Urgent! Records was a record company

Record label

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 owned by Tim Whitsett

Tim Whitsett

Tim Whitsett is an American music publisher, musician, songwriter, producer, author, and consultant. He was born in Jackson, Mississippi.-Biography:...

, based in Jackson, MS, and distributed by Atlanta based Ichiban Records

Ichiban Records

Ichiban Records was a hip hop record label founded in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1985. Wrap Records and Nastymix Records were some of its subsidiary labels. Urgent! Records was distributed by Ichiban. Most of its discography is now out of print. Besides hip hop groups, Ichiban also released albums by...

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Label founder Whitsett produced albums for singer Jerry Butler

Jerry Butler (singer)

Jerry Butler is an American soul singer and songwriter. He is also noted as being the original lead singer of the R&B vocal group, The Impressions, as well as a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee.Butler is also an American politician...

 and longtime associate Tommy Tate. The Butler album (Time and Faith) featured Chips Moman

Chips Moman

Lincoln Wayne "Chips" Moman is an American record producer, guitarist, and songwriter. As a record producer, Moman is known for recording Elvis Presley, Bobby Womack, Carla Thomas, and Merrilee Rush, as well as guiding the career of the Box Tops in Memphis, Tennessee during the 1960s...

's American

United States

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 rhythm section

Rhythm section

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, and both albums featured Whitsett's keyboardist brother Carson Whitsett

Carson Whitsett

Carson Whitsett was an American keyboardist, songwriter, and record producer.-Biography:...

 who wrote several songs for the projects.

Other artists with CD releases on Urgent! were The Dells

The Dells

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, Roy Hightower, and three albums on Bobby Rush

Bobby Rush (musician)

Bobby Rush is an American blues and R&B musician, composer and singer. His style incorporates elements of soul blues, rap and funk.-Biography:...

 whose I Ain't Studdin' You (URG 4117) in 1991 was the company's best seller and remains one of the artist's better known works.

The label's catalog was later incorporated into the works of The Malaco Music Group. Both Tim Whitsett

Tim Whitsett

Tim Whitsett is an American music publisher, musician, songwriter, producer, author, and consultant. He was born in Jackson, Mississippi.-Biography:...

 and Bobby Rush

Bobby Rush

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 then joined Malaco Records

Malaco Records

Malaco Records is an independent record label based in Jackson, Mississippi. Malaco is and has been the home of various major soul, blues and gospel acts, such as Johnnie Taylor, Bobby Bland, ZZ Hill, Denise LaSalle, Benny Latimore, Dorothy Moore, Little Milton, Shirley Brown, Marvin Sease, and the...

 with Whitsett serving as Copyright

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Manager.