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Willie Dixon |
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Willie Dixon was a Grammy award-winning American songwriter
of My Babe, I Can't Quit You Baby, Hoochie Coochie Man,
The Seventh Son, Little Red Rooster, Spoonful,
I'm Ready, I Just Want to Make Love to You,
Wang Dang Doodle and Back Door Man.
Dixon was a blues singer with the Union Jubilee Singers
(1930-35), Five Breezes, Big Three Trio (1946-51), and
formed the Chicago Blues All-Stars in 1969. He was a
record producer with Chess Records, Cobra Records, Ghana
Music, and Yambo records. He was also a musician/bassist
of Maybellene, Sweet Little Sixteen, and
Johnny B. Goode fame.
In 1989, Willie Dixon published his autobiography,
I Am the Blues: The Willie Dixon Story.
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Biographical fast facts |
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Full or original name at birth: William James Dixon
Date and place of birth: July 1, 1915,
Vicksburg, Mississippi, U.S.A.
Date, time, place and cause of death: January 29, 1992*,
at 1:30 a.m., St. Joseph Medical Center,
Burbank, California, U.S.A. (Heart failure/Diabetes)
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Error corrections or clarifications |
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* Willie Dixon did not die the 19th,
as a couple of sources erroneously report. The
hospital at which he died was St. Joseph Medical
Center, not "St. Joseph's Medical Center"
as is frequently misstated.
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