found: Rhythm and the blues, 1993: CIP t.p. (Jerry Wexler)
found: Rhythm and the blues, 1994: t.p. (Jerry Wexler) p. 8 (parents married in 1916; Wexler was b. a year later [i.e. 1917])
found: E-notes WWW site, Jan. 2, 2008 (Wexler, Jerry; b. Gerald Wexler, 1917, New York, N.Y.; producer, record company executive)
found: New York times WWW site, Aug. 18, 2008 (in obituary published Aug. 15: Jerry Wexler; b. Gerald Wexler, Jan. 10, 1917, New York; d. Friday [Aug. 15, 2008], Sarasota, Fla., aged 91; as a reporter for Billboard magazine in the late 1940s, christened black popular music rhythm and blues; who as a record producer, helped lead the genre to mainstream popularity, propelling the careers of Ray Charles, Wilson Pickett, Aretha Franklin, and other performers)
found: Everybody needs somebody to love, 1980 (Jerry Wexler [composer])