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    Mar-Keys' past. The legacy of the Mar-Keys is that they were key players in the development of Southern soul and Memphis soul. In 2012, the Mar-Keys regrouped...
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  • "Last Night" is an instrumental recorded by The Mar-Keys. Released in 1961, the track appeared on Last Night!, the first LP released by the Stax label...
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  • Back to Back is a live album by the Mar-Keys and Booker T & the M.G.'s, released on Stax Records in 1967. It features both groups playing live on the Stax/Volt...
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    Steinberg (bass), and Al Jackson Jr. (drums). In the 1960s, as members of the Mar-Keys, the rotating slate of musicians that served as the house band of Stax...
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    Mar-a-Lago (/ˌmɑːr ə ˈlɑːɡoʊ/ MAR ə LAH-goh, Spanish: [ˈmaɾ a ˈlaɣo]; Spanish for 'Sea-to-Lake') is a resort and National Historic Landmark in Palm Beach...
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    became the Mar-Keys. The name referred to the marquee outside Stax studios, known as Satellite Records at the time. Eventually, the Mar-Keys began playing...
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  • Memphis-based Mar-Keys, alongside Steve Cropper and Duck Dunn. The group scored a hit single with "Last Night" in 1961. After leaving the Mar-Keys, Nix worked...
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    of Key Colony Beach.): Duck Key (MM 61) Conch Key (MM 62-63) The Long Key Bridge (MM 63¼-65¼) separates the Middle Keys from the Upper Keys: Long Key (MM...
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  • and blues tenor saxophone player and bandleader, who was a member of the Mar-Keys and later the Packers. Charles Everett "Packy" Axton was born in Memphis...
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  • studio versions) and Count Basie. Three previous Stax LPs – two by the Mar-Keys, one by Carla Thomas – had been issued on Atlantic Records. Green Onions...
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  • Jackson on trumpet and Andrew Love on tenor saxophone. An "offshoot of the Mar-Keys", they continued to work together for over 30 years. They lent their sound...
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    2016) was an American soul and R&B musician, playing the trumpet in The Mar-Keys, in the house band at Stax Records and later as one of The Memphis Horns...
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  • local instrumental band, the Royal Spades. Changing their name to the Mar-Keys, the band recorded and issued the single "Last Night", which shot to #3...
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  • house band Booker T. & the M.G.'s, a horn section featuring members of the Mar-Keys and the Memphis Horns, and pianist Isaac Hayes, providing a rhythmic Southern...
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    Carla Thomas's "Gee Whiz (Look at His Eyes)". Stax's next major hit, The Mar-Keys' instrumental "Last Night" (also released in 1961), introduced the rawer...
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  • The Keys to the White House, also known as the 13 Keys, is a prediction system for determining the outcome of presidential elections in the United States...
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    Stax house band, Booker T. & the M.G.'s, and the Stax horn section, The Mar-Keys, were world-class musicians who co-wrote (often without credit) and contributed...
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    position, the Mar-a-Lago Crowd were seen as key architects of the Administration's veterans policy. All three members were members of Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club...
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  • Carla recorded the label's first hit, "Cause I Love You." Soon after, The Mar-Keys, a local R&B group that included Estelle's son, Packy Axton, recorded "Last...
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    tracks from spring 1967 tour performing with Booker T. & the MG's and The Mar-Keys. Interviews with Sam Moore and others. 2008: The Original Soul Men: Sam...
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    had a national hit with "Last Night" in 1961 under their new name, the "Mar-Keys". Booker T. and the M.G.'s was founded by Cropper and Booker T. Jones in...
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    statement is faulty, as the racially integrated instrumental group the Mar-Keys recorded for Stax as early as 1961. Delaney and Bonnie were among the few...
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    and Al Jackson) and the Memphis Horns (the splinter horn section of the Mar-Keys, trumpeter Wayne Jackson and saxophonist Andrew Love). Memphis soul is...
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  • Moore and Dave Prater Instrumentation by Booker T. & the M.G.'s and the Mar-Keys Horns[citation needed] Maxine Brown and Chuck Jackson recorded a cover...
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  • Rod Stewart's 1984 hit song, "Infatuation." Robinson recorded with The Mar-Keys and blues great Willie Cobbs, among others. Died February 26, 2008: see...
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    & the M.G.'s and thereafter as a session bassist. Mar-Keys (Great Memphis Sound, 1966) The Mar-Keys/Booker T & The MGs (Back to Back, 1967) Booker T &...
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  • Moore and Dave Prater Instrumentation by Booker T. & the M.G.'s and the Mar-Keys Horns Booker T. Jones – piano Isaac Hayes – organ Steve Cropper – guitar...
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    Hurricanes (State Archives of Florida) Keys Historeum, Historical Preservation Society of the Upper Keys Florida Keys Memorial Florida Hurricane History FERA...
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  • closing themes are cover versions of B. B. King’s "BB’s Theme" and The Mar-Keys’ "Last Night", respectively. Both themes and the episode bridge instrumentals...
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  • support similar to a rhythm guitar and has been compared to "Philly Dog", a Mar-Keys song. The verse section is a variation on a blues progression, which uses...
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