Ten For Today: Dan Penn
Jimmy Hughes, Arthur Conley, Otis Redding, Irma Thomas, James Carr, Tony Borders, Plastic Penny, The Sweet Inspirations, Charlie Rich, Dan Penn
Today, we celebrate the birthday of Dan Penn blue-eyed soul legend and great, living American songwriter. He has written or co-written such perfect hits as “I’m Your Puppet,” “Do Right Woman – Do Right Man,” “Cry Like a Baby,” and “The Dark End of the Street. He was born in 1941 in Alabama, grew up in Muscle Shoals, and spent most of his career in Memph…
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