Jerry Wexler Papers, 1943-2004, undated.

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Jerry Wexler Papers, 1943-2004, undated.

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The Jerry Wexler Papers span the years 1943 to 2006. The collection consists of correspondence, clippings, manuscript drafts from Wexler's 1993 memoir, Rhythm and the Blues, photographs, scrapbooks, and subject files. Wexler's personal correspondence serves as an important focus to the collection, featuring handwritten letters, cards, and other correspondence with individuals such as Stanley Booth, Ahmet and Nesuhi Ertegun, Aretha Franklin, and Dusty Springfield. The Jerry Wexler Papers also include unique, candid photographs of artists such as Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, and Wilson Pickett in the recording studio; images from the Muscle Shoals Recording Studio; and materials related to the production of Bob Dylan's Slow Train Coming.

4.26 linear feet.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Library and Archives

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Library and Archives

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Jerry Wexler grew up in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, the oldest son of a Polish immigrant father and a German Jewish mother. As a teenager Wexler developed a taste for jazz music. When he enrolled at Kansas State University in 1936, he discovered southern music and the blues. Wexler began his career as a journalist for Billboard Magazine, where he is credited with coining the term "rhythm and blues" as a substitute for the more prevalent term of the day, "race music." As an ...

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Franklin, Aretha, 1942-2018

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Aretha Louise Franklin, also known as, (b. March 25, 1942, Memphis, Tennessee; d. August 16, 2018, Detroit, Michigan) was an American singer and songwriter. She began her career as a child singing gospel at New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, where her father, C. L. Franklin, was minister. In 1960, at the age of 18, she embarked on a secular career, recording for Columbia Records but achieving only modest success. ...