Quin Ivy

Ivy was born in Banner, Mississippi, the son of a sharecropper.[http://www.allmusic.com/artist/quin-ivy-mn0000380733 Biography by Ed Hogan at Allmusic]. Retrieved 12 April 2013{{cite book|last=Ward|first=Brian|title=Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm And Blues, Black Consciousness And Race Relations|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=01eDH_6_xkMC&pg=PA221|access-date=12 April 2013|date=20 May 2003|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-203-21445-9|page=221}} He started his career as a DJ in Oxford, followed by spells at WMPS in Memphis, WKDA in Nashville and WLAY in Muscle Shoals, before settling in Sheffield, Alabama. There, he established a record store and began writing songs with producer Rick Hall of FAME Recording Studios. Their output includes the singles "I'm Qualified" and "Lollipops, Lace and Lipstick" both recorded by Jimmy Hughes.{{cite book|last=Fuqua|first=C. S.|title=Music Fell on Alabama: The Muscle Shoals Sound That Shook the World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bZhnvqZESt0C&pg=PA39|access-date=12 April 2013|date=30 July 2008|publisher=NewSouth Books|isbn=978-1-60306-039-4|page=39}}{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uAsKAQAAMAAJ|access-date=12 April 2013|date=20 November 2006|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA|isbn=978-0-19-531373-4|page=515}}

In 1965, Ivy opened his Quinvy recording studio, where he produced the Percy Sledge single "When a Man Loves a Woman" which went to number one on the Billboard charts.{{cite book|last=Campbell|first=Michael|title=Rock and Roll: An Introduction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RK-JmVbv4OIC&pg=PA190|access-date=12 April 2013|year=2008|publisher=Cengage Learning|isbn=978-0-534-64295-2|page=190}} He set up the Quinvy (independently distributed) and South Camp labels (distributed by Atlantic Records) before leaving the music business in the 1970s to gain an MBA degree from The University of Mississippi. He then taught accounting at the University of North Alabama until his retirement.{{cite book|last=Fuqua|first=C. S.|title=Music Fell on Alabama: The Muscle Shoals Sound That Shook the World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bZhnvqZESt0C&pg=PA44|access-date=12 April 2013|date=30 July 2008|publisher=NewSouth Books|isbn=978-1-60306-039-4|page=44}}

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