Obituary: Consummate Nashville record man Shelby Singleton, of Mercury and Sun
John Broven, Now Dig This, November 2009
SHELBY SINGLETON, the consummate record man who was the most capable latter-day custodian of Sun Records, died of brain cancer in a Nashville, Tennessee hospice on October 7, 2009, at the age of 77.
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