Nashville, Tennessee

...R&B and soul music. When the African-American singer Brook Benton came to record in Nashville, Singleton recalled that there were ''no decent hotels that anybody coloured could stay in, so I had him stay at my house''. In 1966, Singleton...

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...and seen by millions of people. One of them, country star Red Steagall, was so impressed, he strong-armed McEntire out of school and down to Nashville, where she soon had a contract at Mercury Records. "When I stepped out there that...

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...on nearly all of the country music records of Jerry Lee Lewis. Jerry ran Mercury Records-Nashville for 20 years, working with country music artists such as Roger Miller, Reba McEntire, Johnny Rodriguez, The Statler Brothers, and Tom T Hall.

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...and Leroy Van Dyke's Walk on By. As A&R boss for record label Mercury's Nashville and New York divisions in the 1960s, he signed Roger Miller, Jerry Lee Lewis and Faron Young to the company's roster. ©2009 Contactmusic.com Ltd, all...

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...for some odd reason, I felt like I was a little bit more prepared for it." Giving it another go, Nail returned to Nashville and this time with better luck. Within the year, he signed with Mercury Records and even released his first...

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...label's Southeast promotion man. Within about three years, he had risen to head of A&R, prompting his move to Nashville, which also aided the career of his first wife, country singer Margie Singleton. Long before he acquired the...

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...radio promotion and retail business. He was named chief of A&R for Mercury's Nashville division in 1961 before moving to New York to head the company's A&R operations in New York and Nashville. During his tenure at Mercury and its Smash...

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In the late '50s he became Mercury Records' Southeast promotion man. Within about three years, he had risen to head of A&R, prompting his move to Nashville, which also aided the career of his first wife, country singer Margie Singleton.

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...City, which caught the attention of country artist Red Steagall. He brought her to Nashville, Tennessee, where she eventually signed a contract with Mercury Records in 1975. She released her first solo album in 1977 and released five...

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