Contempt proceedings originally had been brought against 677 persons in 133 precincts by Morris J. Wexler, special prosecutor.

After reading his statement discharging the 23d ward case, Karns told Wexler that if the seven cases scheduled for trial also involved persons who had been subpenaed, he would dismiss them.

This would be the first of two Oscar-nominated films where Wexler would be fired and replaced by Butler, the second being One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ( 1975 ), where Wexler had similar problems with Milos Forman.

Helped by artist Elmer Wexler, who critiqued the young Adams ' samples, Adams brought his portfolio to the agency, which initially " didn't believe I had done those particular samples since they looked so much like Elmer Wexler's work.

Meeting Burke " was not purely kismet ," as Wexler and Ertegun were aware of Burke and his talent, as " Wexler ’ s former mentor at Billboard, Paul Ackerman, had been urging him to sign Burke for several years ," but were waiting for Burke's contract with Apollo Records to expire.

Burke's next " massive hit " was his cover of " If You Need Me " ( Atlantic 2185 ), which was recorded on March 15, 1963, which was written and recorded originally by Wilson Pickett for Lloyd Price's Detroit-based Double L Records, which had been rejected by Wexler, but who had purchased the publishing rights.

" However, Pickett claims Wexler lifted it from demo tapes he had sent Atlantic.

I played it to Jerry Wexler and Bert Berns, who thought that it was too fast, and had the wrong tempo.

The Steadicam was first used in the Best Picture-nominated Woody Guthrie biopic Bound for Glory ( 1976 ), debuting with a shot that compounded the Steadicam's innovation: cinematographer Haskell Wexler had Brown start the shot on a fully elevated platform crane which jibbed down, and when it reached the ground, Brown stepped off and walked the camera through the set.

This technically audacious and previously impossible shot created considerable interest in how it had been accomplished, and impressed the Academy enough for Wexler to win the Oscar for Best Cinematography that year.

Scientific American later reported that ACS had spent over $ 200, 000 to hire Wexler & Walker Public Policy Association to lobby against open access.

The censors " objected to the language and the nudity ," Wexler said later ; " What no one had the nerve to say was that it was a political ' X '".

Becoming close with Atlantic Records executive Jerry Wexler was his chance and led Landau to the politically radical MC5, who had just been picked up by Atlantic after being dropped from Elektra Records in 1969-ironically, the Kinney National Company ( later known as Time Warner ), parent of Atlantic, would acquire Elektra in the same year of this album's release ; both labels are now part of the Warner Music Group ( now a separate company from TW ), through the Atlantic Records Group.

" " Bob might run it down on piano or guitar, just singing and playing the background until we had a rough shape in our minds, then the Muscle Shoals band would start to play it ," recalls Wexler.

The pop records had illustrations by American illustrators of the day-Tracy Sugarman, Elmer Wexler, Arthur Shilstone, David Stone.

However, the purchase again caused rancour among the Warner / Reprise management, who were upset that their hard-won profits had been co-opted to buy Atlantic, and that Atlantic's executives were made large shareholders in Warner-Seven Arts — the deal gave the Ertegun brothers and Wexler between them 66, 000 shares of Warner Bros .' common stock.

He called Jerry Wexler to say he had something new to record, later writing, " I don't believe in giving myself advance notices, but I figured this song merited it ".

A previous recording called " Money Honey " by Clyde McPhatter had been banned in Georgia and Ahmet Ertegun and Wexler released McPhatter's song despite the ban, risking arrest.

The other band members continued to be involved in music projects ; guitarist Dan Wexler in particular wrote and recorded with Alice Cooper ( who had performed backing vocals on " Holy Man's War " from Right Between the Eyes ).

Original members Wexler, Aquilino and Dixon, along with former member Dave Henzerling and new singer Scott Hammons had plans to record new material potentially for a new album.

Anne Wexler ran his 1970 campaign, and the two married in September 1974 after they had both divorced their respective spouses.

The judge's former law clerks include a number of judges and law professors, including Judge Denise Cote of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Dean Joan Wexler of Brooklyn Law School, Professor Anita Bernstein of Brooklyn Law School, Professor Marty Lederman of Georgetown University Law Center, Professor Elizabeth Nowicki of Tulane Law School, Professor John C. P.

Atlantic's Jerry Wexler also brought Wilson Pickett to record at Stax, though these songs were released on Atlantic.

One of these lodgings, the Wexler Villa, was assigned as the residence of communist poet Eugen Jebeleanu.

By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Wexler.

Among the additional materials featured on these re-releases are recordings from the Atlantic Records archives ; outtakes and alternate mixes from the Dusty in Memphis sessions, two tracks from a cancelled second album with Jerry Wexler recorded in 1969, tracks from a shelved second album with Gamble & Huff recorded in 1970 ( following A Brand New Me / From Dusty ... With Love ) and the intended Faithful album produced by Jeff Barry in 1971, which came to be Springfield's final recordings for the Atlantic label.

The most significant of these efforts occurred on June 10, 2008, when Congressman Dennis Kucinich, along with co-sponsor Robert Wexler, introduced 35 articles of impeachment against Bush to the U. S. House of Representatives.

It was during this period that Partridge began a relationship with an American fan, Erica Wexler, the niece of famed American record producer Jerry Wexler.

Both tracks were produced by Atlantic founders Ahmet and Nesuhi Ertegün with staff producer Jerry Wexler and featured arrangements by Richard Wess.

George Michael recorded an early, unreleased version of " Careless Whisper " with Jerry Wexler in Muscle Shoals in 1983.

Later that day Burke signed a " handshake deal " with Wexler and Ahmet Ertegun to record with Atlantic.

Burke figured this did not portend a long future with Wexler and Atlantic: " Here ’ s the greatest R & B label in the world, and they give me country songs to sing.

" When recalling Burke's first recording session at Atlantic, Wexler added in 2002: " There was a blizzard the morning we were to do the first recording session with Solomon and I didn't know if I would be able to get into New York.

Burke recalled in 2003: " I was furious when Wexler rejected Pickett ", and " when radio personality the Magnificent Montague started spinning Pickett ’ s original version, Wexler rushed out Burke ’ s, with both in Billboards " Singles Review " column on April 13. and both featured on Billboard's " Artists ' Biographies " on May 4, 1963.

We ’ d come in and it used to be, ‘ Hello Solomon, Jerry will be right with you .’ And five minutes later Jerry would say, ‘ Come on in my office and have some lunch .’ But then it got to the point where it was, ‘ Did you have an appointment with Mr. Wexler?

We proved that we can make a hit record without Jerry Wexler eating sandwiches with us.

One of Burke ’ s tracks on Definition of Soul, " Your Turn to Cry ", was cowritten with Jerry Wexler.

In an interview in Billboard, Burke explained: " My relationship with Jerry Wexler is like a two-way street.

Wexler asked Memphis, Tennessee-based Stax Records, which Atlantic distributed nationally, to work with Sam & Dave.

Jerry Wexler with co-producer Tom Dowd tried producing Sam & Dave in New York, with Atlantic songwriters and musicians.

According to Wexler, " We just made some shit-ass records with them.

" Wexler then sent the duo south to Muscle Shoals and Miami to work with producers Brad Shapiro and Dave Crawford for their next single " Knock It Out The Park ," which failed to chart.