Hy Weiss

This artist was surprisingly once a ruler of the funk roost: coming out of a background of running his own Old Town label, Hy Weiss took over the promotions department at Staxx in the '60s, the label in that period atop this genre's own smoking stack courtesy of innovative hitmakers such as Isaac Hayes and Johnny Taylor. Nonetheless, Hy Weiss is probably best known in the music business for ...more