Stars Fell On Alabamawww.alamhof.orgFeaturing 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* * * * * * * * * * * *