A Swedish documentary from 1970 that was filmed at the legendary Fame studio in Muscle Shoals, AL.Featuring amazing footage of Willie Hightower in the studio cutting "Walk a Mile in My Shoes."
At 12:19 in the background is a song called “Don’t Say No” by David and the Giants. (Later on Rick Hall Recorded the song on Donny Osmond) We were so blessed to be with Rick and Fame for several years. The way I found this documentary was because I remembered there were 2 fellas from Sweden who came and filmed while we were recording 4 singles there. Mickey Buckins was producing the songs. David and the Giants had been produced earlier by Jimmy Johnson and Roger Hawkins when Rick Hall signed a distribution deal with Capitol Records..(We were on their subsidiary label Crazy Horse) There is a shot of me and my brother Clayborn Huff in the studio at 23:02. This was our first recording after Jimmy, Roger, Barry Beckett and David Hood left to go across town and start Muscle Shoals Sound. I count it an honor to say I was blessed by the Lord to have known some of the greatest musicians and friends from my days in Muscle Shoals. David Huff David and the Giants
I was born and raised a mile from Fame in Muscle Shoals and have wrote and played music here for many years. Still live here too. I knew Rick, and his son Rodney is still keeping Fame busy….but even though I personally know the ins and outs of Fame Studio, I’m never not impressed with the history of the place!
Rick Hall was down to earth and gifted. He knew the talent and his mix brought them to fame. Willie Hightower, a perfect example. A wonderful documentary of music from the deep South.
+Valerie Bianco So true. But JIM STEWART was one guy that got some more impressive and more gifted artists going for him and this was just in the same vein but just so more superior. JIM STEWART and ESTELLE AXTON formed a label called STAX and this is where all true soul came from if you ask me. OTIS REDDING, BOOKER T. & THE MG'S and BAR-KAY'S just says it all for me!
@@matsnilsson565 Stax and Muscle Shoals were both powerhouses of creativity and produced music of enduring quality.Just a matter of personal taste as to which you prefer.
Unbelievable. If you get the chance, stop in there. Giant pic of Duane Allman on the wall. Watch Muscle Shoals documentary if you haven't yet. It will give you goose bumps seeing all the artists that went thru there, and what great musicians "the Muscle Shoals Stompers" were.
Just Toured the Legendary FAME Studios today it was a blast a ton of history in that building. True soul brothers Black & White Swampers making some of the greatest music hits this world has ever heard. Straight from Muscle Shoals Alabama.
Just spent two days in Muscle Shoals. Just an incredible story. It is still a small sleepy town. Can’t imagine how it was in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Florence Alabama Music Enterprise = FAME.
When I think about the music that I listened to as a child and then as a young adult, and I realize what my son and his contemporaries are listening to it makes me sad. Kids today would rather sit down in front of a computer screen or with a phone playing games, when they could be getting inspireded by listening to great music like this. They aren't even willing to learn to play an instrument on their own. If we lose music we will be losing one of the elements which bestows upon us our humanity.
I just watched "Muscle Shoals" on DVD. Great, modern documentary and it takes you a lot farther along with more recent interviews and great guests. This 1970 youtube documentary was still back in the early years. And if you want to see FAME studio in current times, watch the Greg Allman video titled My Only True Friend. Rick Hall is also briefly in the video. The album and video were done shortly before they each left us.
This is the first time I've seen a documentary that goes so deep into the recording and songwriting process and I've seen a lot. thank you so much for this!
I moved to the Shoals in 2002 and have had the opportunity to meet Rick Hall and a few others over the years. I really enjoyed the footage. it was very interesting. Thank you for posting.
This is why i gladly pay extra money out of the ordinary exceptional high tax we got here in Sweden, SVT is just like BBC, one of the worlds best in keeping our history intact without any influence from the money hunger and ad dependent owners of the the other so called channels that twists everything their way! This documentary are soooo rare and can only be saved by a source like SVT! We can now sit back and enjoy something great like this thanks to public television! For heavens sake we got RICK HALL here, the man himself and he talks about the whole legendary run he got down at Muscle shoals. We even see and hear the all true legendary musicians that literally played on every SOUL albums we now treasures.
Mats - I'm afraid you're very wrong about the BBC. They destroyed or recorded-over most of their material from the 50's/60's that would have any cultural significance in future decades including 95% of Top Of The Pops episodes. If you realise that includes appearances by The Beatles, Stones, Kinks, Who, Pink Floyd (several appearances with Syd Barret), The Yardbirds, Small Faces etc this is one of the great tragedies (amongst many!) of the BBC. This continued way into the 70's (lost appearances of Bowie/Bolan/Roxy Music, and nearly everything else!) Which is why when you watch Sound's Of The 60's/70's on BBC4 they embarrassingly keep rotating the same old clips - it's all they have! And don't get me started on classic comedy! They moved to a new building in 1972 and literally threw original recordings of classic shows into a giant bin as they considered it trivial and worthless. I don't know if you use the word 'cunts' in Sweden - if not, look it up.
Thanks for the swedish subtitles, de underlättar verkligen! Stort tack! Seriously, this is absolutely fantastic. Like one of the musicians put it, not at all like like Motown but still different from the Memphis sound. Golden days of soul music.
Muscle Shoals folks we've lost since the movie was released in 2013: Aretha Franklin, Jesse Boyce, Percy Sledge, Glenn Frey, Ed King and Bob Burns of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Leon Russell, Tony Joe White, Harrison Calloway Muscle Shoals Horns, Scott Boyer song writer, JJ Cale, Yvonne Staples, Bobby Womack, Joe Cocker, Ray Sawyer, Gregg Allman, Tom Hendrix and Rick Hall.
I remember most of these deaths Ken, but seeing them all listed together is quite something and very depressing. I guess it's because (in my eyes anyway) there's nothing coming along to replace them. Music used to be so natural and organic. It sounds so controlled, over-produced and soulless now.
I dig it deep! When ever I learn more about FAME/MS I think there is a future road trip for me... Detroit to Muscle Shoals... I've heard tell it's in the water... or perhaps there was a special moment in time there... I want to know if any of the energy still exists.
This is a soulful window to the inspiration of the southern attitude..After reading the early life of Rick Hall... I --SEE--that Rick had no illusions of humble lifestyles...I truly identify with his inspiration of --we got nuthin , so we got nuthin to lose , by givin it all we got and then some-
This is where RHYTHM AND BLUES STARTED!! The BEST time in history for music from here to the 70's! Awesome time capsule of footage... MORE, MORE, MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I remember playing for Earl Cheeks studios on lane st. In a very small old cotton mill town called Kannapolis N.C. I played as a back up fill in Rhythm guitar player or that's what Earl was selling me. It wasn't until May Muslewhite demanded from Earl who the Rhythm Guitar player was that Earl put on her demo song she was planning to pitch to Tresa Yearwood I think that was the female country singer it was. But Earl kept putting Mary off and telling her he had lost touch with me and just couldn't remember my name I'd find my phone number. That was the lie Earl kept telling Mary. Well one day Mary showed up to Earl's recording studio early and I had come by to pick up money Earl oilowed me. We got to talking and Mary asked me if I knew any of the guys that played at Earl's. I told her that I knew all of them. Then she asked if I knew the name of the Rhythm guitar player or was there more than one. I told her yes I knew him very well she said really I said very well then Mary said di you know how to get in touch with tge nnan? I said honey your talking with him because I'm him. After talking with Mary I learned what Earl was doing to me and Mary. Earl would pay me for finally cut recordings in other words what was really used on the demo. So Earl was say oh man lets do it again because you were kind of not staying constant with you speed. So sometimes we'd do 20 or so which he saved but only pay me for one final cut cause he said I can only use the good cut. When all the time he got 19 cuts for one. So I quit his ass. Then me Mary Junie Larry Smokey bobby yost Donnie ruff Jimmy dove and about twenty others went Ion the road we had fun..
...those Etta James & Candi Staton singles are so good... not one weak song from those sessions... didn't Joe South play bass on Aretha Franklin's Muscle Schoals recordings (Chain of Fools)?
Joe South was on baritone guitar for Aretha's "Chain Of Fools" here is the uncut version complete with Joe accompanying Aretha in the intro that they cut out for radio edit ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-o0s5CP2kXsc.html
NOT post-swampers. Etta James ' I'd Rather Go Bling ' was recorded in '67 with the 'ORIGINAL ' Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section as was Aretha Franklins ' I've Never Loved a Man' & ' Son of a Preacher Man' also '67 & Candi Staton ' I'd Rather Be An Old Man's Sweetheart ' '69 BEFORE they left for Nashville. Their replacements left FAME in 1969 and were given the name 'The Swampers' by Denny Cordell while working with Leon Russell. The Swampers continued working and making hits well into the '80's.
Are you confused between post and pre :) ? This is Fame studio in 1970 . Wich means it’s post , after the swampers were working at fame . They opened their own studio after fame
@@Squanderama That's clearly not the same version. It's much slower than the "pop version" being recorded in this video. Baseline completely different, no horns, different backing vocals.
Love the Fame story. Who'd a thought all those great hits were recorded in a little corner of northwest Alabama. Bunch of white guys with soul playing backup on so many songs that I grew up assuming were played with black soul musicians. But I will say there's something about southern music, just something about it. I agree with Rick Hall that the Joe South "Walk a Mile in my Shoes" production value sucked. Was a big hit, but bad production value.
Not sure why Dusty’s Son of a Preacher Man was included. As much respect as I have for FAME, Preacher Man was Memphis Chips Moman American Sound through and through.
Oh ok my bad, I guess I wasn’t paying attention. That makes sense as it was a pretty recent release about then I guess. They were probably plotting to kidnap Reggie Young and bring him to Alabamy.
2:30, you are hearing what Brazilian Rosewood has given us. I wish so badly there was a way to harvest it, charge a premium and direct those resources to conservation efforts. Much like hunting licenses.
@@pressureworks 👍🏼 I know.. my father was Rick Hall who owned the studio. I now run it. Duane played lots of hits here but left probably a few months before this was filmed to start ABB.
