From: t-bird (djtbird1_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 2004-02-26 13:59:18
just saw this online:
MEMPHIS, Tennessee (AP) -- Estelle Axton, co-founder
of the famed Stax Records Co., which generated hits
from acts including Sam and Dave, Otis Redding Jr. and
The Staple Singers, has died. She was 85.
Axton died of natural causes Tuesday at the hospice at
Saint Francis Hospital, said her son-in-law, Fred
Fredrick.
The musicians on the soul record label called Axton
"Lady A," and others who knew her described her as a
calming, nurturing presence in the Memphis
neighborhood.
"Were it not for her, there's no way Stax could have
become what it became," said David Porter. Porter and
Isaac Hayes co-wrote numerous Stax hits, including Sam
and Dave's "Soul Man" and "Hold On, I'm Coming."
Hayes said Axton was responsible for the racial
harmony at Stax.
"You didn't feel any backoff from her, no
differentiation that you were black and she was
white," Hayes said. "Being in a town where that
attitude was plentiful, she just made you feel secure.
... She was like a mother to us all."
Between 1960 and 1975, Stax's roster also included
Booker T. and the MGs, Rufus Thomas, Albert King,
Johnnie Taylor, The Mar-Keys and the Bar-Kays
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