McKinley Mitchell (December 25, 1934 – January 18, 1986)
was an American Chicago-based
blues and
rhythm and blues
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singer, who started out performing
gospel music.
His first recorded single was "Rock Everybody Rock" for Boxer Records in 1959.
His 1962 record, "The Town I Live In", became a national R&B hit on the Chicago
One-derful label. The record peaked at number 8 on the US ''
Billboard''
R&B chart.
[. He left One-derful around 1965, and recorded for a variety of labels in Chicago, notably Chess Records (with Willie Dixon).] In his later career Mitchell returned to
Mississippi
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, and recorded ''I Won't Be Back for More'' in 1984.
Reviewing Mitchell's self-titled 1978 album,
Robert Christgau wrote in ''
Christgau's Record Guide'' (1981):
He was born in
Jackson
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, Mississippi,
and died in
Chicago Heights
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Geograp ...
,
Illinois
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, from a heart attack in January 1986, at the age of 51.
Albums discography
*''McKinley Mitchell'' (1978)
*''I Won't Be Back for More'' (1984)
*''The Last of McKinley Mitchell (1988)
References
External links
McKinley Mitchell , Artists , Marmoset
1934 births
1986 deaths
American blues singers
American rhythm and blues singers
Blues musicians from Mississippi
Musicians from Jackson, Mississippi
One-derful Records artists
20th-century African-American male singers
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