Luther Dixon Story on the Chancellor of Soul's Soul Facts Show

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Chancellor of Soul, Mike Boone presents on his WCOS internet radio show, 'Soul Facts' one of the greatest songwriter/ producer and singer to grace the music industry.
Mr. Luther Dixon.

Born on August 7, 1931 in Jacksonvillie, Florida, Dixon's
family moved to Brooklyn, NY doing his childhood. His
musical roots began in church when he was a little boy.
His professional career started in 1954 with a doo-wop
group called, the Four Buddies, lead by Larry Harrison.
The group recorded for Herman Lubinsky's Savoy label
and also as the Barons on the Decca imprint.

Both groups disbanded by 1955, Dixon and Harrison began collaborating on songs. Their first success was
'Why Baby Why' a top 5 hit for Pat Boone in 1957 on Dot Records. Luther also collaborated with songwriter/ singer
Billy Dawn Smith and charted with 'Just Born (To Be Your Baby) for Perry Como in 1957 and with Allyson Khent on
the masterpiece teen birthday anthem, recorded by The
Crests in 1958, '16 Candles'.

One day in building 1674 Broadway in New York City,
Dixon was on an elevator ride with Scepter/ Wand label
founder, Florence Greenberg and promotion man and once a member of the 5 Heartbeats, Wally Roker. Roker
said hello to Dixon and then introduced him to Greenberg.
Greenberg ask Luther if he would be interested in listening
to her group, the Shirelles and possibly worked with them
and write a song for them. Dixon affirmed yes and a new
association began.

Dixon and lead singer of the Shirelles, Shirley Owens
co-wrote 'Tonight's The Night' for the group.

Soon, Dixon began a business allience with Greenberg
and wrote and produced many classic hits for the label
for 3 years. Luther departed with Scepter / Wand in 1962
after Capitol Records offered him a deal including his own
record label, Ludix Records named after his production
company at Scepter. The label failed to get off the ground.

A fwe years later, Dixon married the vivacious singer, Inez Foxx. Foxx was apart of a singing duet with her late brother
Charlie in the early 60's. Foxx and Dixon composed a soul
classic in 1966 for the new line-up of the Platters, that
included lead singer Sonny Turner and Nate Nelson of the
legendary Flamingos, 'I Love You 1000 Times' on
Musicor Records. A year later, Dixon collaborated with
fellow Detroit songwriters Richard 'Popocorn' Wylie and
Tony Hester (who later wrote hits for the Dramatics during the 70's era) and composed another soul classic
'With This Ring' release during spring- summer of 1967.

The music by the late 60's saw drastic changes being made as lyric contents began to more or less amplify,
and Dixon's style of writing became obscure.

But thoughout the years, his work began to appear in
countless LP and CD complilations during the resurgence
of music from the 60's during the decade of the 70's and
80's, also in television commercials and a string of hit
movies.

Luther Dixon died at the age of 78 in his hometown of
Jacksonville, Florida on October 22, 2009. He was nominated in the 2009 Songwriters Hall Of Fame, a week
before he passed away.

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