites, Al Green … singing this just for me!  (Okay, okay, Al Green doesn’t know that I exist, nor does he care, but … a girl can dream, can’t she?)  I’ve played this one before, but it’s been a couple of years and…

[dearyallfrommatt]

"Shame, Shame, Shame“

There’s a story in this guy. A Memphis boy, Tommy Tucker cut a bunch of rockabilly and country songs for Hi Records way back when Ray Harris (”Greenback Dollar (Watch & Chain)”) decided he was tired of tying for a distant fourth with Billy Lee Riley, Sonny Burgess, and all the rest and decided to form a label. Essentially, Hi Records caught and released Sun Records’ runoff, starting with the instrumental “Smokie (Part 2)” by bassist Bill Black.

At Hi, he was basically the big project of “Cowboy” Jack Clement, one of the founding fathers of rock & roll songwriting. Blessed with a smooth baritone, Tucker could drop it a couple of notches and do a passable Johnny Cash. Indeed, he sounds more like Cash than Tommy Cash, but I digress. To really nail it home - and perhaps catch a few shoppers not paying close enough attention - Clement wrote “Return of the Teenage Queen,” an answer song to Johnny Cash’s “Ballad of a Teenage Queen” smash, also written by Clement.

But Tucker never had any hits with anybody, though, despite first recording the jaunty murder ballad “Miller’s Cave” four years before Bobby Bare had a Top 40 hit with it. And this song has nothing to do with any of that. A cover of the Jimmy Reed nugget, this greasy, slippery groove sounds absolutely nothing like what little of Tucker we’ve heard. It was recorded in 1968 after Willie Mitchell brought the new sound of Memphis Soul with acts like Al Green and Ann Peebles. The famous Hodges Brothers back Tommy on this and he blows some fun, sloppy harmonica.

And that’s all I know. This song went unreleased until the 1999 compilation Hi Records - The Early Years (Volumes 1 & 2). Tucker dropped off the radar after that, far as I know, and died in 1985 in a house fire.

[hoboonthetracks]

They call her Ms Tibbs!

Here is the official description KIM TIBBS proudly presents the highly anticipated album THE SCiENCE OF COMPLETiON VOLUME 1. Recorded at the legendary Royal Studios in Memphis, TN, USA and co-produced by Lawrence Boo Mitchell, son of the late great Willie Mitchell. Twenty five musicians played their part on this project and have created the most authentic 70s soul you will ever hear in 21st century music, attention to detail even went as far as retrieving Al Green’s microphone from the original Hi sessions to enhance that vintage sound! The lead 7” single WHERE WOULD I BE WITHOUT YOU? released in the Spring of 2022 sold out on pre-order and created a buzz of what is to follow. As well as receiving extensive radio plays, WHERE WOULD I BE WITHOUT YOU? appeared on many DJ playlists at soul events around the U.K. and beyond. The eleven original songs penned by Kim herself are a soundtrack to her life, covering a range of themes such as love, hope and faith. A word of warning though, there’s a goodly number of long compositions on this album – their depth, beauty and intricacies simply cannot be edited – hence a double vinyl LP!

Here is the HOBO description

SOUL ALBUM OF THE YEAR STUNNING BUY IT KEEP THE FAITH!

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Willie Mitchell  *March 1, 1928

[longislandairpower]

Cartoonist Bill Mauldin, whose characters Willie and Joe captured the unheroic nature of the G.I.'s life in WWII while portraying the G.I.s’ truly heroic nature.

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▶️ Willie Mitchell - The Crawl (1962)

Source: Internet Archive