STAX Museum ~ Memphis, Tennessee

If you are coming to Memphis, there are so many things to do. But there is only one STAX Museum and it's a MUST stop on your trip. The story about STAX Records is amazing. A record label that changed the musical landscape worldwide. The corner of College & McLemore, STAX Records. Don't miss it!!

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Elvis Presley- FIRST national TV Show

Today January 28, 1956, Elvis Presley (with Scotty Moore and Bill Black), made his FIRST National Television appearance on the Dorsey brother's "Stage Show". It was the first of six appearances on the show and the first of eight performances recorded and broadcast from CBS TV in New York City. After the success of their first appearance they were signed to five more in early 1956. Thanks for listening to www.AllMemphisMusic.com The only station in the world devoted to THE MEMPHIS SOUND! Special thanks to Memphis Travel for their continued support of All Memphis Music

Today in www.AllMemphisMusic.com history-Jan 11, 1964-'Ring Of Fire' by Johnny Cash became the first Country album to go to No.1 in the US album chart.
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Today in www.AllMemphisMusic.com  history Jan 11, 1958- The release date for the Elvis Presley single 'Jailhouse Rock' was put back a week after Decca Records pressing plant in the UK were unable to meet the advance orders of 250,000 copies.

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All Memphis Music Today in Music History ~ Elvis Presley ~ Big Mama Thornton

Yes it's true in www.AllMemphisMusic.com history-Today Aug 13, 1952, The original version of 'Hound Dog' was recorded by Willie Mae (Big Mama) Thornton. It would become the first hit for the song-writing team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and went on to top the Billboard R&B chart for seven weeks, selling nearly two million copies. Three years later, Elvis Presley recorded his version. 
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The late, lead singer of Bread, Jimmy Griffin was born on this day, 8-10-1943. Griffin grew up in Memphis & went to Kingsbury High school. An Academy Award winning songwriter, his musical training began when his parents signed him up for accordion lessons. Dorsey and Johnny Burnette were his neighbors and role models. After the Burnette brothers moved to Los Angeles, California to further their music careers, Griffin went there to visit them, and managed to secure a recording contract with Reprise Records http://www.AllMemphisMusic.com

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Willie "Too Big" Hall

Willie "Too Big" Hall was born August 8, 1950, in Memphis, Tennessee. He began his career as a drummer in 1965, while still in high school. He played with the Bar-Kays band and Isaac Hayes's band The Movement. In the seventies, as part of the Stax-Volt Recording Section Team from 1968–77, Hall backed dozens of major Stax artists on recordings, including such artists as The Emotions, Little Milton, Carla and Rufus Thomas, Johnnie Taylor, The Staple Singers, Albert King and Isaac Hayes. Hall produced Hayes' last Stax album, and did percussion on Hayes' albumsHot Buttered Soul and The Isaac Hayes Movement, as well as his Theme from Shaft.

Hall also recorded the album Universal Language with Booker T. & the MGs, and later joined guitarist Steve "The Colonel" Cropper and bass player Donald "Duck" Dunn as a member of The Blues Brothers, which led to his appearance in the hit movie The Blues Brothers and its sequel. He appeared as himself in the 2008 movie Soul Men.

Hall has toured the world and recorded with a variety of artists, including The Blues Brothers, Cab Calloway, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, KC and the Sunshine Band, Bonnie Raitt, Earl Scruggs, Charlie Daniels Band, Todd Rundgren and Roger McGuinn, among others. He is currently a member of The Bo-Keys, a band of highly respected Memphis musicians, including Isaac Hayes's wah-wah guitarist Charles "Skip" Pitts. He is the father of rapper Gangsta Pat.^[1]

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This week's interview will air at the following times on www.AllMemphisMusic.com

MONDAY  July 16th- 12:00 PM MEMPHIS Time CST

WEDNESDAY July 18th- 5:00 PM MEMPHIS Time CST

THURSDAY  July 19th- 8:00 PM MEMPHIS  Time CST

The interview was conducted by Barry L. Shankman and K. Paul Compton,Jeffery Haas'TD' and you'll love hearing stories from Willie and his fascinating life that helped shape the Memphis Sound. The Voice of Memphis Music & All Memphis Music are preserving the artists, producers, the musicians and all those who helped create 'The Memphis Sound'

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All Memphis Music Interviews ~ The Voice of Memphis ~ Wayne Jackson ~ The Memphis Sound

 Our internet radio station, www.AllMemphisMusic.com has lost a true friend in Duck Dunn. We recently helped start a new program that is trying to preserve, via interviews, The Memphis Sound. We started with Jud Phillips, then the legendary Bobby Manuel, and this week the also legendary Wayne Jackson of The Memphis Horns. As you know we just lost Wayne's partner Andrew Love. Tune in when you can and catch these interviews as they give a rare glimpse behind those who helped create The Memphis Sound. Please check this blog for interview times. www.voiceofmemphismusic.blogspot.com/
Our thanks to Paul Compton & Barry Shankman for their hard work and dedication. This week's interview with Wayne airs three times, the first is Monday, May 14th 12 noon CST-Memphis Time. Life is SO precious.

Wayne Jackson founding member of the "MEMPHIS HORNS"

Wayne recorded a hit song his first day in the studio. He's played on 52 Number One records and 83 Gold and Platinum records. He's toured the world and shared the stage with many of the most influential artists in modern music. 

If there's such a thing as destiny, then it's safe to say Wayne Jackson has a purpose on this earth. From the time he was

 six telling his grandmother he would one day be on the radio to missing rides on Otis Redding's airplane crash and Stevie Ray's helicopter crash, life's been dealing him a deck of cards that just won't stop. 

Born in Memphis and raised across the river in the sleepy, cotton town of West Memphis, Arkansas, Wayne's love of music began with a guitar. Then one night his mother came home with a trumpet for her eleven-year-old son. "I opened up the case, and it smelled like oil and brass. I loved that, so I put it together, blew, and out came a pretty noise. My first taste of Sweet Medicine." 

The rest is music history. 

Wayne played in the junior high and senior high bands taking all honors at the local and state level. 

Soon he was sneaking out the back window to go play at the Jungle Inn on Highway Seventy. And then it happened. In the 12th grade, he found himself playing with a group called The Mar-Keys. They had a number one instrumental smash called, "Last Night." It was 1961. 

What followed was a magical ride making music history with Otis, Sam & Dave, Carla Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Isaac Hayes, Eddie Floyd, Albert King and the rest of the Stax Recordsroster. "Back then, we had to do those songs from front to back with no mistakes and with good feelings. That's what made musicians out of us. That's what trained us. Now musicians all around the world judge their performances against those records with us on them, and that's why we're heroes." 

In 1969, Wayne and sax man, Andrew Love, incorporated asThe Memphis Horns and began offering their signature 

sound to artists around the world. Wayne found himself in the studio with a host of stars such as Elvis, Neil Diamond, B.J. Thomas, James Taylor, Al Green, Aretha Franklin and out on the road touring with Stephen Stills, Rod Stewart and The Doobie Brothers. 

After moving to Nashville in the late Seventies, Wayne decided to trade in life on rock and roll jetliners for life on a billybus. He spent three years traveling the roads with country music legend,Marty Robbins, during which time he became the only horn player ever to perform on the Grand Ole Opry. 

Then in the mid-Eighties Peter Gabriel called, and Wayne's work on "Sledgehammer" catapulted him back on top of rock and roll. From that day through this day, Wayne has been in the studio with Neil Young, U2, Billy Joel, Steve Winwood, Bonnie Raitt, Sting, Jack White, Lenny Kravitz, Collective Soul,just to name a few, and on the road with Stephen Stills, The Doobie Brothers, Joe Cocker, Jimmy Buffett, Robert Cray, Luther Allison. 

To sum it all up, Wayne says, "My life, so far, has been filled withSweet Medicine and is a bridge spanning five generations of American music." 

Wayne’s two  books about his life and adventures entitled, In My Wildest Dreams - Take 1 and In My Wildest Dreams - Take 2are now available in paperback on Amazon. He also writes songs for Sweet Medicine Music, the publishing company he formed with his wife, Amy.

  His song, Christmas Can't Be Very Far Away, was featured on Amy Grant's 1999 album, A Christmas To Remember. 

Wayne, Amy and pup, Gracie, moved back home to Memphis in 2010 after fourteen years in Nashville and are happy to be rolling on the River once again. 

Wayne and his partner, Andrew, just received the highest honor in the music industry this February...a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

This week's interview will air at the following times on www.AllMemphisMusic.com

MONDAY  May 14th- 12:00 PM MEMPHIS Time CST

WEDNESDAY May 16th- 5:00 PM MEMPHIS Time CST

THURSDAY  May 17th- 8:00 PM MEMPHIS  Time CST

The interview was conducted by Barry L. Shankman and K. Paul Compton and you'll love hearing stories from Wayne and his fascinating life that helped shape the Memphis Sound. The Voice of Memphis Music & All Memphis Music are preserving the artists, producers, the musicians and all those who helped create 'The Memphis Sound'

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Voice of Memphis Music ~ Interview with Bobby Manuel ~ All Memphis Music

This week 'The Voice of Memphis' interviews Bobby Manuel, a legend in the Memphis Music scene.


Bobby Manuel joined Stax Records in the late 1960s and stayed through the label’s bitter end in 1975, after which he and Stax founder Jim Stewart opened Daily Planet studio and began doing independent productions together. At Stax, Manuel was a jack-of-all-trades, working as an engineer, mixer, songwriter, producer, and tour bandleader. But first and foremost, Bobby was and is a guitarist. 


He has recorded with Elvis Presley, Isaac Hayes, Al Green, Albert King, Little Milton, Billy Eckstine, Rufus Thomas, The MGs, Luther Ingram, The Bar-Kays, Leon Russell, John Mayall, Anne Peebles, Mavis Staples, and Eddie Floyd. 


After the demise of Stax Records, Manuel and Stax founder Jim Stewart operated a studio and production company. Shirley Brown was among their most notable signings. He later ran his own label, HighStacks (named to recall the glory of former Memphis R&B labels, Hi Records and Stax).

In 2004, Manuel organized and led a group of Memphis All-Stars with guest appearances by Marvell Thomas and Steve Cropper to celebrate the opening of the Stax Museum of American Soul Music, backing legends such as Isaac Hayes, Mavis Staples, Eddie Floyd,William Bell, Solomon Burke, and Al Green who performed in honor of the label.

This week's interview will air at the following times on www.AllMemphisMusic.com

MONDAY  May 7th- 12:00 PM MEMPHIS Time CST

WEDNESDAY May 9th- 5:00 PM MEMPHIS Time CST

THURSDAY  May 10th- 8:00 PM MEMPHIS  Time CST

The interview was conducted by Barry L. Shankman and J. Paul Compton and you'll love hearing stories from Bobby and his fascinating life that helped shape the Memphis Sound. The Voice of Memphis & All Memphis Music are preserving the artists, producers, the musicians and all those who helped create 'The Memphis Sound'

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