Tim Whitsett (b. 1943, Jackson, Mississippi) is a music publisher, musician, songwriter, producer, author, and consultant. His lifelong association with the music business began professionally as a sixteen-year-old recording artist signed to Imperial Records. With his band, The Imperials (later renamed the The Imperial Show Band), he recorded over twenty singles in a variety of genres (R&B, Pop, Instrumental) for a number of labels, including Epic, Ace, Atlas, Capitol, … Wikipedia
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Tim Whitsett, head in the 70s of East Memphis Music and Birdees Music, the two Stax music publishing companies, was a close witness of the very last days of Stax (see his numerous interviews in Rob Bowman's book). staxrecords.free.fr/news1.htm