1. Paul Mickelson was an American organist, arranger, and record label executive who specialized in Christian music.
10 Facts About Paul Mickelson
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Paul Mickelson left Graham to concentrate on recordings, becoming an executive at Word Records before founding Supreme Records and its subsidiaries.
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Paul Mickelson began music lessons at the age of nine.
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Paul Mickelson joined the Billy Graham crusade as organist in 1950 and stayed until September 1957, leaving Graham in order to concentrate on recording activities on a full-time basis.
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Paul Mickelson had joined the Seventh-Day Adventist church by 1997, and was organist for the denomination's 2000 General Conference Session.
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Paul Mickelson died on October 21,2001, of a myocardial infarction while visiting Sacramento, California.
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Billboard stated that Paul Mickelson's initial Supreme Strings album was a surprise in the religious field, as the beauty of the arrangement and performance was unsurpassed in the popular field.
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Paul Mickelson provided arrangements for Pat Boone, Tony Fontane, Jerome Hines and Ethel Waters.
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Paul Mickelson was able to purchase multiple organs of note, including the organ from NBC's Hollywood Studios and the Robert-Morton unit from MCA's Whitney recording studios.
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Paul Mickelson was married to Barbara Paul Mickelson at the time of his death.