
Episode 134: “In the Midnight Hour” by Wilson Pickett
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
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Atlantic Records - The New Deal With Stacks
In order to formalize te loan out of salmon dave, atlantic also wanted to formalize their arrangement with stacks. Wexlam and stuart had a mutual respect, and they simply agreed that stacks would give atlantic the option to distribute their stuff. But soon porter would start collaborating with another song writer, isaac hayes, and would write a string of hits for the jeo. For a nominal sum of one dollar, jim stuart gave atlanticThe distribution rights to all past stacks records and to all future records they released for the next few years.
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