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Shelby Singleton, Nashville Record Producer, Dies at 77 [1]
['Bill Friskics-Warren']
Date: 2009-10-11
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.
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.
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