It has been years since I've read Rolling Stone in a magazine format,
but I check in every once in a while to see what is going on in the
contemporary music scene.

To the editorial staff's credit, they do give the younger generation
infrequent music History lessons, mainly (sadly) through obits.

Two nice tribute articles here.

No Jerry..No Aretha Franklin?

Debatable.

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/22595667/the_record_collector_jerry_wexle\
r_dies_at_age_91

Top sessions:

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/22615303/wex_on_wax_twenty_essential_jerr\
y_wexler_productions

Sam


--- In livefromthehook@yahoogroups.com, Charlie Taylor
<randyrowe1@...> wrote:
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> this livens up his legend a bit, as we learn what ""Wex" was up to
in 1935! Dave
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> After graduating from Manhattan's George Washington High School at
age 15 in 1932, Wexler attended City College for two semesters before
dropping out. He then enrolled at Kansas State College of Agriculture
and Applied Science (later renamed Kansas State University).
> Wexler's grades suffered as he frequented Kansas City jazz
clubs and juke joints more than 100 miles from the college campus to
see performers such as Count Basie and Big Joe Turner.
> He returned to New York and worked with his father washing
windows and hanging out with friends and smoking marijuana.
> In 1936, he fell in love with Shirley Kampf, and proposed
marriage in 1941. The couple had three children and divorced 32 years
later.
> Wexler was inducted in the Army in 1942 and spent much of World War
II processing test scores of Air Corps personnel.
> In 1946, Wexler returned to Kansas and completed his undergraduate
degree in journalism. Back in New York, he landed a reporting job at
Billboard magazine in 1947 and stayed until 1951, when he became a
promoter for a music publishing company.
> He brought two songs to Mitch Miller, the newly hired pop music
executive at CBS, who soon had hits at the top of the charts with
``Cry,'' recorded by Johnny Ray, and Hank Williams's ``Cold, Cold
Heart,'' sung by Tony Bennett.
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> To: livefromthehook@...: jgrafmuller@...: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:49:47
+0000Subject: [livefromthehook] Re: RIP - Jerry Wexler
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> Cheers to Jerry, and everything he's done for the music we've come
to know and love.His shockingly brief Wiki page and some of his career
highlights can be viewed
here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_WexlerRock on, my brutha!J.---
In livefromthehook@yahoogroups.com, "Andy Herz" <buzzsawfilms@>
wrote:>> Have to mention this: we lost another great musical Jerry on
Friday. > > Jerry Wexler coined the term "rhythm and blues"; brought
Big Joe Turner and so many others > to mainstream audiences and was
one the industry's greatest producers and promoters. > > Helluva guy
too, from everything I've ever heard and read.> > Drinks to Jerry.> >
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sid=ST2008081503635&s_pos=list>
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