There never was a time in his adult life when Chips was not busy. Somehow along the way he also found time to marry one of 60s New York’s finest songwriters, the great Toni Wine. Later still, he would work in Atlanta and Nashville with some of country music’s biggest names of the 70s, 80s and 90s. A decade later, he was owner-operator of American Studios, one of the most famous recording facilities in the world and one that attracted artists as renowned as Neil Diamond, Dusty Springfield, Dionne Warwick, Petula Clark and, most famously of all, Elvis Presley.
His first published copyright brought him a Top 10 hit, and he helped facilitate the birth of Stax Records in the late 1950s when it was still a little label called Satellite operating from its founder Jim Stewart’s home in a small town outside Memphis. Lincoln Wayne “Chips” Moman was many things in his lifetime – musician, producer, songwriter, studio-owner and much more besides – and is well known and greatly admired for all of his musical accomplishments. A career-spanning overview of this revered Memphis music maker’s song catalogue.Īce’s Songwriter Series shines its spotlight this month on a man whose name will forever be associated with the Memphis music scene of the 60s and 70s.