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Carl Davis obituary

Chicago record producer with a gift for talent spotting who worked with Jackie Wilson, the Chi-Lites and Curtis MayfieldWhen the singer Jackie Wilson approached the microphone to overdub the lead vocal on an uptempo song called (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher in a New York recording studio one day in 1967, he adopted a gentle, crooning style, as if the song were a ballad. Carl Davis, the producer of the record, who has died of pulmonary fibrosis aged 77, quickly put him straight.A...

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12:09 on August 19 2012

Carl Davis obituary

Guardian Music — Chicago record producer with a gift for talent spotting who worked with Jackie Wilson, the Chi-Lites and Curtis MayfieldWhen the singer Jackie Wilson approached the micro... more info
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