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Willie Mitchell

US soul/R&B & funk producer, trumpeter & singer

United States • 1928-03-01 – 2010-01-05

Willie Mitchell is credited on 3,134 releases across 846 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1958–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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3,134

Pressings credited

846

Albums

8

Decades active

828

In collections

Biography

William Lawrence Mitchell (March 1, 1928 – January 5, 2010) was an American trumpeter, bandleader, soul, R&B, rock and roll, pop and funk record producer and arranger who ran Royal Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. He was best known for his Hi Records label of the 1970s, which released albums by a large stable of popular Memphis soul artists, including Mitchell himself, Al Green, O. V. Wright, Syl Johnson, Ann Peebles, Lee Rogers and Quiet Elegance.

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3,134 releases · 846 albums · active 1958–2025

  • Performance · 3,144
  • Production · 1,678
  • Engineering · 513
  • Other credits · 24

Studios: Royal Recording Studios, Memphis · Muscle Shoals Sound Studios · A&R Studios · Criteria Recording Studios

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