Mick Hartley

The legendary Hi Records Memphis soul producer has died aged 81. Here's the 1971 breakthrough, when smooth vocals met hard Southern Soul…Al Green's Tired of Being Alone:

Not forgetting Otis Clay, Trying  to Live My Life Without You, Syl Johnson, Take Me to the River, and, best of all perhaps, Ann Peebles' classic I Can't Stand the Rain (live here, but nothing really matches the studio version).