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  Aretha Franklin
  Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter and pianist commonly referred to as The Queen of Soul. Although renowned for her soul recordings, Franklin is also adept at jazz, blues, R&B; and gospel music. Rolling Stone magazine ranked Franklin No. 1 on its list of The Greatest Singers of All Time.
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  Bob Dylan
  Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman; May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and musician who has been a major figure in music for six decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was at first an informal chronicler, and later an apparently reluctant figurehead of social unrest. A number of his songs such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'" became anthems for the American civil rights and anti-war movements. His early lyrics incorporated a variety of political, social and philosophical, as well as literary influences. They defied existing pop music conventions and appealed hugely to the then burgeoning counterculture. Initially inspired by the songs of Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, Hank Williams, and the performance style of Little Richard, Dylan has both amplified and personalized musical genres, exploring numerous distinct traditions in American song—from folk, blues and country to gospel, rock and roll, and rockabilly, to English, Scottish, and Irish folk music, embracing even jazz and swing.
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• Chris Connor
  Chris Connor (November 8, 1927 – August 29, 2009
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  Dusty Springfield
  '''Mary Isabel/Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien, OBE (16 April 1939 – 2 March 1999), known professionally as Dusty Springfield''', was an English singer whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s. She is best known for her work during the 1960s, when she released singles such as "I Only Want to Be with You" (1963), "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" (1966) and "Son of a Preacher Man" (1968), and her most acclaimed album Dusty in Memphis (1969). With her distinctive sensual sound, she is an important white soul singer, and at her peak was one of the most successful British female performers, with 18 singles in the Billboard Hot 100 from 1964 to 1970. Her image, supported by a peroxide blonde beehive hairstyle, evening gowns, and heavy make-up, made her an icon of the Swinging Sixties, and she remains an enduring camp icon, especially in the gay community.
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  George Michael
  George Michael (born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou (); June 25, 1963) is an English singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the 1980s when he formed the pop duo Wham! along with his school friend Andrew Ridgeley. His first solo single, "Careless Whisper" was released when he was still in the duo and sold about six million copies worldwide.
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• Jew
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  Jimmy Page
  James Patrick Page, OBE (born 9 January 1944) is an English guitarist, songwriter, and record producer. He began his career as a studio session guitarist in London and was subsequently a member of The Yardbirds from 1966 to 1968, after which he founded the English rock band Led Zeppelin.
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  Ray (film)
  Ray is a 2004 biographical film focusing on 30 years of the life of rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles. The independently produced film was directed by Taylor Hackford and starred Jamie Foxx in the title role; Foxx received an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance.
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• Ray Charles
  Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930June 10, 2004), better known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. Ray was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm & blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records. He also helped racially integrate country and pop music during the 1960s with his crossover success on ABC Records, most notably with his Modern Sounds albums. While with ABC, Charles became one of the first African-American musicians to be given artistic control by a mainstream record company.
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  Richard Schiff
  Richard Schiff (born May 27, 1955) is an American actor. He is best known for playing Toby Ziegler on the NBC television drama The West Wing, a role for which he received an Emmy Award. Schiff made his directorial debut with The West Wing, directing an episode entitled "Talking Points."
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• Ruth Brown
  Ruth Brown (January 30, 1928 – November 17, 2006) was an American pop and R&B; singer-songwriter, record producer, composer and actress noted for bringing a pop music style to R&B; music in a series of hit songs for Atlantic Records in the 1950s, such as "So Long", "Teardrops from My Eyes" and "(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean". For these contributions, Atlantic became known as "The house that Ruth built" (alluding to the popular nickname for Old Yankee Stadium).
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  New York
  New York (; locally or ) is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east. The state has a maritime border with Rhode Island east of Long Island, as well as an international border with the Canadian provinces of Ontario to the north and west, and Quebec to the north. New York is often referred to as New York State to distinguish it from New York City.
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  Sarasota, Florida
  Sarasota is a city located in Sarasota County on the south western coast of the state of Florida in the United States. It is south of the Tampa Bay Area and north of Fort Myers. Its current official limits include Sarasota Bay and several barrier islands between the bay and the Gulf of Mexico.
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• Siesta Key, Florida
  Siesta Key is a barrier island off the central western coast of Florida in the United States of America. It is situated between Sarasota Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. A portion of it lies within the city boundary of Sarasota, but the majority of the key is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sarasota County. After the probable Amerindian name of Zarazote for the area and the bay, the key was originally named Sarasota Key by European cartographers during exploration beginning in 1513. That name can be seen on maps from the early 18th century as well as on all local maps drawn before the name change to Siesta Key in the 1920s. The population was 7,150 at the 2000 census.
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• The Bronx
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  The Kansas City Star
  The Kansas City Star is a McClatchy newspaper based in Kansas City, Missouri, in the United States. Published since 1880, the paper is the recipient of eight Pulitzer Prizes. The Star is most notable for its influence on the career of President Harry Truman, and for being central to government-mandated divestiture of radio and television outlets by newspaper concerns in the late 1950s.
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  United States
  The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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• Ahmet Ertegün
• Aretha Franklin
• Associated Press
• Atlantic Records
• Billboard Magazine
• biopic
• Bob Dylan
• born-again Christian
• Careless Whisper
• Chris Connor
• Dusty in Memphis
• Dusty Springfield
• FAME Studios
• George Michael
• Grammy
• Jew
• Jimmy Page
• Led Zeppelin
• Lulu (singer)
• Music journalism
• Music producer
• Nesuhi Ertegün
• New Routes
• New York
• New York City
• Ray (film)
• Ray Charles
• record industry
• rhythm and blues
• Richard Schiff
• Rolling Stone
• Ruth Brown
• Sarasota, Florida
• Siesta Key, Florida
• Slow Train Coming
• soul music
• Star Gazette
• Stax Records
• the Allman Brothers
• The Bronx
• the Drifters
• The Kansas City Star
• The New York Times
• The Yardbirds
• United States
• Upper Manhattan
• Wandering Jew
• Warner Bros. Records
• Wilson Pickett

Wexler, Jerry Filmography

• Gotta Serve Somebody: The Gospel Songs of Bob Dylan (2006)
• Atlantic Crossing (2001)
• The Road to Rock 'n' Roll (2001)
• Producer Pop (2001)
• Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock'n'Roll (2000)
• Immaculate Funk (2000)
• Definitely Dusty (1999)
• Rock & Roll (1995)
• That Rhythm, Those Blues (1988)
• Aretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul (1988)
• Good Times: Rhythm and Blues (1977)

Born: 1917-01-10

Died: 2008-08-15