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Charles Stepney

CTL-E-4395 · Person · producer · 1950s-1976

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Chicago arranger, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter (Mar 26, 1931 - May 17, 1976); staff arranger/producer at Chess Records. Co-created Rotary Connection; produced, arranged, and co-wrote Minnie Riperton's Come to My Garden (1970); later produced Earth, Wind & Fire classics.

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RELP101 supporting entity: collaborator of CTL-E-0037.

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Shoeshine, 47th Street, Chicago's main Negro business street, Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941
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