The butcher, baker, and candlestick maker have been around a lot longer than supermarkets and Wal-Mart.
I'm not a baker, and I don't know anything about baking, and I don't claim to.
Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.
I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester.
Atlantic's Jerry Wexler believes first-rate records are made by first-rate voices. He certainly has worked with enough of them: Clyde McPhatter, Joe Turner, La Vern Baker, Ray Charles, Otis Redding, Solomon Burke, Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin.
