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Chips Moman

Lincoln Wayne "Chips" Moman (born 1936, La Grange, Georgia

Georgia (U.S. state)

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) is an American

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record producer

Record producer

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, guitarist

Guitarist

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and songwriter

Songwriter

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. The nickname "Chips" apparently derives from his love of gambling

Gambling

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. As a record producer, Moman is known for recording

Sound recording and reproduction

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley

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, Bobby Womack

Bobby Womack

Robert Dwayne "Bobby" Womack is an American singer-songwriter and musician. An active recording artist since the early 1960s where he started his career as the lead singer of his family musical group The Valentinos and as Sam Cooke's backing guitarist, Womack's career has spanned more than 40 years and has spanned a repertoire in the style...
, Carla Thomas

Carla Thomas

Carla Thomas is often referred to as the Queen of Memphis soul....
, Merrilee Rush

Merrilee Rush

Merrilee Rush is an United States best known as the singing of "Angel of the Morning", a Top 40 record chart song which earned her a Grammy Awards nomination for Female Vocalist Of The Year....
and guiding the career of The Box Tops

Box Tops

The Box Tops were a Memphis, Tennessee pop music group of the late 1960s. They are best known for the hits "The Letter ," "Neon Rainbow", "Soul Deep" and "Cry Like A Baby," and are considered a major blue-eyed soul group of the period....
in Memphis

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during the 1960s. As a songwriter, he is responsible for standards associated with Aretha Franklin

Aretha Franklin

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, James Carr

James Carr (musician)

James Carr , was an United States Rhythm and blues and Soul music musical artist.Born to a Baptist Church preacher's family in Coahoma, Mississippi, Carr began singing in church and was performing in Gospel music groups and making tables on an assembly line in Memphis, Tennessee, when he began recording in the mid-1960 in music for Goldwax...
, Waylon Jennings

Waylon Jennings

Waylon Arnold Jennings was an influential United States of America country music singer and musician. A self-taught guitar player, he rose to prominence as a bass guitar player for Buddy Holly following the break-up of The Crickets....
and B. J. Thomas

B. J. Thomas

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. He has been a session guitarist

Session musician

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for Franklin and other artists

Musician

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.

r moving to Memphis

Memphis, Tennessee

Tennessee

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as a teenager

Adolescence

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, Moman played in the road bands

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of Johnny Burnette

Johnny Burnette

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and Gene Vincent

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Lincoln Wayne "Chips" Moman (born 1936, La Grange, Georgia

Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a U.S. state in the United States and was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that revolted against United Kingdom rule in the American Revolution....
) is an American

United States

Record producer

Guitarist

A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may perform solo pieces or play with ensembles and bands of a wide variety of genres....
and songwriter

Songwriter

Gambling

Sound recording and reproduction

Sound recording and reproduction is the electrical or mechanics inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects....
Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley

Bobby Womack

Carla Thomas

Carla Thomas is often referred to as the Queen of Memphis soul....
, Merrilee Rush

Merrilee Rush

Box Tops

Memphis, Tennessee

Aretha Franklin

James Carr (musician)

Waylon Jennings

B. J. Thomas

B. J. Thomas is an American popular singer known for his chart-topping hits in the 1960s and 1970s....
. He has been a session guitarist

Session musician

Musician

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.

Career

After moving to Memphis

Memphis, Tennessee

Tennessee

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as a teenager

Adolescence

Band (music)

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of Johnny Burnette

Johnny Burnette

Gene Vincent

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. Settling in Los Angeles

Los Angeles, California

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, California

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, he played guitar

Guitar

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on sessions recorded at the Gold Star Studios

Gold Star Studios

Gold Star Recording Studios was a major independent recording studio located in Los Angeles, California. For more than thirty years, from 1950 to 1984, Gold Star was one of the most influential and successful commercial recording studios in the world....
. Back in Memphis, he began an association with Satellite Records (later Stax Records

Stax Records

Stax Records is an USA record label founded in 1957, originally based in Memphis, Tennessee. The label was a major factor in the creation of the Southern soul and Memphis soul music styles, also releasing Gospel music, funk, jazz, and blues recordings....
), producing their first hit single

Hit single

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, Carla Thomas

Carla Thomas

Carla Thomas is often referred to as the Queen of Memphis soul....
's 1960 "Gee Whiz." He also produced the first single for the Stax subsidiary

Subsidiary

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label

Record label

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Volt, "Burnt Biscuits" b/w "Raw Dough," by the Triumphs, whose members included future Al Green and drummer

Drummer

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Howard Grimes. Leaving Stax in 1964 after a monetary dispute with label founder Jim Stewart

Jim Stewart

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, he began operating his own Memphis recording studio

Recording studio

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, American Sound Studios.

There he, along with guitarist

Guitarist

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s Reggie Young and Bobby Womack

Bobby Womack

Bassist

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Tommy Cogbill

Tommy Cogbill

Thomas Clark Cogbill, born 8 April 1932 in Johnson Grove, Tennessee, died 7 December 1982 in Nashville, Tennessee, was a bassist and record producer....
, pianist

Piano

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and organist

Organist

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Bobby Emmons, and drummer

Drummer

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Gene Chrisman, recorded the Box Tops, Womack, Merrilee Rush

Merrilee Rush

Mark Lindsay

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(Paul Revere and the Raiders), Sandy Posey

Sandy Posey

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(notably "Single Girl

Single Girl

Single Girl was the title of a song by Martha Sharpe that was an international hit for American singer Sandy Posey from late 1966 to early 1967....
"), Joe Tex

Joe Tex

Joe Tex , was an United States soul music and disco singer-songwriter most popular during the 1960s and 1970s. His style of speaking over music, which he called 'rap music', made him a predecessor of the modern style of music....
, Wilson Pickett

Wilson Pickett

Wilson Pickett was an United States rhythm and blues/Rock and Roll and soul music singer and songwriter known for his raw, raspy, passionate vocal delivery....
and Herbie Mann

Herbie Mann

Herbert Jay Solomon , better known as Herbie Mann, was an United States jazz flautist and important early practitioner of world music. Early in his career, he also played saxophones and clarinets , but Mann was among the first jazz musicians to specialize on the flute and was perhaps jazz music's preeminent flautist during the 1960 in m...
. Although Dusty Springfield

Dusty Springfield

Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien, Officer of the Order of the British Empire , known as Dusty Springfield, was a leading pop music singer and entertainer....
's 1969 Dusty in Memphis
Dusty in Memphis

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album

Album

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was recorded at American Sound Studios, Moman did not produce the album (that credit went jointly to Tom Dowd

Tom Dowd

Tom Dowd was an United States recording engineer and record producer for Atlantic Records. He was credited with innovating the multi-track recording method....
, Jerry Wexler

Jerry Wexler

Gerald "Jerry" Wexler was a Music journalism turned music producer, and was regarded as one of the major record industry players behind music from the 1950s through the 1980s....
and Arif Mardin

Arif Mardin

Arif Mardin was a Turkey-United States music producer, who worked with hundreds of artists across many different styles of music, including jazz, rock music, soul music, disco, and country music....
). However, Moman did produce Presley's 1969 LP

Gramophone record

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, From Elvis in Memphis
From Elvis in Memphis

From Elvis in Memphis is the thirty-fourth LP album, not counting budget compilations on the RCA Camden subsidiary, by Elvis Presley, released on RCA Records, LSP 4155, in June 1969....
.

During this period Moman co-wrote, with fellow Memphis producer and songwriter Dan Penn

Dan Penn

Dan Penn is an United States singer, songwriter, record producer and sometime guitar player who co-wrote many soul music hits of the 1960s including "Dark End of the Street" & "Do Right Woman" and "Out of Left Field" & "Cry Like A Baby" ....
, "Do Right Woman Do Right Man", recorded by Aretha Franklin; and "The Dark End of the Street

The Dark End of the Street

"The Dark End of the Street" is a 1967 in music Soul music song written by Muscle Shoals songwriters Dan Penn and Chips Moman and first performed by James Carr ....
", which soul

Soul music

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singer James Carr

James Carr (musician)

Marriage

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fellow songwriter Toni Wine

Toni Wine

Toni Wine is an United States pop music songwriter, who wrote songs for such musician as The Mindbenders , Tony Orlando and Dawn , Elvis Presley, and Checkmates Ltd....
in the early 1970s. He left Memphis in 1973 and briefly operated a studio in Atlanta

Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta is the Capital and most populous city in Georgia , as well as the 33rd largest city in the United States of America with a population of 519,145....
. He then moved to Nashville

Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the Capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee. It is the second most populous city in the state after Memphis, Tennessee....
, where he produced and co-wrote a hit for B. J. Thomas, "(Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song

(Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song

" Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song" is an American country music and popular music song made famous by B.J. Thomas.The song became Thomas' second No....
" (1975). This effort earned Moman a Grammy Award

Grammy Awards of 1976

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. He also co-wrote "Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)

Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)

"Luckenbach, Texas " is a popular song sung by Waylon Jennings released in April 1977, at the height of outlaw country on the hit album Ol' Waylon....
" for Waylon Jennings, and produced albums by Willie Nelson

Willie Nelson

Willie Hugh Nelson is an United States country music singer-songwriter author, poet and actor. He reached his greatest fame during the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, but remains Cultural icon, especially in American popular culture....
, Gary Stewart

Gary Stewart (singer)

Gary Stewart was a country musician and songwriter known for his distinctive vibrato voice and his southern rock, outlaw country sound. During the peak of his popularity in the mid-1970s Time magazine described him as the "king of Honky-tonk."...
, Tammy Wynette

Tammy Wynette

Virginia Wynette Pugh, known professionally as Tammy Wynette , was an United States and one of country music's best-known artists and biggest-selling female vocalists....
, and Ronnie Milsap

Ronnie Milsap

Ronnie Lee Milsap is an American country music singer and musician. He was one of country?s most popular and influential artists in the List of years in country music....
. After a brief return to Memphis in the mid 1980s, during which time his attempt to open a new studio floundered, he settled in West Point, Georgia

West Point, Georgia

West Point is a city in Harris County, Georgia and Troup County, Georgia Counties in the U.S. state of Georgia . As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 3,382....
, where he operated yet another recording studio.

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