The Fame Gang

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The Fame Gang were an American rhythm & blues session group. Rick Hall hired the Fame Gang as the new studio band. This group backed up singers such as Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Clarence Carter, Bobbie Gentry, Etta James, and Candi Staton during recording sessions at FAME Studios. The Fame Gang, also called the Third FAME Rhythm Section, consisted of eight musicians plus arranger-producer Mickey Buckins. The session musicians who worked first at the the Fame studio became known as the Muscle Shoals Horns and the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section (or the Swampers). In 1969, just after Rick Hall had signed a deal with Capitol Records, the four primary Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section members (Barry Beckett (keyboards), Jimmy Johnson (guitar), Roger Hawkins (drums), and David Hood (bass)), left to found a competing business, the Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, originally at 3614 Jackson Highway in nearby Sheffield, Alabama. FAME (Florence Alabama Music Enterprises) Studios are 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 a large number of hit records and was instrumental in what came to be known as the Muscle Shoals sound. It was started in the 1950s by Rick Hall, known as the Founder of Muscle Shoals Music. The studio, owned by Hall until his death in 2018, is still actively operating. It was added to the Alaba

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Solid Gold From Muscle Shoals (Expanded Edition)

Solid Gold From Muscle Shoals

Grits & Gravy

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Blue Juice vol. 1

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Solid Gold From Muscle Shoals - Expanded Edition

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The Fame Studios Story 1961-1973 (cd 3)

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Blue Juice

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The Fame Studio Story 1961-1973 Home Of The Muscle Shoals Sound

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Funky16Corners Radio Halloween Spooktacular

Grits & Gravy: The Best of the Fame Gang

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7"

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The Fame Studios Story 1961-1973

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