JACKSON, Mississippi – 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 Sunday morning at his Mississippi home, said Thomas Couch Sr., board chairman of Malaco Records. Jackson had been sick with cancer for about a year. "It was not unexpected, but it's always too soon," Couch said. Jackson was writing songs by the time he was in his teens. It was Ike Turner who brought Jackson to New Orleans R&B pioneer Cosimo Matassa's studio in 1963, where he recorded his first song. Jackson recorded dozens of singles in the 1960s but made his mar...
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