Felton Jarvis (11/16/1934 ~ 1/3/1981): Felton is best known as Elvis Presley's record producer from 1966 to 1977. Employed by RCA, he branched out on his own in 1970 to work exclusively for Elvis. He worked over the years with such renowned artists as Willie Nelson, Jim Ed Brown, Floyd Cramer, Tommy Roe, Fats Domino, Jimmy Dean, Charlie Pride, Skeeter Davis and Ronnie McDowell.
In 1980 Felton created the practice of overdubbing new rhythm tracks on top of previously recorded vocals, a process that is commonplace in music production today. The result was the remixing and re-recording of an album of Elvis Presley songs called 'Guitar Man'. The album's title track 'Guitar Man', first released in 1967, used Elvis' original vocals with new contemporary guitar work from Jerry Reed, who was also the guitar player for the 1967 release. The song was released with great anticipation and in February 1981 the song went to No. 1 on the country charts. Unfortunately, Felton died before he could see this achievement
