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Re: Music Producers.
Yep, ole Phil is certainly the business, but I wouldn't like to meet him on a dark night!
Others that spring to mind include Johnny Vincent, Dave Bartholemew, Frank Guida, Art Rupe, Willie Dixon, and, as you say, Lolly, Norman Whitfield.
However, purely on a personal basis, I'd have to go for Sam Phillips. When he opened his Memphis Recording Service and Sun records label in the early 50's, he always said that if he found "a white man who could sing like a negro, he'd make a million dollars". One day a young truck driver called Elvis Presley walked through the door and Sam had found his man. What he created with Elvis was a totally unique sound - a synthesis of rhythm & blues, gospel and country that would totally transform popular music forever. And he shaped that sound in a humble little studio on Union Avenue, Memphis, utilising his own revolutionary techniques like delayed echo to give this music an infectiously exciting feel. Of course, he soon lost Elvis to a major record company, but he went on to create lots more fantastic records by the likes of Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison and literally hundreds of brilliant one-off rockablly, rock 'n' roll and blues records.
In my eyes, a true genius!
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