Shelby Singleton

...for Remington Rand, makers of one of the early computers. In the late 1950s he became a promotions man for Mercury Records, eventually becoming the label's head of A&R. In 1963, before acquiring the Sun catalogue, Singleton signed one...

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...radio show, in the 1950s. He became a field promotion representative for Starday-Mercury Records later in the decade and, after the labels dissolved their partnership, went to work as a talent scout for Mercury. By the early '60s Singleton...

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...company's roster. Singleton's legend includes producing three major hits in a single day at Nashville's Quonset Hut recording studio: Van Dyke's "Walk on By," Stevens' "Ahab the Arab" and Joe Dowell's "Wooden Heart." He left Mercury in...

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Singleton later admitted that he did not know anything about music as far as chords or structure go, but that he listened ''with the average ear that the public listens with, because the majority don't know anything either''. He had a...

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... Singleton spent nine years at Mercury and its sister label Smash Records during ... Famed Record Producer, Label Executive Shelby Singleton Dies at Age 77, ...

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