Music Death: "Mustang Sally" Composer Mack Rice-- Part 2: Also Co-wrote "Respect Yourself"

Mack Rice was a songwriter for the Memphis, Tennessee-based Stax Records and split his time between there and Detroit, where he moved from Mississippi as a teen.

He wrote "Respect Yourself" with the late R&B singer-songwriter Luther Ingram for the Staple Singers, which became Stax's biggest hit.  His wife said he wrote it in about fifteen minutes after talking with other musicians in the studio about the need for people to respect themselves in order to be respected by others.