Answer the following question: Facts: - death place: chicago - years active: 1950s - 1960s - birth name: melvin r. london - death date: 16 may 1975 - genre: blues , r & b - birth date: 09 april 1932 - background: non_performing_personnel - label: chief , profile , age - birth place: mississippi - associated acts: junior magic sam , ricky allen wells , elmore james , earl hooker , - occupation: songwriter , record producer , record label owner Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of mel london .
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mel london -lrb- april 9 , 1932 - may 16 , 1975 -rrb- was a songwriter , record producer , and record label owner .he was active in the chicago blues and r&b scenes in the 1950s and 1960s .london is best known for his compositions for chicago blues artists howlin ' wolf , muddy waters , elmore james , and junior wells as well as being the record producer and owner of chief records -lrb- and its profile records and age records subsidiaries -rrb- .in 1954 , mel london wrote the first of several hit songs for the blues and r&b markets .his '' poison ivy '' was recorded by willie mabon and reached # 7 in the billboard r&b chart in 1954 .in 1955 , three hits written by london followed : '' who will be next '' by howlin ' wolf and two by muddy waters - '' sugar sweet '' and '' manish boy . ''not content with just songwriting , in 1957 he started his own record label , chief records .chief 's first single , the london-penned '' man from the island , '' featured london 's solo outing as a lead vocalist .subsequent chief releases were produced -lrb- and sometimes written -rrb- by london and featured chicago blues artists , such as elmore james , junior wells , magic sam , earl hooker , and a.c. reed .london 's '' little by little '' was a hit for junior wells in 1960 , reaching # 23 in the billboard r&b chart .london also wrote several r&b songs that were recorded by chief artists , including '' cut you a-loose '' by ricky allen , which reached # 20 in 1963 .chief/profile/age experienced financial difficulties in the early 1960s and went out of business in 1964 .later , mel london was associated with a number of small record labels , including all-points , mel/mel-lon , bright star , and starville , but none had the impact of his earlier labels .in 1975 , london died at age forty-three .during his career , he wrote -lrb- or cowrote -rrb- forty-three songs and produced about eighty singles by approximately thirty-seven artists .