Packy Axton
Charles" Packy" Axton( 17 February 1941 Memphis Shelby County, Tennessee – 20 January 1974 Memphis Shelby County, Tennessee) was an American rhythm and blues tenor saxophone player and bandleader, who was a member of the Mar- Keys and later the Packers.
He was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the son of Everett and Estelle Axton.
Estelle Axton and her brother, Jim Stewart, were the founders of Stax Records.
By 1959, Packy Axton had become a member of the Royal Spades, a group formed by Steve Cropper, Donald" Duck" Dunn, Charlie Freeman and Terry Johnson, which expanded to include a horn section composed of Axton, Don Nix and Wayne Jackson.
In 1961, they renamed themselves the Mar- Keys and had a major hit with" Last Night"( number 3 on the" Billboard" Hot 100, number 2 on the R&B chart).
Axton, Cropper and Jackson were the only members of the band to perform on the record; the other parts were played by session musicians.
The Mar- Keys quickly fractured into what were effectively two separate groups; the Mar- Keys that continued to record in the studio and release material on Stax were often a completely different set of musicians to the Mar- Keys who played live gigs.
After Cropper left the live band in 1961, soon followed by Dunn, Axton became the effective leader of the live Mar- Keys.
He also worked as a session musician at Stax, working with the studio Mar- Keys( including Cropper and Dunn) on an irregular basis.
Axton left Memphis—effectively severing his relationship with the Mar- Keys—in 1965 to live in Los Angeles, reportedly after a series of disagreements with Jim Stewart.
Later in 1965, the Stax Revue performed in Los Angeles, and radio disc jockey Magnificent Montague persuaded Axton to record there with Cropper, Booker T. Jones and Al Jackson, all of Booker T.& the M.G.'s.
They recorded an instrumental track together," Hole in the Wall", which Montague then released as by the Packers; it reached number 43 on the pop chart and number 5 on the R&B chart.
Axton formed a pickup group to promote the record.
Axton later returned to Memphis.
In 1966/ 67, he was a member of the Pac- Keys, an instrumental group which released two singles.
The first," Stone Fox", saw some regional chart action, but neither single charted nationally.
After 1967, Axton ran the Satellite Record Shop in Memphis, occasionally performing with musicians such as Charlie Rich.
Axton died in January 1974, at the age of 32.
According to one source, the cause of death was cirrhosis of the liver; according to another source, he died of a heart attack.
Sidewinders
The Sidewinders is a Barbershop quartet that won the 1964 SPEBSQSA international competition.
The Mar-Keys
The Mar- Keys, formed in 1958, were an American studio session band for Stax Records, in Memphis, Tennessee, in the 1960s.
As the first house band for the label, their backing music formed the foundation for the early 1960s Stax sound.
The Sidewinders
The Sidewinders( later the Sand Rubies) were a rock band from Tucson, Arizona, who released two major- label albums and scored two radio hits in the US before a lawsuit forced a change of name.
Another album was released on a major label but by that time the band had nearly broken up.
Since then the band has reunited and dissolved several times.
Sidewinders (X-League)
The Sidewinders are an American football team located in the Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan.
They are a member of the X- League X2 division.
Last Night (Mar-Keys composition)
" Last Night" is an instrumental recorded by The Mar- Keys.
Released in 1961, it reached# 3 Pop and# 2 in the R&B charts in the United States.
It also appeared on" Last Night!", the first LP released by the Stax label.
The label of the single gives writing credit simply to" Mar- Keys"; it was registered with BMI as having been written by Charles Axton, Floyd Newman, Gilbert C. Caple, Jerry Lee Smith and Chips Moman.
The song is in a 12 bar blues form, with brief stops, where Floyd Newman intones" Last Night" before the saxophone solo, which is followed by Newman intoning" Oh !!!!!!
Yeah !!!" before the last three choruses, including the pauses, before the song's fade.
According to Steve Cropper, in an interview with Paul Nassari of the" Sunday Mail" newspaper( Adelaide, Australia)," Jerry Lee ‘ Smoochy ’ Smith came up with the piano riff that was played on organ.
Since[ producer Chips] Moman did n't want a guitar on it for whatever reason, I wound up playing the hold- down on the organ on the root note.
" It hurts me in the Mar- Keys history when people say I was n’t in the Mar- Keys because there ’s no guitar on Last Night but I have to differ with them."
Sidewinders
The Sidewinders is a Barbershop quartet that won the 1964 SPEBSQSA international competition.
Turrentine Jones
Turrentine Jones are an English indie rock band formed in 2012 in Manchester, UK.
The band consists of Julian Neville( guitar/ vocals), Joe Chilstone- Vause( bass) and Rich Watts( drums/ backing vocals).
They have released one studio album:" Our Days"( 2014) and one live album" Live in York"( 2015) as well as two singles.
The band cites Booker T.& the MG's, The Mar- Keys and the Rolling Stones as influences.
The band has been labelled a “ Future Classic ” and described as “ infectious blues- rock ” by national radio station, Real Radio XS and proclaimed by Hattie Pearson of XFM to be “ one of Manchester ’s finest exports in recent times. ”
All the music and lyrics for Turrentine Jones' songs are written by the band's frontman Julian Neville.
The Packers
The Packers were an American soul group formed by tenor saxophonist Charles" Packy" Axton, who was the son of Stax Records part- owner Estelle Axton.
Axton was a former member of the Mar- Keys, as was Steve Cropper, who played on the group's first recording and hit, ostensibly recorded as a' demo'.
Cropper, a member of Booker T. Jones& The MGs and the Stax Records' session band, was also joined by Booker T. on piano and drummer Al Jackson for the recording, while Leon Haywood( on organ) was among those who also played on the group's records.
The Packers' first album," Hole in the Wall", reached# 7 on the Billboard R&B Albums chart on the strength of the titular single, which reached# 5 on the R&B Singles chart and# 43 on the" Billboard" Hot 100.
The short- lived Pure Soul label was specifically set up by Los Angeles disc- jockey, Magnificent Montague, who had arranged the recording session.
Back to Back (The Mar-Keys and Booker T. & the M.G.'s album)
Back to Back is a live album by the Mar- Keys and Booker T& the M.G.'s, released on Stax Records in 1967.
It features both groups playing live on the Stax/ Volt package tour of Europe.
The album peaked at number 98 on the" Billboard" 200 album chart in the United States.

Question: Are both The Mar-Keys and The Sidewinders from the same country?
Answer: yes