Mel & Tim - I May Not Be What You Want (1972) edit Writen by Ernie Shelby & Phillip Mitchell.
Produced by Barry Beckett & Roger Hawkins and arranged by Barry Beckett, Johnny Allen & Roger Hawkins. Stax Records, Inc.
Baritone Saxophone : Ronnie Eads
Bass : David Hood, Donald "Duck" Dunn
Drums : Roger Hawkins
Engineer : Jerry Masters
Keyboards : Barry Beckett
Lead Guitar : Pete Carr
Organ : Clayton Ivey
Percussion : Roger Hawkins
Rhythm Guitar : Jimmy Johnson
Tenor Saxophone : Harvey Thompson
Trombone : Charles Rose
Trumpet: Ben Cauley & Harrison Calloway
Images taken from Watstax (1973)
On August 20, 1973, more than 100,000 attended the seven-hour show in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Entertainers' expenses, equipment and promotion and advertising were all paid for by the Stax Organization and the Schlitz Brewing Company. Ticket sales benefited the Sickle Cell Anemia Foundation, the Martin Luther King Hospital in Watts and future Watts Summer Festivals. At a dollar a ticket, the seven-hour music fest was the best deal in town. Any town.
What seemed like the entire Black population of Los Angeles County turned out in incredibly uninhibited clothes to spend an equally uninhibited afternoon with the largest number of Black entertainers ever assembled to contribute their talents to benefit their own people.
Cousins Mel Hardin and Tim McPherson, both from Holly Springs, Mississippi, first recorded for Gene Chandler's Bamboo Records in 1969. In 1971, they were signed by Barry Beckett at Muscle Shoals sound studio and recorded "Starting All Over Again", which master was bought by Stax Records, starting a string of Stax hits and sort of filling the gap left by Sam & Dave after the split with Atlantic in 1968. Unfortunately Tim has passed away.
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