Stars Fell On Alabama www.alamhof.org Featuring musical stars from Alabama: * Country group Alabama from Ft. Payne * Hank Ballard & The More

Stars Fell On Alabama www.alamhof.org Featuring musical stars from Alabama: * Country group Alabama from Ft. Payne * Hank Ballard & The Midniters from Bessemer * Boyd Bennett (of Muscle Shoals) & The Rockets * Blind Boys of Alabama from Talladega * Jimmy Buffett from Mobile * Clarence Carter of Montgomery * Nat "King" Cole from Montgomery * The Commodores from Tuskegee * Delmore Brothers from Elkmont * "The Singing Senator" Bobby Denton from Cherokee * Eddie "Knock On Wood" Floyd from Montgomery * Brewton's William Lee Golden of The Oak Ridge Boys * The Happy Goodmans & Vestal Goodman of Fyffe * Vern "The Voice" Gosdin of Woodland * "Father of The Blues" William Christopher Handy from Florence * Emmylou Harris from Birmingham * Freddie "Easy Lovin'" Hart from Loachapoka * Erskine "Tuxedo Junction" Hawkins of Ensley * Big Jake Hess (with the Statesmen Quartet) from Athens * Decatur boy Charlie "Cholly" Hodge with his Army buddy, Elvis * Hackleburg's Sonny James with Sylacauga son Jim Nabors * Alabama boys Bobby Goldsboro (from Dothan) with Florence native Buddy Killen * Birmingham's Baker Knight (songwriter "The Girls All Get Prettier At Closing Time," "Lonesome Town" & "Wonder of You") * Sand Mountain (Henagar) boys, The Louvin Brothers * Songwriter Roger Murrah from Athens * Jim Nabors again * Shots of Shoals recording studios * Sherrill Nielsen, originally from Montgomery with wife Brenda; Sherrill with The Statesmen and onstage with Elvis * The Coasters' Bobby Nunn of Birmingham * Florence native Sam Phillips with Elvis & his Sun Studios/Memphis Recording Service business partner, Marion Keisker * "Wicked" Wilson Pickett from Prattville * Jasper native Sandy Posey * Jackson County's Curly Putman (songwriter - "Green Green Grass of Home") * Martha Reeves (from Eufaula) with The Vandellas * Tuskegee's Lionel Richie * Geiger-born "Blue Yodeler" Jimmie Rodgers, "The Singing Brakeman" & "Father of Country Music" * Monroeville's Ray Sawyer, lead singer of Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show * Montgomery's Tommy Shaw (Styx, Damn Yankees, Shaw Blades) * Northwest Alabama's Shenandoah * Leighton's Percy Sledge * The Speer Family of Double Springs * Muscle Shoals' Swampers * Temptations (members Eddie Kendricks, Paul Williams, Dennis Edwards, Melvin Franklin, and Ollie Woodson - all Alabama natives) * Toni Tennille from Montgomery * Montgomery native Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton (original release of "Hound Dog") * Boaz native Jack Toney with The Statesmen * Boaz native Pat Upton of Spiral Starecase ("More Today Than Yesterday") & Rick Nelson's Stone Canyon Band * Tuscaloosa's Dinah Washington, "Queen of The Blues" * Mobile's Wet Willie ("Weekend," "Keep On Smilin'") * Georgiana's Hank Williams * Tammy Wynette of Red Bay * ...these are only a handful. Couldn't include them all! Visit: www.alamhof.org * * * * * * * * * * * *
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About This Video Bessie Smith, Big Mama Thornton, Dinah Washington,Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald, Marion Anderson, Judy Garland,Ethel Waters, Lena More

About This Video Bessie Smith, Big Mama Thornton, Dinah Washington,Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald, Marion Anderson, Judy Garland,Ethel Waters, Lena Horne, Patsy Cline. These are the pioneers in women's music. The best in their era and still the best today. Janis Joplin owes alot to Bessie Smith and Big Mama Thornton, Anita Baker idolized Sarah Vaughn.Leontyne Price followed Marion Anderson. Lena Horne opened the door for Hally Berry. Patsy broke gender barriers so that Loretta, Dolly and Tammy could be stars. Judy, Ella, Dinah and Ethel were all firsts of their time. The singer identified as Ella Fitzgerald singing Over The Rainbow is not Ella but Sarah Vaughn. The text was already in the video and provided by some TV program, not me.
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