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White soul singer Jeannie Greene died on August 19 2018 at the age of 75.<\/span><\/b>
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\"Memphis<\/a>

Memphis Belles – The Women Of Sun Records (6-CD)<\/p><\/div>
\nHer 1968 Atco singleSure as Sin<\/i>(Atco 6619) qualified her among collectors as a spectacular white soul singer. She was also a fixture on the Muscle Shoals scene, working overtime as a demo artist and session singer at the Fame Studios (that\u2019s her, for example, behind Percy Sledge onWhen a Man Loves a Woman.<\/i>)
\nBackup singers typically labor in anonymity, and Jeanie was no exception. Her credits include singing behind Elvis (Suspicious Minds),<\/i>Willie Nelson, Cher, Neil Diamond, Jerry Lee Lewis, George Harrison\u2019s Concert for Bangladesh, and countless others. She recorded under her own name, although that name changed over time, starting with Mary Johnson, who made some demos at Sun as a 13-year old girl whose parents drove her from Corinth MS to the Memphis Recording Service. She later recorded singles for RCA as Jeanie Johnson and Jeanie Fortune. She recorded a gospel\/rock hybrid LP (Mary Called Jeanie<\/i>Green) for Elektra, and for Atco as Jeanie Greene (she had married singer\/producer Marlin Greene by then).
\nI knew Jeanie as a warm and caring friend with a sly sense of humor. She was full of wonderful stories if you could just hit the right buttons. Her later years were filled with health problems, made worse by poverty. She spent years in government housing in Corinth, the town of her birth. Her beautiful, soulful voice was all but gone by the time I met her in 2002, though her piano chops remained intact. I included her in an August 2002 NPR Scott Simon interview based on \u201cMemphis Belles: The Women of Sun Records,\u201d a box set I produced for Bear Family Records. Jeanie was more gracious than I when NPR cut her segment out of the broadcast because they found her speaking voice \u201ctoo rough.\u201d A lifetime of smoking, exacerbated by recent throat surgery, made it so.
\nJeanie\u2019s final session work was for Sun Records legend Carl Perkins in 1993. A collection of her own recordings (including countless demos for Fame Studios) and backup vocals on soul and country and R&R sessions would make a staggering body of work by a singer\/musician whose talent contributed to the music business for nearly 40 years, while remaining nearly invisible.
\n— Hank Davis
\nDie wei\u00dfe Soul-S\u00e4ngerin Jeannie Greene ist tot. Sie starb am 19. August im Alter von 75 Jahren.<\/b>
\nIhre 1968er Atco-Single Sure as Sin (Atco 6619) qualifizierte sie unter Sammlern als spektakul\u00e4re wei\u00dfe Soul-S\u00e4ngerin. Sie war auch eine feste Gr\u00f6\u00dfe in der Muscle Shoals-Szene und arbeitete als Demo-K\u00fcnstlerin und Session-S\u00e4ngerin in den Fame Studios (das ist sie zum Beispiel hinter Percy Sledge on When a Man Loves a Woman). 
\nBackup-S\u00e4nger arbeiten in der Regel in Anonymit\u00e4t, und Jeanie war da keine Ausnahme. Sie singt unter anderem hinter Elvis (Suspicious Minds), Willie Nelson, Cher, Neil Diamond, Jerry Lee Lewis, George Harrison’s Concert for Bangladesh und vielen anderen. Sie nahm unter ihrem eigenen Namen auf, obwohl sich dieser Name im Laufe der Zeit \u00e4nderte, angefangen mit Mary Johnson, die als 13-j\u00e4hriges M\u00e4dchen, dessen Eltern sie von Corinth MS zum Memphis Recording Service fuhren, einige Demos bei Sun machte. Sp\u00e4ter nahm sie Singles f\u00fcr RCA als Jeanie Johnson und Jeanie Fortune auf. Sie nahm eine Gospel\/Rock-Hybrid-LP (Mary Called Jeanie Green) f\u00fcr Elektra und f\u00fcr Atco als Jeanie Greene auf (sie hatte bis dahin S\u00e4ngerin\/Produzentin Marlin Greene geheiratet).
\nIch kannte Jeanie als eine warme und f\u00fcrsorgliche Freundin mit einem schlauen Sinn f\u00fcr Humor. Sie war voller wunderbarer Geschichten, wenn man nur die richtigen Kn\u00f6pfe dr\u00fccken k\u00f6nnte. Ihre sp\u00e4teren Jahre waren voller gesundheitlicher Probleme, die durch die Armut noch verschlimmert wurden. Sie verbrachte Jahre in Regierungswohnungen in Korinth, der Stadt ihrer Geburt. Ihre sch\u00f6ne, gef\u00fchlvolle Stimme war so gut wie verschwunden, als ich sie 2002 kennenlernte, obwohl ihre Klavierst\u00fccke intakt blieben. Ich habe sie in ein Interview mit NPR Scott Simon vom August 2002 aufgenommen, das auf „Memphis Belles“ basiert: The Women of Sun Records“, eine Box, die ich f\u00fcr Bear Family Records produziert habe. Jeanie war gn\u00e4diger als ich, als NPR ihren Beitrag aus der Sendung schnitt, weil sie ihre Sprechstimme „zu grob“ fand. Eine Lebenszeit des Rauchens, verschlimmert durch die k\u00fcrzliche Halschirurgie, machte es so. 
\nJeanies letzte Sessionarbeit war 1993 f\u00fcr Sun Records-Legende Carl Perkins. Eine Sammlung ihrer eigenen Aufnahmen (einschlie\u00dflich unz\u00e4hliger Demos f\u00fcr die Fame Studios) und Backgroundstimmen auf Soul-, Country- und R&R-Sessions w\u00fcrde ein atemberaubendes Werk einer S\u00e4ngerin\/Musikerin ergeben, deren Talent fast 40 Jahre lang zum Musikgesch\u00e4ft beitrug, w\u00e4hrend sie fast unsichtbar blieb.
\nHank Davis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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