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 in the studio when Willie Hightower cut his last album in Muscle Shoals

Crazy a "good ol boy" was behind ALL that music. Mind Blown by you Mr Hall

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!

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.

What I loved about Fame Studio's was they were recording during Segregation , and to see these films you wouldn't think so.

I remember seeing Rick Hall pulling up and talking to my grandpa all the time and it was crazy to know the music history in my area

Man...seeing this old black & white footage of life in my early childhood , really , stings , hard , hard....

This goes to show that music had no barriers back then.

back when people made great music.

So called contemporary R&B artists today might pick up a few valuable things by watching this.

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.

That's incredible footage! WOW - a Rick Hall session with The FAME Gang, back when Muscle Shoals was The Hit Capitol Of The World.

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.

said before, say it again... thank you for making this available!

Thank You Sweden for teaching me my american music history & those who posted this priceless piece.

Fantastic doc. Thank you.

This is fantastic. What a sound.

I absolutely had no idea how much music history was in Fame Studios Wow

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 so awesome! It's great to see this old footage. I love the Etta James version of I'd Rather Go Blind.

great footage

To be able to be in a recording studio with a legion....how sweet🎉✨✨

Fantastic! I Love Etta James!

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.

Excellent! Interesting after watching the 'Muscle Shoals' film on BBC4 TV recently.

Where's this doc been all my life? I never knew this existed! Thank you, Eli. You do a wonderful job of keeping this music alive.

That is flipping gold. Thanks for posting it!

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!

Thank you for uploarding this great documentary film.

Thank you! It's so rare to see real behind the scenes footage of musicians, especially of this caliber, creating in the studio. Just loved it.

Rick Hall had a certain way of doing things. It was called Rick Hall’s way. Man oh man, did it work.

Wow, just wow! Thank you for uploading.

What a spot gotta visit one day ✌🏼💯

Thanks for this!

I love FAME, it is right across from a Walgreens

A great vid! Back when it was all real! Real players..making real music,on real instrument's!

Pretty awesome that Rick hall had a secret life creating beautiful music in that town

Thank you.

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.

Great!!!!

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.

Incredible the story around I'd Rather be blind

Wow! Fame Gang!

Excellent documentary! It would appear that the 2013 film 'Mussel Shoals' used a few shots from this production.

so cool thanx man

Rick Hall - The Master!

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.

Don't let the first bit in Swedish throw you. Keep watching.

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-

Class! 🤩

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wonderful

love to record in that scene

I want to know who recorded these great old videos back then ? Awesome 👏

God Bless MuscleShoals!! whoever yer recording with,, and them Swampers,,Bless them guys like Skynyrd n bonnie blue flag!!

Fun!

watch the wrecking crew doc.

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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..

People who needed Rick Hall: Thousands. People who liked Rick Hall: 0

only the docs first few minutes are in Swedish...the rest is southern English..

What happened to the "Your love got me covered" tune? Sounds awesome here.

...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)?

Thanks for this amazing documentary. Anybody know the song that they play at 2:50? Thanks!

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.

Does anyone know the radio station or disc jockey at 20:03?

Does anyone know if the demo of "I'd Rather Go Blind" was ever released?

Post Swampers Documentary, with the new musicians crew, The FAME Gang.

is this pop/demo version of "i'd rather go blind" (10:45) published somewhere ??? i need it!!

Anyone know who is singing at 3.50 Your love got me covered?

Fast forward and you get Alabama Shakes and Jason Isbell. But the difference is, they grew up in that area.

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.

Does anyone know the song they play at 02:30 ? Thanks

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.

Hej

Does anybody know where we can hear the 'I'd Rather Go Blind' demo in full? team@thesoularchive.com

Can anyone name the song playing at 12:16?

Great studio, but why make the musicians clock off (29.23) at end of shift?? It’s not a biscuit factory!

No footage of that "white hippie kid Duane" camping out in the parking lot ?

ウィリー・ハイタワー♪✨🤎

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Making race jokes and having fun use to not get you fired ?

Dreadful version of I’d Rather go Blind. Awful.