Stars Fell On Alabama - featuring Stars from Alabama

Stars Fell On Alabama

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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!

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Category:

Music

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• Stars
• Fell
• On
• Alabama
• blues
• classical
• country
• jazz
• pop
• r&b
• religious
• rock
• soul
• unsigned

[mjw0047]

Love that song and Mempho Tenn you did a Great Job!! Take it from a girl from Alabama. We have the best singers and singer-songwriters here in Alabama. 5++++++ Keep up the good work!!

[cvte2]

thanks for posting this! Makes us from Alabama proud! There are so many good singers and musicians from sweet home Alabama.

The only thing I would say is that you forgot Shelby Lynn, who just released a hit CD this year. She is from Mobile I believe.

[john9944]

Of course the song is legendary, Jimmy's version with the geography lesson included as well as the verse (Moonlight and magnolias) which is usually not sung on other recordings is the best ever. However, the alphabetical listing of the 'Bama stars sets this apart. Thanks for all the work. Evcellent job.

[WilliamPierce38]

almost thought you forgot Tammy Wynette. thanks for including her

[bongojava21]

This is awesome. Thanks so much for showcasing some of the many wonderful things about our home state of Alabama.

[Bamaboompa]

Johnny Shines - Robert Johnson's wingman - was living in Tuscaloosa for about 20 years when he died. Also, Chuck Leavell - Allman Brothers, Sea Level, and "the other Rolling Stone" grew up in Tuscaloosa.

[dwbrcdub]

@MemphoTenn florida loves and respects old jewish people

[glyptl]

@MemphoTenn

Sun Ra comes to mind.

[goldenhawk57]

If you do part 2, don't forget the Maddox Brothers and Rose from Dekalb County.

[NickRatnieks]

The Leonid Meteor Shower- probably 1833-stars really did fall on Alabama that night all those years ago and this song- here sung by Jimmy Buffet celebrates that memorable night. Great version- from a fine album (Coconut Telegraph) that I ran into about 20 years ago and still play- especially this track. It's OK to like all those good old songs nowadays- and rightly so.

[bongojava21]

Thanks so much for posting from a homesick 'Bama girl!