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Article: Shelby Singleton, 77; launched music careers, revived Sun label
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 10, 2009
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LOS ANGELES - Shelby Singleton, a maverick country music mogul
and talent scout who launched the careers of Roger Miller and Ray
Stevens before resuscitating the fabled Sun Records label, died
Wednesday in Nashville, following a battle with brain cancer. He
was 77.
Mr. Singleton, whose work for Sun gave new life to recordings by
the label's 1950s discoveries, including Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee
Lewis, had been admitted to St. Thomas Hospital last week after
suffering a seizure, longtime friend and associate Jerry Kennedy
said Thursday.
Mr. Singleton experienced overnight success in 1968 when he put
singer Jeanne Carolyn Stephenson into a recording studio with a Tom
T. Hall song about ...