Years active 1964–1991 Name Quin Ivy | Role Songwriter Genres Pop music, Soul music | |
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Origin Oxford, Mississippi, United States Occupation(s) Record producer, songwriter, session musician Record labels Atlantic Records, Atco Records Associated acts Percy Sledge, Shirley Scott, Barbara Mandrell, Wes Montgomery, Yusef Lateef, Michael Bolton Similar People Marlin Greene, Rick Hall, Percy Sledge | ||
Quin Ivy (born 1937) is an American former disc jockey turned songwriter and record producer, crucial to the Muscle Shoals scene in the 1960s.
Biography
Ivy was born in Oxford, Mississippi, the son of a sharecropper. He started his career as a DJ in Oxford, followed by spells at WMPS in Memphis, WKDA in Nashville and WLAY in Muscle Shoals, before settling in Sheffield, Alabama. There, he established a record store and began writing songs with producer Rick Hall of FAME Recording Studios. Their output includes the singles "I'm Qualified" and "Lollipops, Lace and Lipstick" both recorded by Jimmy Hughes.
In 1965, Ivy opened his Quinvy recording studio, where he produced the Percy Sledge single "When a Man Loves a Woman" which went to number one on the Billboard charts. He set up the Quinvy (independently distributed) and South Camp labels (distributed by Atlantic Records) before leaving the music business in the 1970s to gain an MBA degree from The University of Mississippi. He then taught accounting at the University of North Alabama until his retirement.