Mississippi Business Journal » songwriter http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 17 May 2013 22:01:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Rock/R&B songwriter Jackson dies at home of cancer http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/04/15/rockrb-songwriter-jackson-dies-at-home-of-cancer/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rockrb-songwriter-jackson-dies-at-home-of-cancer http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/04/15/rockrb-songwriter-jackson-dies-at-home-of-cancer/#comments Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:10:10 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=73284 RIDGELAND — Songwriter George Jackson, co-author of “Old Time Rock and Roll” and hundreds of other soul, rock and rhythm and blues tunes, has died. He was 68. Jackson died yesterday morning at his home in Ridgeland, said Thomas Couch Sr., board chairman of Malaco Records. Jackson had been sick with cancer for about a [...]

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