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FAME Studios. / 34.74506; -87.66667. FAME (Florence Alabama Music Enterprises) Studios is a recording studio located at 603 East Avalon Avenue in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, an area of northern Alabama known as the Shoals. Though small and distant from the main recording locations of the American music industry, FAME has produced many hit records ...
FAME Music was established in 1959 in Florence, Alabama and has gone on to be the heartbeat of the Muscle Shoals Sound with entities including FAME Publishing, FAME Recording Studios, FAME Records and Muscle Shoals Records. FAME moved to Muscle Shoals in 1961. FAME has worked in the studio with some of the Greatest artists in Rock music history ...
- “Mustang Sally”—Wilson Pickett. Though this R&B classic was originally recorded by Mack Rice in 1965, it saw greater popularity when Wilson Pickett covered it the following year.
- “When a Man Loves a Woman” – Percy Sledge. Quite green to the recording process, Percy Sledge was a hospital orderly by trade when he stepped in front of the microphone to record “When a Man Loves a Woman” at Muscle Shoals Sound.
- “I’ll Take You There” – The Staple Singers. Producer Al Bell signed The Staple Singers to Stax Records in 1968. At that point, The Staples had moved away from protest songs and toward what they called “message music.”
- “I’d Rather Go Blind” – Etta James. Etta James recorded both “Tell Mama” and “I’d Rather Go Blind” at FAME studios. Her sessions came at a time that the powerhouse vocalist was trying to curb heroin addiction.
Feb 15, 2022 · CDs. The FAME Studios Story: 1961-1973. Call Number: BOX VAR FAME 2011. CD collection focusing on the Alabama recording studio. This triple disc set includes several of the notable pop hits recorded at the studio by the Osmonds, Tommy Roe and Bobbie Gentry, among others. Special attention is paid to those acts closely associated with the Fame ...
- Jennie Thomas
- 2014
Mar 27, 2023 · Rick Hall at FAME Studios As Hall shifted away from R&B and towards pop and country in the early 1970s, he and FAME Studios continued to find success. In 1970, Hall began recording the Osmond Brothers band, assisting in the production of their first hit record with “One Bad Apple,” which spent five weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Where to find us. FAME Recording Studios 603 East Avalon Avenue Muscle Shoals, AL 35661 256-381-0801 info@famestudios.com
