Nashville Mover and Shaker Passes

The Tennessean reported this week that Cecil Scaife, a famous Nashville music executive passed away last Thursday at the age of 81.

Scaife was born in Arkansas and got his start in the music business in Memphis while working for Sun Records, promoting artists like Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis. He moved to Nashville in the 60s to run the Phillips Recording Studio and eventually became an executive at CBS Records (now Sony Music). Scaife went on to start his own company, Music Inc., which at one point held the largest Christmas product catalog in the U.S.

In 1971, Scaife, with Bob Mulloy, a Belmont teacher, Scaife started the business music program at Belmont University, now named the Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business. He was also one of the founders of the Gospel Music Association and member of the Country Music Association, the National Association of Recording Merchandisers, on the Grammy Awards board of governors, a lifetime elector to the Country Music Hall of Fame Committee, and the President of the Recording Academy’s Nashville chapter.

The Scaife Family asked that donations be made to the Cecil Scaife Music Business Scholarship Endowment at Belmont in Nashville…..

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