{{Short description|American record producer (1937–2022)}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Quin Ivy | image = | image_size = | caption = | background = non_performing_personnel | birth_name = Quinon Ray Ivy | birth_place = Banner, Mississippi, U.S. | birth_date = {{birth date|1937|06|03}} | death_date = {{death date and age|2022|12|10|1937|06|03}} | death_place = Oxford, Mississippi, U.S. | instrument = | genre = Pop, soul | occupation = Record producer, songwriter, session musician | years_active = 1964–1991
| label = Atlantic, Quinvy, South Camp, Atco | associated_acts = {{plainlist}} *Percy Sledge *Shirley Scott *Stephen Foster *Barbara Mandrell *Wes Montgomery *Lynyrd Skynyrd *Yusef Lateef *Michael Bolton {{endplainlist}} | website = }}
'''Quinon Ray Ivy''' (June 3, 1937 – December 10, 2022) was an American disc jockey turned songwriter and record producer, crucial to the Muscle Shoals scene in the 1960s.
==Early life== Ivy was born in Banner, Mississippi, the son of a sharecropper.<ref name=allmusic>[http://www.allmusic.com/artist/quin-ivy-mn0000380733 Biography by Ed Hogan at Allmusic]. Retrieved 12 April 2013</ref><ref name="Ward2003">{{cite book|last=Ward|first=Brian|title=Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm And Blues, Black Consciousness And Race Relations|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=01eDH_6_xkMC&pg=PA221|access-date=12 April 2013|date=20 May 2003|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-203-21445-9|page=221}}</ref> He started his career as a DJ in Oxford, followed by spells at WMPS in Memphis, WKDA in Nashville and WLAY in Muscle Shoals, before settling in Sheffield, Alabama. There, he established a record store and began writing songs with producer Rick Hall of FAME Recording Studios.<ref name=allmusic/> Their output includes the singles "I'm Qualified" and "Lollipops, Lace and Lipstick" both recorded by Jimmy Hughes.<ref name="Fuqua2008_39">{{cite book|last=Fuqua|first=C. S.|title=Music Fell on Alabama: The Muscle Shoals Sound That Shook the World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bZhnvqZESt0C&pg=PA39|access-date=12 April 2013|date=30 July 2008|publisher=NewSouth Books|isbn=978-1-60306-039-4|page=39}}</ref><ref name="Larkin2006">{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uAsKAQAAMAAJ|access-date=12 April 2013|date=20 November 2006|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA|isbn=978-0-19-531373-4|page=515}}</ref>
== Career == In 1965, Ivy opened his Quinvy recording studio,<ref name=allmusic/> where he produced the Percy Sledge single "When a Man Loves a Woman" which went to number one on the Billboard charts.<ref name="Campbell2008">{{cite book|last=Campbell|first=Michael|title=Rock and Roll: An Introduction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RK-JmVbv4OIC&pg=PA190|access-date=12 April 2013|year=2008|publisher=Cengage Learning|isbn=978-0-534-64295-2|page=190}}</ref> He set up the Quinvy (independently distributed) and South Camp labels (distributed by Atlantic Records) before leaving the music business in the 1970s to gain an MBA degree from The University of Mississippi. He then taught accounting at the University of North Alabama until his retirement.<ref name="Fuqua2008_44">{{cite book|last=Fuqua|first=C. S.|title=Music Fell on Alabama: The Muscle Shoals Sound That Shook the World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bZhnvqZESt0C&pg=PA44|access-date=12 April 2013|date=30 July 2008|publisher=NewSouth Books|isbn=978-1-60306-039-4|page=44}}</ref>
Ivy died on December 10, 2022, at the age of 85.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Obituary information for Quinon Ray Ivy |url=https://www.wallerfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Quinon-Ray-Ivy?obId=26611824 |access-date=2025-05-13 |website=www.wallerfuneralhome.com |language=en-US}}</ref>
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