Meaux's hits included Sir Douglas Quintet's smash "She's About A Mover," "Barbara Lynn's "You'll Lose A Good Thing," "Talk To Me" by Sunny and the Sunliners, "Big Blue Diamonds" by Gene Summers, and a truckload of hits by Fender including "Before the Next Teardrop Falls," the first bilingual Billboard No. 1 record.

Bradley notes that Meaux remained embittered to the end.

"Huey just never forgave anyone for what happened to him, even though he pleaded guilty," he says. "He blamed everyone but himself for what happened. He was just mad at the world. It was very sad to watch."

Bradley notes that Meaux's wife has control of Music Enterprises, the company that owns Meaux's publishing.

"She's managed that well, and right now we are seeing a resurgence of interest in Huey's recordings," says Bradley, who offices across the hall from the SugarHill tape vault.

"Just last week we had two guys in from Ace Records of the UK, and they were listening and cataloging what they plan to repackage and release."

Many of the tracks will be remixed and remastered, says Bradley

Dr. Roger Wood, who worked with Bradley in authoring the definitive history of SugarHill Studios, told us at the time the book was released that his biggest disappointment was that Meaux refused to cooperate with the authors after initially seeming warm to the idea. Bradley confirms.

"Huey got the idea he was going to be in control of the book," Bradley notes. "And of course, what we were writing was something we wanted to be absolutely historically accurate. Huey actually wrote a foreword for the book that we ended up not using."

Meaux's funeral is scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday in Winnie.