Stax Records staff writer Bettye Crutcher died in Nashville yesterday (20). She was 83, and had been suffering from a number of health issues.
Crutcher was part of the We Three songwriting team at the famed soul label with Homer Banks and Raymond Jackson, perhaps their best-known success coming with Johnnie Taylor’s Grammy-nominated “Who’s Making Love.” Her talent was all the more notable in a largely male working environment. “To be the only female songwriter for Stax was quite an event,” she said in 2019. “You’re talking about the sexist ‘60s, and I really think the guys thought the girls couldn't do it.”
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