Rick Hall, "the producer...

...who forged the Southern soul style known as the Muscle Shoals sound," died at age 85.

I had never heard of Mr. Hall, but some of the hits mentioned in his New York Times obit sound like they could make up a (bad) musical backdrop for a movie about my early life: "Patches" by Clarence Carter, "One Bad Apple" by the Osmonds, "Baby, Don’t Get Hooked on Me" by Mac Davis, and "(You’re) Having My Baby" by Paul Anka and Odia Coates.