Sad to hear news that Willie Mitchell died today.

Very sad news indeed

We have one of those "nearly" moments. 2008 we were in Memphis and got offered the chance of a full afternoon with Willie in the studio as a guest of Dan Greer 2 days later. Trouble was we were leaving for Muscle Shoals that day and driving to the far side of the State to meet up with relatives.

We were knackered and it would have meant a 6 hour drive back to Memphis early hours on the day of the session-so we turned it down-hoping to hook up in 2009. We rang Dan last year told him our dates in town -but Willie wasn't that well-so we didn't get to meet him

We also found out the afternoon session we missed was also attended by a singer called AL GREEN sometimes you have to grab every oppertunity with both hands.

R I P Willie Mitchell-thank you for your music.

Rob & Karen

Rest In Peace Willie a true Champion .

Another musical genius has left...and lleaves us with a big gap. I once had the pleasure of meeting him in 1989.

RIP Willie Mitchell. I am sure you will be sitting up there with the best of them.

Marc

Sad to hear news that Willie Mitchell died today.

Very sad news indeed one of the greats R.I.P Willie Mitchell

Oh that's a sore one. A true genius indeed and one of the very few people that can claim to be responsible for changing the face of music, being copied by many for many years after.

I think this thread proves for me its his productions that really were his legacy, and I would disagree with Ash, I reckon in the wide world outside of the Northern scene most people are more familiar with his productions as they were truly groundbreaking and genre defining.

However, whatever way you remember him, and its fairly clear all sectors of the soul world do, its living proof of the mans enormous legacy, another really sad day, but as someone else says, he leaves a lot of great work that we can celebrate his life by, and it really is truly worth celebrating for me.

C'mon guys, a nice fitting tribute would be to put some soundfiles on refosoul other than You Tube clips, then he is going to live forever on here too.

RIP Willie Mitchell, a leader and a true player!

R.I.P. Willie and thanks for giving us two of my all time favourites "The Champion" and "That Driving Beat" - proper old school northern stompers or what?

Rest well Sir......Your music lives on......

Quite possibly the finest Soul record ever.

Willie Mitchell Magic.

Sean

Outbloodystanding young man - gr8 sound

Sent u PM

Ash

Jocko I WAS trying to say what you DID say

but check majority NS replies and they nearly all DBeat

& The Ch.

As I tried to get across, Loved the guys work

Very sad news of his passing

I read somewhere that Elvis used to invite him and his band to play at any

birthday parties etc at Graceland , because Elvis thought he was the best to

get the party rockin.

QUIET ELEGANCE - DO YOU LOVE ME - HI -

One of the all time greats in soul music, how lucky we all were he existed.

Obituary by Richard Williams at this site https://caughtbytheriver.net/2010/01/caught-by-the-reaper-willie-mitchell/

Email from Red Kelly.

Funeral Services for Willie Mitchell

Wake - Monday, January 11th from 2-7pm

N.J. Ford and Sons Funeral Home

12 South Parkway West

Memphis, TN 38109

Private Mass of Christian Burial - Tuesday, January 12th

Well he clearly was a champion. but i have to say not know a great deal of his work but from what i know it's pretty good so and had no idea he did Wet Wet Wet album which i have. Worked with John Mayer too and got a grammy award also with lifetime achivement award

RIP willie mitchell

Well he clearly was a champion. but i have to say not know a great deal of his work but from what i know it's pretty good so and had no idea he did Wet Wet Wet album which i have. Worked with John Mayer too and got a grammy award also with lifetime achivement award

RIP willie mitchell

One interesting fact that I did not know about Willie Mitchell , was that he provided arrangements for songs recorded at Sam Phillips' Sun Records in the late 1950s .

Anyone know what these were ?

Malc Burton

Take it easy Willie - and thanks

A real shame he was a real gentleman......and for northern afficionados Lou Pride on Suemi was done at Hi Studios as well.

Great Quote from Rodney Lay Jnr

I once had the honor and pleasure of co-producing an album with Willie.

He was a great guy. Al Green stopped by the session at Royal Recording

in Memphis and I got to meet him, too. One of Willie's great lines was,

"man, that's so good it makes a cold shit run down my leg"!!! He had a million stories and was a tresure to work with. What a great man and true rock-n-roll pioneer. He will be missed.

Amen

nice one sean for the information on willies work etc it seems to me this decade could well be decade horribilus for losing the people who gave us so much musical enjoyment but we still dance to the mans music bcoz that is eternal.r.i.p.jd.

Talk Sport:Hawksbe & Jacobs show played Al Green,then mentioned the passing of Willie Mitchell,which i thought was a nice touch,i wonder if it was mentioned on BBc radio?.

RIP Willie......

Dave f....

hi on Sunday Night We Will Be Playing At least A hour Of Willies Music And Produtions please Tune in If You would like To go live on Air To a have a Five Minute Chat please Email me At www.hassoulman@yahoo.co.uk and We Will Call You live on Air between 8-00pm And 9-00pm uk time Otis Clay Is Coming On Live And Toni Green Who was In The studio with willie cutting Some Track s just before he Passed

please Check The web Site out loads of past interviews www.therighttrack.org.uk

Harry & DianaThe Right Track Soul ShowSalford City Radio 94.4 fmSunday nights 8.00 pm - 10.00 pmwww.salfordcityradio.orgemail: righttrack@salfordcityradio.orghttps://www.therighttrack.org.ukStudio Number: 0161 793 2944 / 2942

Great Quote from Rodney Lay Jnr

I once had the honor and pleasure of co-producing an album with Willie.

He was a great guy. Al Green stopped by the session at Royal Recording

in Memphis and I got to meet him, too. One of Willie's great lines was,

"man, that's so good it makes a cold shit run down my leg"!!! He had a million stories and was a tresure to work with. What a great man and true rock-n-roll pioneer. He will be missed.

Amen

hi on Sunday Night We Will Be Playing At least A hour Of Willies Music And Produtions please Tune in If You would like To go live on Air To a have a Five Minute Chat please Email me At www.hassoulman@yahoo.co.uk and We Will Call You live on Air between 8-00pm And 9-00pm uk time Otis Clay Is Coming On Live And Toni Green Who was In The studio with willie cutting Some Track s just before he Passed

please Check The web Site out loads of past interviews www.therighttrack.org.uk

Harry & DianaThe Right Track Soul ShowSalford City Radio 94.4 fmSunday nights 8.00 pm - 10.00 pmwww.salfordcityradio.orgemail: righttrack@salfordcityradio.orghttps://www

Sad, sad news. As a lover of the Memphis and Southern Soul sound Willie Mitchell was to me far, far more than his northern related tracks or what he's singing or playing on but the amount of classic SOUL tracks he was uncredited for but behind in so many ways.

To me Willie Mitchell was, still is and always will be Hi Records

Take it away Otis

Take it away Otis

Great call Dave,

Played this beauty out for years.

Well worth a revival mate!

Sean

I thought this would be a fitting tribute to the great man

Sorry I forgot this classic too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvNCnsuewRc

Behind this beauty and so, so many others. Killer soul record that gets me every time.

I love all this type of stuff' Ace of spades' '8 men 4 women' great choice mate

Edited January 12, 201015 yr by binsy

Dear Willie..

You were my champion..

x

I second that emotion............

The champion is the definition of a Northern Soul instrumental and over the last 35 years of my life has been one of those 'pick me up' tunes whenever Ive felt down. Nothing more spectacular than a full dance floor pounding away to this.

Of course WM was more than this one record, but still, this one record is unique.

RIP WM. Next chance I get I will try and dance the whole way through to it in your memory.

Ed

HERD SOME MORE SAD NEWS ON THE RADIO TODAY TEDDY PENDERGRASS DIED THIS MORNING AT THE AGE OF 59.

HERD SOME MORE SAD NEWS ON THE RADIO TODAY TEDDY PENDERGRASS DIED THIS MORNING AT THE AGE OF 59.

Fook me they're all keeling over, what a shit.

HERD SOME MORE SAD NEWS ON THE RADIO TODAY TEDDY PENDERGRASS DIED THIS MORNING AT THE AGE OF 59.

SORRY FOR POSTING THIS IF I READ THE FORUMS CORRECT I WOULD HAVE SEEN ITS ALREADY BEEN POSTED SORRY.