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NASHVILLE — Shelby Singleton, a colorful Nashville record producer and entrepreneur who revived the careers of singers like Roger Miller and
Jerry Lee Lewis and who later resurrected the historic Sun Records catalog, died here on Wednesday. He was 77.
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Shelby Singleton, right, in the studio with Brook Benton.
He had been hospitalized with brain cancer, according to the producer and guitarist Jerry Kennedy, a friend and protégé, who confirmed the death.
Mr. Singleton was probably best known for his 1969 purchase of Sun Records and the subsequent marketing of the label and its legacy, including the early rockabilly hits of
Elvis Presley,
Carl Perkins and
Johnny Cash. Among these recordings are Presley’s “That’s All Right,” Cash’s “I Walk the Line” and Perkins’s “Blue Suede Shoes.”
Before acquiring the Sun catalog, however, Mr. Singleton had for almost a decade worked as a cultivator of musical talent for Mercury Records. From offices in Nashville and New York, he oversaw the careers of country singers like Mr. Miller, Ray Stevens and Mr. Lewis, as well as those of rhythm and blues acts like Clyde McPhatter, Brook Benton and, for a brief time,
James Brown.
In 1962, after hearing the Texas singer Bruce Channel’s regional hit “Hey! Baby,” Mr. Singleton purchased the master and rereleased the record on the Mercury subsidiary Smash. It reached the top of the Billboard pop chart for three consecutive weeks.
“He had the ears of a record buyer,” Mr. Kennedy said of Mr. Singleton’s commercial instincts. “People like me, who are immersed in the actual making of music, don’t necessarily always have that advantage.”
Mr. Kennedy became Mr. Singleton’s second in command and eventually succeeded him at Mercury. Perhaps his most memorable session working with Mr. Singleton, he said, was the one that produced “Harper Valley P.T.A.”
The song, a sendup of small-town hypocrisy written by Tom T. Hall, became a No. 1 pop and country hit for Mr. Singleton’s Plantation label in 1968. It also made Jeanne Carolyn Stephenson, an aspiring singer whose name Mr. Singleton changed to Jeannie C. Riley for the session, an overnight sensation.
“He was so sure that he had something magic with that one that he had an acetate of it made just as soon as the session was over,” said Mr. Kennedy, who played the indelible Dobro guitar part on the record. That evening Mr. Singleton got the music into the hands of Ralph Emery, a tastemaking disc jockey at WSM in Nashville, and by the following morning it was making its way up the charts.
Shelby Singleton was born on Dec. 16, 1931, in Waskom, Tex. Reared in nearby Shreveport, La., he entered the
Marines after high school before going to work for “Louisiana Hayride,” a popular live radio show, in the 1950s. He became a field promotion representative for Starday-Mercury Records later in the decade and, after the two labels dissolved their partnership, went to work as a talent scout for Mercury.
By the early ’60s Mr. Singleton was presiding over Mercury’s creative division, where he was known for holding recording sessions using black and white musicians at a time of often strained race relations in the South.
“He didn’t know color lines,” Mr. Kennedy said. “The black artists who came to town to record couldn’t stay in the local motels. There was only one place where they could stay, at the old Eldorado Hotel in north Nashville. But instead of putting them up there, Shelby would put them up at his house in Hendersonville.”
Mr. Singleton is survived by his wife, Mary; three sons, Stuart, Steve and Sidney; a daughter, Shana; and several grandchildren. He is also survived by his brother, John, with whom he continued to preside over Sun Records’ catalog and business interests until only recently.
“Shelby was the all-around record man,” Mr. Kennedy remarked. “He was a producer, a marketing guy, a merchandising guy, a publisher and a promoter. He did it all, and he was doing it right up until the end.”
source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/arts/music/11singleton.html?_r=1&ref=arts
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